"Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes."

Sorry I avoided this NYT article the other day. (I was traveling.) The article forefronts 3 items: 1. the hiring a high school friend to the state agriculture department, 2. the exclusion of "frustrated legislators and mayors" as she "huddled with her budget director and her husband and decided to veto various projects in the state budget, and 3. the fact that one of her assistants purported called an anti-Palin blogger and told her to stop blogging.

These items exemplify what the NYT says is "her visceral style and penchant for attacking critics — she sometimes calls local opponents 'haters.'"

Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials....

Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy.

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