Palin Promotions

Getting former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to speak at the Republic High School graduation was an idea born in an English class discussion Tyler Weyer, senior class president said on the Palin Update with Kevin Scholla. Initially, the students considered other teachers or a prominent member of the community. When Gov. Palin was suggested, both English teacher Mike Lust and debate coach Liz Bremner advised Weyer to “start now.” He said Bremner was “an amazing influence” through his high school career and helped him tremendously “through the entire Palin process.” He knew the odds, but pursued the dream with steady determination and made it reality.

Weyer wrote a letter on school stationery, signed by the principal Shawn Anderson and sent it off to Gov. Palin’s parents – Chuck and Sally Heath. He got a response from a Palin aide thanking him for the invite and saying, “we’ll see what we can do.”

Some months passed then Weyer and the senior class posed in school sweatshirts with a banner that read, “We want you, Governor Palin.” The school librarian Kelly Scriver posted the picture on Facebook and Twitter, Gov. Palin saw it, and agreed to speak. Weyer then exchanged emails, followed by a conference call with Gov. Palin’s scheduler.

Weyer said, “Sarah Palin is pretty popular in our class….when she ran for Vice President in 2008, I was personally blown away….she came from a small town like Republic, was able to rise up and become governor of a state and was able to run for Vice President. That’s not an everyday job.”

He shared her resume with his class, and they joined him in support. He did a Sarah Palin skit each year in debate class. “It really says something about her character that a national prominent figure would come to speak to a graduating class of 27.”

He said Gov. Palin would appreciate a town like Republic, since she has spent her life in small towns.

Weyer said his family, friends, the school, and community have expressed surprise, shock, excitement and pride over Gov. Palin speaking. Some have offered lodging for her. Gov. Palin turned down offers to speak at major colleges and universities. She is also covering her personal expenses for the Republic speech.

Weyer plans to study political science and said his school has has had serious discussions about history and current events. Gov. Palin’s commencement address will be the most significant event ever held in Republic’s gym, though the school has a state-recognized basketball and volleyball team and a solid athletic program.

The principal reason Weyer supports Gov. Palin is because he “truly believes she feels in her heart what every ordinary American feels,” and she speaks to issues that affect everyone.

Gov. Palin recognized Scholla’s Exclusive: Palin’s Mother Discusses Cherished Mother’s Day Moments with Sarah in a Facebook Status and Tweet. “Thank you so much, Governor. It is an honor to be recognized by you, and it was a true pleasure to interview your mom. What a great lady,” Scholla said.

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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today posted this Status Update on Facebook:

Dad’s Junior high basketball team in Hope, Idaho

Dad’s football team in Sandpoint, Idaho

Dad on a sheep hunt in the Wrangell Mountains 40 years ago

My family hiking in Denali Park

Photo from “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”

ANCHORAGE, ALSASKA, AUGUST 01 2010: Sarah Palin, Trig, Todd, Piper, Willow (foreground), brother Chuck Kr., and nephew Kier present a 50th anniversary gift to Sarah’s parents Chuck Sr. and Sally Heath made with the gold the Palins found in Nome (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images). Jean Worldwide, Inc.

Dad’s garage full of fishing lures

Mom and Dad with Henry Kissinger

Dad at the Iron Dog

Dad being interviewed

Dad’s t-shirt because he’s a proud American who has served his country

Dad and I at the Iron Dog with race legend Walker Evans

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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin developed her strong work ethic through sports her father, Chuck Heath, Sr. said in an exclusive interview with Kevin Scholla, a newly minted columnist on Breitbart Sports.

Chuck Heath, Sr., who co-authored Our Sarah: Made in Alaska with his son, Chuck Heath, Jr. had coached all his children at Wasilla High School. The elder Heath said Sarah’s work ethic propelled her to be his best hurdler and became his number one distance runner. “‘She learned that if you need to work on a skill you keep at it until you have that skill developed,’ said Mr. Heath.” In an episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, she is seen passing that trait down to her children. “What’s your weak hand?…good. Work it. Harder. Harder. Until you get it.” Chuck Heath Sr., said Sarah “also learned how to work with all kinds of people and personalities.”

