out, that whatever your reasons, they could be perfectly justified, alaska stands a go likelihood now, of having just one senator for a while when the biggest issues of our time are being debated. guest: i guess the question becomes will the center vote be used to continue to grow government and continue earmarks and continue the fiscal destruction of the nation? frankly, i don t think we need that. but, getting more to the point i don t think anyone has proven that there will be adverse impact. hopefully this process can be resolved quickly and before january swearing in date. we tried to get this underway immediately and the second the written standards were announced, the next day, actually, we filed suit, and the lt. governor himself at a fresh conference during the count said that likely the issue of the standard would be resolved by the courts. so we have tried to move this