BiPartisan Budget Cuts?

by: Media In Trouble

Fri Jun 23, 2006 at 12:24:23 PM EDT

Hot off the press, we get a release from the Assembly Republicans (careful with your mouse, the ink is still wet). The release claims that the bonified valiant Republicans have saved the day with $2.2 billion in cuts, so that we need not raise the penny sales tax!

To think that just yesterday Senator Bob Littell was sounding like Doomsday was upon us! The tosser could have just picked up the phone and given a ringy-dingy to his buddies DeCroce et al. in the Assembly!

Anyway, tucked into the cute release is this:

Republican Budget Officer Malone and fellow budget committee member O'Toole said that this cut list has been the product of a deliberative, bipartisan five-month long budget process.
"Our budget committee met for five months and both Democrats and Republicans have meticulously studied the Corzine spending proposal," said Malone, R-Burlington, Ocean, Monmouth and Mercer. "As a result of that process we have been able to identify areas where we can achieve legitimate savings in this budget."
"Republicans and Democrats on the budget committee have utilized the budget process to uncover waste and to determine what programs we can cut," said Assemblyman Kevin O'Toole, R-Essex, Passaic, and Bergen. "These cuts reflect the hard work of the budget committee toward making responsible, thoughtful spending reductions."

WOW! So, here is the $20,000 question.

If indeed these cuts are of a "bi-partisan" nature, why aren't Democrat signatures on this press release?

Bonus snark: If I were a certain Senator, I would ask for "the details" of these cuts. Cuz contrary to the promise at the end of this release :

A detailed list of the proposed spending cuts by department is attached to this press release. The list will also be made available today on njassemblyrepublicans.com.

It ain't there yet. The short list they provide in the release adds up to $513 million in cuts. Which leaves us with nearly $1.7 billion in detail-less cuts.

UPDATE: ~~And neither is this press release.~~ It's there now.

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BiPartisan Budget Cuts? | 1 comments

It's a very interesting list (0.00 / 0)

Republican list

I think getting rid of NJN would be a big mistake, because contrary to their claims, there's hardly any coverage of New Jersey news on TV. I hardly think verizon will solve this problem. It is funny though that they mention 'desktop publishing' -- I think this means the bluejersey blog!

I must say that the idea that government employees should not get their negotiated cost-of-living increases is not very good.

Many of the other 'cuts' seem very fictional -- such as the $300 million of additional revenue they make up. That's not a cut.

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

by: Hopeful @ Fri Jun 23, 2006 at 22:17:15 PM UTC