In one of her life’s defining moments, starting point guard – young Sarah Heath on a broken ankle – clinched the 1982 basketball championship for the Wasilla Warriors against the much larger and favored-to-win Service High School out of Anchorage.

As an employee on her husband’s commercial fishing boat, Sarah Palin broke her hand while off-loading the day’s catch on to a tender. She went ashore, saw a doctor, and returned to work the next day. With that broken hand, she hauled in thousands upon thousands of pounds of salmon. She is not afraid to get her hands dirty, bloody or broken. Gov. Palin remains an avid runner and often runs half- and full marathons.

Chuck Heath, Sr. described Gov. Palin’s indomitable work ethic and athletic prowess which runs through the entire family. The younger Heath played football, basketball and ran track. He is currently a member of a men’s hockey team. He was an All American honorable mention for Parade Magazine. Heather Heath was a great basketball player and today runs marathons with her most recent time being 3:42. The elder Heath called Molly McCann “the best athlete of them all,” with track, cross country, and basketball being her specialties. Chuck Heath, Sr. played football, basketball, and ran. In high school, he was a starting running back. His team lost only four times in as many years and won four championships.

Some of the Heaths’ teammates made it big in pro sports. “Future Hall of Famer Jerry Kramer was on the offensive line that opened holes for Chuck Heath years before Kramer did the same in the NFL for Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor in Green Bay,” Scholla wrote. The elder Heath’s 100-yard dash record stood for over 40 years.

Scholla recounted the athletic traditions that persist today among the Palins and Heaths. Todd Palin is a four-time champion and nine-time Iron Dog winner. The first five places in the Iron Dog are considered winners and first place is champion. “Track Palin was an exceptional hockey player,” Scholla wrote. Chuck Heath, Jr.’s son Teko won the Anchorage city title in a hockey championship. “Teko was so happy at the end of the game that he Tebowed in front of the crowd. The Heaths continue to play well and act even better.”

Scholla emphasized that the family’s competitiveness is innate and not forced by authoritarian tradition. Chuck Heath, Sr. described the unique playing conditions in Alaska. Winters are spent in the gym and runs are done with headlamps and luminous clothing in temperatures that drop to 20 degrees below zero or even colder. He maintains contact with Jerry Kramer and roots for the Packers. Kramer went to college in Idaho along with Sarah and three other Heath siblings. The elder Heath roots for teams who have Alaskan players. The younger Heath, meanwhile is a Packers, Penguins and Yankee fan. “Bottom line is, with no home team, anything goes in The Last Frontier when it comes to supporting professional franchises,” Scholla wrote.

Chuck Heath Sr., supports Gonzaga’s basketball team in the upcoming NCAA tournament. This team has a strong and deep Palin connection. “Sarah Palin’s all-time favorite player is John Stockton. The Utah Jazz legend played his college ball at Gonzaga (Stockton’s son is on Gonzaga’s basketball team) and wound up marrying an Alaskan girl,” Scholla wrote. He continued, “plus, Stockton was the kind of player that a certain former Wasilla High point guard could appreciate–a player who used smarts and stick-to-itiveness as much as physical skill to get the job done. While serving the people of Alaska, Palin kept a Stockton signed ball in her office.”

Chuck Heath, Sr. said Sarah would do very well against Obama in hoops battle. “In her prime if Sarah had to guard Obama he’d come out all scratched up. Her defense was her forte. She’d always guard the other team’s best player. Plus she had Jason Kidd instincts. A real natural. It’d be interesting. Obama is a lot taller but he would know he had his hands full.” But, Obama would be no match for Sarah on the firing range. Gov. Palin’s father cited Obama’s poor shotgun handling, and Sarah’s superior handling of both rifles and shotguns.

As Scholla closed, he harkened back to Gov. Palin’s call at Southeastern University to impact the culture through sports. “It seems all the Heaths and Palins are very good at whatever they put their efforts behind. Lessons of hard work learned through participation in a myriad of sports helped pave the way…She’s living proof of how that plan of action can pay dividends in several aspects of life.”

