Anchorage , Alaska — A group calling itself "Alaska Women Reject Palin" held an anti-Sarah Palin rally Saturday, despite receiving threatening phone calls last week. Palin is the vice presidential candidate, running with John McCain, on the Republican ticket in the American presidential election to be held on Nov. 4. "The whole thing grew out of frustration," Charla Sterne, one of Alaska Women Reject Palin's group members and an organizer of the rally, told The Washington Post . "Last week this was just ten women sitting around talking about this perception that all of Alaska supports Sarah Palin. We apparently hit a nerve and started a movement." Radio show host Eddie Burkeat the anti-Palin Rally on Saturday. Eddie Burke, a KBYR talk radio host, broadcast the names and contact information of two of the group's members on the air. "They're a bunch of socialist maggots, that's what I'm going to call them — socialist maggots, that's what they are, a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots," Burke said on his radio show, according to local television news station KTUU 2. Alaska Public Radio published portions of three messages, including the one broadcast by KTUU. "We were bombarded with all kinds of hateful, abusive, intimidating phone calls," organizer Sterne told the Anchorage Daily News . It not clear if Sterne is the same woman interviewed by KTUU, but Alaska Public Radio said that Sterne considered not attending the rally, but decided to go through with it. The rallies Three women hold signs at a rally an anti-Sarah Palin rally in Anchorage Alaska on Sept. 13, 2008. According to the Anchorage Daily News, word of the rally spread via the internet and as many as 1500 people attended, both for and against Palin. The rally started just hours after Palin spoke in downtown Anchorage's Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center , to a crowd estimated between 1000 and 1500. The event was dubbed "Welcome Home Sarah." Protesters, including some children, hold signs protesting Sarah Palin and John McCain, while others hold signs supporting Barack Obama at an anti-Sarah Palin rally in Anchorage Alaska on Sept. 13, 2008. According to the Anchorage Daily News, supporters of Palin cite the good she has done as Governor of Alaska, including a check all Alaskans received from the state.
 , Alaska — A group calling itself "Alaska Women Reject Palin" held an anti-Sarah Palin rally Saturday, despite receiving threatening phone calls last week. Palin is the vice presidential candidate, running with John McCain, on the Republican ticket in the American presidential election to be held on Nov. 4. "The whole thing grew out of frustration," Charla Sterne, one of Alaska Women Reject Palin's group members and an organizer of the rally, told . "Last week this was just ten women sitting around talking about this perception that all of Alaska supports Sarah Palin. We apparently hit a nerve and started a movement." Eddie Burke, a talk radio host, broadcast the names and contact information of two of the group's members on the air. "They're a bunch of socialist maggots, that's what I'm going to call them — socialist maggots, that's what they are, a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots," Burke said on his radio show, according to local television news station 2. published portions of three messages, including the one broadcast by KTUU. "We were bombarded with all kinds of hateful, abusive, intimidating phone calls," organizer Sterne told the . It not clear if Sterne is the same woman interviewed by KTUU, but Alaska Public Radio said that Sterne considered not attending the rally, but decided to go through with it. The rallies According to the Anchorage Daily News, word of the rally spread via the internet and as many as 1500 people attended, both for and against Palin. The rally started just hours after Palin spoke in downtown Anchorage's , to a crowd estimated between 1000 and 1500. The event was dubbed "Welcome Home Sarah." According to the Anchorage Daily News, supporters of Palin cite the good she has done as Governor of Alaska, including a check all Alaskans received from the state.
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Protesters, including some children, hold signs protesting Sarah Palin and John McCain, while others hold signs supporting Barack Obama at an anti-Sarah Palin rally in Anchorage Alaska on Sept. 13, 2008.