Some of the 8 republican senators are trying to convince the public it’s not a binding caucus. That they haven’t promised to vote for the budget without ever having seen it for the next two years. How any elected official can justify promising a vote in advance, for anything, will always baffle me. Especially when that vote is traded for membership and privilege.
Is it not both reasonable and prudent to always closely inspect any legislation before casting your vote? If the answer is yes, as I expect you’d agree, how do we accept this as a normal course of business in Alaska?
Those 8 have given majority control of the senate to 9 democrats by punitively shunning the 3 conservative republican senators and forming a well left of center “coalition”, only because the 3 of us refuse to promise a vote for the budget before seeing it. Even though the people sent a majority of republicans to the senate and clearly had expectations to see a Republican majority formed. Power over principle.
In the words of the senate president. It’s a binding caucus.
