Sarah Palin and Librarygate

September 1, 2008 - 8:22am — Anonymous Patron (not verified)

Seems that Palin... back as Mayor of Wasilla, where she was nearly recalled, for firing the Police Chief and Library Director for not supporting her in her 1996 race for Mayor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-schmeltzer/palin-almost-recalled-as_b_122769.html

City librarian Mary Ellen Emmons will stay, but Police Chief Irl Stambaugh is on his own, Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin announced Friday. The decision came one day after letters signed by Palin were dropped on Stambaugh's and Emmon's desks, telling them their jobs were over as of Feb. 13.

http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510219.html

— And, maybe, censorship. According to the Frontiersman newspaper, Wasilla’s library director, Mary Ellen Emmons, said that Palin asked her outright if she "could live with censorship of library books.” Palin later dismissed the conversation as a “rhetorical” exercise.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12987.html