tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021181.post7274489525837079405..comments2024-03-27T23:06:08.301-04:00Comments on stAllio!'s way: governor's compromise budget is "a hundred percent wrong", says governorstAllio!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712626121566349866noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021181.post-54026484069469631442009-06-02T23:13:31.393-04:002009-06-02T23:13:31.393-04:00What I suspect has changed--I don't really kno...What I suspect has changed--I don't really know how much of a change this would be, but--I think Team Daniels now believes he could actually get the nomination in 2012, and they've decided he needs to swap a portion of his slush fund as a means of ameliorating the possibility that, in four, strike, two years' time, he emerges as a sort of Midwest Nero, sitting on "his" "surplus" with a state economy gone to hell...I can't figure out, otherwise, why he suddenly wants to increase education spending when the increase--it <i>was</i> the Democrat's, after all--was the reason he torpedoed a regular session budget agreement in the first place. He can siphon off $250 M per year for the rest of his term and still wind up claiming a surplus, but deep cutting from here is going to hurt politically (at least nationally) in pretty short order.James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com