I was rummaging around in my news feeds this morning, and I happen to see this story pop up.
Here is the quote:
The biggest project that Sarah Palin undertook as mayor of this small town was an indoor sports complex, where locals played hockey, soccer, and basketball, especially during the long, dark Alaskan winters.
The only catch was that the city began building roads and installing utilities for the project before it had unchallenged title to the land. The misstep led to years of litigation and at least $1.3 million in extra costs for a small municipality with a small budget. What was to be Ms. Palin’s legacy has turned into a financial mess that continues to plague Wasilla.
“It’s too bad that the city of Wasilla didn’t do their homework and secure the land before they began construction,” said Kathy Wells, a longtime activist here. “She was not your ceremonial mayor; she was in charge of running the city. So it was her job to make sure things were done correctly.”
And where did this come from? The New York Times? The Washington Post? No. It came from none other than the Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal!
To be fair, I reported this on this a while back here on my blog. For the record, this story was not originally published on the DailyKos, but rather was originally published in a in Alaska newspaper. So as far as that theory of this all being a great liberal slam against Sarah Palin, that’s a bunch of hooey. It’s a simple fact, you cannot whitewash history nor can you rewrite history, as much as the republicans would like to do that.
Of course, I expect the Republican Bloggers to attempt to whitewash this or try to spin it into something that it’s not or to outright lie about it which is what a lot of them do.
It should be interesting to watch the reaction from the conservative Blogosphere, on this story.