CM: Your focus on ethics is absolutely correct. Unfortunately, I'm not sure the legislators in question even could offer a proper definition of ethics. After winning election, they see the state budget as their private hunting grounds and their clout as a tool for reaping benefits for themselves and fellow travelers. Naturally, it helps if they can keep their predation secret, so they use legislation to hide their behaviors, when secrecy in state government almost always is terribly wrong, undemocratic, and a clear sign of skulduggery. There is a reason that Alaska is well known as a state with one of the highest levels of corruption in the country.