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While Democratic leaders and lawmakers believe they have met the governor more than halfway, Sununu said Tuesday the legislature is knowingly sending him a budget “that I cannot support.”
However, the state is not in a fiscal crisis and has had a revenue surplus for the last five or six years and much of that money has been used to reduce business taxes and build up the state’s rainy day fund.
Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, D-Manchester, who has been around for these things since 1972 agreed it is the “Super Bowl” of bills that go through the chambers every two years.
I doubt my mother’s proudest moment was realizing she had no idea her son was graduating, but I laugh today at the big family syndrome of benign neglect, of really being out of the loop, of celebrating survival in spite of not knowing all of children’s lives.
The bottle of champagne still sits on a file cabinet in the Donn Tibbetts Press Room today unopened.
The debate on the budget drew stark lines between Democrats and Republicans as they came to loggerheads over two keys to the proposed budget, paid family and medical leave and business tax rates, amid threats of a gubernatorial veto.
Berlin Mayor Paul Grenier said Gov. Sununu is walking a political tightrope as a result of Cheshire Superior Court Judge David Ruoff’s order.
On Thursday, Governor Sununu signed both HB 572, an act proclaiming the second Saturday in June as Pollyanna of Littleton New Hampshire Recognition Day, and HB 642, an act defining specialty cider, into law.
“Labels aside, we are simply unable to fathom a legitimate governmental purpose to justify the gross inequities in educational opportunities evident from the record,” Judge David Ruoff wrote.