GOP Alaska Gov: Corruption-Ridden State Must ‘Grow Up’Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), who’s made a hobby of denouncing the corruption among Republicans in her state, recently told Newsweek it’s time for her state to “grow up” in a feature on the nine women governors holding office across the country.
Palin, elected on an anti-corruption platform, has worked on tackling the “cozy relationship between the state’s political elite and the energy industry that provides 85 percent of Alaska’s tax revenues,” Newsweek writes.
Some of her decisions, including canceling funding for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere, has created an intra-party rift between her office and the all-Republican federal delegation. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) recently called relations between the two Alaskans “frosty” (knowing Stevens, we’ll assume the pun wasn’t intended) after Palin stood in the way of the bridge.
Palin has also gone after Ted’s son, former state Sen. Ben Stevens (R), saying she wants him out of his seat as Alaska national Republican committe chairman. Palin said she’d heard enough when Veco CEO Bill Allen testified to bribing him while he was in the state Senate.
