Originally Posted by CorpMediaSux

I'm sorry but...what? Maybe you have a low opinion of the citizens of Wasilla, but how on earth would it have been controversial for Palin to push for this law to be changed. We know exactly the kinds of things she pushed hard for, lots of journalists have been scouring her records to see what she pushed for in order to get a sense of her values. If there was evidence that she had made ANY effort to overturn this practice, wouldn't some of the conservative-leaning media out there have found it and used it to quelch this story the SECOND it appeared on the blogs. In fact, wouldn't they have used it to add credence to their claim that the media is trying to "smear" Palin.


Her silence on the issue is deafening if you ask me. If she really had no clue that there were rapes in Wasilla and that this was a policy then I'm just a little bit concerned about her oversight ability. This was a town of 9,000. I would suspect that a rape, being a relatively rare crime, would maybe make the local news. It's also a little creepy that Wasilla was the ONLY town in Alaska that did this policy.

Seems there were 10 reported rapes from 2000-2005, there's no stats on this link from 1995-2000 for some reason. Uniform Crime Reports of Wasilla Police and Index from 1985 to 2005