Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.
And her office bullies bloggers!
And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor’s career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.
“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!”
Clearly, Fred Dooley will attempt to rally Wisconsin bloggers to support Sherry Whitstine.
Good for her!!!!
Posted by: Dan | September 14, 2008 at 01:24 AM
Halleluja for Sherry Whitstine; she knows what is going on and she can clearly write it out for us. Thank you, and PLEASE, continue
Posted by: Dutchess | September 14, 2008 at 10:52 PM