{"id":593,"date":"2008-08-29T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/sweet-nothings\/sarah-palin-r-ak-vice-president\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T22:02:16","slug":"sarah-palin-r-ak-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/sweet-nothings\/sarah-palin-r-ak-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin (R-AK) Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/Sarah_Palin.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Palin<\/a>. <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Who IS she?<\/span> Can she Be President if she had to?<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-603\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/gov-palin-2006_official1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-603\" title=\"gov-palin-2006_official1\" src=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/gov-palin-2006_official1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Palin\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Palin: The Chosen One<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Darrell digs and finds some <a href=\"http:\/\/darwen.us\/southcon\/2008\/08\/palin.html\">good info<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update Saturday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/p\/sarah_palin\/index.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Name:<\/strong> Sarah Heath Palin<br \/>\n<strong>Party:<\/strong> Republican<br \/>\n<strong>Political Office:<\/strong> Governor of Alaska, elected 2006; mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, 1996-2002; Wasilla City Council, 1992-1996<br \/>\n<strong>Business\/Professional Experience:<\/strong> Television sports reporter, 1987-1989; Co-owner of a commercial fishing operation, 1988-2007; owner, sport vehicle rental business, 1994-1997; chairwoman, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 2003-2004<br \/>\n<strong>Date of Birth:<\/strong> February 11, 1964<br \/>\n<strong>Place of Birth:<\/strong> Sandpoint, Idaho<br \/>\n<strong>Education:<\/strong> B.S., University of Idaho, 1987<br \/>\n<strong>Spouse:<\/strong> married Todd Palin, 1988<br \/>\n<strong>Children:<\/strong> Sons Track, born 1989, and Trig Paxson Van, born 2008; daughters Piper, born 1990; Bristol, born 1994 and Willow, born 2001<br \/>\n<strong>Religion:<\/strong> Protestant (nondenominational)<br \/>\n<strong>Home:<\/strong> Juneau, Alaska<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/bio.php?can_id=MAK17859\">Project Vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"hed\">Political Experience:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nGovernor, Alaska, 2006-present<br \/>\nFormer President, Alaska Conference of Mayors<br \/>\nFormer Mayor\/Manager, Wasilla City<br \/>\nFormer Council Member, Wasilla City Council.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"hed\">Organizations:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nMember, Alaska Miners Association<br \/>\nMember, Alaska Outdoor Council<br \/>\nMember, Alaska Resource Development Council<br \/>\nMember, Chambers of Commerce (Various)<br \/>\nMember, Iditarod Parent-Teacher Association<br \/>\nMember, National Rifle Association<br \/>\nMember, Valley Hospital Association Board<br \/>\nCoach\/Hockey Team Manager, Valley Youth Sports<br \/>\nMember, Youth Court Steering Committee<br \/>\nFormer Member, American Management Association<br \/>\nFormer Member, Salvation Army Board.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"hed\">Caucuses\/Non-Legislative Committees: <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nChairman, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 2003-2004<br \/>\nFormer Member, Alaska Municipal League Board<br \/>\nChair, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission<br \/>\nVice Chair, National Governors Association Natural Resources Committee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/almanac\/2008\/people\/ak\/akgv.php\">Longer Bio at National Journal Almanac<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Sarah Palin. Who IS she? Can she Be President if she had to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[230,231],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweet-nothings","tag-palin","tag-republican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}