Elf Sternberg

Palin declared the top priorities of her administration would be resource development, education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development.

During those years of her governorship she:

1. signed into law a record $6.6 billion operating budget while at the same time making $237 million in cuts to the state's construction budget...the second largest in Alaska' history. So much for infrastructure, transportation, and workforce development (and where'd all that money go to??)

2. A year later she cut another $286 million of the capital budget from projects (either cutting them back or removing them entirely).

3. She first supported the "bridge to nowhere" as part of her transportation projects platform, then rejected it after becoming governor and had the money sent to the general transportation fund.

4. There's the pressure she put on the Public Safety Commissioner to fire her ex brother-in-law because of the bitter divorce that her sister was going through. The commissioner refused, and got fired.

5. Her environmental record shows no care for the environment, but great care for the companies who would put more money into the state's coffers (and her pocket), including drilling in the Alaska wildlife refuge.

6. Her approval rating went from 93% to 54% in only two years.

I'm not sure how making the second biggest cuts to the capital budget was "sending money to the citizens". But, yeah, trying to get her ex brother-in-law fired using her strings as governor was pretty hellish for everyone in Alaska.