Psst! Hey, guys, it's June! Archive 07
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"The good news is the state has more money than we expected to have. The bad news is the state has more money than we expected to have," said Ramsey, R-Blountville.
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"We may meet somewhere in the middle. But if we're going to do that we want to have the money tied to education in the plan that we came up with that will help Northeast Tennessee and the BEP funding formula and have some strong measures of accountability in the bill," Ramsey said.
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Ramsey said he is hoping lawmakers can work something out on Bredesen's education funding plan and budget without both matters being decided by a conference committee of lawmakers.
"We're in negotiations with the House and the governor to work out something," Ramsey said. "I don't want to get back into a situation that we were in the last years of the previous administration (of Gov. Don Sundquist in 2002) that we're here until the end of June. ... That's not the way you do the state's business."
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Psst! Hey, guys, it's June already! Get with the program. Senator Doug Jackson (D-Dickson) is already on his scheduled family vacation and 25th wedding anniversary in the Bahamas.
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Source: http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=3759248 visited on June 4, 2007 and found in Tennessee's finances a case of 'good news, bad news' by Hank Hayes and published in the Kingsport Times-News on May 12, 2007