Gov. Sarah Palin background

Yup'ik ties give Palins unique Alaska connection

Like many Alaska Natives of her generation, Lena Andree, Todd Palin's 87-year-old Yup'ik grandmother, grew up living between two worlds.

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GOV. SARAH PALIN BACKGROUND

Palin's family ties include links to FDR, Princess Diana

Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are not the only political odd couple who share a family tree. Sarah Palin is linked in her lineage to Franklin D. Roosevelt. She also has a connection with Princess Diana.
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Estimates show Palin assets top $1 million

Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaska income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became governor, capitalizing on valuable fishing rights, a series of land deals and a patchwork of other ventures to build an above-average lifestyle.
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Palin got zoning aid, gifts

Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows.
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Sarah Barracuda tidbits

Sports infuse Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's life.
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State paid for trip when Palin told students to pray for pipeline

Gov. Sarah Palin used state funds in June when she traveled from Juneau to Wasilla to speak to graduating evangelical students and urge them to fan out through Alaska "to make sure God's will be done here."
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Some of Palin's remarks stretch the truth

Gov. Sarah Palin's remarks to the Republican National Convention about her record in state government stretched the truth.
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Palin pressured Wasilla librarian

Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so.
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Stevens says Palin has mettle to be commander

From mayor of Wasilla to leader of the free world? Answering the question that the country is asking, Sen. Ted Stevens said Wednesday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would be ready to step in as commander-in-chief of the military if necessary.
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Iraq war, gas line God's will, Palin said

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."
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Palin's military command limited

When presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain introduced Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate Friday, the Arizona senator emphasized her role as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard.

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