Blog Assignment #25/Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin was born February 11, 1964. She was born in Sandpiont, Idaho, but moved to Alaska with her familt at 3months old. Sarah is best known as John McCain's vice-president canidate in 2008. Her birth name is Sarah Loiuse Heath. Sarah, the first female governor of Alaska. As a child, she played point guard for Wasilla High School's 1982 championship team and she places second in the Miss Alaska contest in 1984.

 

After going to 4 different colleges, Sarah earned a journalism degree from the university of Idaho in 1987. Then, she returned to Alaska adn married Todd Palin, which was her high school boyfriend in 1988.December 4, 2006, she became the first woman governor of Alaska. Two years later John McCain made her the Republican Party's first female canidate for vice president. They were defeted by Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

On January 27, 2009, Sarah formed the political action committee, SarahPAC. It was reported that the SarahPAC had raised nearly $1,000,000. A legal defense fund was set to help Palin challenge ethics complaints, and it had complaints, and it had collected approximately $250,000 by mid-July 2009. In June 2010, Palin's defense fund was ruled illegal and will have to pay back $386, 856 it collected in donations because it used Palin's position as governor to raise money for her personal gain. Sarah subsequently set up a new defense fund.


The Palins have 5 children: son Track(1989), daughter Bristol(1990), daughter Willow(1994), daughter(2000), and son Trig(2008). Trig has down syndrome. Days after her nomination as vice- president in 2008, Sarah annonced that her 17-year -old daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. Palin said Bristol would marry the father, Levi Johnston, but Bristol and Levi later broke up. Their son Tripp, was born in December 2008. 


Sarah's high profile in the 2008 presidential campaign fueled that fact that she will run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. The beginning in November 2008, there was an active "Draft Palin" movement. February 6, 201, when Fox news asked her if she would be running for president in 2012, she said, "I would be willing to be if  I believe that it's right for the country. I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the furute."