Monday, April 06, 2009

"... the public hasn't come to grips yet with the financial havoc still to come if the recession digs even deeper"

The Oregonian

Where's Ted?

That is some of the sharp criticism from Democrats as well as Republicans in the height of the recession. The feeling is that Kulongoski is hiding when he should actually be out on the stump sharing his plans on how he intends to lead the state through a recession that has forced thousands out of their jobs and left holes in the state budget.

"He's working on it." The governor told the Oregonian, indicating that he's waiting for the right time to put the spotlight on his proposals, which could include revotes on such game-changing initiatives as Measure 5, the property tax limit voters approved in 1990 and then again in 1997, and Measure 11, which set stiff minimum prison terms for violent felons.
"This is not a lack of will on my part to want to take it on," Kulongoski said. But the public hasn't come to grips yet with the financial havoc still to come if the recession digs even deeper," he said.

" Not so long ago, Kulongoski took a more sanguine approach to the state's finances, believing that the economy would continue to grow fast enough to keep pace with the state's needs and that only a few tweaks of the tax code were necessary."


Ted tax-and-gouge-me Kulongoski... what more can I say?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

ha the united states will have to hit ock bottom again before anything is done. not only that but the people in the goverment will have to be affected by it as well......

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