Kevin Scholla is well-known in the Palinista community for his weekly Palin Radio Updates and is the Pennsylvania State Coordinator for American Grizzlies United / Organize4Palin.

See Sarah Palin’s Father Speaks Exclusively to Breitbart Sports: Palin, Siblings Developed Work Ethic Through Sports for Scholla’s complete exclusive interview with Chuck Heath, Sr.

“Disarming our citizens is like having a porcupine, when faced with a threat, roll over and expose its soft belly to its predator,” Chuck Heath, Jr. said as he closed a Facebook Status in which he weighed in on the gun control issue. The brother of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and co-author of Our Sarah: Made in Alaska said, “guns can be a tool to help teach youngsters responsibility.”

He said entire families can enjoy shooting, and guns are essential for personal and national defense. During World War II, the Japanese had considered invading us but did not go through with it, because our population was heavily armed at the time. Though not mentioned in his post, history is replete with countries that have become tyrannies almost the moment their citizens were disarmed. Nazi Germany and Communist China come to mind. Chuck Heath, Jr. related how he, his family, neighbors and friends all grew up with guns and none of them have ever abused their weapons. “When a criminal or madman comes pounding on your door in the middle of the night, you’ll wish you were one of those households with a gun and if you don’t have one you’ll be calling a neighbor that does. Calling 911 when someone’s smashing your door down is not going to stop someone bent on evil,” he said.

Of course, Gov. Palin is a guardian angel of our Second Amendment rights. She won the 2010 Sybil Ludington Award – the NRA’s highest award to women who support and promote the Second Amendment (I was one of her three nominators nationwide). She was presented with a Henry Rifle; a manufacturer custom-made a .50 Beowulf AR-15 for for her (NRA-ILA has possession of this rifle), and she received five Second Amendment awards as a sitting governor. Gov. Palin’s Gov. Palin’s hunting and subsistence fishing accomplishments have helped her in all aspects of her life.

Just months prior to September 11, New York City’s Mayor closed the Fresh Kills Landfill. This huge tract of land straddling the West Shore Expressway (Rte. 440) treated unfortunate passersby and nearby residents to an odiferous tour de force, especially in the summer months. For years, Staten Island was jokingly referred to as “the forgotten borough,” though the obnoxious landfill spawned another nickname, wherein an expletive was substituted for the first four letters of “Staten.” Residents breathed a sigh of relief and somewhat fresher air following the dump’s closure and were thankful to then Mayor Giuliani and Borough President Guy Molinari.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the City of New York needed a location to perform the grisly work of separating human remains and personal effects from the World Trade Center debris. Fresh Kills was re-opened for this purpose. As I went to work at Con Edison’s Victory Blvd. location, I could see the huge Klieg-like lights that surrounded the work space, where recovery workers toiled 24 hours a day, seven days a week for nearly a year. Detectives worked alongside them, gathering evidence, as Gov. Palin recounted in Going Rogue, p. 81.

Some of the debris was ash so fine that its composition cannot be identified, even with today’s technology. Known as “the fines,” they remain at the Fresh Kills Landfill. The fines may contain human remains, are vast in quantity, and contain hazardous material mixed in. They cannot be simply scooped up and transported elsewhere.

My job at the time was to provide desktop technical support, but I also installed and configured Cisco routers, switches; LAN cabling; and built server racks. Roles were not as clearly defined then and the tech support people had the opportunity to get their dirty little hands in everything. I had no idea of who was working down the road from me…

Rochester, NY: November 21, 2009: Chuck Heath Reassures an Overflow Crowd that Gov. Palin will sign everyone’s book and no one will go home disappointed. Meanwhile, Sally Heath hugs and comforts a Palin supporter. Photographer: Ron Devito

Unbeknownst to me, as I plied my trade about a mile away from the Victory Blvd. facility, Chuck and Sally Heath were working at the landfill. In fact, the area where they worked can easily be seen from the Victory Blvd. loading dock. Just look for the American Flag fluttering in the distance:

Fresh Kills Landfill as seen from Con Edison’s Victory Blvd. Facility

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services brought the Heaths in to keep pests and predators away from the recovery workers and their work area. Fresh Kills had only been closed less than a year prior to September 11, thus it was overrun by rats and seagulls.

