Thursday, May 17th, 2007...8:00 am
House Budget Alive, So Is Senate Budget
Sonoran Sam wrote on here yesterday that the House leadership managed to get a motion to reconsider the budget. Previous “no” vote Trish Groe was among those who supported reconsideration. To entice reticent Republicans, more money is being offered for charter schools. They only barely got it, and there was an attempt by Democrats to offer a substitute motion. As usual, this was ignored. The motion to reconsider just means it comes up for another vote, it could still lose again, and I can laugh about it.
The House Republican budget will once again be up for a vote next Tuesday. I guess talk that sine die would be next Thursday is no longer operational.
(Question for you: remember when charter schools were proposed that we were told that they could do things cheaper since they don’t have all this bureaucracy? Why is it they always need these infusions of cash from the legislature then?)
Sonoran Sam also scolded me for not describing the amendment that some long haired freak legislator proposed. Okay, yes, my brother put an amendment on that would have effected the way transportation money was distributed. Apparently, the budget used a formula that would have given way too much money to the suburbs at the expense of fast growing rural communities. The amendment was pushed by him, Steve Farley and Teresa Ulmer, and was the only Democratic amendment that managed to pass. One person from Republican leadership, Tom Boone I think, said on our local NPR station that this amendment was part of the reason why the budget didn’t pass. I don’t think this happened because it was a “poison pill” so much as it revealed some of the weaknesses of the budget.
Oh yeah, the Senate passed their bipartisan budget yesterday. Irresistable force, meet immoveable object.
The fun continues.
1 Comment
May 17th, 2007 at 9:10 am
I didn’t scold ya, Tedski…I just said you hadn’t gotten around to mentioning the key role played by a certain long-haired legislator who keeps alive the Lew Murphy tradition of greeting hot weather with a Guyabera.