The Republican Party has and is failing the Owner-State. Since the GOP rented their party to the oil industry in exchange for political immortality, the interests of the Owner-State have taken a back seat to the oil & gas lobby. How else does one explain the resurrection of the Party of the Corrupt Bastards from what should have been political purgatory? 

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Hence the Petroleum Party of Alaska and its branded minions in the legislature refuse to exercise oversight in re the tax credits. 

We now have the idiotic policy of legislators cutting education and services to disabled Seniors so we can afford to give corporate welfare to (for example) an outside oil and gas corporations who handed out $100,000 Christmas bonuses to their employees nationwide in 2015. 

If Alaskans are paying attention, the RPA's brand will end up in the trash-heap of history this Fall.