Post by Logan on Mar 21, 2016 9:07:10 GMT -6
Considering how much grief the legislative leadership has given him this session, it was awfully generous of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to give the Legislature an out on the budget bill debacle last week by releasing new revenue estimates that show the 2016-17 budget is even farther in the red than was projected in January.
That allowed legislators to throw up their hands and feign surprise that the state's budget woes are so bad, and agree to have Tomblin call them back into special session later this spring to deal with the matter.
Afterward, Senate President Bill Cole, R-Mercer, issued this statement: “We have worked diligently during the 60-day session to craft a balanced budget, and were prepared to pass a budget today based on the administration's original revenue projections.”
Even as a freshman senator, Cole knows that's disingenuous. The only option left for the Legislature was to pass the House's critically flawed version of the budget bill.
See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/article-/20160319/statehouse-beat-tomblin-gives-legislature-excuse-on-budget
That allowed legislators to throw up their hands and feign surprise that the state's budget woes are so bad, and agree to have Tomblin call them back into special session later this spring to deal with the matter.
Afterward, Senate President Bill Cole, R-Mercer, issued this statement: “We have worked diligently during the 60-day session to craft a balanced budget, and were prepared to pass a budget today based on the administration's original revenue projections.”
Even as a freshman senator, Cole knows that's disingenuous. The only option left for the Legislature was to pass the House's critically flawed version of the budget bill.
See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/article-/20160319/statehouse-beat-tomblin-gives-legislature-excuse-on-budget