"Palin is a hands-off governor, who rarely telephones them or delves into policy. During meetings, she tends to listen and let her deputies field questions, legislators said, adding that that was partly a reflection of Palin spending more time away from the capitol in Juneau and with her family who live 800 miles northwest in Wasilla."
"A forceful, but narrow agenda; Palin focused on oil, ethics, but record otherwise thin" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | September 7, 2008
ANCHORAGE - Legislators said Palin is a hands-off governor, who rarely telephones them or delves into policy. During meetings, she tends to listen and let her deputies field questions, legislators said, adding that that was partly a reflection of Palin spending more time away from the capitol in Juneau and with her family who live 800 miles northwest in Wasilla.
Palin's skills as a communicator have helped her develop an unusual rapport with the Alaskan public, which gives her high marks overall. She has won special praise for living up to her vow during the 2006 campaign to reform state politics, a promise that helped catapult her past a scandal-plagued Republican incumbent and a popular former Democratic governor.
Seizing on voter anger stoked by an FBI investigation into influence-peddling in the capitol, she pushed for and signed ethics legislation that tightened restrictions on lobbyists' gifts, toughened disclosure laws, required ethics training for lobbyists, and banned the use of state aircraft for political purposes.
While she worked on and accepted Stevens' earmarks and pork!
At a loss, I might add.
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Yeah, cover up the SCANDALOUS CRAP and turn it into a positive, MSM!
Why you can't believe them on anything anymore.
Now type "Palin" into my blog search and scroll down for the horror.
