Cash worries stir up alerts - 2003-03-24
Broadcasting the intensity of Florida's budget problems, Senate leaders ask for members to go home and do the unthinkable: tell constituents there is no funding for hometown projects.
House Speaker Johnnie Byrd stated that the Senate's stark posture is nothing more than a scary strategy, "to make people think the sky is falling," in order to extort encouragement for state tax hikes or even video gambling.
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