......couldn't even believe this article, it's so creepy and out there. But in fact, Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska from 1996 to 2002. And according to an Alaskan news article in the local Wasilla paper in the year 2000, the City of Wasilla, under Mayor Palin, charged rape victims for their own forensic tests. Most Alaskan municipalities picked up the tab themselves, but not Wasilla, the article notes. You see, the city of Wasilla, the article notes, didn't want to "burden" taxpayers with having to support victims of rape. Yes, they were more interested in lowering taxes. It would have cost the city between $5,000 and $14,000 a year to pay for the rape victims' police medical exams. And if the City of Wasilla, circa the year 2000, wants to go there in terms of balancing rape vs, burdening taxpayers, you should know that each and every Alaskan gets a check from the state government each year, it contains their portion of that year's oil revenues. The latest check, I read, was for over $2,000. I think the citizens of Wasilla had the money.....
> >Mi***gan (yes, that place up north) Democrats put in their digs about the Bush-McCain-Palin ticket as reported in the DetroitNews:
....Sen. Carl Levin, a 30-year Senate veteran and chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said a McCain win would continue polices that grant tax cuts to the rich and big oil companies, keep tens of million of Americans without health care insurance, and spend billions of dollars monthly on a war in Iraq.
"What Republicans are offering us is warmed over soup that made us sick the first time we tasted it," said Levin, who is heavily favored for reelection in November.....
**** The Denver Post has the prepared speech given by Cecile Richards, daughter of the former governor of Texas, Ann Richards. Here are some excerpts:
.....Women deserve a president who understands their health care needs. The record is clear: Barack Obama does and John McCain does not. Barack Obama has worked for affordable family planning, for comprehensive sex education and for a woman's right to choose. He will be a president who supports women's health and rights one hundred percent. He's the change America needs.
And John McCain? He'll be more of the same. He's spent 25 years working against the health care needs of women. John McCain has voted against women's health care 125 times. You can look it up: he voted against real sex education, against affordable family planning and, if elected, John McCain has vowed to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade.
John McCain believes that judges, politicians and bureaucrats know better than women themselves what's best for their health. Just two weeks ago, John McCain said he didn't know if insurance companies should cover birth control. Well, let me remind you senator, you voted against it twice....
Why does John McCain continue to vote against women's issues?
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* There is an interesting website called McCainvsIowa which shows how McCain has voted against issues important to Iowa. However, the information is applicable to every state. For example, here are some quotes from McCain about the Farm Bill, which he did not support:
"I would veto that bill, and all others like it that serve only the cause of special interests and corporate welfare." Senator John McCain, May 19, 2008, on the 2008 Farm Bill
"We've got to set some priorities in Washington and that means saying, 'No,' sometimes. Saying, 'No!' sometimes! That's what you have to do! And I might point out that Senator Obama supported the Farm Bill. So, and I didn't. And I won't." WATCH THE VIDEO
"If I were the president, I would veto that farm bill in a New. York. Minute." WATCH THE VIDEO
