Of which US State was Sarah Palin the Governor?
"Stevens."" Still others point to nepotistic hiring tendencies and question her firing policies. Controversy arose concerning Palin's dismissal of the Wasilla police chief at the start of her first term as mayor, and her firing of the public commissioner while governor of Alaska (what the media referred to as ""troopergate""). In an article entitled ""State leaders question Palin's qualifications,"" the ""Juneau Empire"", one of Alaska's main papers, reported that as governor, Palin was so frequently absent from work at the state capitol that, ""someone at the Capitol even printed up buttons asking, 'Where's Sarah?'""; the article quoted Rep. Andrea Doll,"
"Sean Parnell Sean R. Parnell (born November 19, 1962) is an American politician of the Republican Party. He succeeded Sarah Palin on 26 July 2009 to become the tenth governor of Alaska and served until 2014. Parnell was elected governor in his own right in 2010 by 59.06% of the vote, as the largest percentage margin of any Alaska governor since statehood. In 2014, he narrowly lost his bid for re-election and has since returned to work in the private sector. Born in Hanford, California, Parnell is a graduate from the University of Puget Sound's School of Law (now known"
"July 2009, when Governor Palin resigned her position, Parnell became governor and finished the term of office. In 2010, Parnell won a four-year term as governor in his own right. In 2005, Parnell ran and won in the Republican primary to become lieutenant governor. Afterward, in the general election, he was paired with Sarah Palin as her running mate. In Alaska, the lieutenant governor candidates run separately from the governor candidates in the primary election race, but after the primaries, the nominees for governor and lieutenant governor run together as a slate. Palin and Parnell were elected with 48.33% of"
"held on August 22, Palin won the Republican nomination for governor with 51.1% of the vote, Binkley received 29.6%, and Murkowski received just 18.9% of the vote. Knowles won the Democratic nomination with 68.6% of the vote; state representative Eric Croft, who received 23.1% of the vote, was his nearest competitor. Palin campaigned on a clean government platform in a state with a history of corruption. An October 15 CRG Research poll had the candidates tied at 43%. An October 28 Rasmussen Reports poll showed Palin leading Knowles by a single percentage point. Republican nominee Sarah Palin was elected with"
"she provided political commentary for Fox News. On April 3, 2014, Palin premiered her TV show, ""Amazing America with Sarah Palin"", on the Sportsman Channel, which ran until February 12, 2015. On July 27, 2014, Palin launched the online news network called the Sarah Palin Channel, which was closed on July 4, 2015. Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, the third of four children (three daughters and one son) of Sarah ""Sally"" Heath (née Sheeran), a school secretary, and Charles R. ""Chuck"" Heath, a science teacher and track-and-field coach. Palin's siblings are Chuck Jr., Heather, and Molly. Palin is of"
"of their campaign. Walker and Mallott won the governorship in the November 2014 election with 48.1 percent of the vote, versus 45.9 percent for the Republican ticket. In January 2016 Palin announced her endorsement of Donald Trump. The political director of Trump's campaign, Michael Glassner, helped to win Palin's endorsement; he had been an aide to Palin while she was governor, and was also the chief of staff of her political action committee, SarahPAC. In a May 2016 interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Palin said she would work to defeat Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Palin cited Ryan's"
"Palin was inaugurated as the first female governor of Alaska, and January 14, 2008, when Kathleen Blanco left office as governor of Louisiana; and second, between January 10, 2009, when Beverly Perdue was inaugurated as governor of North Carolina, and January 20, 2009, when Ruth Ann Minner retired as governor of Delaware. There are currently 46 state governors who are non-Hispanic whites of European American background. There are 4 minority governors: Susana Martinez of New Mexico and Brian Sandoval of Nevada, who are Hispanic Americans; Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, who is of Palestinian descent; and David Ige of Hawaii,"
"Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his vice presidential running mate played well in North Dakota, a state that has the lowest percentage of nonreligious citizens in the country. After Palin joined the ticket in late August, McCain then took a double digit lead in the state until October, when polling once again showed a close race between the two candidates in the Peace Garden State. On Election Day 2008, however, McCain captured North Dakota by a fairly safe margin of approximately 8.65 points, despite the latest polling showing him just one point ahead of Obama. Still, the statewide result"
