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If we'd failed to override the veto, it would have cost the state $77 million

by: JulieWaters

Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 04:14:07 AM EDT

From today's Brattleboro Reformer, in a piece by By Howard Weiss-Tisman:

Vermont... has not yet sent in its application to the U.S. Department of Education for its share of stimulus money.
States have until July 1 and Vermont expects to receive $77 million from the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund...
Vermont's application was held up due to the budget fight between Gov. James Douglas and the Legislature, and Tom Evslin, the state's chief recovery officer, said his staff is working to get the application in on time.
"We could not finish this until the budget was finalized. We could not have done this any sooner," Evslin said Monday.

So let me get this right: the governor's pissing match with the legislature had the potential to completely eliminate our deadline for the Fiscal Stabilization money?

Maybe he just likes to play chicken.

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If we'd failed to override the veto, it would have cost the state $77 million | 3 comments

Tom Evslin (4.00 / 1)

certainly kept his mouth shut about this probable delay during Douglas's budget performance.

by: BP @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 09:51:31 AM UTC

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OOOPS (4.00 / 1)

The story that is making the airwaves is a little more detailed...

It points to the challenge the DemocratIC legislators had with Jim=jobsforhiscampign aids, not with the legislature in general.

I guess Jim was out cutting a ribbon or leaning on a shovel when all the Republican Reps stood up during the override vote and said in really clear English "I would not vote for the Governor's budget proposal either" Even MR Republican KurtoftheQuickstop disassociated himself from the Gov on that one...

Douglas has his campaign hat on already, either to get ready for the next race or to mend his tarnished image. I am however glad he has so much experience leaning on that shovel... my driveway will need attention after the next election..

by: hoopmeister @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 14:50:55 PM UTC

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The governor's budget (0.00 / 0)

was a pile of steaming manure, too. Either way the people were left with the pitchfork. I wonder when the Republicans will figure it out.

by: Flyswatter @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 17:03:19 PM UTC

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