Well, don't stop blaming Democrats there, Liam. Duncan left office 18 years ago, this month. Knowles left office 14 years ago. He had stonewalled the CBC, Bill Allen, Bill Weimar and the rest of that sorry crew. Cooper left office in 1990. I'm surprised you didn't get around to blaming Ernest Gruening, who left the governor's office only 63 1/2 years ago. The decline had nothing to do with Sarah's 3/4ths of a billiion in vote buying in 2008, nor the Bridges to Nowhere, the Mat-Su Ferry, the road to Juneau, the Healy "Clean" Coal plant, the Goose Creek prison, Parnell's SB21, etc., etc.