John, how would you feel if Parnell spent millions of dollars hiring his buddies during a time when he had instituted a hiring freeze and laid off many state employees and when we were facing a massive fiscal crisis?  Walker has given very generous no-bid contracts to a bunch of his old friends - including at least four non-Alaskans (Cottham, Boykin, a Russian guy, and ferguson) - and paid them very well. Rigdin Boykin got $120,000 a month! 

So for someone that is concerned with protecting "our" interests why couldn't craig just accept a job as an attorney at the dept of law and continue to serve the governor at a normal state salary? 

Bottom line: Craig quit the state and then was rehired with a massive pay increase to do less work than he was doing as AG.