The biggest burden on the state budget is education.  And ASD wants to ensure that elephant on the state budget's back remains.  Hey, how about cutting the way the school district does business from the $140 oil days to the $40 days of today?  No more scamming money out of Juneau.  Live below your means, for once.  The cost of a lobbyist would be in addition to the yearly costs of sending ASD brass to Juneau.  Every time the ASD considers cutting, the superintendent (Comeau did this yearly, Graf) flies to Juneau to cry and moan about more money for the kiddies.  Pathetic.