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<< Previous   of   Next >>   ADVERTISEMENT   Related Stories • Common sense is good consumer protection 10/13/08   HAVE YOUR SAY Feel strongly about something? Share it with the community by writing a letter to the editor. You’ll need to include your name, address and daytime phone number. (We’ll only publish your name and hometown.) We reserve the right to edit letters, but if you keep yours to 250 words or less, we won’t ask you to shorten it. If your letter is published, please wait 30 days before submitting another. Send it to: E-mail: letters@heraldnet.com Mail: Letters section The Herald P.O. Box 930 Everett, WA 98206 Fax: 425-339-3458 Have a question about letters? Contact Carol MacPherson (cmacpherson@heraldnet.com or 425-339-3472).   Published: Monday, October 13, 2008 VICE PRESIDENT Palin's experience beyond reproach Um! One wonders why the Democrats, the "news making" media, and political pundits are so afraid of vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin. The nit-picking over her personal background is certainly disingenuous. There are no poor people elected to public office and especially in the U.S. Senate. She did not attend elitist high schools or universities or law schools. She did, however, evolve her administrative and management experience through a small business, a mayorship and a governorship, all requiring increasingly complex decisions. She is the most experienced of the four top candidates. The only decisions senators make are to vote yes or no; and those decisions are determined mostly by "staffers" with an eye on how the vote affects their senator's re-election strategies. The management decision requirements by mayors and governors are pretty much the same regardless the size of the city or state; just ask Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson or Gov. Chris Gregoire. Sun Tzu said, "Managing many is the same as managing few. It is a matter of organization." Sarah Palin is extremely well organized and had an 80-plus percent approval rating by Alaskan voters. That must be why those who are so critical of her are also so afraid of her as she is a woman who gets things done. Les Vierra Everett

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