"5. Shannyn Moore is a contributor to the Alaska Dispatch News newspaper, based in Anchorage, Alaska. Shannyn Moore was awarded with the 2009 Steve Gilliard Journalism Grant at the Netroots Nation Conference on August 14, 2009.c The award was due to her coverage of then Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Moore's blog, Just a Girl from Homer. Shannyn Moore Shannyn Moore (born June 12, 1970) is an American political blogger based in Alaska. Moore is a writer for ""The Huffington Post"" and has been a prominent critic of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. She has appeared"
"candidate Kenneth Mapp, a former Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, in the general election on November 2, 2010. De Jongh defeated Mapp in the election. Governor Sarah Palin was elected in 2006 with 48% of the vote and was eligible to seek reelection in 2010. On July 3, 2009, Palin announced that she would not run for reelection, and resigned on July 26, 2009. On July 26, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell became the 12th Governor of Alaska. Parnell officially announced that he would be running for a first full-term in 2010. In August 2010 he won the"
"Sean Parnell. In the November election Palin was outspent but victorious, defeating former Democratic governor Tony Knowles by a margin of 48.3% to 40.9%. She became Alaska's first female governor and, at the age of 42, the youngest governor in Alaskan history, the state's first governor to have been born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood, and the first not to be inaugurated in Juneau (she chose to have the ceremony held in Fairbanks instead). She took office on December 4, 2006, and for most of her term was very popular with Alaska voters. Polls taken in 2007 showed her with"
"her home in Wasilla. She elected not to use the former governor's private chef. Republicans and Democrats criticized Palin for taking the per diem and $43,490 in travel expenses on occasions when her family accompanied her on state business. Palin's staffers responded that these practices were in line with state policy, that her gubernatorial expenses were 80% below those of Murkowski, her predecessor, and that ""many of the hundreds of invitations Palin receives include requests for her to bring her family, placing the definition of 'state business' with the party extending the invitation."" In February 2009, the State of Alaska,"
"served on the Executive Committee of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Small Business Chair on the Republican Policy Committee, and Vice Chairman of the Congressional Women's Caucus. In September 2009, Fallin and four other candidates had announced their intentions to run for governor to succeed Brad Henry. Along with Fallin they were: Fallin won the Republican nomination with 136,460 votes, ahead of her nearest challenger, State Senator Randy Brogdon, who received 98,159 votes. Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin endorsed Fallin in the primary. On November 2, 2010, Fallin defeated Democratic nominee Jari Askins 60% to 39%"
"a suburb of Phoenix, for $172,000 in cash, according to Pinal County property records. The house was sold in May 2012 for $175,000, and Palin moved back to Alaska. On March 13, 2015, Palin announced she had become engaged to Dakota Meyer, a former Marine and Medal of Honor recipient. According to Bristol's blog, she first met Meyer in 2014 while filming ""Amazing America"" with her mother Sarah Palin in Alaska. On May 18, 2015, Palin's mother announced that the wedding planned for later in the week had been called off. On June 25, 2015, Palin announced she was pregnant"
"In 2008, Wasilla's current mayor credited Palin's 75 percent property tax cuts and infrastructure improvements with bringing ""big-box stores"" and 50,000 shoppers per day to Wasilla. In 2002, Palin ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a five-way Republican primary. Following her defeat, she campaigned throughout the state for the nominated Republican governor-lieutenant governor ticket of Frank Murkowski and Leman. Murkowski and Leman won and Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in December 2002 to assume the governorship. Palin was said to be on the ""short list"" of possible appointees"
"Going Rogue Going Rogue: An American Life (2009) is a personal and political memoir by politician Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican candidate for U.S. Vice President on the ticket with Senator John McCain. She wrote it with Lynn Vincent. The book became a ""New York Times"" #1 bestseller in its first week of release, and remained there for six weeks. It is one of four political memoirs published since the 1990s to sell more than two million copies. The book deal was announced in May 2009 when Palin was still Governor of Alaska. She said that"
"into my country, you don't come into my congressional district and you don't condemn my president."" Other remarks of Rangel's have revolved around Rangel's feelings about his home state and city, such as disparaging the state of Mississippi or suggesting that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama might be unsafe if they visited New York. In both cases, apologies from the congressman followed. In certain instances, his remarks only exacerbated his existing problems. When his ethics issues were made public, Rangel remarked that Governor of Alaska and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was ""disabled."" In 2013, he compared"
