Palin's Communications Guru Discusses Gov's Game Plan

WoW has learned that former vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, will be the featured guest at the Republican Governors Association annual conference to be held later this week in Miami, Florida. Despite these rumors, Palin’s communications specialist, Kate Morgan, clarifies from the Governor’s Juneau office: "She anticipates to go" to the conference. Well, then!

Perhaps looking forward to mooseless beaches, instead of the Alaskan cold tundra, Governor Palin is set to be a featured speaker at a panel discussion entitled, "Looking Toward the Future." Other featured speakers expected to participate on the panel are General Tommy Franks, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), journalist Bill Kristol, and Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN). We also hear that Palin will be holding a press conference Thursday, the first time she will address the nation while not beholden to McCain’s marionette-like strings. From the glory of it all and talking to throngs of thousands, to chatting about Iraq, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Russia, to being involved in so called shopping-gate as the Republican nominee, WoW was interested in speaking with Kate Morgan, to find out what issues the Alaskan governor is working on now since returning to her office last week. And, golly, if you can figure out this transcript, please email us here at WoW to tell us what Morgan meant.

First off Morgan said clearly that "the Governor’s primary issues include, resource development, infrastructure and education." (That WoW got!)

This was also made clear: "One of the main things the governor is focusing on is getting the gas line moving. We’ve gotten the legislation passed and we’ve awarded a license to trans Canada-Alaska, so she’s working on getting all of the rest of the progress passed to be made there as far as working with other oil companies to kind of lay down to get that gas line flowing. That I would say is her main focus."

Hmm, it’s around this point that things get more complicated…

"Other issues facing the state — what some people consider to be inaccurate — how would I put that — listings of certain Alaskan animals as endangered or what is that second term that they use? They’re at risk? No… That’s not the technical term. Anyway, there’s two listings there specifically dealing with polar bears and there’s also the issue with beluga whales. So there’s different things and the issue there is of course wanting to provide a substantive lifestyle for our first Alaskans here which are the indigenous people and also wanting to protect our environment wanting to be good stewards to that and to take care of the animals that make Alaska. What it is however if they are improperly categorized then that can run snags on other types of development that would benefit not only people of Alaska but the world such as depending on certain kinds of drilling that we do off-shore either or people are in a hurry to list groups of whales as endangered or at risk than that might impede the progress that we’d be making to free or to lighten the the load that America has us obtaining oil from overseas." (Got it?)

Morgan also went on to coherently explain, "In the last few months the governor has been vocal about her commitment to special needs family and children and so that’s going to be a big focus in the coming years of her administration. She’s already showed her commitment by 3-year forward funding for education which has never been done in our state before."

Finally, Morgan tied things up by addressing Alaska’s fuel issues. She said, "Fuel cost is a big issue. We are seeing a lot of out migration and families moving to Anchorage or to other larger communities because they can’t afford to live in their communities out in the bush anymore. We’re trying to figure out how we can best assist them."

As for Palin daughter Bristol’s wedding plans, Morgan replied, "Um, that’s not something I talked to her about." Now that was an issue WoW understood.