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First of all--will you site just exactly how many rapes over the last 20 or so years occurred in the township of Wasilla?
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OK first of all, your whole post on this topic is over the top, could you chill?
Second that's been addressed by numerous posts in this topic, links have been provided and stats are readily available within them. It's no one's fault if you are unable/unwilling to click on the link and read the information. It seems about 30 rapes were reported over the 20 year period.
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Within the city council of a small town & at town meetings the conversation centers around infracstructure of the town, & some of how can we fix drainage from running onto private party, along with a couple steady eddie's that show up to complain about Barney Fifes cat getting into their garden. "I know." I haved lived in a small town all my life.
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1. If we're going to assume that this level of banality is what takes up the time of a "small town" mayor, doesn't that cut a little bit into her "major executive experience."
2. If these concerns are so small, wouldn't that mean something like the way the police treats rape victims likely to be more important. It seems you want us to believe that small towns aren't that busy and yet also don't make time for these things because it's not "important"? I honestly am confused.
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Small town budgets are done yearly--they do not allocate (or set aside) money for things they do not need.
Setting money aside for rape kits in a small town that virtually has no violence would be the equivalent of setting aside money for the protection of tropical palm trees in downtown Wasilla. Of course, Palm trees do not or cannot exist in Wasilla, Alaska.
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This is where your "argument" begins to unravel. It took me exactly two seconds to click on a link that told me there was a pretty consistent number of rapes in Wasilla every year Palin was mayor, between 3-6 generally. Can we assume the mayor is briefed on these kinds of rape statistics? If that's not the case...um why aren't mayors briefed on the crime statistics in their towns. However if mayors ARE briefed on these things setting aside money for rape kits wouldn't be setting aside money for something they "didn't need" because there was a consistent, if small, number of rapes which occured every year. Again, you seem to be saying because there were under 10 rapes a year that these kits were not "needed." Again, I would LOVE for you to say as such to a victim of sexual assault in person.
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Once more, in small towns we DO actually take care of our own. Our churches get involved, our neighbors get involved, & we would dole out much more money to a victim of a crime, (typically burgalary) than $300 to $1200 in support. We don't need laws to tell us to do that
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So your argument is that if Sarah Palin knew about this that she merely relied on the other citizens in town to take care of it. And she never took it upon herself to make it a mayoral issue. Um...OK. If that's small town life, then it's small town life. But that convinces me even more that she's not prepared for office. Things don't just "work themselves out" in the big leagues.