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 Cut, Kill, Dig, Drill 
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This essay presents a critical, but insightful and vigorous character sketch that I think should be incorporated into the article. A passage:
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Having come to power saying that her agenda was to pare down Wasilla to ‘the basic necessities, the bare bones’, she surprised its citizens when she redecorated the mayor’s office at a reported cost of $50,000 salvaged from the highways budget; its new red flock wallpaper matched her bold, rouge-et-noir taste in personal outfits. Another $24,000 of city money went on a white Chevy Suburban, known around Wasilla, without affection, as the mayormobile. She hired a city administrator to deputise for her in the day-to-day running of Wasilla’s affairs and employed a lobbyist in DC to wheedle lawmakers into meeting the town’s ever-expanding list of claims for congressional ‘pork’ (so named from the antebellum custom of rewarding slaves with barrels of salt pork). That expenditure, at least, paid off: during Palin’s six-year tenure as mayor, the federal government doled out more than $1000 for every man, woman and child in Wasilla. Her pet project was a $14.7m ice rink and sports complex, which opened in 2004. It is said to be lightly used, it has left the city servicing a massive debt, and a Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit continues over the bungled way in which Palin acquired the land on which it’s built.TABCut, Kill, Dig, Drill London Review of Books Vol. 30, No. 19, 9 October 2008, pages 7-10, Jonathan Raban 24.17.191.27  
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This one as well: 'Watermelon Roll': More Racism from 'Team Sarah' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.191.27   

I'm not convinced that these commentaries would be of use to the article; aren't they opinion pieces? Albeit, in the case of the Raban article, from a respected and highly distinguished author.  If some of the meat was found in RSs it would be more worthy of consideration, methinks. Certain cuts from the joint may have already been served in one or other of the SP articles but I can't be arsed to check. There's so much verbiage. —   TAB

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