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Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 AM

Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals

Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. "Her door was open," says Chryson -- and still is.

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Friday, October 10, 2008 10:30 AM

send this nightmare back to Alaska

I can't believe this woman became governor, much less mayor, and the thought of her being the "leader of the free world"-should they succeed in stealing the election and McGrandpa subsequently dies- scares me more than Global Warming, Terrorism, the Bush family, sharks, and the boogeyman all wrapped up in one. And I'm pretty scared of sharks. The only way they CAN win is via election theft, I urge all of you to check your registration status, and, especially if you live in a battleground state, take your video cameras with you to the polls and keep an eye out for Reich-wing shennanigans.

Friday, October 10, 2008 10:23 AM

Tax evasion?

There's a bankruptcy case in the 9th Circuit denying a Mark Chryson's pro se motion to reinstate a "bad faith" bankruptcy case, filed to avoid paying Federal taxes.

Could it be this guy? AK is in 9th Circuit.

http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F3/89/844/582704/

Friday, October 10, 2008 10:22 AM

Bravo Salon!!

Good job to the reporters of this article. Keep digging. Palin's association with all these reactionary gun-toting anti-

American goons needs to be fully exposed. These people are nothing short of violent racists with bigoted Neanderthal views. They are the KKK white supremacists coming back to haunt us. Dont' let it happen. They have no place in a civilized society.

Friday, October 10, 2008 10:08 AM

Pals

There are lots of right wing extremists and left wing extremists. Sarah Palin has never maintained a public activist relationship with an unrepentant domestic terrorist who has actually exploded real bombs in our Nation's Capitol, the Pentagon, police stations, and other structures. William Ayers is no ordinary criminal; he is the worst kind - an ideological one. He escaped prosecution on a technicality and has never paid his debt to society, nor apologized to the American people for his crimes. On the contrary, his escape has endued him with the criminal bravado to brag of his wicked deeds. He now pursues his ideological ends through political proxies - sympathetic politicians. I can't tell which is more disconcerting; the fact that a US presidential candidate has a relationship of this kind or the fact that the gigantic, liberal media machine seems to have no problem with him having it.

Friday, October 10, 2008 10:00 AM

Great info but Too Bad Salon is not mainstream enough to make any difference

Mainstream media continues to ignore both Sarah Palin's radical fascist tendencies, and also the fact that millions of voters have been illegally purged from the rolls of particularly swing states - particularly Democratic voters, if you care to inspect the detailed lists. Twice as many have been purged as have been registered, according to one mainstream source, but that has quickly been ignored as boring.

Friday, October 10, 2008 10:00 AM

kevinroseisgay

For Obama stories attend a McCain rally. The stories are mostly lies, of course, but that does not seem to matter to the GOP nutcases in attendance.

Friday, October 10, 2008 09:59 AM

And when is Obama going to run with this?

Answer: NEVER, even though he's getting hammered by Repug negative ads.

Friday, October 10, 2008 09:51 AM

candidates' associations matter

A good piece of investigation. Should be nothing new to most people to know that some politicians will leverage just about any association, no matter how odious, that can propel their rise to power. Voters should be able to judge a candidate's character and core beliefs based on the people they associate and ally themselves with. Right?

Friday, October 10, 2008 09:50 AM

Interview With Current AKIP Chairman Lynette Clark

Here's an interview with AKIP Chairman, Lynette Clark on Palin's Involvement

http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/akip-interview-on-palin/

Friday, October 10, 2008 09:47 AM

These people need to grow up.

The more I learn about people like Chryson and Stoll, the more I consider them obnoxious little children who have never grown beyond the stage of selfishness and whining. Like little brats, they refuse to share and must have everything their way, otherwise they'll strike out in anger.

I hope that the they represent the fringe majority in

Alaska, a State I'm starting to look at as a weird and not very likeable foreign country.

Friday, October 10, 2008 09:46 AM

@ Pastafarians Unite!

I often reflect on personal responsibility. I think Bush voters should be responsible for the increase in the national debt. They don't want to pay for civilization, which is what taxes do. They want their grandchildren to pay. Well, I say, let them pay! They wanted their Bush and now let them eat it!

Damn those double entendres.

Friday, October 10, 2008 09:41 AM

Maureen --

Ignoring the name calling from certain supposed Alaskans (Except to say that, not having been born yet, my knowledge of the sixties is far from complete. Sorry, I just ever went through the wanna-be hippy stage.) I'd like to address a few of your points.

The first is that I in no way want to diminish what the yahoos in the Weathermen did. If the bombs had been placed in a different fashion, if their neighbors hadn't interceded, Judge Murtagh and his family would be dead. However, the murders of the police in Nyack you refer to occurred in 1981, long after the Weathermen had ceased to exist, when two former members where involved in a armored car robbery. Deride the group for the things they are actually responsible for. It's heinous enough on its own.

I also have to go with the facts that I've read, that while McCain supporters want to inflate Obama's relationship with Ayers into a close friendship and mentorship, all that the reporters who interviewed people who worked with them both have dug up is a casual relationship.

You're correct that I have not lived through a bombing, and I can't know that kind of terror. I have lived though the murder of a good friend by an unbalanced right-wing lunatic who decided to shoot up the school he attended. I'm also Unitarian and one of our churches in Tennessee was attacked, and members were murdered, by another unbalanced right-winger during a play this summer. As I watch Palin and McCain whip up their supporters into a frenzy of irrational hate, I can only wonder when it will happen again.

I suppose that I am not allowed to call them terrorists?

Friday, October 10, 2008 09:31 AM

Thank You Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert

This is finally being picked up nationally.

Saw you Maddow's show. Good job.

The truth is it really doesn't matter if she was ever a member.

It's about ASSOCIATIONS now. That's all the proof you need.

What more proof do you need than the ASSOCIATION she has sleeping in her bed every night.

The card carrying member of the Alaskan Independence Party.

Her husband, Todd "The Dude" Palin.

We need an in depth story on "The Dude"

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