That "$4 billion budget sinkhole..." was "...triggered by plunging oil prices and lagging production...." But the root cause was wild fiscal mismanagement by the "brain surgeons" in our legislature. They work for big oil and big developers and poured big money into projects to nowhere. I don't expect these oil industry shills to start wielding skillful scalpels. The problem with corruption is that it comes with its conjoined twin...incompetence.