Done for the year, Deval is left holding the bag... once again

Deval could not convince the House to stay open long enough to get something going on with education and criminal justice. They left, under their rules, which COULD have been changed as they have been in the past, not giving Deval what he's asked for in budget cuts. He wanted emergency power to cut wherever he had to, to make the budget balanced. On the table are cuts in probation, eliminating the Quinn Bill all together, and the BIG ONE, a nice chunk (18 MILLION)out of the Legislature slush fund.

Now I get it... it's their money now... not ours

At a local level, this will impact us, but for the highly paid elected eleite, by not dealing with the budget shortfall, it means Deval will have to shave off 225 million where he is allowed to, which may biol down to health and human service. Other things left up in the air, charter school grant money, 250 million up for grabs, camera's at major intersections, etc. DeLeo and Murray said in a letter to Deval, they would cut the COMBINED salary of House, by 5.5 MILLION.

I can see the marches on the State House now.... and the kicker will be that some of the reps and senators will be there to, claiming how Deval should not cut the funding.

What absolute slugs they are, in this time of uncertainty. The two elected ruling elitists controlling our House only seem to be concerned with making Deval, irrelevant. How does it feel? asked Dylan, like a complete unknown, the crowd hollers back.