Alaska Governor Parnell calls on the *gasp* FEDS for help!

[RandySF]

What will Palin say about her successor when she hears this? Doesn't he know that he needs to finish the job she started with Emmonak?

http://alaskareport.com/news39/x71289_fisheries_salmon.htm

August 7, 2009, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell today sought to secure federal disaster relief for Yukon River residents. Parnell urged the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to declare a fishery disaster due to poor returns of chinook salmon on the Yukon River.

[kevinbgoode]

1. What? They want tax dollars to pay for socialized RELIEF?

Can't the state just pay a profiteer like Blackwater? This is UN-AMERICAN!

[ejpoeta]

2. i didn't know you could declare a 'fishery disaster' because of poor returns on salmon...

that sounds weird. I thought there was some sort of actual disaster.

[DCKit]

4. "I thought there was some sort of actual disaster."

[notesdev]

3. We have no business giving 'disaster relief' for this

#1 - poor fishing is a pretty low standard for 'disaster'

#2 - Alaska gets so much oil money that it can cut each and every citizen of the state a four-figure check on a yearly basis. Let them pay for their own damn 'relief'.