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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Fri May 31, 2013, 10:43 AM May 2013

Tiny Washington State high school gets Palin as graduation speaker

Republic High School in the Eastern Washington town of the same name has quite outdone itself, nabbing a former candidate for vice president as its graduation speaker.


Appearing live Saturday at the Republic High gym.
Yes, indeed, Sarah Palin is scheduled to stand before the Republic class of 2013 and offer the 27 graduates her advice, the school says in a news release. And she is doing it for free.

Republic High School is excited to announce that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has accepted the invitation of the senior class to serve as the 2013 commencement speaker on June 1, 2013.

After an extensive campaign by the senior class,led by class president Tyler Weyer, that included weeks of coordinated letter writing, emails, tweets, and a full Facebook campaign including photographs, the senior class realized their dream to have Governor Palin speak at their commencement ceremony

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The Spokesman-Review notes that the little high school got Palin after trying. Trying quite hard.

There were, of course, letters and phones calls. But also a Facebook campaign that featured this photo:


They wanted Palin in Republic
Why Sarah Palin?

Weyer, the class president, told the Spokane newspaper:

“I really like how the governor is able to relate to the common, everyday American. She loves to hunt, she loves to fish – and that’s what our class is like, too.”


Sarah Palin coming to Republic is an absolute big deal. A ticket to the graduation is a hot item.

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Tikki

(14,538 posts)
2. Before even looking I knew it was Eastern Washington State...the town is so close to the...
Fri May 31, 2013, 10:55 AM
May 2013

Canadian border...you'd think they'd have a clue.

I know about living in a small town in E. Washington...there is hope for some of these young ones...most move right
after High School and first stop is most often the Seattle area...where they get their first glimpse into the reality of
what it takes to be a part of this Nation.


Tikki

intaglio

(8,170 posts)
3. The poor little mites
Fri May 31, 2013, 10:56 AM
May 2013

Won't somebody think of the children?

Or to put it another way the grifter has lost a lot of her appeal, I think her 15 minutes is almost done.

Although ... could a Palin/Bachmann - Coulter/Malkin tag team match be arranged by WWF??

11 Bravo

(23,922 posts)
4. She should only address those students completing their sophomore year, who are then planning ...
Fri May 31, 2013, 11:06 AM
May 2013

to drop out of school. THEM, she should be able to relate to.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
6. Obviously, Leroy Bob Dupree (author of "Chewin' Tobacca & Chili" was unavailable.
Fri May 31, 2013, 11:10 AM
May 2013

Or, he was considered too intellectually challenging to the class.

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)
7. Red counties do outnumber blue ones in WA. We're just lucky that King County
Fri May 31, 2013, 11:21 AM
May 2013

has so much voting power and is blue.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
9. the grifter is doing this and for free?
Fri May 31, 2013, 11:25 AM
May 2013

Proves how irrelevant she has become. A class with 27 students?

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
12. They're probably looking to make it a brief ceremony...
Fri May 31, 2013, 12:31 PM
May 2013

...and they figure she'll quit half way through.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
14. I knew Republic very well, years ago. I played the main watering hole there around 10 ~ 15 times
Fri May 31, 2013, 12:42 PM
May 2013

a year for several years, and grew up about 40 miles from there as the crow flies. We used to rock the Blue Cougar up in Curlew just north of Republic, too. Folks in those parts don't have many cultural options, so they tend to excel mightily at partying, and they probably took a few years off my life with their great skill as "party hosts".


Republic is a small, beautiful, isolated. insular, and very conservative little logging and mining community pretty much surrounded by government land, although there is a fairly substantial alternative "hippie" community and a nice little coop. Or at least there was a few decades ago.

Many folks in the area knew me, and were really nice to me, and I did not advertise my "orientation" there, but did not hide it either, although I know some suspected but never asked. I'm glad no one ever asked, despite my partner accompanying me frequently, because, as in most conservative rural areas, it would probably have been really bad for our business, especially back then, I believe; it is sad to think about how some of those folks who treated me so wonderfully might not have done so if they had known that I was LGBT. I hope that I'm wrong about that, and that the awesome times I had there would have been just the same if the folks there had known.

I can't say I'm at all surprised that Sarah Palin is a hot item in Republic. Ah, the juicy stories I could tell y'all, but really shouldn't.




 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
15. I obviously think Sarah Palin is a joke.
Fri May 31, 2013, 01:09 PM
May 2013

But she's a former governor and vice presidential candidate. I give the students some props for being engaged, albeit in the wrong gear.

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