Meanwhile, on September 11, 2001, back in Wasilla then Mayor Palin set up her emergency command center in the Mat-Su Valley’s Public Safety Building, followed by a trip to the local Presbyterian church to pray with and comfort residents, also documented in in Going Rogue, p. 81. The former Wasilla Mayor went on to be an Oil and Gas Conservation Committee Chair, then Alaska’s Governor, a Vice Presidential Candidate, and is a now a private citizen who has proven that you don’t need a title to make a difference. She has a proven track record of solid crisis management skills and her handling of September 11 as Wasilla’s Mayor is part of that record – as are the mother and father who molded her.

The Heaths did not merely fly a flag and say “united we stand.” They got on a plane, came here to Staten Island and aided in the recovery effort. What they saw on that landfill – remains of their countrymen and women being separated from rubble on a conveyor belt – will be seared in their memories forever. They did this work out of love of country. The Heaths were undeniably instrumental in forming who Former Alaska Governor Palin is today.

On September 11, 2007, Track Palin enlisted in the US Army and was deployed a year later to Iraq. His mother rushed back to Alaska to preside over the deployment ceremony on September 11, 2008, watching as her eldest son went to war. Track is now a sergeant and is serving in Afghanistan. Track married his high school sweetheart Britta Hanson, (then 21) in May 2011. The couple welcomed their daughter Kyla Grace Palin to the world in August, 2011.

In their nearly three quarters of a century, the Heaths did not merely bear witness to history, they were part of it and September 11 will be forever seared in the Palin and Heath legacies.

Distant shot covering Lower Manhattan and Jersey City: One WTC (Formerly “Freedom Tower”) viewed from from my third floor home office in Staten Island, NY on Monday, September 10, 2012 at 2021 / 8:21 PM EDT. The building is now at the 105th Fl. and its final roof height of 1,368 feet. The mast is to be erected by year’s end. The Tribute in Light was being tested, when I took this photo. Because I’m took the photo through a window which I cannot open due to an air conditioner, there is a fair amount of ghosting.

Today, we pause to recognize three generations of Heaths and Palins as husbands, fathers, grandfathers, and great grandfathers. The Heaths and Palin families are the bedrock of Governor Sarah Palin’s success. If you want to make a marriage work, you will be hard-pressed to find better models than Chuck and Sally Heath or Todd and Sarah Palin.

Chuck Heath

Devoted Husband, Father, Grandfather, Great Grandfather. Living Pioneer. Quintessential Alaskan. Science Teacher. Hunter. Fisherman.

He probably never knew that baby Sarah hefting these two shrimps…

…would 47 years later be a former governor, oil and gas regulator, mayor; two-time author, Fox News contributor, documentary producer, and private citizen leader hefting a lobster on a bus tour of historic sites. Now, one year later, she has proven time and time again that you don’t need a title to make a difference.

The phrase, “Don’t retreat. Reload!” originated from Chuck Heath. She first referenced it in Going Rogue as the opening to Chapter 6, on p. 383, where he said, “Sarah’s not retreating! She’s reloading!”

Todd Palin

Devoted Husband, Father, Grandfather. Living Pioneer. Quintessential Alaskan. 4-Time Iron Dog Champion. Hunter. Commercial Fisherman. Roughneck. First Dude.

Macho enough to race a snow machine 120 mph in pitch blackness, but not does not consider changing a diaper an affront to his masculinity….

Brains…Brawn…Heart. Todd has the right balance of them all.

See Missy Stewart’s Father’s Day Tribute to Todd: Todd Palin — the “Good Dad”

Track Palin

Devoted Husband. Living Pioneer. Quintessential Alaskan. Hunter. Commercial Fisherman. Veteran.

On May 19, 2011, Track Palin married Britta Hanson. The couple welcomed their daughter Kyla Grace Palin to the world in August, 2011. He is an Army Reservist, holding the rank of Sergeant, will be studying at the University of Alaska, and is taking over the Palin’s commercial fishing business.