Jezebel: Wasilla

Levi Johnston Doesn't Have Time To Run For Mayor Of Wasilla

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:40:00 EDT

A year ago, Levi Johnston said he couldn't watch his ex Bristol Palin on Dancing With the Stars because he was too busy studying up on the issues that affect the people of Wasilla, Alaska. Now it turns out all that book learnin' was for naught, because he's decided not to run for mayor. His attorney tells the Associated Press that Levi's putting aside his deep passion for local politics to focus on the release of his hilariously-titled memoir Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs. His manager gave Radar a slightly different explanation, saying, "Levi doesn't want the office of the Mayor to be a joke and so he's not going to do it right now." How could a 21-year-old candidate whose only claim to fame is impregnating a failed vice presidential nominee's teen daughter and posing in Playgirl possibly turn the office into a joke? More »

Levi Johnston Finally Comes Up With A Political Agenda

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:40:00 EDT

Playgirl model and Wasilla, Alaska mayoral candidate is running on a platform which focuses on "better schools, less crime and more jobs for citizens of Wasilla and neighboring Palmer." First he has to get his high school diploma, though. More »

Levi Johnston Tries To Fend Off Interrogation With Flowers

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:30:53 EDT

The ladies on the panel take pride in their election coverage and serious interviews with political candidates. So they were immediately put off when Wasilla mayoral candidate Levi Johnston tried to evade the first question by giving them flowers. More »

Only In Wasilla.

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:35:00 EDT

[Alaska, October 11: Judy and Fred Keller of Wasilla pose in their giant red Radio Flyer wagon. The couple spent much of the last year converting a 1976 Mazda pickup into this street-legal wagon. Image via AP.]

Levi Johnston Breaks Unpopularity Records

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:25:00 EDT

Public Policy Polling found 72% of Alaskans dislike Levi Johnston, while only 6% view him positively. Levi is the most unpopular person the group has ever polled in any state, a record formerly held by John Edwards in North Carolina. More »

Levi Johnston: Still Political After All These...Days

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:10:00 EDT

Levi Johnston is not ready to let his 15 minutes go quite yet. The famous father has filed papers to run for office next year in Wasilla. A spokesman says Johnston is interested in running for mayor or city council.

Levi Will Run For Mayor Of Wasilla, Just To Make His Life Interesting

Anna North — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:28:00 EDT

In a disturbing story of art imitating life imitating nightmare, Levi Johnston's reality show will feature him running for mayor of Wasilla — just like Sarah Palin. More »

Alaskan Diplomacy

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:40:00 EST

Several bloggers found out on Tuesday that they're on Sarah Palin's shit-list, and thus were banned from attending a Going Rogue event in Wasilla. Sarah's black list includes three known Alaskan-based bloggers, and a mysterious fourth. [Gawker] More »

The Sordid Song Of Sherry Johnston

Jessica G. — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:30:00 EST

More details are emerging about Sherry Johnston, the grandmother of Bristol Palin's baby on the way, and her drug arrest for felony charges relating to OxyContin sales. More »

In case you missed it, during last night's...

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:20:00 EDT

In case you missed it, during last night's debate, Sarah Palin mentioned that Joe Biden had talked about drilling as "raping our intercontinental shelf." While I thought it was just poorly timed, given all the flak she's taken about forcing rape victims and their insurance companies to pay for forensic rape examinations, Ben Smith at Politico and Michael Crowley at The New Republic point out that it was actually a subtle attempt to associate Joe Biden in voters' minds with the word "rape." Ew. Also, why is it that of all the questions Gwen Ifill asked last night, the rape kit controversy wasn't one of them? [Politico, The New Republic] More »

Debunking The Sarah Palin Rape Kit "Debunkers"

Megan Carpentier — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Spawned by a bunch of Republiblog chatter last week "debunking" the "theory" that Wasilla forced victims to pay for rape kits, the National Review's Jim Garaghty takes up his white armor and rushes to Sarah Palin's defense despite — as Feministing's Samhita points out — the basic facts are, well, facts. I.e., true! But who needs facts? I know I do. More »

Some women have serious policy disagreements...

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Some women have serious policy disagreements with Sarah Palin or think she might be unqualified to be a heart beat from the presidency. One of those women... is Sarah Palin. The New Republic has compiled a list of statements made by Palin on everything from how she wasn't paying that much attention to the Iraq War in 2007 to how she planned to mother the state of Alaska "Like a Southeast Eagle and her eaglets." Also, she was all for having an exit strategy from Iraq in 2007 and she didn't think being the mayor of Wasilla was "rocket science" because of its small size. But it's still more "executive experience" than being a damned useless community organizer. Obviously. [The New Republic] More »

Pamela Anderson Has Some Advice For Sarah Palin

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:40:00 EDT

Noted anti-fur activist has some advice for noted huntress Sarah Palin: "She can suck it." Yet another woman with a legitimate policy disagreement with Sarah Palin. [Huffington Post]
By the way, Todd Palin's about to break his subpoena cherry, as he's expected to be subpoenaed to testify about his role in TrooperGate. God, if only the Congress could subpoena people to testify about wrongdoing in the Bush Administration! Wait, that's right, they could, but then they wouldn't get their bellies scratched. [Wall Street Journal]
Once upon a time, in a primary far, far away, John McCain said that former Governor Mitt Romney and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani (pop: 8,000,000, attacked by terrorists in 2001) didn't have enough national security experience to be President. [Huffington Post] More »

Although irresponsible blogger types have...

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Although irresponsible blogger types have been talking about it all week, the mainstream media just up and noticed that when Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, hers was the only town in Alaska that charged rape victims for their forensic examinations. Palin's spokespeople are now claiming that she had no knowledge of what her police chief was doing and would never condone such a thing. Which either means she's lying now, or she didn't notice then that the legislative body of her state was passing legislation with a fiscal impact on her town. That's some damn fine executive experience there. [Associated Press] More »