Well said! I'm a teacher in Fairbanks. I've been writing to the Senate every single day for the past two and a half weeks to let them know what their plan and their continued rabid adherence to that plan is doing to public education. When we're threatened with a 5.7% cut, the school district has to treat it as real. So half my hallway has been laid off, and we are all in limbo until a budget is passed. I've written them 18 times, each time detailing a new facet of the destruction they have caused by threatening such a deep cut in the first place and then delaying any budget at all by their continued insistence on a short-sighted and irresponsible budget. All of the Senate minority has responded to me. They hear me. Two in the Senate majority have responded too. Guess who's been 100% silent? Pete Kelly, John Coghill, and Click Bishop,  the Senators whose constituents in the Fairbanks Northstar Borough I have been talking about. They are proving daily that they just don't care.