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9/19/2008 9:54 PM UTC
Sarah Palin And Her Outrageous Rape Kit Policy By Bonnie Erbe Sep 18, 2008 E-Mail Story Print Story Sphere Share Text Size: A A A (US News) Mountains of controversy are swirling around Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's strange policy of forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits while she was mayor of the now-infamous town of Wasilla. The most interesting take I've found is posted by Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore who relates the following: I sat with a rape victim during the "harvesting of evidence". Mascara smeared eyes stared blankly out from a cave of shame. "We've got swimmers," announced the forensic tech in the lab next door. My friend didn't look surprised. In her 60's, she was still asked if she felt the need for emergency contraception. Surviving the process would have only been compounded and made worse with an itemized bill; victimized twice courtesy of Sarah Palin and the city of Wasilla. Much can be learned about the Palin Administration's family values from reviewing their spending priorities. Former Chief of Police Irl Stambaugh included forensic rape kits (up to $1,200 per kit) in his budget requests. He was fired by Palin in 1997. In her termination letter, Palin wrote, "...I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla. Therefore I intend to terminate your employment... " Staumbaugh headed the police department since it was created in 1993. Before that, he served 22 years with the Anchorage Police Department rising to the rank of captain. Sarah Palin hired Charlie Fannon as the new Wasilla Chief of Police and said it was one of her best decisions as mayor. Fannon eliminated the forensic rape kits from the budget. Though the number of rapes weren't reported, Fannon claimed it would save Wasilla taxpayers $5,000 to $14,000 a year. Palin supporters ought to be taking a much closer look at her record on these types of issues (charging rape victims for evidentiary examinations so their attackers can be brought to trial) than whether she can juggle five children and the vice presidency. This, more than anything, should push women, pro-life and pro-choice, away from the McCain-Palin ticket. It's one thing to oppose abortion on moral grounds. It's quite another to charge crime victims for their own forensic examinations. Such a policy is nothing short of outrageous.
stoke newington kris
8/16/2008 12:16 PM UTC
My missus says you are the only one with a lick of sense on BTR. Where you been, girl? You are missed!
SeanConners
7/9/2008 6:06 PM UTC
hey LOC...a belated thanks for your call to my show last week. you are a great caller and i hope you call again soon:) take care:)
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6/3/2008 10:12 PM UTC
Hey Left, Again, thank you for calling into our show last Friday. We truly appreciate it.
5/27/2008 9:46 PM UTC
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5/6/2008 4:43 PM UTC
Thank you for coming by the show yesterday and sharing your story on the air. I hope to you come back and visit!
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5/5/2008 3:17 AM UTC
YOU ROCK!!!!!
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5/5/2008 2:57 AM UTC
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4/18/2008 7:07 AM UTC
This is your life... FIGHT CLUB with Itchy and Scratchy Friday 4.18.08 11pm EST~~~~~ Since it's tax time, Fight Club will dive into the secretive organization, the Federal Reserve and also advance a provocative hypothesis. Stop by to agree, debate, or hate.
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3/25/2008 5:20 AM UTC
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3/24/2008 6:18 PM UTC
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3/21/2008 1:58 AM UTC
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3/14/2008 1:48 AM UTC
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3/14/2008 1:25 AM UTC
KEEP STANDING UP PEOPLE IN 2008
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3/13/2008 5:30 PM UTC
Thanks for stopping by today. Nice when general intelligence level of the chat room gets kicked up a notch.
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3/11/2008 3:16 PM UTC
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3/4/2008 3:30 AM UTC
As always, I really appreciate your support - and your very, very kind words. (on my show - and at other shows)
2/22/2008 2:56 AM UTC
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2/5/2008 4:55 AM UTC
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2/1/2008 3:07 AM UTC
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1/6/2008 11:31 PM UTC
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OIF Veteran and Proud democrat
Date / Time: 5/21/2008 1:40 AM UTC
As a democrat myself, this title is appropriate. The stars have aligned for us. We have not 1 but 2 wonderful candidates for president. 80+% of the country thinks the country is headed in the wrong direction. The economy is on the verge of a recession, the war in Iraq is growing costlier by the day and people are sick of it. And the Republican Party is loosing elections in solid republican districts left and right.
