He s now calling for state agencies to come up with plans for how they will cut their budgets by 15 percent to meet the constraints of last year s budget, which remains in effect until a new one is approved. He s talking about layoffs and halting construction projects, denying pay raises to police officers and health professionals. And then he has the audacity to tell the voters that they should blame the state Senate and its financial ringleader, Chichester, for causing this crisis. These may be empty threats on his part rhetorical scare tactics but this is also an incredibly irresponsible course of action. The governor s car-tax snow job is finally thawing and the time for a special session of reason and compromise has arrived.
Senators don t want to stop car-tax relief, they just want to slow it down.
It s about time you did something constructive, Gov. Gilmore, so get down on the floor with the lawmakers and help clean this mess up.