Shannyn Moore destroys Alaska's governor re Alaska national guard sexual assault scandal

[Blue_In_AK]

For a governor whose slogan has been "Choose respect" in response to Alaska's awful sexual assault statistics, this piece is devastating. Hopefully, this will destroy this guy once and for all. He is up for re-election in November. I have said here a few times that Parnell almost makes me miss Sarah. This is just one example of why. Please read the whole piece. It's shocking.


http://www.adn.com/2014/04/26/3443482/sha-yn-moore-after-4-years-parnell.html?sp=/99/328/

On Feb. 28, 2014, our governor, Sean Parnell, wrote a letter asking the Department of Defense to investigate "reports of sexual assaults and other behavior creating a hostile environment and culture within portions of the Alaska National Guard."

He explained that he was compelled to request the investigation by "information I recently learned."

That was not true. In fact, it was very far from the truth.

Military officers had risked their careers to tell the governor personally that female soldiers had been sexually assaulted by other Guard members and that those assaults were not only not investigated, they were covered up by senior officers.

And when did the governor really learn about this misconduct?

In 2010, four years before he finally decided somebody needed to do something about the pirate ship that was his National Guard.

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[Divernan]

1. I got to have lunch with Shannyn Moore & Jeanne Devon.

They were in my hometown when Jeanne received an award from Netroots Nation for her political blog, The Mudflats: News and Politics from the Upper Left Corner, which I have been reading for many years. http://www.themudflats.net/

It was a pleasure and an honor to meet two such politically astute yet down-to-earth, warm and unpretentious women. I highly recommend The Mudflats blog to all political wonks like me.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. +1000! There are truly some great Alaskans! eom

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Yes, indeed, they are a couple of very exceptional ladies

and fearless as can be. The third member of the trifecta, Linda Kellen-Biegel, doesn't get around quite as much, but she, too, is absolutely tenacious. I've never known anyone who could get down in the weeds like she does and ferret out the truth. We are so lucky to have all three of them here keeping an eye on things.

[Enthusiast]

3. K&R!

[malaise]

4. K & R

Real nice

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Some more background on this

that was posted in the comments under Shannyn's article. I'm not sure what this document is, but if even half of this is true...

http://cryptome.org/2012/12/ng-alaska-blaylock.pdf