From one of two dev­as­tat­ing sto­ries about Sarah Palin in today’s papers, this one in the Wash­ing­ton Post:

[I]n her four years on the coun­cil, she picked up on sen­ti­ment that was build­ing against the three-​term incum­bent, John Stein, who pushed for the 2 per­cent sales tax to pay for road, sewer and water upgrades. These invest­ments laid the way for [Wasilla]’s growth, but they also unnerved some residents.

“People said, ‘What are you doing to my city? I liked it better when we didn’t have government,”’ said Richard Deuser, the city attor­ney at the time. “And Sarah really pan­dered to that resent­ment, that resis­tance to change.”