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Strickland won’t fly solo on spending cuts
Gov. Ted Strickland won’t fly solo when it comes to identifying cuts to balance the state budget in the wake of plummeting tax revenues.
“I’m not willing to do that because that’s the kind of decision that we need to make together. As I told Sen. (Bill) Harris, I accept my responsibility to work with the Senate and the House so that together we can make decisions and find solutions and so that’s my position,” the Democratic governor said on Friday, May 8.
He also dodged a question on whether he should have briefed House Democratic leaders after he learned on April 28 that income tax revenues were falling sharply. The House approved a two-year budget on April 29 that included more money that Strickland had proposed.
“We can spend the next several days and weeks and even months arguing and laying the blame or we can come together and work in common purpose and try to solve a serious problem and do what’s right for our state….,” Strickland said.
Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Bill Batchelder, R-Medina, continued the GOP criticism of Strickland and the House over the budget.
“While it’s unfortunate for House Democrats that the governor allegedly chose to withhold information, there were clear signs that revenues would continue to decline,” Batchelder said in a press release.
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By TRS
May 10, 2009 12:40 AM | Link to this
Notice a pattern here? Ohio State Democractic house passes a budget higher than governor requested. Federal Democracic House of Reps passed an spending request higher than requested by the President. These guys have no clue - they just keep on spending.