Summary
A fall bond package of $120 million is too high, even for legislative Democrats and the governor's office, so over months of paring and trimming, they cut down this original proposal to $55 million. Republicans objected, saying that would still add too much debt, and a lot of the requested items didn't need a special summer session and a vote in November but could be considered in winter. Get it between $30 million and $40 million, Republicans said, and Democrats will find bipartisan support.
The GOP, properly, won the argument. The bond question was cut to $40 million; the most contentious request, a bond for land purchases, was cut most of all, and what remained included funding for projects that should not wait until June '05, the next likely time for a vote. Republicans celebrated by announcing, "There's no deal here."See the full content of this document
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Pass the Bond Package
There should be. This latest proposal cuts the land bond to $20 million; includes $9 mi...
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