Was Governor Sarah Palin tied to a Alaska Secession movement?”
ABC news was the first to report on this latest angle of Republican presidential nominee’s John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate, and maybe because we Canadians have our own contentious history with separatists maybe it strikes home harder up here, but this latest charge is certainly a talker. From ABC’s Jake Tapper: An intense “she said”/”she said” has emerged over whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was ever a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, the third-largest political party in the 49th state. The AIP wants Alaskans to get an opportunity to vote on whether or not they will remain a state, or become a commonwealth, or split off as an independent nation. … Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States. And while McCain’s motto — as seen in
