It’s outrageous that Governor Rell, with all of her department secretaries, deputies, press people, and budget experts, took six months to admit that our budget woes are actually far worse than she first announced and that increasing taxes will have to be part of the measured solution to fix this mess. We have programs and services suffering without adequate funding, we have cities and towns trying desperately to make ends meet, and she’s on the cusp of signing her second executive order to keep the state running without a budget.
After six months of protesting, she’s just now decided to admit what we all knew – and she knew – to be true? We could have had a budget months ago if not for her political gamesmanship. Instead, she chose to show a profound lack of leadership.
