Bingo.  Elected officials come and go.  Who honestly remembers legislators such as Billy Akers, Joseph Chuckwuk, Mary Miller, Mark Hodgins and Drew Scalzi today?  I chose those names because they were all one-term members of the House.  Meanwhile, ever since the oil money started flowing into the state treasury around 1979 or 1980, we've had an ever-increasing problem with an entrenched bureaucracy, people who stick around for decades and wind up having more influence in state policy due to that entrenchment than a great many elected officials do.