text: It is absolutely essential that we eliminate from the legislature the oil industry senators and house members. Kevin Meyer and Peter Micciche are Conoco employees first. Their loyalty is to Conoco, not the State of Alaska. Getting rid of Gattis was essential as too is Coghill. 
  
  The republican majority has tilted the system so far in favor of the oil industry that the only way to reverse the trend is to vote as many of them out of office as we can. That means putting the Democrats in charge. There is no other alternative. Besides, it is  theoretically impossible for the Democrats to do any worse than these republicans, many of whom are proud members of the Corrupt Bastards club who somehow managed to survived the carnage of the FBI crackdown a decade ago.  
  
  This isn't on the politicians any more; its on the voters that have infested the legislature with the likes of Meyer, Coghill and the rest of CBC. Those voters owe a debt to the rest of us.