Legislators continue to waste money

To the editor,

Whatever you’d like to call our Valley legislators, please don’t call them fiscal conservatives. First they neglect to get their job done during the regular session, then they spend almost a million more dollars in special sessions that accomplished nothing that shouldn’t have been done during the regular session. (Except fattening their own wallets a bit more.) Now members of the Legislative Council, including Rep. Mark Neuman and Sen. Charlie Huggins, have voted to spend $450,000 challenging Governor Walker’s decision to expand Medicaid – a decision most Alaskans support. And of course, $400,000 of that is for a Washington, D.C. law firm. Will they persist now that the Superior Court has ruled in Gov. Walker’s favor? The state has serious budget issues, thanks in large part to our current legislators. If you’re looking for fiscal conservatives, you’ll have to keep looking.

Mark Masteller

Palmer