Sean Parnell is NOT a good role model for respectful behaviors. Just think what are kids are learning from Sean Parnell. They are learning that its ok to verbally attack people, because our Governor does it.

Sean Parnell attacks Federal Employees daily. Sean Parnell also stood up the President of the United States, HIS commander in Chief, when President Barack Obama came to Alaska.
Our troops stood by to greet the President when he came to Alaska, but Sean Parnell said he had other appointments. This was rude, cowardly and un-statesman-like behavior coming from a Governor who is also a state employee that applied for the job to represent our state.

Choose Respect alright and it is time for all of us to replace Politicians with Statesmen

I also think Parnell is disrespectful and he is hurting our states relationship with the Federal Government, this works against our state. We are all people after all and no one responds well to being treated disrespectfully.

Our state is facing unprecedented challenges we need all hands on deck, we need all the help we can get to face these challenges. I think Hollis French would be a far better Governor than Parnell.

Alaska has a VERY serious problem with violence and subtance abuse...many people are deeply in denial about it too.

You don't get respect by parading around carrying a sign and demanding it. You get respect by the way you carry yourself, the way you treat yourself and others. Just because you're a woman and carry a sign saying you demand and deserve respect, doesn't mean you will get it. You have to EARN respect. If you are in a violent relationship and continue living in that environment then you don't respect yourself and have no one to blame but yourself. If your partner beats on you and you continue to stay with him/her and don't want to call the police or press charges, it's YOUR decision and you have to live with that. There are many programs and people out there to help someone in those situations, so there's no excuse for staying in that relationship. Respect is not for women only, respect is for all people. Again, live a respectful life and you will earn respect.

Oh, and Governor Parnell should put his energy into situations that concern ALL Alaskans; not just the select few who live in these violent situations, by their own choice. Yes, they DO have a choice and a way out, they just need to make the decision to do so. They need to RESPECT themselves first. So turn those signs around and read them yourself. It's YOUR decision.

Women's domestic violence against men is grossly under reported, while male victims are still routinely being ignored by the taxpayer funded domestic violence industry. Credible research overwhelmingly shows that the ratio of domestic violence is at least 50/50 between women & men. Go to Fiebert Bibliography. According to one study by researchers who work at the CDC, in 70 percent of domestic violence incidents, where the d.v. is not mutual, it's women who initiate the d. v. Go to Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting. Click on the link under the red & blue pie chart. D.v. law follows a gender feminist agenda over facts & does great harm to many innocent men & also many violent women. Go to Youtube, “Los Misandry.”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOxvudpF8

Domestic violence will never end as long as the whole truth about it is misrepresented to comply with feminist ideology. V.P. Biden recently called violence against women, "the very worst abuse." The very worst abuse is valuing one life less than another for having been born the wrong gender. Under domestic violence law, the wrong gender is men. Shelter and services are virtually non-existent for male victims of domestic violence. Options out of a bad relationship, that women have, are often not available to men. Men wind up gender profiled by the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry, because of gender feminist ideology controlling the d.v. industry. Men are often battered by domestic violence, and then battered again by the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry as shown in "Los Misandry" at Youtube.

@Dutchlady: hi, I don't think you know what you're talking about. Victim blaming is a pretty horrible thing to do--yeah, it's all a woman's fault if she remains in an abusive relationship. Not the fault of the guy beating her, but HER fault. Makes perfect sense. Oh, I'm sure in your little world of sunshine and candy corn it's a simple choice between being abused and not being abused, but out here in the real world there are a ton of other issues ranging from emotional codependence to drug abuse to financial insecurity to geographic isolation that keep women with abusive boyfriend and husbands. Next you'll be telling me that kids who are sexually abused by family members are at fault because they didn't do anything about it.

And also, Ray, either you didn't actually do any research or you're flat out lying about domestic violence statistics. Either one should make you ashamed for spouting off. Domestic violence is split about 60/40 (60% of cases involve women being assaulted, 40% men), and no one except straw-man feminists argue domestic violence against men isn't a problem. It is. Violence against women is a larger problem, and not just by 20%, because in addition to being more frequently assaulted, women are more SEVERELY assaulted. And when it comes to SEXUAL assault, women are the victims way more often than men (although it is hard to get accurate statistics since sexual assault is the most underreported crime for both men and women). Now here are some links you won't click on but prove you wrong nonetheless:

http://content.apa.org/journals/bul/126/5/651
http://content.apa.org/journals/bul/126/5/685
http://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles1/nij/183781.txt
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

I hope you two have learned something from this. Namely, it's easy to say stupid things when you don't know what you're talking about. Come back when you've finished your social science schooling.

You're right, I don't know you, but I know what you said is patently incorrect and shows a total lack of ability to view this issue from a reasonable standpoint. Ignoring all the variables that perpetuate domestic violence, blaming the victim, and looking at the issue from a black and white perspective does suggest you don't know what you're talking about. And also, agreeing with that Ray guy's "facts" doesn't help your case.

Undoubtedly, you'll come back with some story of your own abuse and how you pulled through it JUST FINE SO WHY CAN'T EVERYONE ELSE GET OUT OF IT and completely miss the fact that everyone else is not you.