Monday, August 10, 2009

More budget talk

Sitting in the Dem caucus...

It's apparent that the Reps are moving forward with their June 30 plan that included heavy cuts to education and services. Totally ugly, with a crippling structural deficit as a ticking time bomb for future legislatures to deal with...

...Word is Republican Senator Carolyn Allen is still undecided and looking at the bills...

...Word is that Rep Senator Pam Gorman will be voting "yes" on all matters other than referring a temporary sales tax hike to the ballot...

...One of the things that the Republicans are looking at to get around the deadline for referring the increase is to move the election to November 10, royally screwing the cities and towns that had previously planned their elections for November 3...

...It looks like committee work will be done today, with COW and final passage planned for tomorrow...

1 comment:

Thane Eichenauer said...

Republicans voting to waste tax money by proposing a special election? That would _never_ happen would it?

Thane Eichenauer
a non-Republican