Connolly Faults GOP Over Lost Funds

[Judi Lynn]

Connolly Faults GOP Over Lost Funds
Democrats Spotlight Rejected Amendments

By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 11, 2006; Page B05

Less than two weeks after the GOP-controlled General Assembly approved a state budget, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly (D) denounced the county's Republican state delegates yesterday over the House's failure to fund day care for about 1,900 low-income Fairfax children.

As Connolly was accusing Del. David B. Albo (R-Fairfax) of "doing the dirty work" for House Republicans in "denying his own community" millions of dollars, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) went to a Charlottesville YMCA day-care center, where he met with working mothers whose children might lose subsidies.

It was the first stop on a statewide tour aimed at making voters aware of the fallout from the House's stripping $22 million in proposed amendments from the budget. Republicans said they considered some of the money to be pork.
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"This is a potentially catastrophic loss," Connolly said at yesterday's meeting of the Board of Supervisors, which is dominated, 7 to 3, by Democrats. "At the same time, the General Assembly was cutting this $22 million, they were approving an estate tax cut that will benefit about 800 families in the state of Virginia."
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[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. the chattel of the plebes deserve nothing

while the elite deserve all :mad: