You keep telling this lie Wavemaker, and unfortunately some here are new enough to the State or ignorant enough of the State to believe you.   I think Jerry Mackie was a Republican when back in the '80s or early '90s he proposed cashing out the whole Permanent Fund and sending everybody a big check.   That went nowhere.   Gov. Murkowski, a Republican, proposed changing the Dividend calculation to a percent of market value system (POMV) which failed to pass a Republican Legislature.   The only attempt to use or substantially alter the earnings/dividend scheme was by the Knowles Administration, Democrats, and a sorta, kinda bipartisan "Fiscal Caucus" of Democrats and a couple of confused moderate Republicans.   Nobody with an R behind their name has ever gone after the Dividend until this session at the behest of a coalition administration.