So Parnell is your guy, huh?
Seriously, I’m anti native and I’m voting for Parnell.

The Governor has had many opportunities to work on resolving these ongoing issues for the past 8 years yet he has not. Two as Lt Gov and 6 as Gov.

The NCAI gathering in Anchorage was a significant event and for the Governor to not even ask a representative to speak on his behalf or submit a video address is bizarre. It clearly demonstrated how out of touch the entire administration is on so many issues from Alaska Native issues, rural life issues, fish and game issues, Arctic issues and most of all how to reinvigorate Alaska’s stalling resource development and economic engine issues.

It is even more Bizarre that most conference attendees including top NCAI officials were unaware of the Governors choice not to attend. More importantly the Governor nor his top communications people recognized the significance of this event. There should have at least been a formal written regret sent to attendees via NCAI leadership rather than some informal email from a scheduler. This is proof that Alaska Native issues are not a priority or even understood by his staff or his cabinet.

Just because the Governor is a republican does not make him the right leader for Alaska and it certainly does not make him a candidate that is concerned with your liberty, privacy or for smaller less intrusive government either.

It is very inspiring to see two men, Bill and Craig, stand up to cronyism, bloated and corrupt government practices, and partisan insider party politics. And they are doing this by running on fresh solution oriented ideas not just on the areas of concern. These concerns must be highlighted so everyone can see the contrast of where we are and where we could be.

Its time to let go of our infatuation with political party loyalty for the sake of loyalty and start thinking like Alaskans and more importantly like Americans again. Free thinking, self determined, liberty minded, the best ideas wins attitude are a good start.

Alaska is unique in that she is still young, has a large, vibrant, indigenous population that holds the key to many solutions and she is still rich in natural resources. We can do better than we are doing right now in dealing with low education performance, high crime rates, a growing homeless population, crashing fish and game resources, declining resource development, an encroaching federal govt., weakness on Arctic leadership and a total disrespect toward to those not aligned the same way politically.

I look forward to a Governor that will speak for themselves, unscripted and proactively find ways to be involved on many fronts and surround him/herself with the best solution oriented problem solvers regardless of personal political party affiliation or ideology.

So, are you justifying someone making up the traffic story? It sounds like you are.

More importantly, why are you crucifying Parnell for going to an important family event but you’re excusing Fleener for outright lying for political gain? So, you give grace to a liar at worst, incompetent fool at best, but you don’t give grace to a man who put his family first? It sounds like you’re motivated by anger and bias against Parnell, like most of these hateful posts crying racism. It’s the only thing you have.

Oh yeah, pull the race card because you have no other sound, logical argument. That always works. I have lived in 2 countries overseas and I have never heard anyone pull the race card anywhere but here. When you don’t have a logical leg to stand on, cry racism. Ridiculous and ignorant.

Instead, it was not important enough for him to even leave a prepared statement. He chose to do nothing, which was a slap in the face to First Alaskans and all of the Native peoples who traveled here. Friends who were there told me they were embarrassed for their state when Governor Parnell was called over the PA system and was a no show. No one had a clue what happened to him — thus the “stuck in traffic” meme.

Note that Emperor Parnell has yet to say anything about this dishonorable snub – always speaking to Alaskans via carefully worded press retorts.

Either that or someone is throwing a bitchy fit with some ugly on the side, because Fleener is native. Which is par for the course for those who can’t stand anything native. And you know anybody anti native is going to jump on the Parnell band wagon, because of “appearances”.

I agree with this statement! I know Craig Fleener. He is a good friend of mine and he is as honest as it gets. He wouldn’t say anything that wasn’t true. It sounds to me like the Governor is a well-versed politician trying to create drama and spin stories to ease the public eye on his own attendance problems! It’s unfortunate that Bill an Craig have to put up with such childish competition!