Governor Walker's basic plan regarding the PFD (SB128) was voted on in the Senate and passed 14 to 5 with one absence. The nays included Stoltze, Wielechowski, Dunleavy, Ellis,  (and) Gardner. Are these the party ideologues in the Alaska legislature who will first oppose anyone and anything that is not of or from their respective political party, or are they simply pandering?    I suspect the latter; however,  the words of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States might well apply:   "There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."

Then in a gesture worthy of Neville Chamberlain, our State House, where every seat is up for election this November, buried the bill (SB128) in House Finance.