{"id":1210,"date":"2008-09-03T11:48:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2008-09-03T11:48:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:48:26","slug":"sarah-palin-milking-the-government-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/03\/sarah-palin-milking-the-government-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin: Milking The Government Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/9\/3\/9330\/95523\/364\/584429\">another Palin scandal<\/a> in the the &#8220;more of the same&#8221; vein:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Palin fired the whole state Agriculture and Conservation board in July 2007, ostensibly to save a mismanaged state-owned dairy, and replaced it with her usual gang of cronies.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the dairy lost more money than it had in twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>The dairy, an Alaska icon, closed anyway in two months, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional state money with it.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of dollars in dairy equipment ended up, at a steep discount, in the hands of a local Palin ally, who now runs a remarkably similar operation with the help of a Ted Stevens earmark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A very well written exploration of the facts can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/9\/3\/9330\/95523\/364\/584429\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just another Palin scandal in the the &#8220;more of the same&#8221; vein: Palin fired the whole state Agriculture and Conservation board in July 2007, ostensibly to save a mismanaged state-owned dairy, and replaced it with her usual gang of cronies. As a result, the dairy lost more money than it had in twenty years. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}