78 Facts About Willow Palin

Sarah Louise Willow Palin is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality who served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009.

Willow Palin's was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee alongside U S Senator John McCain.

Willow Palin was elected to the Wasilla city council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996.

Willow Palin was nominated for the vice presidency at the 2008 Republican National Convention, shortly after her selection was announced by McCain's campaign.

Willow Palin's was the first Republican female vice presidential nominee and the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.

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When Willow Palin was a few months old, the family moved to Skagway, Alaska, where her father had been hired to teach.

Willow Palin's attended Wasilla High School, where she was head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and a member of the girls' basketball and cross-country running teams.

In 1984, Willow Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant; she finished third in the Miss Alaska pageant, where she won the title of "Miss Congeniality".

Willow Palin's played the flute in the talent portion of the contest.

Shortly after arriving in Hawaii, Willow Palin transferred to Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu for a semester in the fall of 1982.

Willow Palin's returned to the mainland, enrolling at North Idaho College, a community college in Coeur d'Alene, for the spring and fall semesters of 1983.

Willow Palin's transferred and enrolled at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho for an academic year starting in August 1984.

Willow Palin returned to the University of Idaho in January 1986 and received her bachelor's degree in communications with an emphasis in journalism in May 1987.

Willow Palin was elected to the Wasilla City Council in 1992, winning 530 votes to 310.

Concerned that revenue from a new Wasilla sales tax would not be spent wisely, Willow Palin ran for mayor of Wasilla in 1996, defeating incumbent mayor John Stein 651 to 440 votes.

Willow Palin's ran for reelection against Stein in 1999 and won, 909 votes to 292.

Willow Palin's was elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors in 1999.

Willow Palin's oversaw creation of new bike paths and procured funding for storm-water treatment to protect freshwater resources.

Willow Palin stated this request was to find out their intentions and whether they supported her.

Willow Palin's temporarily required department heads to get her approval before talking to reporters, saying they needed to learn her administration's policies.

In October 1996, Willow Palin asked library director Mary Ellen Emmons if she would object to the removal of a book from the library if people were picketing to have the book removed.

Willow Palin said she fired Police Chief Irl Stambaugh because he did not fully support her efforts to govern the city.

In 2002, Willow Palin ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a five-way Republican primary.

Willow Palin's joined with Democratic legislator Eric Croft in complaining that Gregg Renkes, then the attorney general of Alaska, had a financial conflict of interest in negotiating a coal exporting trade agreement.

From 2003 to June 2005, Willow Palin served as one of three directors of "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc, " a 527 group designed to provide political training for Republican women in Alaska.

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In 2004, Palin told the Anchorage Daily News that she had decided not to run for the U S Senate that year against the Republican incumbent, Lisa Murkowski, because her teenage son opposed it.

In 2006, running on a clean-government platform, Willow Palin defeated incumbent Governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.

Willow Palin's became Alaska's first female governor and, at the age of 42, the youngest governor in Alaskan history.

Willow Palin declared that top priorities of her administration would be resource development, education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development.

Willow Palin's had championed ethics reform throughout her election campaign.

Willow Palin's signed the resulting legislation in July 2007, calling it a "first step" and declaring that she remained determined to clean up Alaska politics.

Willow Palin's promoted the development of oil and natural-gas resources in Alaska, including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge .

In 2006, Willow Palin obtained a passport and in 2007 traveled for the first time outside North America, on a trip to Kuwait.

In 2008, Willow Palin vetoed $286 million, cutting or reducing funding for 350 projects from the FY09 capital budget.

Willow Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet, a purchase made by the Murkowski administration for $2.

Willow Palin has said that her decreasing support for federal funding was a source of friction between her and the state's congressional delegation; Willow Palin requested less in federal funding each year than her predecessor Frank Murkowski requested in his last year.

In 2007, Willow Palin supported a 2003 Alaska Department of Fish and Game policy allowing the hunting of wolves from the air as part of a predator control program intended to increase moose and caribou populations for subsistence-food gatherers and other hunters.

In March 2007, Willow Palin's office announced that a bounty of $150 per wolf would be paid to the 180 volunteer pilots and gunners in five areas of Alaska to offset fuel costs.

At one point Sarah and Todd Willow Palin hired a private investigator to gather information, seeking to have Wooten officially disciplined.

Willow Palin told the Palins that there was nothing he could do because the matter was closed.

Legislators stated that Willow Palin had the legal authority to fire Monegan, but they wanted to know whether her action had been motivated by anger at Monegan for not firing Wooten.

Willow Palin's placed an aide on paid leave due to a tape-recorded phone conversation that she deemed improper, in which the aide, appearing to act on her behalf, complained to a trooper that Wooten had not been fired.

