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As mayor of Wasilla, Palin and her replacement police chief, Charlie Fallon thought of charging rape victims for the rape kits necessary to investigate and prosecute their rapists. The outraged Alaska Governor Tony Knowles asked for and got passed legislation to outlaw this practice in 2000. Since then, Palin has staunchly opposed abortion for all women, including rape and incest victims and has advocated an “abstinence only” curriculum for high school students sex ed classes.

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At 1st it was discouraging because alot of people said they didn’t want to be involved. But then I met some nice people who said thank you for doing this! I got one woman registered, & maybe a 2nd tomorrow. Thanks for hosting this. It was interesting to meet some of my neighbors for the 1st time!

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It was a soggy day, but I did manage to get to almost everyone who was home. Practically my whole block is registered to vote! I went over to two houses a few blocks away where people recently moved in. They were registered too.

My biggest score was getting my 18 yr old neighbor and her boyfriend to agree to register to vote for the first time in their lives. Woot!

Also, one mom volunteered to take a few flyers to her kids’ Tae Kwon Do class, so the word continues to spread. I will take some to school too and talk to some moms after we get off school grounds today. It was a gratifying experience, and I’m looking forward to extending it.

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I have walked my block and everyone that can is registered to vote – we a a bloc of Obama supporters indeed!!!!

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The kids donned their rain-gear and my husband got out the wagon. The kids had a good time talking to neighbors and stomping puddles!
When we finished our block we all ran home and the kids got out of their (now soaking wet) clothes and into dry ones. Now we can curl up and read some books knowing we have participated in some small way.

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The kids donned their rain-gear and my husband got out the wagon. The kids had a good time talking to neighbors and stomping puddles!
When we finished our block we all ran home and the kids got out of their (now soaking wet) clothes and into dry ones. Now we can curl up and read some books knowing we have participated in some small way.

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That is not the entire story. You forgot to mention that this quote is taken from Fannon back in 2000. He wanted a change, he wanted the rapists to pay for the kits and not the already overburdened tax payers. “I’d like to see the courts make the criminals pay restitution for these things.” Palin was mayor from 1996-2002, she did not make the order to charge the rape victims for rape kits. I am really tired of bloggers not telling the entire story. It’s like saying that obama is muslim just because his father was a muslim and for a time between the ages of 6-10 obama went to an indonesian school in Jakarta where he studied “mengaji classes” (islamic classes).

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Getting moms to vote in this election is very important to me, so I have been talking with my friends at our catholic parish and school. Catholics have an obligation to vote, especially when issues of life are at stake. So far the response has been very good.

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My sister and I walked together and knocked on about 25 doors. All but two people said they were already registered. The other two said they aren’t registered and are not going to vote. It felt like we didn’t do very much good!

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Few moms were home the morning I went around, and the ones I talked to in person were already registered. I did leave a lot of flyers–who knows what effect they’ll have?–but the biggest effect of my walk was probably on me. It wasn’t as hard as I thought! And I’m more likely now to do something like this again.

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