Reply To: Political Statements
It’s pretty circumstantial, agreed, Gle3nn. I don’t think there were any official minutes. It seems to have been: Palin becomes mayor, asks long-time librarian about removing books from the collection, librarian is aghast, Palin announces intent to fire her (not requests her resignation – of this there is documentation). The police chief’s termination was also given. Subsequent negotiations get the librarian back on the job, but not the police chief.
However, given that: this action is consistent with what is known of Palin’s extreme social conservatism, Palin was a fairly popular Mayor of Wasilla, where everybody knew everybody’s business, and no “other side of the story” has come forth, I’ve been tending to give the story a fair amount of credit. The most credible source I’ve found is Anne Kilkenny’s open letter. Not balanced, but from a local resident with no real motive to invent things from whole sloth if they can be easily disproved.