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Naneng on Parnell: “He has been very receptive to the issues we have raised."

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Anchorage Daily News

Posted: October 16, 2009 - 5:37 pm

From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage --

Gov. Sean Parnell’s appearance at the Association of Village Council Presidents convention this week received a decent review from AVCP president Myron Naneng, who was a blistering critic of Sarah Palin.

“Knowing that he will need the support of the villages in the upcoming election, I know he is making a concerted effort to reach out,” Naneng said after Parnell’s speech at the Bethel event. “He has been very receptive to the issues we have raised. In the past when we spoke with the then-Gov. Palin, she did not seem to know that rural Alaska existed.”

Parnell, who was Palin’s lieutenant governor and close ally, has sent two letters to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke asking for the declaration of a fishery disaster as a result of poor chinook salmon returns on the Yukon. Naneng cited that as something he considered an improvement.