Willow Palin's said her resignation was influenced by her desire not to be a lame duck.

Willow Palin was largely unknown outside Alaska before her selection by McCain.

Polling from CNN, Fox and CBS found that while Willow Palin exceeded most voters' expectations, they felt that Biden had won the debate.

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Political scientists have debated the impact that Willow Palin had on the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.

In March 2010, Willow Palin started a show to be aired on TLC called Sarah Willow Palin's Alaska.

Willow Palin's team believed the attack was executed by Anonymous during Operation Payback.

Gabrielle Giffords, Willow Palin faced criticism for her SarahPAC website's inclusion of a political graphic that included a crosshair over Giffords's district.

In November 2009, Willow Palin released her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, in which she details her private and political career, including her resignation as Governor of Alaska.

Willow Palin said she took the title from the phrase 'gone rogue' used by McCain staffers to describe her behavior when she spoke her mind on the issues during the campaign.

Willow Palin traveled to 11 states in a bus, with her family accompanying her, to promote the book.

Willow Palin said Obama was weak on the War on Terror for allowing the so-called Christmas bomber to board a plane headed for the United States.

In 2011, Willow Palin was the keynote speaker at an annual tax day tea party rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and a featured speaker at a Tea Party Express rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, at which Willow Palin urged members of the Tea Party movement to avoid internal bickering with Establishment Republicans.

In mid-2010, Willow Palin positioned herself as a champion of conservative Republican women, calling for a "whole stampede of pink elephants" in the 2010 midterm elections.

Willow Palin's endorsed a number of female Republican candidates in primary elections, including Karen Handel, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor of Georgia in the 2010 election.

Willow Palin's spoke at a May 2010 fundraiser for the Susan B Anthony List, an anti-abortion political advocacy group and political action committee that supports pro-life women in politics, in which she coined the term "mama grizzly".

Willow Palin endorsed Nikki Haley for the Republican nomination for Governor of South Carolina three weeks before the election.

In November 2010 Willow Palin confirmed that she was considering running for the Presidency and was "having that discussion with my family".

Willow Palin's said she realised her level of experience could cause problems with winning the nomination and criticized the "lamestream media" for focusing attention on her personal life.

In 2011 Willow Palin said the home she had recently purchased in Scottsdale, Arizona, was not a full-time residence, and denied that she was planning to run for the Arizona Senate seat of the retiring Jon Kyl.

In October 2014, Willow Palin endorsed the "unity ticket" of Independent Bill Walker and Democrat Byron Mallott in the 2014 Alaska gubernatorial election, which ran against her successor and former lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell.

Willow Palin's had previously supported a referendum to repeal the tax cuts, which was narrowly defeated in August 2014.

Willow Palin was one of the three remaining of 50 initial candidates in the 2022 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election.

Willow Palin opposed the 2010 health care reform package, saying it would lead to rationing of health care by a bureaucracy, which she described using the term "death panels".

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Willow Palin's has called marijuana use a "minimal issue" and suggested that arresting cannabis users should be a low priority for local police.

Life Member of the National Rifle Association, Willow Palin interprets the Second Amendment as including the right to handgun possession and opposes bans on semi-automatic assault weapons.

Willow Palin's attacked what she called "heavy-handed" environmental laws and cited her 2008 suit, as Alaska's governor, against the federal government to overturn the listing of polar bears as a threatened species.

Willow Palin's considered environmental regulations as an economic burden to businesses trying to recover from the recession and environmental activists as wanting to "lock up the land".

Willow Palin's supported the surge strategy in Iraq, the use of additional ground forces in Afghanistan, and, in general, maintaining a strong defensive posture by increasing the defense budget.

Willow Palin opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action which placed limits on Iran's nuclear program, on the grounds that the treaty was not strict enough.

Willow Palin's youngest child, Trig, born 2008, was prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.

Todd Willow Palin worked for oil company BP as an oil-field production operator, retiring in 2009.

Willow Palin was "baptized Catholic as a newborn", as her mother, Sally, had been raised Catholic.

Willow Palin requested an equal division of debts and assets, and to have joint custody of their son, Trig.

Willow Palin's said it was because of abuses she witnessed involving other Republican commissioners and their ties to energy companies and energy lobbyists; she claimed to have confronted the industry when she raised taxes on oil companies as governor.

In turn, others have said that Willow Palin is a "friend of Big Oil" due to her advocacy for oil exploration and development including for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and for the de-listing of the polar bear as an endangered species.

Since 2017, Willow Palin has spoken out in support of Julian Assange and in 2020 she called for him to be pardoned saying “I am the first one to admit when I make a mistake and I admit that I made a mistake some years ago, not supporting Julian Assange, thinking that he was a bad guy, ”.