Sarah Palin Negative Politics

Date	Type	Summary
12/22/2009	Fear	She tries to strike fear into people by drastically overstating and extrapolating the effects of the Independent Medical Advisory...
10/22/2008	Abuse of Power	While Palin tries to portray the image of "ordinary folk" she spent $150,000 (compliments of the RNC) for wardrobe and make-up...
10/22/2008	Abuse of Power	Palin charged the state over $21,000 for her kids' travel expenses that hardly qualify as "official business" and include such...
10/11/2008	Abuse of Power	Palin spent $13,000 of taxpayer funds to attend 10 religious events and meetings.
10/10/2008	Abuse of Power	The Chief investigator in Palin's firing of the Safety Commissioner found that Palin was "in violation of a state ethics law that...
10/06/2008	Dirty Politics	Sarah Palin's tone and speeches at political rallies incited a lot of hateful rhetoric against Obama.
09/28/2008	Abuse of Power	As Mayor Palin sought and received a special zoning exception that was needed before she could sell her house and then reneged...
09/26/2008	Abuse of Power	As Governor, Sarah Palin accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center.
09/17/2008	Abuse of Power	Spent $50,000 of taxpayers money to remodel her office without City Council approval. When confronted she replied, "I'm the mayor...
09/13/2008	Abuse of Power	According to the NYT, "Lawmakers in April [of 2008] accused her of improperly culling thousands of e-mail addresses from a state...
09/13/2008	Cronyism	Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification
09/13/2008	Abuse of Power	According to NYT, "she used city money to buy a white Suburban for the mayor’s use" and "employees sarcastically called it the...
09/13/2008	Dirty Politics	A conservative columnist, Paul Jenkins, confronted Palin about evidence she conducted campaign business from her mayor's office....
09/08/2008	Abuse of Power	As Governor, the state furnished her the Governor's mansion in Juneau, but she billed state per diem expenses for 312 nights livi...
09/03/2008	Abuse of Power	As mayor in 2002, Palin used city employees, telephones, computers, fax machines and literature for her campaign fundraising for...
09/02/2008	Dirty Politics	Palin conducted a very political and negative campaign for mayor of Wasilla focusing on issues like religion and abortion instead...