Passing stopgap measures to continue funding State Government and then working on the actual budget later. Then theres also negotiations on trying to figure out spending revenue, education funding, pensions, liquor that may or may not be stalled, so let me go to you, val, first. Whats going behind the scenes right now from what you hear . Well, in a scene reminiscent of high noon, the Republican Leaders in the house told the governor, well give you 24 hours to get your votes. That 24 hours was up yesterday. The governor says he has those votes. As we sit here at the time of this taping, theyre deciding on bringing that up for a vote today. Youll need almost every democrat, if not every democrat in the house, plus another 20 to 25 republicans to get an increase to the personal income tax up to about 3. 25 or so. And theyll run that probably today as we sit here. If they dont get that done, they dont have the votes for that, then theyll run another stopgap bill which will keep the govern
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