A follow-up on the Alaska Lieutenant Governor's intervention into that state's marijuana ballot initiative process. Turns out supporters of Proposition 2 are now suing the Lite Gov.

I come from a state where one lieutenant governor resigned midterm, complaining of not having enough to do, and another tried to become a radio host before actually leaving to go work in academia. Heck, our state constitution didn't even have a replacement mechanism. So I understand that the pressures of the job can seem underwhelming at times. Lieutenant governors need to take on programs and policies all the time to stay busy and stay relevant. But the Prop. 2 supporters are suggesting that Loren Leman may have forsaken his one true responsibility (outside, of course, of being a hardbeat away from the governor's office):

"It's clear to us that he has crossed the line of neutrality, and if he has not directly violated his office, he most certainly has violated the spirit of his elected office," Hinterberger said.

No pamphlet statement on an initiative has ever before been prepared by the lieutenant governor's office and no side has ever been notified that they had that right, the lawsuit said.

"The only significant duty of the lieutenant governor is to run impartial elections and he can't even get that right," Hinterberger said.

Ouch.