Sounds like a recipe for victory doesn’t it? Not if the democrats can help it!
The timing for the democrats couldn’t be better to take the White House, and pick up seats in the house and in the senate.
But leave it up to the democrats to find a way to F**K it up!
Here we are after West Virginia and before Kentucky and we have a split in our party. West Virginia showed the country they cannot stomach the thought of voting for a black man.
Now before you say Hey! It’s not because he’s black, it’s because he doesn’t have any experience! Several people in WV admitted it was because Obama was black, oh yeah and he’s a Muslim too.
So back to the democrats F**King this up. We have taken an energized, mobilized, sick of the republican and ready to vote their butts out of office party, and turned it into an internal civil war. Good going Dems.
I do not consider myself to be apart of the civil war. If Hillary were to beat Obama fair and square, I would put aside all hard feelings and vote for her. Some of her supporters do not feel the same way.
John Edwards said (and I’m paraphrasing here) If someone doesn’t vote for Obama because he’s black, that’s not a vote I want.
Now I have a hard time picturing a politician turning down a vote, but I give Edwards cool points for making that stand. Hillary…um I don’t see her saying ANYTHING to that affect.
To be the party that accepts all people black, white, Hispanic, gay, straight, religious, secular, the West Virginia primary showed me that the “working class voter” is a tacit way of saying ignorant, xenophobic, and racist.
Since seeing the movie Wrong Turn, I said that the hell is going on in West Virginia? Since seeing the people of West Virginia’s reasons for not voting for Obama
(race, ignorance) I say to myself, how can we be apart of the same democratic party?
If the democrats can’t get it together it will be Bush III in the white house and we all will be pointing fingers at each other wondering what the hell happened?
Date / Time: 5/21/2008 1:39 AM UTC
My fascination with the Republican Party
Guys, I have a problem. No really, a big problem.
I am a 27 yr old African American female. I am an Obama supporter (I voted for him in the PA primary). I am a proud democrat, yet…I am fascinated with the Republican Party.
Not the type of fascination that makes me want to vote republican. But the type of fascination that makes me wonder how did the party of Lincoln, the congress that passed the thirteenth, fourteenth AND the fifteenth amendment, the party that acted in the best interest of black people…What the hell happened?
You gotta give it up to those guys, they were cool. They did the hard thing, the unpopular thing, and the right thing.
So what the hell happened?
I frequently listen to indignant republicans that make the same previously stated points about the party’s past, and rightly so. This is a proud history. But how did they get to where they are today?
Blacks (myself included) vote overwhelmingly democrat. And Republicans are perceived to be (not by all but by some)
White
Rich
Racist
Intolerant
Self Righteous
Morally Bankrupt
Corrupt
Warmongers
Now I would be remiss not to state that the same list of attributes could be EASILY applied to the Democratic Party as well.
I hear many views on this subject. The most consistent reasons I hear are… The media. Social programs…minorities want the government to take care of them. Minorities think they are owed something because of the past history of the country. Minorities want handouts, they don’t want to work hard, they want to be taken care of.
I’m sure there are more reasons, but these are the ones I hear the most.
So in hearing these various reasons as to why minorities vote democrat, I stop, breathe, and digest the opinion that people have about my race.
I am not an expert on race relations; I do not pretend to have the answers. But I wonder if this is why minorities (black in particular) don’t vote republican?
I wonder… if I voted republican would I then be classified as a hard worker? Would I be saying that no one owes me anything because of the past? Would I then be repudiating handouts? And would that be a signal that I was ready to take care of myself and not depend on the government?
I could be completely wrong and just talking out of my ass, but how do you insult someone, then asking for their vote?
Again, this is just my decidedly left of center opinion. I don’t know why over 90% of the minority electorate vote democrat. I just know why I do.
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