July 9, 2007

"Seas apart" on budget

Speaker Nunez on the state of budget negotiations:

"It's July the ninth, we're nine days into the new budget year, one would think that it would be appropriate at some point between now and the first of December the governor would call a big five meeting so that his leadership could begin to make a difference in the stalemate between the democratic and the republican leadership on the budget. I don't think it's divulging private information from our meetings that the republicans are asking for two billion dollars in cuts over and above the governor's may revision. I think Dick Ackerman expressed that a couple days ago. It's a pretty big gap right now. I guess you could articulate it by saying we are seas apart on this budget."

Posted by dweintraub on July 9, 2007 4:16 PM