My Spin: Budget framework is flawed
Tom Campbell explores Constitutional amendments and key points of the state budget.
By Tom Campbell
Legislative observers who were eager to learn how Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger would function during the legislative short session - his last - may have gotten answers to their questions in the joint announcement that the House and Senate had reached a “framework agreement” on key points of a new budget. Once again, it appears that Berger pretty much got his way.
We say appears because there was nothing more than the announcement on key points. We’re told the full budget won’t be forthcoming until June and there’s no telling what bad ideas will make their way into that document. But we got enough from the May 5thpress conference to say that as things now stand it doesn’t look promising.
