Indiana

Not So Special Session

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

I’m looking at the budget plan Indiana House Democrats will pass today on a party-line vote and trying to figure out what’s different than the last budget plan lawmakers couldn’t pass the last time around.

• It’s a one-year spending plan, which won’t pass the Senate.
• It changes the school funding formula, which won’t pass the Senate.
• It stifles the growth of charter schools, which won’t pass the Senate.
• It keeps open the Soldiers and Sailors Home, which won’t pass the Senate.
• It also has cost about $50,000.

Why are we here again?   Thats right, my House Democratic friends couldn’t pass a budget.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).