The Palin Controversies Keep Coming -- She Was Member Of Pro-Secession Alaska Party

Thank you to 324300 for the tip on this news.

So much for McCain's vetting of this woman.

The Palin Controversies Keep Coming -- She Was Member Of Pro-Secession Alaska Party
Posted by Ashish on 09.01.2008

Palin was a member of a Alaskan party that pushed for Alaska to secede from U.S.

ABC News is reporting that Sarah Palin and her husband were members of the Alaskan Independence Party as recently as 1994 and that she took part in the party's convention THIS YEAR (video below). This is a party that has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of Alaska can secede from the United States and openly tells their members to "infiltrate" the Republican and Democratic parties as a way to push the Alaska secession issue. Their party motto is "Alaska First -- Alaska Always," a direct contrast to McCain's campaign motto of "Country First." Most of the people in the party want Alaska to secede from the United States, though the official line from the party is that they just want Alaskans to be allowed to vote on whether to stay in the U.S. or to secede.

AIP Chairman Lynette Clark says that both Palin and her husband were members in 1994 and that both attended the party's 1994 statewide convention. Clark says that the main goal of the party is to challenge the legality of Alaska's statehood. Clark adds that Palin switched to the Republican party in 1996 when she decided to run for Mayor of Wasilla.

AIP's vice chairman, Dexter Carter, says that AIP members should try to "infiltrate" the major two political parties and then push the issue of Alaskan independence.

Below is a video of Palin addressing the AIP convention earlier THIS YEAR and telling them to "keep up the good work." And at that convention, AIP Vice Chair George Clark said that Palin "was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town" and that she remains "pretty well sympathetic to her former membership."

I think Josh Marshall makes a very good point. Whether these stories really matter in the longterm or not isn't the issue. The issue here is that John McCain, after meeting this woman only once and not even vetting her properly, has put her in position to perhaps be the next Vice President, and by extension, President, of the United States.

Here's video of Palin addressing this year's AIP convention.



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