Talk:Sean Parnell

message: The article should more clearly state the lt. gov's political party.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.121.147.161 (talk) 05:40, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Which party

message: FYI I'm pretty sure this is a different Sean Parnell from the Sean Parnell who is the president of Center for Competitive Politics and former VP of external affairs at the Heartland Institute.Funkalunatic (talk) 22:32, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple Sean Parnells

message: Do we know (and have citations for) if Parnell is gonna drop out of the House race? as it's possible he may become Governor (Palin may be elected Vice President). GoodDay (talk) 19:10, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: House race

message: For all you 'eager-beavers' out there. Palin's resignation & Purnell's assumption of office, occures at 7:00 PM EST, July 26, 2009. GoodDay (talk) 17:30, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 7:00 PM EST

message: It would be nice if someone could find a better photo of the new governor -- one where his facial expression does not suggest that he is undergoing surgery without an anesthetic.  Neutron (talk) 23:30, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: Parnell is unusual in that he has gone back and forth between corporate and public jobs. This is thre reason Career as lobbyist and politician is factual and a good fit for the Parnell story.Skywriter (talk) 22:29, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Subhead

message: His website states that he is the tenth governor of Alaska, but the Wikipedia page says that he is the twelth. Does anyone have information about this discrepancy?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.69.112.208 (talk) 22:07, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Egan & Hickel, are only counted once each (even though they served non-consectuive terms), going by the gov website. GoodDay (talk) 19:52, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

text: Thank goodness you noticed the mistake. Alaska is one of those states that number their governors via individual. GoodDay (talk) 20:04, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: governor number

message: * When person or persons went about changing the order of Alaska governors on all these pages, I began to ask myself a very important question: is Parnell as the 10th governor something that Parnell is proclaiming himself to be on the State of Alaska website, or is there any legal standard which anyone is basing this by?  I'm only thinking of something as trivial as Grover Cleveland being declared the 22nd and 24th President by a ruling of the State Department.  I suppose that doesn't carry nearly as much weight as some random unsourced remark found on a web page.
* Without getting all the way through the article, the "readability edits" need to be cleaned up.  In particular, the edits to his early life section would lead one to believe that Sean Parnell challenged Don Young in 1980, not his father.  In fact, Sean Parnell was graduating from East Anchorage High School that year.  I'll let you know if I have time to figure it out for you, especially since I appear to have access to biographical information about his family which the Google wizards don't.RadioKAOS (talk) 04:02, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two issues 

message: Are you sure that you have the correct Parnell who challenged Don Young in 1980?  Sean would have been a mere 18 years old and ineligible to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives at that date.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.58.154.236 (talk) 09:05, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: As I've mentioned several times already, that was actually Kevin P. "Pat" Parnell, Sean Parnell's father.  Sean Parnell graduated from East Anchorage High School that year.  The May 31, 1980 edition of the Anchorage Times would be a first-hand source for that information.  Strangely, unlike most high school graduating classes, East didn't release full names of graduates.  I figured discovering his full name would be the logical first place to start with attempting to rewrite the article.  If it's that critical, get back to me and I'll do what I can in the meantime.RadioKAOS (talk) 10:55, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  House of Representatives 

message: As part of the aforementioned attempt to find references to his early life, I pulled out , which contained Pat Parnell's campaign profile from his run against Don Young.  It very clearly lists Sean Parnell's name as Séan.  His younger brother is also listed with accenting in his name (Schöen).  Methinks this is a lot clearer than Parnell proclaiming on his gubernatorial website that he's the 10th rather than the 12th governor, with no references to anything explaining or justifying that declaration.  Of course, to the rest of you, I suppose your opinion might depend upon access to the publication I referenced.RadioKAOS (talk) 22:49, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Someone with greater knowledge of Alaska politics than I should add a section on Mr. Parnell's accomplishments in office, as well as his politics. It has been 2 1/2 years since he became governor and still nothing. Any Alaskans out there willing to rise to the challenge? --Nstrauss (talk) 16:10, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There's one big problem.  It's all too obvious that most of the coverage of 21st century Alaskan politics which does exist on Wikipedia, exists because of Sarah Palin, including a lot of the work done to this article.  Since Palin is no longer in the spotlight in Alaska, most of that interest has faded.  When that interest did exist, most efforts centered around placing coatracking references to Palin in as many articles as possible, rather than creating encyclopedic content which led to a greater understanding of our political system.  I actually do have a lot of work sitting around in the pipeline somewhere related to Alaskan politics.  However, not very much of it has to do with the present.  It is too easy to point to news sources to make a big deal out of something without employing proper historical perspective, and wind up getting it wrong in the process.  Road to Nome, anyone?RadioKAOS (talk) 02:53, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

text: Honestly, I don't pay special attention to the guy, other than incidentally through whatever media coverage I may notice.  All I can think about is his sexual assault/domestic violence initiative, which he has pushed from the beginning.  I believe Ethan Berkowitz actually took him to task for it during the campaign.  There's also the road to Umiat, which is no different from Murkowski's road to Nuiqsut.  I do hear a lot of criticism over oil tax policy, the present of which was pushed through during the Palin years.  Some of it is centered upon Parnell's seemingly cosy relationship with the oil companies.RadioKAOS (talk) 02:31, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Update needed