Just when you thought the Democrats were on the same page…Spring’s winding down to a close this weekend and the majority Democrats still can’t give the Press Corps a straight answer on whether they’ll run a budget next week without Republican Gov. Rell’s support.
Well, it’s not as if this is going to come easy.
As much as the Blogster would like to believe they can find $800 million in “lapses” – unused money in various state accounts, which during a year of surpluses could total $100 million – he still remembers Speaker of the House Chris Donovan’s promise of $200 million in “couch cushion” savings. That turned into $110 million. Nope, training and experience forces us to cast a crooked eye on their still-evolving product.
The budget hounds in the Press Corps – let’s call them Lapse Dogs – were doing the taxpayers work this afternoon when they peppered Donovan and Senate President Don Williams with tough questions. The answers indicate that at best, we’ll have a Democratic budget that gets vetoed by Rell before the start of the fiscal year July 1.
Today’s government vocabulary term: executive order. That’s what Rell will be running the state on after July 1.