Regarding My "NO" Vote on the FY08 Budget Bill

From an April 18 article in the Capitol Times:

“If I voted yes on this budget,” said Lake Havasu City Republican Rep. Trish Groe, “I’d basically be endorsing the unrestrained growth of government in the past, especially since I’ve been down here.”

Similarly, Sen. Ron Gould, also a Republican from Lake Havasu City, said the budget fix employed too many accounting gimmicks, including delaying some school funding from one fiscal year to the next. “What you are doing here today is fiscally irresponsible,” he said. “I did not come down here for smoke-and-mirror solutions. I came down here to balance the budget.”