Alaskan voters elect 60 legislators since the forming of our state's Constitution and every House and Senate election cycle.  However, since the Republicans have taken control of the Legislature (thirty-something years ago) the Speaker of the House and the Senate President ALWAYS drag their junior members into a back room and tell them how they're going to vote.  If they don't vote lock step, they're stripped of their committee chairmanships and forced out of the majority caucus.  The latest House member stripped of her teeny-weeny power is Reinhold.  What's more, Parnell made the sole decision not to allow legislators to vote on Medicaid expansion.  Neither the Speaker or the Senate President questioned Parnell's decision.  They did what their Republican Party told them to do.  So tell us once again, Voucher, how our legislative branch of  government works for the people when their own ability to vote on legislation is subverted by their so-called leaders.