Reply #86: I agree.

[Blue_In_AK]

I was kind of proud of her on the Ryan budget vote -- even if she opposed the budget for the wrong reasons, at least she voted against it.

On the other hand, both she and Mark Begich blew it on the ending subsidies for oil companies vote. That's sort of the default position of Alaskan politicians, unfortunately. We're fighting our governor now, who wants to give the oil companies a $2 billion a year tax break here, by eliminating Sarah's ACES plan ("Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share"), the one good policy that came out of her administration. Because of ACES we're one of the few states in the country running a budget surplus. Parnell wants to give it all away. (Maybe because he was once a Conoco-Phillips lobbyist and worked for EXXON on the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill litigation). I wonder if more people would have voted against him if that information had been more widely known.