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Posted: Sunday, September 14th, 2008 7:23 AM HST
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Former Wasilla museum director attacks Palin
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HONOLULU (AP) _ When Sarah Palin became mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, one of her first actions was to fire the town's museum director.
John Cooper is now a substitute teacher on the Big Island. And he's no fan of the Republican vice presidential candidate.
The 67-year-old Cooper was one of five department heads Palin asked to resign as she instituted her own team to run the town.
He said of Palin -- quote -- ``She's a nice-looking woman, she can be affable, but she's single-minded, in my opinion, and vengeful.''
A self-described ``bleeding-heart liberal,'' Cooper describes his forced departure as a casualty of Palin's rise to political prominence.
A spokeswoman for Palin said she brought reform to Wasilla by breaking up political cronyism and making Wasilla one of the fastest growing towns in Alaska.
(Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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