Libertarian PALIN starts political career with a crime? = hacking a computer

[L. Coyote]

Palin rescued a sinking ship, Republican control of Alaska,
by unseating the person who would lose in the general election!

Part of Alaska's corruption may have included appointing Palin,
a BP employee's wife to the state's Oil and Gas Commission!!

I'd say she started her political career as the wife of a Republican Big Oil worker!

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What's wrong with Alaska?
Every member of Alaska's all-GOP congressional delegation is embroiled in scandal.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells - Aug. 13, 2007 - http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/08/13/alaska/print.html

It is difficult now -- it has always been difficult -- to visit Alaska and not depart with the feeling that you have witnessed something experimental and anomalous.
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Sarah Palin, a libertarian and hockey mom from the fast-growing suburbs of Anchorage, began her political career -- as an appointed member of the state's Oil and Gas Commission -- by hacking into the computer of another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, chairman of the Alaska Republican Party. Palin was seeking the evidence that she would eventually use to charge him with an improper relationship with lobbyists. (Ruedrich would later settle state ethics charges against him by paying a $12,000 fine.)

It is difficult not to see Palin's ascendance not just as a challenge to the state's establishment but also as presenting a crudely cut choice between the state's cronyist, resource-economy past and its future. She beat Frank Murkowski, the incumbent, in the GOP primary; voters began to sour on Murkowski as soon as he picked his daughter to replace him in the Senate, and then grew angrier over his grubbing for a private jet and other perceived ethical lapses. He left office the least popular governor in the country.

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[L. Coyote]

1. It's a great day when something like this sinks!! LOL

[NotThisTime]

2. Nice, good going Sarah, hacking one's computers must be legal since there were no consequences

[Eric J in MN]

3. Sarah Palin cannot hack a computer.

She was in the room when a technician restored some deleted files on Randy Ruedrich's machine.


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http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2008/09/is_wouldbe_vp_s.html

The next week, when Palin went back to work at the AOGCC, she noticed that Ruedrich had removed his pictures from the walls and the personal effects from his desk. But as she and an AOGCC technician worked their way around his computer password at the behest of an assistant attorney general in Fairbanks, they found his cleanup had not extended to his electronic files.

The technician "said it looked like he tried to delete this, but she knew a way to go around and get some of the deleted stuff," Palin said in an interview. "I didn't know what I was looking for, but I was there."

Palin found dozens of e-mail messages and documents stacked up in trash folders, many showing work Ruedrich had been doing for the Republican Party and others showing how closely he worked with at least one company he was supposed to be regulating.
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[progressivebydesign]

6. No.. if you read the links from the google search, she did it several times.

But thanks for sticking up for her... she has a penchant for getting people out of her way when she wants something. Very Cruella DeVille of her.

[anigbrowl]

11. As an ex-computer tech, there is quite a difference

There are specific legal limits on what you can and can't do to examine a computer and I don't think this equals hacking. Bear in mind that the computer in question would seem to have been the property of the Oil and Gas authority, not the guy's personal computer. So it's not at all clear that she broke the law - and accusing someone of doing so when they haven't lowers one's credibility.

[L. Coyote]

12. So, she witnessed a technician find files in the trash folder? LOL

The largest construction project in North America was up for grabs. Guess who won!

[progressivebydesign]

4. I've linked my google search results for the hacking info...

Apparently, Caribou Barbie has a thing about removing people, in whatever way possible, to get her way.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ruedrich+palin+hacking&aq=f&oq=

[roguevalley]

5. now you know why the repubs up here hate her.

[grantcart]

7. man this is like a subway schedule on a busy Mahattan blue line

every 15 minutes another embarassement pops out of the ground.

[Sanity Claws]

10. Manhattan blue line?

You mean the Eighth Avenue line? The trains run a lot more frequently than every fifteen minutes except in the middle of the night.
I think she's more like the #7 train --- she runs way out there and not too frequently.

[Arugula Latte]

8. My god, could this thing get any more tawdry or sleazy?

I mean, sheesh, it's too bad Aaron Spelling has died, because this could have kept him in scripts for ages with his Alaskan version of J.R. Ewing and Sue Anne and the whole corrupt bunch.

[seabeyond]

9. yes yes yes i forgot about the hacking. bah hahahaha. lol lol. n/t