mayor

On a trip up to Wasilla, Alaska, Noam Scheiber of The New Republic picked up a great find.
On the back of a city council document,  when she was a council member, we can see Palin’s plans for her mayoral campaign.
Most prominent is her name, written with a marker in cursive.
Across the top [...]

ANCHORAGE — Tuesday I picked up a stack of cds that hold all of the meeting minutes, agendas, resolutions and legislation from Gov. Sarah Palin’s time as mayor of her hometown, Wasilla. Apparently, Sen. John McCain’s campaign hadn’t thought to do the same before tapping Palin.
Mike Lillis and Matt DeLong are pitching in to [...]

WASILLA, Alaska– I’m here at the Mat-Su Frontiersman’s offices flipping through their print archives. I was curious about what then-Mayor Sarah Palin said at the time about giving her top managers a loyalty test and eventually firing her chief of police.
I’m reading an article from October 1996, in which a reporter named Laura Mitchell Harris [...]

Laura McGann is twittering live from a press conference with Sarah Palin’s successor as mayor of Wasilla, Dianne Keller. First, a little background on Keller: when Palin was completing her term as mayor in 2002, she backed Keller to replace her over her husband’s stepmother, Faye Palin, who supports abortion rights. Keller’s term [...]

Quoting Laura McGann’s twitter feed out of Wasilla, AK:
“Walmart employs 4 times as many people here as the city of Wasilla.”
and
“Another fun fact: Palin beat her opponent in the 1996 mayor’s race 616-413.”
A true metropolis.

WASILLA, Alaska — Earlier today, First Lady Laura Bush urged us to remember Gov. Sarah Palin’s record as mayor of her hometown from 1996-2002 when assessing her experience. I agree.
Driving around this city today, I decided it looks more or less like a string of strip malls, 45 minutes northeast of Anchorage. I couldn’t [...]