The Budget Sausage Factory
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18 responses to “The Budget Sausage Factory”
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This is good!
re: For each of these the Governor has several options:
Veto the bill and take the money;”
what does “take the money” mean? Does the gov have a “fund” he manages?
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No, he doesn’t. That is the shorthand term that we used in DPB to mean cut it from the budget. I should not have lapsed into jargon.
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They can cut out the bills that pass the cost on to local government. Like SB 232, women’s products bill for all middle and high school bathrooms. The local school boards could use a break from unfunded mandates that are passed along.
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I agree with you on this bill, but vetoing that would not affect the state budget. Unfortunately, the state or the GA does not worry too much about unfunded mandates on local governments. I spent several years complaining about these as a lobbyist for local governments.
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Prerhaps it’s a test case. “Can we take a statue that we cannot remove, and tell the truth about the hideous history this man instituted?”
Well written piece.
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The pork barrel bills amount to only a few million dollars, but, as you noted in your narrative, they can be painlessly stripped and the money re-applied to fighting the COVID-19 virus.
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Oh, they are worth a lot back home to their sponsors.
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being the cynic I sometimes am – I wonder if each one of these earmarks is a “bought vote” ?
scandalous…I know……..
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Bought by whom? The Special Olympics Committee? The Birthplace of Country Music?
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1 :1? I think they don’t come so cheap
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bought by the leaders trying to shag enough votes for something…
i.e. – If I vote for what you want, can you give me something?
there’s a name for the chief vote wrangler… but cannot recall it..
oh wait … the “whip”…???-
That goes on, but it would be hard for outsiders to detect. It is one of those things that makes the legislative process fascinating.
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Hey Dick – your tomes here are exceptional in terms of opening a window into how things actually work in the GA and the budget process.
thank you again!
in terms of pork and the possibility of vote trading, is there one person or some small group of people who actually personally approve adding these smallish earmarks to a list that is then made part of the overall budget?
Who approves adding these things, the speaker?
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This virus’s impact on Virginia’s budget will be brutal and immense, irrespective of what the money changers (politicians) in Richmond think or do. Our world has changed immensely. Their world has changed immensely. Stand back and watch! Can’t make sausage when the PIG is Dead or dying.
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Dick: Nice work. Many thanks.
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Facts are facts. You’ve got ’em, Dick. Thanks.
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and which is a shell game, a la Hamilton/ODU? Speaking of which, is he out yet? Hope so. No reason for him to be placed at greater risk.
BTW, Phil’s actions, while deplorable (violating public trust), was not nearly as deplorable as those Delegates and Senators who argued against prosecution by saying “he’s been punished enough” simply because he was cast from their glorious numbers.
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He got out a little over a year ago. https://www.dailypress.com/news/newport-news/dp-nws-delegate-hamilton-released-20190627-story.html
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