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5/24/09- TWD's Agenda For The Day: Putting Herself Above Alaska......Again

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Oh what did she do now, you ask? I'll let the tireless Mudflats tell you (via the Anchorage Daily News ) A) Over there on the left in the headlines section it says: Palin Cuts $80 Million from Budget - Gov. Palin announced today that she is vetoeing $80 million from the state budget, including federal stimulus dollars meant to go for energy relief. And that energy relief sure wasn't a necessity for this guy based on her astute governing. It couldn't be. In the winter, Village Police Officer Clarence Snyder doesn’t use jail cells. They don’t have heat, and Selawik, an Inupiat village of around 800 people just above the Arctic Circle, gets pretty cold. So Snyder sits in a grimy green office chair watching prisoners until morning. To say this didn't sit well with her colleagues is like saying LeBron's shot was just "ok." State legislators and U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, immediately criticized Palin for turning down the $28.6 million. Legislators, w...