Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council...Palin followed through on her campaign promises to reduce her own salary, and to reduce property taxes by 60%"
"Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow Republicans."
"After federal funding for the Gravina Island Bridge project...was lost, Palin decided against filling the over $200 million gap with state money."
"Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on 'federal dollars,' as the state does today."
"Palin has strongly promoted oil resource development in Alaska, but also helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits."
"Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors, to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska."
"Palin presented the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state's North Slope."
"Palin announced that a Canadian company, TransCanada Corp., was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant."
"Palin signed a bill into law giving the state of Alaska authority to award TransCanada Pipelines a license to build and operate the $26-billion-dollar pipeline to ship natural gas from the North Slope to the Lower 48, through Canada."
"Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards."
"She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates."
"She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax."
"Palin objected to ... list polar bears as an endangered species."
"Palin supported the open debate of creationism alongside evolution in schools; however, she noted that "creationism doesn't have to be part of the curriculum" and that she would not use "religion as a litmus test, or anybody's personal opinion on evolution or creationism" as criteria for selection to the school board."
"She opposes same-sex marriage"
"Palin complied with an Alaskan state Supreme Court order and signed an implementation of same-sex benefits into law under protest, stating that legal options to avoid doing so had run out."
"She supported a non-binding referendum on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter."
"Palin has stated that she supported the 1998 constitutional amendment (to ban gay marriage in Alaska)"
"Palin's first veto was used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to the partners of gay state employees. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska's attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation."
"Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet purchased (on a state government credit account) by the Murkowski administration. The state placed the jet for sale on eBay three times. In August 2007, the jet was sold for $2.1 million."
"Shortly after becoming governor, Palin cancelled a contract for the construction of an 11-mile (18-kilometer) gravel road outside Juneau to a mine."
"In June 2007, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion operating budget—the largest in Alaska's history."
"At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history. The $237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the construction budget to nearly $1.6 billion."
"When on June 6, 2007, the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the dairy had just received $600,000 in state money." (The Dairy eventually closed anyway)
This is from her Wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
