Unfortunately for Governor Walker, I sense that traditional politics is about to wedge him out of office because besides the Republicans a recently defeated US Senator is after his job.  Bill Walker had better quickly learn that he is playing with people on both sides of the political equation who harbor no sense of fair play, are very capable of harboring a vendetta,  are masters of court intrigue, and don't see compromise to be anything other than a disgusting form of surrender.  He is playing hardball with those who would bribe the umpire if they thought it would work.   His optics are terrible.  Regardless of how one feels about the dividend program, the last dividend was $2,000 which makes a $1,000 dividend not very attractive and it looks a lot less attractive when he announces that at least 500 of those thousand dollar dividend reductions from Alaskans will be going to a new out of state bureaucrat who apparently is supposed to keep the AKLNG gas-line on life support.