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The first draft of Anne Kilkenny's e-mail went to her mother in California. Then she sent it out to a few dozen friends and family members, many "in the lower 48." That was Sunday.
Today, Kilkenny's words, the observations of a Wasilla, Alaska, homemaker who remembers Gov. Sarah Palin when she was mayor, have circled the globe. The letter is posted on a thousand Web sites. It's being cited in countless blogs and e-mails.
Kilkenny, 57, has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times. She has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, four British papers, L'Express from France and Der Spiegel from Germany, to name just a few. She has gone on TV with ABC and NBC and CNN, which spent four hours at her house yesterday. She has spoken with National Public Radio.
Kilkenny is now a significant voice in the national discussion of the presidential election, but she began with a modest goal. She merely wanted to answer out-of-town friends who asked: "You're from Wasilla, what's Sarah Palin like?"
Kilkenny was more than a casual observer. She says she attended virtually every City Council meeting in Palin's first year as Wasilla mayor in 1996. She is not a fan.
Kilkenny put her thoughts in a 6-page e-mail in which she praised Palin as smart, energetic and hardworking but also labeled her intolerant, ambitious and ruthless. Kilkenny was perhaps the first to spread the story, now being widely reported, of how Palin once tried to fire the town librarian after the librarian made it clear that she would oppose efforts to remove books from the local collection. Palin was the freshly elected mayor then, and although she didn't have any particular books in mind, she posed what she later called "rhetorical" questions about how objectionable books could best be removed.
Kilkenny was part of the insurgency that saved the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, from dismissal by Palin, who had asked for Emmons' resignation, according to news accounts at the time. Palin relented after a public uprising.
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Link:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/article798772.eceYes Virginia... You CAN make a difference.
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Full Letter here:
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