All posts tagged "John Stein"

David Neiwert has a must-read blog post up now about his interview with John Stein, who she defeated in a 1996 election to be Wasilla mayor. Stein was the incumbent, and while it seems like the race for small town mayor shouldn't be that big a deal, Stein describes a campaign that was more of a referendum on all sorts of right wing bugaboos and obsessions. Gun control and abortion were major issues, even though small town mayors have no ability to affect these issues in any substantial way. Palin rode to victory by playing kissy-face with the black helicopter nuts and the worst sort of Bible-thumpers, who ran a whisper campaign that included rumors that Stein is Jewish. (He's Lutheran.)