Oh, paleeeze, like she has any high school friends who are residents of House District 3 who aren’t already employed by her and aren’t actually still registered in the Wasilla house districts…!!!

I bet she chooses her own.

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/138630

Elton leaving Senate for Interior job

Posted by Alaska_Politics
Posted: March 2, 2009 – 12:42 pm

“Gov. Sarah Palin will select Elton’s replacement but needs a majority of the Democrats in the Senate to approve her pick. The Democratic Party in Juneau will submit names for Palin to consider, but she does not have to follow its advice.”

GEO Group, Inc.: Despite a Crashing Economy, Private Prison Firm Turns a Handsome Profit

by Erin Rosa, Special to CorpWatch
March 1st, 2009

“I suspect that it’s a pattern all over. When you try to run prisons as money makers what you do is cut back on the most expensive thing you can, which is medication and medical care.”

GEO has said it will not publicly comment on pending legal cases or abuse claims by third parties, including nonprofit groups. Company spokesman Pablo Paez says that on the subject of business plans, “we have no comment beyond what’s in our public disclosures.”

Despite a wide array grievances and tragedies, GEO has accrued contracts worth more than $588 million in federal tax dollars since 1997, according to available federal procurement data. And as long as federal officials continue to remand a growing number of inmates and immigrants over to private businesses, without imposing strict oversight, GEO will likely remain profitable.

http://www.newshounds.us/2007/04/24/indiana_prison_operator_geo_group_formerly_wackenhut_corrections_has_long_rap_sheet_of_neglect_and_abuse.php

Watch the video and listen to the trust in Deborah Fleishman’s voice. She honestly believes, as do the inmates, that FOX News has their best interests at heart and will actually send in a crew to do an “investigation.” Little does this poor woman know that FOX News has been bought and paid for by the very interests that abused her son in the first place.

Check out the tone in Cavuto’s voice at the very end of the segment and see if you think he’s ever going to speak with this woman again.
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(and) here we have x-prez Bush

Under the heading “Warden for Profit” the Religious Freedom Coalition of the Southeast reports that George Zoley, CEO of The GEO Group was a large contributor to the Bush 2004 campaign.

The Warden for Profit
George Zoley makes no secret of what he wants from Bush: big-dollar contracts for his security firm, the GEO Group, to guard federal prisons. “We don’t want to provide guards at the local shopping center,” he says. “We are looking at a single government payer for our services.” Zoley’s company, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections, is the world’s largest operator of private prisons, earning more than $600 million a year incarcerating inmates. Its facilities are notorious: In Louisiana, where guards routinely beat and tear-gassed teenage offenders, a Republican judge lambasted GEO for treating children “as if they walked on all fours.” In Texas, where male guards molested female inmates, a fourteen-year-old named Sara Lowe committed suicide after her release. Asked by CBS whether Lowe deserved an apology, Zoley said, “Not that I’m aware of. I don’t know what you meant by that.”

Wackenhut was in trouble way back in the mid-nineties.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950917/ai_n14006700
Are the same people still in charge at GEO? That would be the key.
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Thanks for the link………disturbing and sounds very republican……using public money to buy rare book collections, antique furniture, “trips”, spokesperson denying any wrong doing with a lame excuse, they did nothing wrong, wahhhhh.

But the fact that the board is made up of X-FBI and X-Military is very disturbing don’t you think? egads………and they’re caught helping big oil against environmentalists?

So Bill Allen and other AK corrupt officials were involved in Wackenhut which is now GEO……..so who in AK is involved with GEO and the correction systems? and do they have anything to do with Palin appointing Joe Schmidt?

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“The alarm was raised in July when auditors found that managers for another private company were using public money from the drug programme to buy a rare book collection and antique furniture for themselves. A wider investigation was ordered and Wackenhut officials were allegedly found to have used $700,000 on what the Texas Rangers investigators describe as “unallowable petty cash expenses”. The money went on mobile phones and trips to Britain. The state has suspended payments to the firm while the inquiries continue.

The chairman of the Texas investigating task force, Senator John Montford, has said that two-thirds of the drug programme operators could face fraud charges. Wackenhut denies any impropriety saying that it had agreed to carry out the work with addicts for a fixed price and there was nothing wrong in keeping any savings made. “We carried out all the programmes successfully at that fixed price and we are convinced that all the costs were incurred properly,” said a spokesman.

Wackenhut’s board is dominated by ex-FBI and US military officers. Its services include helping employers break strikes and running undercover operations to unveil moles in multinational corporations.

The US Congress has been highly critical of one of its “stings” which involved agents posing as environmentalists to find where a leading green activist was getting his information about American oil firms.

Mexico: The War Next Door

60 Minutes: Homeland Security Secretary Says Every American Has A Stake In Mexico’s War Against Murderous Gangs

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/26/60minutes/main4831806.shtml

“In December, a group of Mexican soldiers was found with their heads cut off, and a note from traffickers warning “for every one of mine you kill, we will kill 10.”

A decapitated man was left hanging from a bridge; his head was found in the town square. Last year alone, nearly 6,300 people were killed in Mexico’s drug war – more than double the number the year before.

“The power of Mexico’s drug cartels has already spread far beyond the border. Just this week, the Justice Department announced they had arrested more than 700 people in the U.S. connected to just one cartel.

Mexican traffickers are operating in some 230 American cities, according to the Justice Department, and they’re now considered the number one organized crime threat in the United States.

“You’re seeing drug cartel involvement in Anchorage, Alaska.

In South Dakota. In Atlanta. In New York City,” Cooper told Napolitano.

“Right. Right. That’s why I say every– you know, the United States has a real stake in this. We have a stake in it– at that level. That– that they’re selling drugs. These drugs are being distributed throughout our cities, our communities, our neighborhoods. So this issue in Mexico, this very brave battle that the president of Mexico is fighting, is something that every American has a stake in,” she replied. “

The “other folks” seem to feel that everyone’s religion is *their* business. Rev Wright being a notable example.

The only way I can see to get the religion thing done is to coax it out. “How has your faith sustained you in your life? …in your work? …in your office/position? How could that translate to *what* you do in your work? (i.e. office/political office – but without using those words)

…Because from what I see, the (scary) Relig Right are incapable of keeping their mouths shut about religion for any extended period of time. Sooner or later, they’re going to have to show just how rabid this mentality is – sooner would be better than later – and then the topic is fair game.