Beshear calls news conference to discuss special session’s agenda
Gov. Steve Beshear
Gov. Steve Beshear has called a 2 p.m. news conference to discuss additional potential agenda items for a special legislative session to balance the state’s budget that begins June 15.
Asked if he will add a proposal to allow casino-style gambling at racetracks to the agenda, Beshear said “come to the news conference.”
Beshear’s comments came before he addressed the State Board of Education about his plan to eliminate a projected $996 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2010, which begins July 1.
- Jack Brammer
About the Author: John Stamper is the accountability editor for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A native of Monticello, Ky., he has been with the Herald-Leader in a variety of roles since graduating from Western Kentucky University in 2000. Reach him at jstamper@herald-leader.com
mmiball | Jun 4, 2009 | Reply
Maybe a good place for him to start cutting expenses would be to cut the saleries of the legislators by about half and reduce the size of their staffs.
Yin-Yang | Jun 4, 2009 | Reply
Raise those taxes!!! Freedom and a democratic society isn’t free. Anyone who wants to say government is too big and poorly managed is probably also saying that AIG, Bank of America, GM, Chrysler, Wells Fargo and the rest of them all deserve to pay their CEO and team millions in benefits…
They are also probably the ones who have a small business and take little things home while writing them of on their taxes, taking cash tips and not claiming them, using the car from the dealership for personal business and not paying taxes on it, buying a new fridge for their house and taking the old one to the rental property but still writing it off as a business expense…
Tax reform!!! Make EVERYONE pay the same and stop this stupidity of being politically correct by “not raising taxes”… Coward!!!
Larry Cantrell | Jun 4, 2009 | Reply
There is so much waste in state government, you could balance the budget by getting rid of state vehicles, turning the lights off in unused offices and at night, turning the thermostat up a couple of degrees. If the gov’t hadn’t over spent in recent months, years we wouldn’t be in this situation as a state. As citizen’s and consumers we are expected to live on a budget, in order to manage our finances. Why isn’t the state held accountable for the same? If you don’t have it, you don’t spend it. Now that the money is gone, you try to balance the budget on the backs of the citizen’s of the Commonwealth.