Palin names Game Board appointees
Published Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Stumble It!Gov. Sarah Palin appointed two new members to the state Board of Game, replacing the only Native representative on the seven-person board.
Lew Bradley of Palmer and Teresa Sager-Albaugh of Tok were named to the board by Palin on Wednesday, which was the deadline for the governor to appoint new members to state boards and commissions.
They replace Ron Somerville of Juneau, who resigned his position earlier this week after six years on the board, and Paul Johnson of Unalakleet, who was not re-appointed to the board after serving an interim two-year term. Johnson had been the lone Native on the board.
It marks the first time since the Game Board was created in 1976 to establish hunting and trapping regulations for Alaska that there has been no Native representation on the board.
Frank Bailey, director of state boards and commissions, said the governor considered several names that were forwarded to her by local advisory committees and appointed the two candidates she felt would best represent Alaskans. There was at least one Native candidate that was heavily considered but Palin could not reach the individual to talk about a possible appointment before she had to submit two names to the Legislature.
The governor also reappointed Ted Spraker of Kenai to a third term on the board.
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this is a sad day, still loading the board up with people not from the rual areas, and not one Alaska Native on the board
How inept. How long did the govenor try contacting the lone Native applicant?
yes it is a sad day that there aint no natives on the board of game i can think of alot of people from around the upper yukon that are quifiled to be on it after all we only lived here all are lives living off the land and respecting the animials do those 2 people from palmer and tok go to the interior humm
again a sad day, and come to find out more AOC members, just more sport hunters I bet did not try very hard to make contact
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