"her administration [and] she was no longer able to do the job she had been elected to do. Essentially, the taxpayers were paying for Sarah to go to work every day and defend herself."" Palin and her husband Todd had personally incurred more than $500,000 in legal fees defending against ethics charges brought against her as governor even though all the complaints were dismissed. Lt. Governor Sean Parnell said it ""really had to do with the weight on her, the concern she had for the cost of all the ethics investigations and the like – the way that weighed on"
"December 2010, after having withdrawn from the Republican primary race for lieutenant governor, which was eventually won by Mead Treadwell. Before serving as lieutenant governor, Campbell was the commissioner of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. In that role, he was head of the state's National Guard, with the rank of Lieutenant General. On July 3, 2009, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced that she would resign effective July 26. Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell would become governor, and Campbell would replace Parnell as lieutenant governor. In 2010, Campbell opted to not seek election as lieutenant governor, preferring to return"
"national exposure when she delivered a primetime address on the third night of the 2008 Republican National Convention praising John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running-mate. Lingle and Palin, both Republican women governors of non-contiguous states, are friends who grew acquainted through the Republican Governors Association. Lingle's speech filled the role of the traditional address formally nominating the vice-presidential candidate, though Palin was not officially nominated until the next night. In July 2009, the Lingle Administration ended the Hawaii Immigrant Health Initiative, a state program providing medical coverage for legal immigrants present in the United"
"The Undefeated (2011 film) The Undefeated is an American political documentary on Sarah Palin, who was Governor of Alaska and later the Republican Party nominee for vice president in the 2008 United States presidential election. The documentary is written and directed by Stephen K. Bannon. ""The Undefeated"" was released on , 2011. The film is constructed in three acts. The film opens with a montage. The first act concerns itself with Palin's term as mayor of Wasilla. The second act is about Palin's half term as governor of Alaska. The third act, titled ""From here, I can see November,"" revolves"
"Governor Frank Murkowski, to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy. The vacancy was created when Frank Murkowski resigned from the Senate after being elected Governor. The appointment caused controversy in the state. Many voters disapproved of apparent nepotism in the appointment of Murkowski to the Senate. Her appointment eventually resulted in a referendum that stripped the governor of his power to directly appoint replacement Senators. Sarah Palin was particularly upset, because she had interviewed for the seat for herself, but had been rejected. Murkowski was elected to a full six-year term against former Democratic Governor Tony Knowles in the 2004 election"
"Governor/Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin's efforts to secure federal funding for the Gravina Island Bridge, the Sunshine Bridge got lumped into the same category. While the only bridge across the Mississippi between New Orleans and Baton Rouge when it opened for traffic in 1964, its south end then emptied into a swamp, and for years it awaited funding to connect it to LA 70 and other roads. When this occurred, the economy in this area grew by leaps and bounds, largely due to the improved transportation. And as has been pointed out, comparing the Sunshine Bridge to the Gravina Bridge"
"On April 16, Sarah Palin attended a Tea Party rally in Madison. Speaking to the crowd, Palin stated, ""Your governor did the right thing and you won! Your beautiful state won! And people still have their jobs!"" The now deceased conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart spoke at the event and told labor supporters engaged in counter-protests, ""Go to hell! You're trying to divide America!"" Police estimated that about 6,500 people attended the event including Tea Party supporters and those demonstrating against the Walker administration policies. On April 20, the ""Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel"" reported costs associated with the protests. The Department of Natural"
"Sarah Palin's Alaska Sarah Palin's Alaska is an American reality television show hosted by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. According to Palin, the show's aim is to bring ""the wonder and majesty of Alaska to all Americans"". The series, which began airing on TLC in November 2010, broadcast 8 episodes and 1 clip show. The show was part travelogue and part documentary series, according to a story in ""The Vancouver Sun"", six months before the release of the series trailer. In reviewing the first episode, ""The New York Times"" said the show allows viewers to ""observe Ms. Palin observing nature""."
