Blue Star Chronicles

CNN JUST PREPORTED:

GOV. SARAH PALIN LEFT HER OWN HOMETOWN IN SERIOUS DEBT. SHE HAD A SPORTS COMPLEX BUILT ON LAND THE STATE DID NOT OWN!!!!

WASILLA, Alaska (CNN) — The sports complex that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s supporters call her most visible legacy as mayor of her hometown left the town paying inflated prices for the land and huge legal bills, according to court records.

Sarah Palin, Wasilla, Alaska’s former mayor, is under fire for a sports complex she fought hard for.

The complex features a soccer field, a running track and an indoor hockey rink with heated seats. Palin campaigned for a sales tax increase to finance the $14.7 million project, winning approval for the half-cent levy by a margin of 20 votes.

Palin is now the Republican nominee for vice president. Her supporters call the arena the crowning achievement of her 1996-2002 tenure as mayor.

“She really was very, very passionate about this right from the start,” Wasilla Recreation Manager Bruce Urban said.

But the city never obtained clear property to the title until this year, after a lengthy court battle with developer Gary Lundgren, who owned part of the land on which the complex sits. Watch more on the controversy »

“When they started building, the title to the land was in my name,” said Lundgren, who now lives in Panama.

Diane Woodruff, a City Council member and longtime Palin critic, said that has left Palin’s major campaign pitch — to be a fiscally conservative reformer — in question.

“She inherited the city with no debt, and suddenly we have a lot of debt,” she said. “I don’t think that labels her as a true fiscal conservative.”

In 1999, the Nature Conservancy was negotiating to sell the land to the city and Lundgren, but he says that although he signed a purchase agreement with the group, the city did not.

Lundgren purchased 325 acres from the Nature Conservancy, but the city filed a lawsuit claiming ownership of land it believed it owned. In 2002, a federal court sided with Lundgren, finding that the city had never signed the proper papers.

But by then, the 80-acre complex was under construction; Palin gave the go-ahead to begin while the issue was still in court. After Palin left office, the city sought to obtain the tract it needed for the sports complex through eminent domain, leading to another court battle.

“I’m curious as to why somebody in the previous administration didn’t make sure that we had clear title before we started building, because certainly once we started building, we were over a barrel,” Woodruff said.

GOV. PALIN CAME INTO OFFICE WITH A SURPLUS AND LEFT WASILLA IN OVER 20+ MILLION IN DEBT! WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU PEOPLE!!!

LOL, what’s the difference between Sarah Palin and George Bush?

LIPSTICK!!!

That was by far the most onerous slip, that Michelle was thinking of herself as being “on the ticket” not who she was referring to as “cute”.

Given that Obambi told Rick Warren his two closest advisors were Michelle and his grandmother, I’d say that connection bears closer scrutiny.

The fact that Michelle thinks she’s cute isn’t the problem. It’s that she sees herself as running for president. Something to think about.

Also keep in mind, Bambi is running a campaign where it and it’s supporters often resort to thuggery and intimidation to get their way. In the whole of American history, I can’t recall a time when a political party asked for your votes, and told you you were dumb in the process. Hey, ignorant idiot! Vote for me!
Way to get votes, Bambi camp!

Also very interesting that the bullying would come to a site for blue star moms, the very group Michelle and Obambi are trying to cultivate.

Is it all for show? Is it not sincere? Does the Obambi camp support parents with deployed children, or not? Kind of makes me think the hatred toward the military Obambi has tried to dispel goes too deep among his followers to fix. Perhaps Obama is entirely anti-military after all.

So sarah palin is cute according to michelle and disabled according to Rangel. Whats wrong with these people?