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Originally Posted by CorpMediaSux
I will give her this, I don't think she was that corrupt. Even her work with Ted Stevens 527 seems on the up and up. But one of her major platforms is that she will "shake up" Washington in terms of wasteful earmarks and wasteful spending. And this rape kit story kind of confuses that. Why did she lobby FOR the Bridge to Nowhere, but never lobby for this policy being changed. She HAD priorities as the mayor. She pushed for federal pork for the sports complex. But she never pushed to change this rule. If the kits were so expensive, why wasn't that part of her federal pork push. No matter how you slice it. It stinks.
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Yes. It does stink.
However, (and you knew there had to be a however
) she didn't have to push for it as it appears the state legislature already took care of it before she came to be governor.
Now for another however: I find it outrageous that this town, while she was mayor, could be so penny wise and pound foolish. Wasn't this also the town that received $20 million for some sports complex or something of that sort? No one can tell me that they needed to save $5-15K on forensic rape kits. That's simply incredible.
Regardless of whether there was one rape or a thousand rapes in Wasilla, that town surely could afford to pay for the rape kit.
I wonder how many women, when told the utmost of insults after suffering a sexual assault and waiting for the additional insult of the exam, "By the way, the rape kit will be around a grand. Don't worry, though, your insurance should cover it", did not go through with reporting the crime.
And, what if a child, who happened to be assaulted by her parent, went in for this exam. The child can't consent to pay for it. Did they tell the parent (ie. the perp), that they'll be paying for it? I wonder what they did in those cases.
This is a stain on Palin's mayoral record.