How The Hockeymom Got Her Rink

One more piece and I'll leave the whole Palin thing alone... maybe.

This one is a prime example of her "outstanding administrative experience."

While mayor of Wasilla she wanted to build a sports complex - a big deal for a town of 6500. In order to do so she needed land. The tract she wanted was also coveted by a developer. The town bid; the developer bid. The developer won. He offered to sell it to Wasilla for a small profit. She thought she could use emminent domain to take the land from the developer and began building on the land anyway. The developer took the town to court and got himself a huge settlement. A deal that should have cost the town $125,000 ended up, through her incompetence and arrogance, costing the town $1.7 million. That expense has curtailed the library budget, capital improvements, and raised fees and the sales taxes on the little hamlet. Wasilla is still paying for the mess, six years after she left office.

Read about it here.

She just isn't well liked by Alaskans.

When the Anchorage Daily News asked about her nomination for VP the paper found a number of leading Republican officeholders in the state who mocked Palin's qualifications. "She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?" said Lyda Green, the president of the State Senate, a Republican from Palin's hometown of Wasilla. "Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"

Another top Republican, John Harris, the speaker of the House, when asked about her qualifications for Veep, replied with this: "She's old enough. She's a U.S. citizen."