Anti-Palin Rally Draws About 1,000 Protesters

[Blue_In_AK]

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/539236.html

By KYLE HOPKINS
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Published: September 27th, 2008 05:35 PM
Last Modified: September 27th, 2008 05:35 PM

A protest rally blasting Gov. Sarah Palin's handling of the state's so-called Troopergate investigation -- and calling for the attorney general to resign -- drew 1,000 or more people to the Delaney Park Strip in Anchorage on Saturday.

Protesters chanted "recall Palin!" as organizers told the crowd to push state legislators to keep after their investigation into the governor's firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

The investigator hired by the Legislature is scheduled to present his report on Oct. 10.

"This report needs to be released. Not just for us ... it needs to be released for all those people in the Lower 48 who are going to make a decision on Nov. 4," Democratic blogger Linda Kellen Biegel told hundreds of protesters gathered on the Park Strip grass.

Earlier, hundreds of people lined I Street, waving signs that said "Steady on her heels, wobbly on her words" and "Tina Fey would do a better job" at passing cars. A group calling itself Alaskans for Truth organized the event, which at times resembled a Barack Obama campaign rally.

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As of this afternoon, the McCain campaign couldn't be reached for comment.

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:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Photos here. I'll be putting more on my website as soon as I get through editing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4108657&mesg_id=4108657

[speedoo]

1. K&R. Thanks for posting this.

Great stuff. I hope she is asked about Troopergate in the debate.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. That's finally something she knows about.

Now, whether she talks? That's another matter.

[madeline_con]

3. This is a big turnout for Alaska...

a state whose population is less than our county.

[Lint Head]

4. That's just about the entire state of Alaska.

:dem:

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Actually, the organizers are saying

the size of the crowd was closer to 1500 to 2000. Must have been some Canadians that snuck over for the party. :rofl:

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I'm impressed, given how population is spread et al

Sarah will come back home to a state she'll hardly recognize and if you get a Dem for the Senate that may mean a change, FINALLY