Former Wasilla museum director, now Hilo resident, criticizes Palin

[kskiska]

When Sarah Palin became mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, one of her first actions was to fire the city's museum director, John Cooper, who to this day is not a fan of the Republican vice presidential candidate.

Cooper, now a 67-year-old substitute teacher on the Big Island, was one of five department heads Palin asked to resign as she instituted her own team to run the city.

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"I don't see her as a reformer. I see her as self-serving. She has a beauty pageant focus in her life," Cooper said. "She really needs adulation. She wanted to be somebody who's admired."

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Among Cooper's colleagues who were also asked to resign were librarian Mary Ellen Emmons, who said Palin had asked her if she would object to censorship, and Police Chief Irl Stambaugh, whom Palin told was opposed by the National Rifle Association.

Palin rescinded Emmons' termination following an outpouring of public support. …

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[BlooInBloo]

1. Hilo? Isn't that a "foreign, exotic" place?

[XemaSab]

2. Don't you need a passport to go there?

:shrug:

[dkf]

6. Didn't she spend her first year of college there?

I thought it was somewhere on the Big Island

[Diane R]

3. Not enough lipstick to fix that pig.

[grasswire]

4. narcissist

more and more comments from people who know her indicate that she's a flaming narcissist, in the worst sense of the word.

[LunaSea]

5. Flaming narcissist puppet

With some TV experience.
Which is exactly why she's on the ticket.

[jimshoes]

7. Wasilla

[susu369]

8. Wondering about Wasilla's museum

"Some Republicans in Wasilla wanted Cooper out of office because they thought it was wasteful to spend money on the Dorothy Page Museum, the local history museum, and on city parks and recreation, Cooper said.

Instead, they wanted money for a municipal sports center, which was built later during Palin's administration."

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