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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Another stellar piece by the NY Times staff, debunking the myth that Palin proved a reformer while Governor of Alaska, with plenty of good sources to cast serious doubts as to the sanity of John McCain in choosing this VP nominee whose only credentials appear more and more to be her chromosomes and her loony right-wing positions (the article doesn't say that, but I do). There is so much material here that appears well-researched that some of it should be picked up by others in the mainstream media, if they have any respect for the truth.
