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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

It appears that the "Sham-Wow!" budget deal from last Friday is now officially dead, taking with it Sen. Jack Harper's four amendments (one of which would have screwed Tucson out of its Rio Nuevo funding). The Senate has killed the decoupled sales tax referral measure and the linked personal and corporate income tax cuts to lure votes for the sales tax referral in the Senate. The remainder of the budget as passed by the House last week was approved by the Senate on Wednesday.

An effort to finally enact a compromise plan to balance the state budget blew up Wednesday as Senate Republican leaders could not line up the votes for the key provision demanded by Gov.