More stuff on Sarah Palin. Apparently as Mayor of Wasilla she fired the local librarian after the librarian refused to ban books she found objectionable. The termination letter was recinded after a community uprising. From The New York Times:
Ann Kilkenny, a Democrat who said she attended every City Council meeting in Ms. Palin’s first year in office, said Ms. Palin brought up the idea of banning some books at one meeting. “They were somehow morally or socially objectionable to her,” Ms. Kilkenny said.
The librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, pledged to “resist all efforts at censorship,” Ms. Kilkenny recalled. Ms. Palin fired Ms. Emmons shortly after taking office but changed course after residents made a strong show of support. Ms. Emmons, who left her job and Wasilla a couple of years later, declined to comment for this article.
Nice of John McCain to select a book banner to be our next Vice President.... How bad was John McCain's vetting process? Well according to the Washington Post the vetting team didn't interview her until the day before she was offered the job. Furthermore instead of hiring instigators the McCain camp asked the FBI to do background checks McCain's short-listers. Naturally the FBI refused to perform background checks on behalf of a political candidate.
All of this is not to mention the stuff that folks are dredging up on the Net--like the librarian firing--or from local contemporarneous press accounts. It's like the vetting team didn't even do a Google search!
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