The NYT has an excellent account of how Sarah Palin brought Newt Gingrich/Karl Rove “wedge politics” to her campaign for a small-town mayor’s seat, which is (or was), as in just about any city that size around the country, a nonpartisan position, and nonpartisan election.
Included is more on the book banning, the firing of librarian Mary Ellen Emmons and police chief Irl Stambaugh (neither of whom wanted to be interviewed, maybe through fear?) and other tidbits.
In the next-to-last graf of page 2, it seems wedge politics even trumped family, as Palin endorsed the opponent of her stepmother-in-law in the 2002 race to succeed her.
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