Palin's town billed rape victims to get evidence

[DogPoundPup]

Source: A/P

When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the city billed sexual assault victims and their insurance companies for the cost of rape kits and forensic examinations.

Palin had been in office for four years when the practice of charging rape victims got the attention of state lawmakers in 2000, who passed a bill to stop the practice.

Former Democratic Rep. Eric Croft, who sponsored that bill, said he was disappointed that simply asking the Wasilla police department to stop didn't work. Croft said he doubts she was unaware of the practice.

Maria Comella, a McCain-Palin campaign spokeswoman, said Palin "does not believe, nor has she ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test." To suggest otherwise, she said, is a "misrepresentation of her commitment to supporting victims and bringing violent criminals to justice."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/11/politics/p184255D15.DTL&type=politics

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This Wassilla info is going viral on the corporate msm!!!!! :scared: Whatz up with that I wonder?

[kirby]

1. This has been reported for the past several days - not 'late breaking' at all n/t

[DogPoundPup]

6. Sorry...

:7 the headline IS going 'mainstream' in the corporate media today...I know it was public knowledge through the blog sites.

[wtmusic]

2. This reaching is getting ridiculous.

Somebody in the police department was billing somebody's insurance for somebody's medical care...while she was mayor!

We've got the goods on her now!!!

[NorthernSpy]

5. It's not a reach. We're talking about a very controversial policy in a very small town...

... with a police chief who was the mayor's own hand-picked toady. And that mayor was Sarah Palin.


Either she knew, or she was hiding out under a soundproof rock instead of spending her precious time doing mayor stuff.

[LiberalFighter]

7. I would agree it is not a reach. It still needs more data such as...

a timeline to show when it began and when it ended and describing the powers the mayor has in that town relating to a police chief.

[Lars39]

8. And billing the rape victim if she didn't have insurance.

If you're living well below the poverty line, how are you going to find the $1400? Or are you just not going to report your rape at all because of the money?

[rpannier]

3. "...a misreprentation..." I see

Notice how the spokesperson doesn't explain how it happened

[trthnd4jstc]

4. There is an easy 200 Page Book with all of this Crap about Gov. Palin.

When one looks at all of the stuff, minus anything to do with anything, except the crap she has done as Governor and Mayor, there is a 200 page book here. Someone, please, before election, get writing. I am working 60 plus hours a week and raising a child, so it has to be a trust fund kid or someone else with time to do this, but Puleeeassse do it.