The sun was well up this morning and the interstates were humming around Hartford, as the House of Representatives continued their all-nighter into the mid-morning. While the fragile Democratic majority circled their wagons and coalesced, Republicans launched seven unsuccessful amendments. After the second GOP attempt to derail the Democrats seemed to fail, Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey of Hamden, noticed the general pallor among lawmakers on both sides of the hall of the House. He modified the traditional warning before the voting machine was locked.
“Would all the vampires in the chamber check the board to see if their votes were properly cast,” Sharkey declared. Through the amendments, Democrats held with more than 80 votes, before finally passing the budget itself by the garlic-thin 73-70. So the Blogster recommends that the spending package this year be remembered as the Vampire Budget of 2015.