My hat's off to that stalwart trio. 
   Party politics has become "heads-up & locked" fanatical, to the detriment of our state & nation. I've been a registered Rep. since Jay Hammond convinced me to become one in 1969, but I am a Conservative first. At the Kodiak Rep. meeting last March, I told the group that I strongly opposed the rule that no Rep. could serve as a delegate  or officer if he or she had contributed to the campaign of anyone but a Rep. in the last 5 years.  I was sitting next to a Rep. who I had supported when he ran as a Dem. against an incompetent Rep. opponent. Well, my guy lost, but became a Rep.
   I finished by telling the group that I am a "Republican in SHAME" only. In Ak. the Reps.(thru Parnel, Meyer, Maccici, et al) have become the oil soaked voice of the petroleum industry.
   Just as the Constitutionally oriented TeaParty threatened both major party ESTABLISHMENTS, the MuskOx coalition aims at objective, constituent-oriented government. Now, overturn SB21