This article from USA TODAY, Palin ‘governed from the center,’ went after big oil, describes Sarah Palin’s biggest accomplishment as governor, dismantling the oil industry’s control of Alaskan politics, forcing the oil companies to pay the state and its citizens a bigger royalty, and taking away a pipeline deal from Exxon to give it to a Canadian company at better terms for Alaska.
Will the Democrats who keep maintaining that the Republicans are in the control of the big oil companies at least give her credit for this?
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