(from http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/rhonda-mcbride-appointed-rural-advisor-to-gov-palin/)

Palin promised a rural sub-cabinet in her first state of the state, Jan 2007.

Rhonda McBride was appointed as rural advisor instead in 25 October 2007

Rhonda McBride quit as rural advisor, 14 October 2008

Palin promises a rural sub-cabinet at AFN, 27 October 2008

The rural advisor, like so many other state offices, did NOT have a toll-free number to call. It costs 5 (five) times more to call Anchorage or Juneau from rural Alaska than it does to call Washington, DC. (as measured by calling card minutes)

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Dollars to donuts, maybe the AG was appointed because as everyone in Anchorage knows, illegal activity is “THE” problem with rural Alaska??
alcohol, drugs
domestic violence
sexual abuse
All we really need is more law officers and more alcohol control (on the secular side) to solve everything.
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Lance – The Palins don’t give a rat’s ass. It’s that simple.
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Damn, that’s sad. I know it’s true, but my brain freezes when I realize, once again, how shallow and self-serving many of our ‘representatives’ have become. And then I mentally kick myself in the ass for staying silent for so long.

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ira2No Gravatar (15:55:54) :

If a foreign country lets its people suffer like that, without even making an attempt to keep them from death and mayhem while the rulers live high on the hog and focus on furthering their own interests, we condemn them. If it happens in one state in the United States of America, the rest of the country shrugs and isn’t interested? WTF?? Hello??
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Yeah, and the Appalachians are another poverty/meth hotspot. Where’s Bono when we need him? (Yeah, that was snarky, sorry.) I think Bono does great things, along with Oprah, and the Brangelinas (Brad seems to be doing good with his Katrina shelters), I’m sure there are countless others, but when did we stop taking care of our own?

My sweet Momma volunteers with a mission outreach in my hometown (in S. Ga) and she sees homeless people who have made the conscious decision to move to S. Ga because they know they can survive the winter temps in spite of having no place to live.

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Mother Who ThinksNo Gravatar (16:14:34) :

Those prices boggle my mind.

Milk = $9.00/gal
10 pound bag of rice = $19.75
7 bananas= $7.00
Gas for truck, outboard motor, chainsaw = $5.56/gal
Fuel oil = $5.87/gal prepaid or credit card only

It was cold. It was snowy. The wood had to be thawed and dried before it would give off any heat when it was burned. My family was not buying much fruit or vegetables because of the cost. I shopped the local general store for Christmas dinner. They had a turkey already as a gift from an employer and planned only on a very basic meal and dessert. There were 8 of us. It cost $120 to shop for that meal and a few extras like laundry detergent and paper towel.

Though I lived there from 1978 to 2006, I was shocked. The downturn was palpable economically and psychologically.

The answer is mostly, and unfortunately Yes. There is a long tradition of neglect by the State gov. The relationship with the Federal Gov. is better, mostly because it is dictated by the US Constitution, and the power of seniority vested in Ted. The exceptions: Gov. Hammond was a rural resident, and married to an Alaska Native, and a very progressive R. Gov. Knowles, D, took his time, but finally saw the light, and dropped the States lawsuit against the Rural Subsistence priority on Fed. Lands. That was a good thing, but the State has steadfastly refused to recognize any Rural preference for hunting and fishing on State owned lands. It is a HUGE divide between the State and Natives. SP has said she will not support the priority, under the guise of “must treat everyone equally”. A BS statement that only fools the uneducated.

I’m sure the women in her church knit little baby hats for African babies.

As for Palin and her appointed morons, let me just say THEY STINK AT WHAT THEY DO. Or at what they don’t do, more correctly, I guess. It’s 50-60 below zero in interior Alaska? People there have had trouble getting and paying for fuel for a while now? Politicians don’t want them fleeing to the cities in droves? Well then… WHY DO THEY JUST SIT ON THEIR BUTTS AND SMALLTALK INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH THE SITUATION even if it’s to their own satisfaction rather than that of the rural people???

If a foreign country lets its people suffer like that, without even making an attempt to keep them from death and mayhem while the rulers live high on the hog and focus on furthering their own interests, we condemn them. If it happens in one state in the United States of America, the rest of the country shrugs and isn’t interested? WTF?? Hello??