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Sarah Palin/BOB LENOX comparison?Sarah Palin is a younger, prettier version of Bob Lenox! In 1996, when Sarah Palin was elected mayor in Alaska, the town had no general indebtedness. The first thing she did was cozy up with developers. They concocted a plan build a massive hockey center complex....they argued the town would make a lot of money hosting tournaments and such. The hockey center would pay for itself...eventually. Remind anyone of the Tennis Center? She campaigned strongly for the hockey complex, and 8 percent of the town (shades of Peachtree City!!) turned out to approve the hockey center complex by a very thin 200 vote margin. The town then overpaid for the land to build the complex (asking price: $170,000, actual sale price: $1 million plus), and the town build a $14 million dollar white elephant. Taxes were raised about 20% and by the time Mayor Palin declared victory and went on to bigger things, the town was crippled with over $19 million dollars in bond debt. sniffles5's blog | login to post comments |