Archive for May 15th, 2012
(UPDATED) Senate Passes Bill 19-16… Tweeting LD 1746 Maine Senate Debate
UPDATED: The Senate passed LD 1746 19-16 in a straight party vote.
Compilation of Tweets, news links and observations regarding the Governor’s controversial DHHS supplemental budget, as the Maine Senate reconvenes to take up LD 1746.
Laura Harper @MWLobbyist
Senate is taking the budget up now #mepolitics
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
The Senate is now debating the supplemental budget…
Andrea Parkinson @andiparkinson2
@WorkingMaine Sen Rosen suggest that AFA Dems not supporting budget due to pressure from advocacy groups. Why Flood not support? #mepolitics
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Dawn Hill (D-York): “I consider this budget a sham, a shift, a shame”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Hill: “Where is the crisis?”
Andrea Parkinson @andiparkinson2
Sen Dawn Hill: LD 1746 a sham, a shift, a shame #mepoliticsDiscusses fed waivers unapproved as part of GOP proposal
Laura Harper @MWLobbyist
Sen Hill calls budget sham, shift, shaft & shame. Bold words in support for working families, seniors, and children. #mepolitics
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Hill: “There will be $24 million in unfunded tax breaks in 2014 and no plan for payment, I feel it irresponsible”
Andrea Parkinson @andiparkinson2
Sen. Hill: LD 1746 “Bean counter budget” #mepolitics
Gerald Weinand @DirigoBlue
The letter from HHS Sebelius re denying MOE waiver that Sen Hill refers can be found here bit.ly/LqjkhE #mepolitics
Megan Hannan @meganhannan
DHHS budget cuts to harm women, children, elderly –
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Hill: “This is a bean counter budget. It’s all about the numbers, it’s not about people… It indiscriminately removes people’s healthcare…”
Gerald Weinand @DirigoBlue
@andiparkinson2 @WorkingMaine Perhaps there’s more to the DHHS cuts – Sen Rosen is Maine ALEC chair bit.ly/rRyarw #mepolitics
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Roger Katz (R-Kennebec): “This is not the Governor’s budget, this is the Legislature’s budget.”
Gerald Weinand @DirigoBlue
Note Katz’s slippery stats: More people on MaineCare than families paying taxes Mixing single persons with groups – nice job!#mepolitics
Gerald Weinand @DirigoBlue
This after Katz uses analogy of baseball stats #mepolitics
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Katz: “It’s easy to say don’t cut. It’s hard work to make targeted changes.”
Gerald Weinand @DirigoBlue
Perhaps @SenRogerKatz will explain why – if State can’t afford to fix roads or fund public schools – why he supports tax cuts #mepolitics
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Phil Bartlett (D-Cumberland): “This budget is nothing more than an attack on good hardworking families in Maine…”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Bartlett: “It’s an attack on youngsters when you reduce funding for early childhood education”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Bartlett: “It’s an attack on our seniors… this bill leaves no one behind.”
Gerald Weinand @DirigoBlue
Sen Bartlett “This violates Fed law in at least 4 ways” #mepolitics
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Margaret Craven (D-Androscoggin): “We all know where the money is… it’s not going to anybody in the working class.”
MaineWomen’s Lobby @MEWomensLobby
Thanks for sharing! RT @MECEP1: bit.ly/KaCXXw @MEWomensLobby ED Eliza Townsend blasts #LePage admin latest #DHHS budget cuts
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Justin Alfond (D-Cumberland): “This budget cuts Head Start… why as a state would we make this a priority?”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Alfond: “This budget is reckless”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Nancy Sullivan (D-York): “The home visitation program has reduced domestic violence by 50% in this state……
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Chris Johnson (D-Lincoln): “Reckless, irresponsible, penny wise and pound foolish.”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Johnson: “You’re making very real decisions with people’s lives here, it’s not just numbers”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen Katz: “This is a reasonable setting of priorities…”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Katz: “These cuts are reasonable, targeted, and puts us in the mainstream.”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Seth Goodall (D-Sagadahoc): “We shouldn’t be cutting taxes to cut children’s programs… We should have done better”
Maine Breaking News @bangordailynews
Dozens protest DHHS cuts in Augusta as Maine Senate deliberates budget bdn.to/e2zy #mepolitics
Sun Journal @sunjournal
Portland mayor: DHHS budget cuts are ‘penny wise, pound foolish’
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Johnson: “I can’t support this budget because it’s irresponsible for us to make a dimmer future for working people.”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook): “Some people in this chamber make $10,000 in a month… these people make $10,000 in a year.”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Jackson: “Somebody’s going to get screwed in the end… And I gotta tell you, I never signed up to be the person who decides who lives and dies in this state, to say ‘I’m sorry, you don’t have health care anymore.'”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. John Patrick (D-Oxford): “Every morning we start our session with a prayer and we always hear we should take care of the less fortunate, the needy and the poor.”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Patrick: “This budget is harmful, hurtful, short sighted and extreme.”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
Sen. Patrick: “I’m extremely happy with the minority party, and they’re all here… and right now there’s 13 majority party seats at this point not here listening to the importance of what’s going on with this budget for the people of Maine.”
Working Maine @WorkingMaine
The Senate passes the supplemental budget 19-16, party line vote.
Laura Harper @MWLobbyist
Maj report on state budget is accepted in a vote 19 to 16. Sad day for working families. Amendments just starting #mepolitics
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