Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Wasilla meets Taylor Yard

From the daily KOS Blog - in an entry titled: "Some things you didn't know about Sarah Palin" - which ironically proves that irony happens to the best of (first) families in Alaska.    - smf

Sarah Palin left the finances of her town Wasilla in tatters when she moved on in 2002 (h/t xgz). She wanted a legacy as mayor, it seems, and pushed hard for the town to build a hyper-expensive sports complex. But Palin screwed the process up badly. Instead of buying the land for the complex when it was offered, her administration allowed a developer named Gary Lundgren to snap it up. Then Wasilla tried to seize the land from Lundgren through eminent domain. In the end, what with court costs Wasilla paid at least $ 1.7 million for land it could have bought for less than one tenth that sum - if the purchase had been handled properly. For this incompetence, Wasilla is still paying a steep price: higher taxes and cutbacks in services. In other words Palin is about as efficient as Michael Brown, onetime head of FEMA.

 

The Irony: CONNECT THE DOTS I

The Irony: CONNECT THE DOTS II

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