How Local Teens Beat Sarah Palin in the Battle of the Skate Park

Skaters 1, Palin 0. Okay, so this isn’t really green, but we like to see Palin come up with another goose egg. MTV is reporting the story of a group of teens in Wasilla, Alaska that battled with the former mayor over a skate park.  At the center of the story is Zach Carothers, bassist of the indie band ‘Portugal. The Man’, who are also from Wasilla.

From MTV:

Our parents brought up the idea of going to the city to ask about the chances of getting a real, concrete skate park built. The number of kids skating was growing like crazy, and with all the baseball diamonds, hockey rinks, and tennis courts around, it seemed like a reasonable request.

Apparently, the City of Wasilla did not agree with us. Bummer. Sarah Palin, the mayor of our small town, informed us that a skate park simply would not fit in the budget.

The “Wasilla Skate Park Committee” went to work immediately. Over the next few months, we held bake sales, car washes, raffles and six or seven benefit concerts. We convinced local businesses to donate goods, services or labor to help support us. We even put up one of those giant, lame thermometers in city hall and colored in every $5,000 we made. And, incredibly enough, we raised roughly $42,000. Not too bad for some punk kids in a small town in Alaska.

I really don’t think that Palin thought we could do it. She was certainly surprised when we filled in the red ball at the top of that stupid thermometer. And boy, did she have a surprise for us.

After all of our hard work, she informed us that the project was going to have to be delayed … indefinitely.

Check out the whole story over at MTV to get all the details, but in the end, the skaters were victorious, and the skate park has been in place for a good 10 years now despite Palin’s attempts to derail it.  All together now: ha, ha!

Link [MTV]

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