A lot of people here do like the Governor. She followed one who was so unpopular it would have been hard for her to look bad. She did sell the jet, not on Ebay as was reported and at a loss. Selling it was probably a good thing, though.
She has had a reputation since High School of getting her own way, of pushing hard until she did. The only fear of her, so far as I know, is the fear that people will overlook her ultra-right wing politics because she is so "hot."
Anne Kilkenny's letter is very accurate so far as I know. I think she made her statements carefully and as free from her personal bias as she was able. Anne is intelligent and follows politics, locally and nationally, very carefully.
I don't think the librarian every specified which books if Palin even let her know. There were a number of firings when Palin first took the office of mayor of Wasilla. I read about it all, but can't pretend to remember details enough to report them. Fortunately Kilkenny did a lot of that.
MJ