I thought Palin was supposed to be a reformer ?

Question

ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain touts Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a force in the his battle against earmarks and entrenched power brokers, but under her leadership the state this year asked for almost $300 per person in requests for pet projects from one of McCain's top adversaries: indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. That's more than any other state received, per person, from Congress for the current budget year, and runs counter to the reformer image that Palin and the McCain campaign are pushing. Other states got just $34 worth of local projects per person this year, on average, according to Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington-based watchdog group.

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Answer 1

She was against earmarks after she was for them.  

Answer 2

Your knowledge of all she has reformed in her state would fit in a thimble

Answer 3

Beyond the obvious fact that Alaska's population is much smaller than average, yet their natural resources are immense, this isn't all that bad...

Her links with Ted Stevens could be potentially troublesome though...

Answer 4

thats how government works

Answer 5

Does this sound like a great American reformer to you? Be honest?

[NOTE: your sources have NOTHING to do with Sarah Palin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

Compelling Story #1: EXCERPT: Governor Murkowski appointed Palin to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, where she chaired the Commission from 2003 to 2004, and also served as Ethics Supervisor.[35] Palin resigned in January 2004 in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Republican members.[7][36][37]

After resigning, Palin filed formal complaints against the state Republican Party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich,[38] and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes.[39] She accused Ruedrich, one of her fellow commissioners, of doing work for the party on public time and working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating. Ruedrich and Renkes both resigned and Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[7][35]

In 2006, running on a clean-government platform, Palin defeated then-Governor Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[7]

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Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded 35 appointments made by Murkowski in the last hours of his administration, including that of his former chief of staff James "Jim" Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority.[54][55] Clark later pleaded guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski's re-election campaign.[56]