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• Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:24 AM

  Thank you.

  I was sick of articles about Palin and wishing you'd move on, but this one really captures her and the Republican party here. Stein is a good man that did much for Wasilla, especially our youth. Others that worked on his campaign have said things similar to those you interviewed for this article. During the last mayor's race, certain members of the Republican party started a whisper campaign against one of the candidates (also Republican, but not the anointed one). Neighbors called me on a Sunday after a church picnic to tell me while there they had heard the juicy and totally untrue rumor that this candidate was having an extramarital affair. Apparently somebody forgot to tell the person who shared this calculated gossip with them that Christians don't spread lies, especially in church. The whopper I heard a month or so ago about one of the candidates in our current mayor's race (again a Republican, but not the anointed one) came from the same part of the party. Sadly, whisper campaigns are not the only dirty tricks they have stooped to. We can thank Sarah Palin for bringing ugly partisan politics to our non-partisan mayoral and council races. Had she been a true reformer, she would have started cleaning house on the local level. Instead, it's the same old players and Randy Ruedrich is still the state chairman.

  —Alaska2 Read Alaska2's other letters
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