Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
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Since Republican McCain was forced by party leaders to nominate an unknown for the second highest office in the land, the investigative journalism has been trying to find out and report some of the history and facts of Palin's doings in the far north. This article documents some of the vindictive and petty aspects and the blatant attempts as secrecy by avoiding official email channels. She claims to eschew the "good old boy" system, but seems to have made extensive use of the "good old classmate" system.
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