"SarahPAC SarahPAC is the political action committee of former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin. It was founded in 2009 following the resignation of Governor Palin. It endorses candidates for various offices, then organizes into local chapters in the United States of America and assists the candidate. According to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, SarahPAC was officially shut down as of the end of 2016. On December 8, 2010, Sarah Palin announced that her website and personal credit card information were compromised. Palin's team believed it was the work of Anonymous, though Anonymous never tweeted anything about choosing Palin as"
"written vetting report on Sarah Palin: On August 29 (McCain's 72nd birthday), at the Nutter Center of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, McCain's running mate was revealed in a surprise pick as Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. McCain had only talked to her a few times, and the campaign's vetting operation had mostly relied on Internet searches to check her background. Palin's career in Alaska had shown maverick tendencies similar to McCain's, and McCain hoped that Palin's youth, reformist record, appeal to social conservatives, and appeal to disaffected Hillary Clinton voters would outweigh her lack of national and international visibility"
"takes her on a romantic date, which he goes on to regret. Meanwhile, Peter begins performing psychic readings, but is eventually discovered to be faking his ability once he is approached by the town's police force. The episode generated significant controversy. Former Governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who is referenced briefly in the episode as being the mother of Ellen, took offense to the episode's portrayal of Down syndrome, due to her son's diagnosis of the disorder. Andrea Fay Friedman, who was also diagnosed with Down syndrome and portrayed the character of Ellen, publicly refuted"
"Walt Monegan Walter Carleton ""Walt"" Monegan III (born May 1951) is the former Police Chief of Anchorage, Alaska, and later Commissioner of Public Safety for the state of Alaska. His dismissal in July 2008 by Alaska governor Sarah Palin drew considerable attention, particularly in the wake of Palin's selection as the Vice-Presidential nominee of the Republican Party the following month. Monegan accused Palin of not telling the truth about the reasons for his dismissal. In April, 2016, Alaska Governor Bill Walker reappointed Monegan as the Commissioner of Public Safety. Walter Carleton Monegan III was born in Seattle, Washington in May"
"in Summit County, Colorado. In 2008, French was appointed by the Legislative Council to head an investigation into charges that Gov. Sarah Palin ""abused her office to get the Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, fired."" On July 1, 2009, French announced that he had filed a letter of intent with the Alaska Public Offices Commission to run for governor of Alaska. French received 18,018 votes (38.81%), losing the 2010 Democratic primary to former state representative Ethan Berkowitz, who received 22,607 votes (48.69%). French initially decided to run again for governor in 2014, but later decided to run instead for"
"Shannyn Moore Shannyn Moore (born June 12, 1970) is an American political blogger based in Alaska. Moore is a writer for ""The Huffington Post"" and has been a prominent critic of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. She has appeared on such television shows as ""The Rachel Maddow Show"" and ""Countdown with Keith Olbermann"". Moore also launched her own political talk show, Moore Up North, in November 2009. After Sarah Palin announced her resignation as Governor of Alaska, Palin and her attorneys released a statement threatening legal action to those who ""propagate defamatory material"" about her. The statement added ""To the"
"an attorney at the law firm Patton Boggs. Returning to public service, Parnell won the Republican primary race for lieutenant governor in 2006 and became Palin's running mate in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign, where the Palin and Parnell ticket defeated former Democratic Governor Tony Knowles. Parnell was sworn in as lieutenant governor of Alaska in December 2006 and later assumed the governorship after Palin resigned in July 2009. Parnell was elected to a full term as governor in 2010, defeating former State Representative Ethan Berkowitz in the general election. Parnell is the first unelected Alaska governor to be elected in"
"presidency?"". Following an NBC interview, Peggy Noonan commented, ""It's over... the most qualified? No."" Republicans in Palin's home state, Alaska, had mixed reactions to the news. Alaskan Attorney General Talis Colberg, a Palin appointee, remarked that, ""It's wonderful. It was an emotional thing to see the governor walk out with her family and I say, wow, I work for her."" Alaskan State Senate President Lyda Green, a Republican who had repeatedly sparred with Palin after she became governor, remarked, ""She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?"" Larry Persily, a Palin"