On Thursday of this past week it was in the news that Corey Rossi, Director of the Division of Wildlife Conservation has been charged with 12 charges of taking bears illegally.
This man was appointed to his position by Gov. Sean Parnell. Essentially, he is charged with poaching. The following day, on Friday, the Governor’s Office had no comment regarding these charges. OK, so here is a comment.
This guy is a unqualified political hack, and our esteemed governor had full knowledge of his lack of qualifications before he appointed him. This is your government at work. More particularly, this is your governor at work. He appointed a poacher to be in charge of the Division of Wildlife Conservation. Good show, Gov.
Ray Preston
Juneau
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...AN unqualified political hack...
The qualifications don't matter. What matters is content.
A hack is a hack. Steve Jobs didn't have a degree, and he reached the apex in his field. In the field of biology, Charles Darwin did not have a degree when he wrote the Origin of Species and came up with Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest. Some people with talent do not have 'degrees' and some without talent have degrees. That is the way it is. Look at the content of a person, not the packaging.
It would have been nice if someone had looked into the content of this Rossi guy before giving him a nice job title to wrap himself in. In his time here did he contribute any new thinking that will make a positive long term difference?
@spoorprint
I agree with you in some aspects but if someone doesn't have the credentials they should at least have some reasonable experience to substitute for it. This was blatant cronyism I'm excited to hear what Parnell finally does say about it!
Really?
I thought he was a relic of the Palin administration. I read an article that said he used her parents as references on his job application. I have no proof of that though, so don't ask for any.
Bad choice?
Good comment @spoorprint. I have been attending Board of Fish meetings since the Clem Tillion days. In this process I have seen some self-serving and sometimes ridiculous decisions come from managers and biologists… “that were highly qualified on paper”. And, in the same process I have witnessed some absolutely brilliant decisions come from individuals with no related degrees or qualifications, other than a working knowledge of the subject matter and a good mind. In an institution like the State of Alaska it is some times necessary to counter-balance the institutional mind set with an outside influence. In Rossi’s case, if he is guilty, the Governor made a bad decision. It isn’t the first time a Governor has done so and won’t be the last. But, don’t let that influence weather or not a person that would do well in a management position should be considered for the job because they don’t have a fancy diploma to hang on the wall.
This is all about the true values of the Palin/Parnell crowd
Basically, they feel that people should be able to mine, drill, cut down or hunt whatever they want, whenever they want.
Consequently, they work to remove all regulations, ignore the ones they can't remove, and appoint people who show no respect for the notion of regulating anything.
It's all about saying "we do what we want, and no one can stop us".
Thing is, if they disrepect the rules and get away, tomorrow they will disrespect US, and then we'll be living at their mercy.
Alaska doesn't deserve that king of arrogance-based future.