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Arizona: Sen. Verschoor

June 29, 2009 - 08:45 pm
NEWS FEED: Arizona Republic

Sen. Verschoor: Government shutdown "a very high possibility"

Dire predictions are the rule at the Capitol right now as the state-budget impasse continues and time ticks down to a government shutdown.
A 2010 budget deal must be reached by midnight Tuesday to keep that from happening. And the chances of that don't look very good right now.
Sen. Thayer Verschoor, R-Gilbert, said there's "a very high possibility" of a government shutdown or legislators being hauled into a special session after Tuesday.
Sen. Ron Gould, meanwhile, said rampant spending increases over the last decade are the real culprit behind today's budget standoff. Gould, R-Lake Havasu City, called this the best time to ...

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June 4, 2009 - 02:15 pm
NEWS FEED: Blog for Arizona

The Chicken Little Award goes to...

By AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Buried in the Arizona Republic coverage of the Arizona senate's passage of the budget early this morning was this little gem Arizona Senate overnight passes $8.2 billion plan:

Sen. John Nelson, R-Litchfield Park, was a late-night holdout, snagged by Senate leaders as he was trying to leave via a back staircase. After about an hour of closed-door meetings with Burns, as well as Adams, Nelson threw his support behind a budget that, he said, resulted from a deeply flawed process.

Sen. Nelson first gets caught trying to sneak out the back door so that he would not have to vote on this turkey of a GOP budget, and then he caves in to threats and intimidation from the GOP clown possee leadership to go along, abandoning any pretense of having principles:

He said he was troubled by the speed with which changes to the spending plan were made, often without any notice to lawmakers, and certainly without a chance to review the bills, which collectively run for dozens of pages of technical language.

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