<p>Being reported in the New York Times article that extensively details her tenure as governor. I don't know how McCain is going to try to lie his way out of these reports, but the reports are detailed with many quotes from people on record.</p>
<p>And this woman is going to help reform Washington?</p>
<p>Here's the beginning of the very long article:</p>
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WASILLA, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages. </p>
<p>When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.
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<p>This woman is supposed to be a change from the way Bush turned government competence into an ideological cronyism machine? Note, too, that when she was mayor and someone said she could be governor, she said she wanted to be president. Isn't that the kind of ambition that McCain's campaign is supposedly against?</p>
<p>Since the media's fed up with McCain's lies and is finally calling him on it, the narrative about Palin being some kind of "I am not like those corrupt guys in Washington" reformer lying narrative is going to be destroyed. I would be shocked if this gets swept under the rug -- or if it can be.</p>