new information to add? 

her popularity in Alaska has soared as high as 83% as she has gone on to sack political appointees with close ties to industry lobbyists, shelved pork projects by fellow Republicans 

from http://www.wsj.com/article/SB121993453813079803.html?mod=psp_mostpop


Gov. Palin denies that, saying she removed the commissioner she appointed 18 months ago because she wants "a new direction," and offered him a job as liquor board director which he turned down.

from http://www.wsj.com/article/SB121993453813079803.html?mod=psp_mostpop
I don't know if the liquot board director pays well so someone should look into this.

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She appears, for example, to have forced Alaska's dominant oil producers, ConocoPhillips and BP PLC, to finally get serious about a natural-gas pipeline  without making any tax or royalty concessions.
"People see her as the symbol of purity in an atmosphere of corruption," says Anchorage pollster Marc Hellenthal. "She's more like Saint Sarah."

from http://www.wsj.com/article/SB122002615833483595.html?mod=Politics-and-Policy