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Goddard on the Budget “Deal”

I woke up this way too early morning to the awful whine of what I think was a low flying plane over my neighborhood. Having no way to fall back asleep, I went online and found out what many of you know by now: the deal passed the House, but can’t pass the Senate. For some reason, this failed to shock me.

A few minutes ago, this came through the transom (Radio Free Europe…) from Terry Goddard’s office:

The Legislature and Governor have, once again, failed in their most basic constitutional duty – passing a balanced budget. This gridlock just makes Arizona’s economic situation worse and reveals a total lack of leadership at the Capitol.

By the way: anyone figured out yet at what point these guys are violating the constitution by not passing a balanced budget?

Written by: Tedski on 4 November 2011.
This was written by Tedski. Posted on Friday, July 31, 2009, at 9:11 am. Filed under Arizona Legislature. Tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. azw88 wrote:

    When was it official, hard to say. The state constitution requires them to have a balanced budget, which technically they passed on July 1 June 30th (+1). At that point, AZ didn’t have a balanced budget, even with the stuff passed at the beginning of the ‘special session’.
    Perhaps it is time for people to file a complaint with the AG’s office against the leg for violating the constitution. Not sure if it would get anywhere, but somethings gotta happen.

    Friday, July 31, 2009 at 9:24 am | Permalink
  2. Ellis wrote:

    Yes, but the budget they were voting on was bad bad bad. I hope that since they didn’t have enough votes, they will go back to their bipartisan talks and get a better budget passed. Wishful thinking…?

    Friday, July 31, 2009 at 11:27 am | Permalink