They will be recording the Anchorage Town Hall Meeting to air on Monday, September 15th, but as an "Ed Head" you don't have to wait until Monday to hear it. You can hear it live! Yes, LIVE! Paid subscribers will have the exclusive audio stream of the event as it happens, available only on our website.

All you have to do it log in this Saturday night at 11:00pm EST at www.wegoted.com and click on the "Live from Alaska" link.

Is there any word on the size of the crowd at the town hall meeting?

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http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/t...g-in-anchorage/

Sorry, it took a couple days to get approved to post comments on the site.

I did attend the show and may be able to answer some questions. I know or know of most of the people involved.

Sorry, it took a couple days to get approved to post comments on the site.

I did attend the show and may be able to answer some questions. I know or know of most of the people involved.

Welcome and please elaborate!

Rape-gate is where Wasilla was the only town in Alaska charging for rape-kits to collect evidence for prosecution.
The Alaska legislature had to pass a law to tell one town, one mayor, to stop harassing the victims with these ridiculous charges. The response from Sarah Palin's office was that they didn't want tax payers to pay for other people's problems.
So, in effect, Sarah's plan was to force women to carry unwanted fetuses to term, prevent prosecution of the men who raped them and, if they were under 18 years of age, require parental consent. Nice.

Dairygate, the Matanuska-Maid issue, I was just reminded of. I'd forgotten about it.
We had a local dairy cooperative that tried to help local dairy farmers brand and get their product to market. The cost just got to be too high to use local dairy and Mat-Maid folded. However, just as the board of directors was making final preparations, the state took over operations at taxpayer expense and by executive order from Sarah Palin.
This link can do a better job explaining: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/13.../773/467/581251

As one of the few buyers of local milk, its closing would have ripple effects throughout the local agricultural community. But giving out precious tax dollars so a few well-connected dairy farmers could make products most Alaskans couldn’t afford to buy didn’t make much sense to the Creamery Board, the Board of Agriculture and Conservation(BAC) subcommittee that had direct oversight of the state-owned company. So they refused a $600,000 state grant to keep Mat Maid going, and did what they felt they had to do as responsible overseers: put the troubled dairy out of its red-ink-drenched misery.

Palin was outraged at this callous disregard for the well-being of local farmers, and insisted the dairy simply needed to be properly managed. Radical measures clearly needed to be taken. Palin fired the whole BAC. The new Board Palin appointed quickly designated itself as the new Creamery Board. This group of local notables was much more likely to keep Mat Maid alive: it was composed solely of relatives and associates of the dairy farmers most likely to benefit from continued milk purchases by Mat Maid.

No link yet, but now the wonderful press-conference this morning accusing Democrats in Alaska of influencing the troopergate investigation.

Please, tell me again how a Republican controlled legislature, in a Republican state votes unanimously to investigate and it's the Democrats who are at fault?

I understand we're a small population state, full of people who subscribe to the idea of self-sufficiency, small-government ideas of Republicanism. I don't believe they're willing to believe that 4 Democrats in the Senate could do so much damage when 8 Republicans can call off the investigation at any time, voted unanimously to select the investigator and just voted to give subpoenas to a list of witnesses.

I believe the McCain camp will rue the day they stepped foot in the state and tried to put neighbor against neighbor with the same tactics that might be used in D.C.