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John Stein is the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, having served from 1987 to 1996. He was defeated in the 1996 election by Sarah Palin, who would go on to become Governor of Alaska and the 2008 Republican Party vice presidential candidate.
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Fast Facts
- Served three terms as mayor, 1987-1996Anchorage Daily News: New mayor, sharp knife (October 3, 1996)
- Is Christian, despite having a commonly Jewish last nameAnchorage Daily News: 'Fresh face' launched Palin (October 23, 2006)
- 1996 defeat by Palin was called a "major upset"Anchorage Daily News: New mayor, sharp knife (October 3, 1996)
- When running for mayor, Palin said that Stein represented "stale leadership" and an "old boy network"
- Palin was 32-years-old when she became mayorAnchorage Daily News: New mayor, sharp knife (October 3, 1996)
- Stein has been critical of Palin in the pressTIME: Mayor Palin: A Rough Record (September 2, 2008)
- Upon taking office, Palin fired—or attempted to fire—some city employees who had supported SteinAnchorage Daily News: Wasilla keeps librarian, but police chief is out (February 1, 1997)
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For those of you keeping score at home on this weeks HornetsHype ESPN guys ranking: Marc Stein -10 John Hollinger +5 (for that bit about CP)
@ticktock6 | November 08, 2009 05:10 PM -
RT @kathrynlopez: never noticed until tonight that john mica kinda sounds like ben stein.
@nikolaz02 | November 08, 2009 03:12 AM -
RT @kathrynlopez: never noticed that john mica sounds like ben stein. stein would provide some franken balance in congress. and be funny.
@stupidpocalypse | November 08, 2009 02:56 AM -
Reading: "In the Field With Taft Blackhorse and John Stein" ( http://bit.ly/1Epdx4 ) Navajo theory of Anasazi origins
@Uwaine | November 07, 2009 02:13 AM -
✇ Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen [Blu-ray] - Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, John Cleese, und Maggie Smith. http://tinyurl.com/yc9bads
@NeueDVD | November 06, 2009 11:07 AM
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Green Street - $16.98
Whaling City Sound reissues Stein's Green Street John Stein and Whaling City Sound have officially reissued a remixed and re-mastered version of Stein's masterful organ combo album, Green Street. Originally released in 1999, the recordi...
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The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards (NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences) - $84.95
Tectonic motion of the Adria microplate exerts a first-order control on the tectonics, geology, seismology, resource distribution, and the geological hazards across a broad zone of south-central Europe and the north-central Mediterranean. S...
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Keeping Up With the Steins - $19.99
All hilarity breaks loose in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy when three generations collide in a crazy family reunion . . . and then begin to see that they are much more alike than they'd originally thought! Providing nonstop laughs ...
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The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail - $32.00
Much plagiarised and its contents distorted over the years, Stein's seminal work is a classic of original scholarly and spiritual research. In studying the central Grail narrative - Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach - Stein takes a twofold...
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