text: they really expect to get away with the criminal conduct surrounding that illegal contract for the taj mahawker.  
  
  what's more, they expect to get paid for it...a lot.
  
  if we alaskans let these people spit in our faces while picking our pockets, there isn't one single crumb of self-respect left to divide among us.
  
  somebody needs to go to jail.  i'd go so far as to say several people need to go to jail.  
  
  somebody needs to pay that illegal contract out of their own pockets, if it is, indeed, paid at all.  the public was never represented in the 'negotiations'.
  
  what is wrong with us?  is theft in broad daylight just hunky-dory as long as it is committed by the right people?