Here are some comments made by State Representatives regarding the new state budget, portions of the article were taken from a report on WRAL by reporters for state legislative affairs Laura Leslie & Mark Binker. According to Nelson Dollar (R), "The waters are beginning to calm...really!! This guy should be the first on the list of Representatives to be replaced in the upcoming elections.
House tentatively OKs $20.6B budge
Raleigh, N.C. — After more than seven hours of debate, the state House voted Wednesday night to give tentative approval to its $20.6 billion budget proposal.The vote was 77-41, largely along party lines. Two Democrats voted for the Republican-penned plan: Reps. Bill Brisson, D-Bladen, and Ken Waddell, D-Columbus. One Republican voted against it: Rep. Robert Brawley, R-Iredell.
"We came through a fiscal storm like North Carolina had not faced in a generation," said senior budget-writer Nelson Dollar, R-Wake."The waters are beginning to calm,
and we are beginning to move forward in a bold new way."
Dollar called the plan "reasonable" and "responsible."
"We fund the things that are most important in this state," he said. "We want to set priorities, and we have done that in this budget."
But Democrats panned the plan as insufficient and misguided, focused on paying for tax cuts at the expense of funding for education, health care and job creation.
"This budget makes it painfully clear that we don’t have the right priorities in mind for North Carolina," said Minority Leader Larry Hall.
"We rank 48th in teacher pay, 46th in education spending. We can’t go much lower. When they say the 'race to the bottom,' we’re going to finish No. 1," said Hall, D-Durham. "Make no mistake. The real victims in this budget are the middle-class families."
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