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Wed.: Numbers and Figures
posted at 2009-07-02 13:32 | Last modified 2009-07-02 13:32
Time out
Senate Finance co-chair David Hoyle confirmed today budget negotiators will be taking the weekend off after a week which accomplished little besides a deadline extension. Hoyle says the Senate and House are still far apart philosophically, and for now at least, that’s not likely to change.
Governor Bev Perdue called on lawmakers today to get on the stick and pass a budget – a time-honored gubernatorial tradition that means pretty much zip as far as the talks in 612 go. Hoyle was deferential, but not optimistic.
"Her idea and ours are different. I respect her, love her, she’s a dear friend. But you know, we’re in tough times. We’re gonna do the best we can do. "
Hoyle's unedited comments are here.
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Earlier this week, House Speaker Joe Hackney made the case for the House’s position. That’s here.
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So there
Most of us onlookers were mystified by Sen. Maj. Leader Tony Rand’s decision to delay pretty much everything on the Senate’s 5-page calendar today. Senators and staffers blamed it on budget talks, but a source who ought to know says it was actually an intercameral pi**ing contest.
The Speaker and the Pres Pro Tem are said to have met this afternoon and "all is well now." So, okay, then.
Baby Daddy (not?)
The AP’s Mike Baker caught former Edwards aide Andrew Young entering the federal courthouse in Raleigh today, where a grand jury is meeting to weigh allegations that Edwards misused campaign money to underwrite his affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter.
Edwards has denied any wrongdoing, but the NYT reports Young’s book proposal says Edwards offered to “take care” of his aide “for life” if Young would claim paternity of Hunter’s baby. Like sands through the hourglass…
On the agenda:
Thursday kicks off with a regular crowd-pleaser: Annexation Reform (H524) is up in House Finance at 8:30AM. C0-chair Paul Luebke said today the committee has no intention of rehashing the arguments covered in J2 last week. They’re aiming to move it out in one day. Listen here.
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