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Mayor Bob Weinstein of Ketchikan, Alaska and Maddow

By Tim Einenkel

Listen: Maddow asks an Alaska mayor about Palin

Rachel interviews Bob Weinstein, mayor of Ketchikan, Alaska, on of the towns linked to by the so-called Bridge to Nowhere. He tells the truth about Sarah Palin's flip flop on the bridge

Palin's Judgment is the ISSUE when her water leaked w/Trigg

I am more interested in how McCain’s VP choice, Gov. Sarah Palin, makes decisions. I am interested in Sara Palin’s JUDGMENT. Especially since I do NOT know her, I can only assess the decisions that she has made affecting her life. Accepting her official story that Trigg is her son and not her grandson, surprising her co-workers of her pregnancy, I have questions that are not being addressed by or glossed over the TV media. THE REAL ISSUE: Why did Sarah decide to take so long to see a doctor when her water started leaking? That was risky, dangerous for both her and her child. Why take the risk? What kind of risk will she take as commander in chief? What kind of risk will she take with my life and the lives of the American people?

(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223)
On Friday, April 18th, 2008, Sarah and her husband Todd were in Dallas, Texas for a Republican Governor's Convention. They had been in town for three days already, but Sarah had yet to give her keynote speaker address on energy policy. Then early Friday morning at 4:00am, Sarah began leaking amniotic fluid. Instead of checking into a hospital, she instead made a call to her doctor, and delivered the keynote speech.
"I was not going to miss that speech," she says.
She rushed so quickly from the podium afterwards that Texas Gov. Rick Perry nervously asked if she was about to deliver the baby then.
The oddities only grow from here on, as instead of rushing to a Dallas medical facility that could treat a mother who's amniotic fluid has been draining for hours on end (made even more crucial due to the fact that this is occurring a full month prematurely), Sarah & Todd instead opted to... Fly all the way back from Texas to Alaska. A dangerous choice, as with each pregnancy (once again, in this case after four previous), a mother's window of labor to delivery grows shorter and shorter.
Aboard Alaska Airlines, the flight lasted for eight hours, with an additional landing in Seattle. The majority of commercial airlines require mothers seven months pregnant to provide a doctor's letter to fly, but Sarah did not inform the airline of her condition. Alaska Airlines is one of the few airlines that do not require such a notice, despite the possibility of an emergency landings being required in such scenarios.
… Eight months pregnant. A 6.2 pound fetus. No one notices a visible trace. By the third trimester, a perfectly fit woman not wearing anything less than a space suit should be easily spotted as pregnant. Not in Sarah's case.
The plane then made a landing in Anchorage, Alaska. Does Sarah then visit a medical facility that can accommodate a premature birth in Alaska's most equipped city? No. She drives 45 minutes away, to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, right outside the small village she used to govern as Mayor, Wasilla. Trig Palin is then delivered one month premature, Friday night. Sarah returned to work after three days.
The inherent need to absolutely have Trig delivered in a remote and possibly ill-equipped facility for premature deliveries, where Sarah would likely have numerous contacts and pull, does not sit well. The doctor, Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, approving of all of these actions borders on malpractice. Not treating leaking amniotic fluid causes infections, and time is of the essence after water breaks.

What the heck?
(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/145838/319/386/581332)

the revelation that after landing in Anchorage, Sarah drove past both Providence and Anchorage Regional, facilities ideal for premature deliveries, as both are equipped with neonatal intensive care units (NCIU). The doctor who supposedly approved of Sarah taking such risks, and later delivered Trig? Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, who has since been scrubbed from the Mt-Su Regional Medical Center website.