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| Criticism Of Gov. DOC Lay Offs |
| By wctv.tv |
| Published: 02/17/2011 |
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The chairman of the Senate’s criminal justice budget committee said Tuesday he will not back down from criticizing Gov. Rick Scott’s plan to lay off hundreds of state corrections employees, despite calls from the chief budget writer in the chamber for him to apologize for badgering the governor’s aides. Sen. Mike Fasano, a New Port Richey Republican, also said the new governor would be neglecting his constitutional duty if he doesn’t allow his staff to come before Fasano’s committee to submit to questioning on the governor’s spending plans. The Miami Herald-St. Petersburg Times reported this week that Scott’s budget staff would boycott Fasano’s Civil and Criminal Justice Budget Subcommittee after getting what a spokesman implied were impertinent questions. “I believe the governor and his staff have a responsibility to every taxpayer and every constituent in this state to work with the Legislature to develop a budget,” Fasano told reporters after a meeting of the committee Tuesday. “To ignore the Florida Legislature is abdicating that responsibility, at least some of it.” The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee that has oversight over Fasano’s subcommittee said, however, that Fasano should be more mindful of his responsibilities, essentially agreeing that Fasano’s questioning of the governor’s staff during a recent hearing was over the line in its tone. Read More. |
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