How Palin governed
Byron York's National Review article that was misquoted in the recent CNN interview with Palin:
"It was a big, and extraordinarily complex, task. There was no consensus on how it should be done. But Palin, by all accounts, assembled a first-rate group of people to come up with what eventually became a proposal to grant a license to the company TransCanada to build the pipeline. 'I give her credit for hiring good people,' says Beth Kerttula, the Democratic minority leader in the Alaska house of representatives who worked with Palin on oil and gas issues and has lately emerged as one of Palin’s leading critics. 'She had a strong team.'
There were times during the negotiations when it appeared Palin’s proposal would fall through, perhaps not even getting to a vote in the legislature. Associates say she was determined to prevent that. 'She went literally from office to office asking that, regardless of how people intended to vote, that they permit a vote to take place,' Balash recalls. 'If she hadn’t made those visits, it in all likelihood would never have come to a vote.'
And when she made those visits, she scored points with legislators of both parties. 'On the issues where I worked with her, she listened, and in the long run, she even overrode her own team on things that House Democrats thought were important,' Kerttula recalls. Last summer, Palin’s strategy led to victory, when Alaska’s house and senate approved the TransCanada proposal."
"It was a big, and extraordinarily complex, task. There was no consensus on how it should be done. But Palin, by all accounts, assembled a first-rate group of people to come up with what eventually became a proposal to grant a license to the company TransCanada to build the pipeline. 'I give her credit for hiring good people,' says Beth Kerttula, the Democratic minority leader in the Alaska house of representatives who worked with Palin on oil and gas issues and has lately emerged as one of Palin’s leading critics. 'She had a strong team.'
There were times during the negotiations when it appeared Palin’s proposal would fall through, perhaps not even getting to a vote in the legislature. Associates say she was determined to prevent that. 'She went literally from office to office asking that, regardless of how people intended to vote, that they permit a vote to take place,' Balash recalls. 'If she hadn’t made those visits, it in all likelihood would never have come to a vote.'
And when she made those visits, she scored points with legislators of both parties. 'On the issues where I worked with her, she listened, and in the long run, she even overrode her own team on things that House Democrats thought were important,' Kerttula recalls. Last summer, Palin’s strategy led to victory, when Alaska’s house and senate approved the TransCanada proposal."
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