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"This is not the last chapter" vows Granholm

Granholm Vetoes To Equal $127M In Cuts     — MIRS Breaking News
Gov. Jennifer Granholm told reporters this morning that she will cut a total of 75 additional items out of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 budget at price tag of $127 million, but nearly half of that number includes cuts to the K-12 budget and the racing commissioner office that have been announced.

The Governor, in a conference call, made another public appeal for citizens to call their House members and Senators to restore “unacceptable” cuts to revenue sharing, the Promise scholarships, public health and K-12 schools. Granholm made it clear that she did not veto money for private school scholarships or agricultural extension, but that money for the Michigan State Fair was axed out of the budget.

“This is the budget we have, but it’s not the budget we need. I do not agree. I do not support,” Granholm said. “This is not the last chapter.”

Granholm Signs Final Budgets, Says Fight Goes On     — Gongwer
Averting a government shutdown, Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Friday signed the final pieces of the 2009-10 budget, vetoing a total $127 million in expenditures, but said the fight to restore some critical areas must go on.

In a conference call with reporters, Ms. Granholm, sounding resigned to the decisions, blamed the Senate Republicans for refusing to compromise on the budget. She called on the public to put pressure on the Senate Republicans to try and force them to pass revenue increases.

Ms. Granholm gave limited answers on the items she vetoed with her office expected to distribute shortly detailed lists of vetoes. The only actual new veto she discussed in the phone conference was funding for the Michigan State Fair, which she eliminated, putting the fair’s future in major doubt.

She did not veto the Michigan Tuition Grant funds, and she repeated that she had not vetoed funds for the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service. Doing so would be counter-intuitive because Senate Republicans have indicated they would not add revenues just because some programs are vetoed.

Signed were HB 4441, the higher education budget; SB 243, the Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth budget; SB 245, the general government budget; SB 248, the Department of Human Services Budget; SB 253, the Department of State Police budget; and HB 4436, the Department of Community Health budget.

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