Suits against and that happened time and time again. I asked the office how much has been spent and they wouldnt give me the figure. Anytime the any time the legislator asks for the figures on the Appropriations Committee thats wrong. We should receive those numbers so we can do a better job. But the point of the budget this year. We were given a 7. 2 billion budget bill at 10 a. M. In the morning on the last friday of the session and the first vote was that 12 32 and a half years later when the legislators dont have the proper time to review the budget we certainly cannot see the best type of budget for oklahoma. We must be responsible with those taxpayers dollar and make sure that the legislation that passes is constitutional and it goes back to the thorough review from one year and thats why we will see better legislation and opportunities. The money that is currently being wasted should quebec into the classrooms to teachers for a pay raise, to protect benefits and certainly to hel
But all of us learned a great deal along the way about our profession, about the middle east, and about the promise of american leadership. Through sams remarkable journey and my own checkered thirtythree year career in the foreign service, i have learned that the middle east is a place where pessimists seldom lack for either company or validation, where skeptics hardly ever seem wrong. It is a place where american policymakers often learn humility the hard way, a place where you can most easily see the wisdom in Winston Churchills famous comment that what he liked most about americans was that they usually did the right thing in the end. They just liked to exhaust all the alternatives first. Ive learned that stability is not a static phenomenon, and that regimes which do not offer their citizens a sense of political dignity and economic possibility ultimately become brittle and break. Ive learned that change in the middle east is rarely neat or linear, but often messy and cruel, and d
Because on the ground does matter in these campaigns. So my fifth point here is, guys, we have a long ways to go. In critical terms, we are well, were five weeks out, four and a half weeks out from the election. Thats several political lifetimes. A lot of stuff can happen, this race the senate is not yet decided. You know, i think it may change a couple of times between now and election day. And dont take, you know, dont take to heart all these, everything saying, gee, republicans have that enthusiasm advantage. You know what . If the democrats ground game works and works well and they have unlimited number of states to do it in, six or eight states, that enthusiasm advantage may be wiped away by the democrat turnout operation. So this is, its a dead heat. Its a today up. I toss up. I agree with charlies as accessment of the states. Do we win colorado or iowa or both . Can we . How close is North Carolina going to be . All these states. Its a fascinating campaign, but we are a long way
Things like it is many jobs as we said, thats wrong. Total privatesector job growth of oure Time Administration is much more than 60,000. Sure we should be more efficient. Yes we should be investing in technologies we did not have in our state previously. When i inherited this state because you elected me governor, the largest apartment spending 18 of our money was operating on a format from the effective age of 1989. Im sorry to cut you off. Now onto the rebuttal phase. Mr. Foley. Governor brought up his experience in stamford. The thing that bothers me most inut governor malloys term stamford is that it was the city in connecticut with the largest achievement gap and he did nothing about it. He may talk about being interested in improving education but while he had the opportunity and one of connecticuts largest cities with the biggest educational challenges, he was not up to the task. He was also investigated for corruption while he was mayor and he leaves that out. Listen. We have
Stable lead. I would say organized labor is doing much more effectively in michigan. I would put a finger on the scale for democrats in michigan, and finally, jeanne shaheen, there are some conflicting calls with most showing her head by half a dozen points. There may be some closure there, but i still think she has a measurable advantage. If republicans need one, it needs to be iowa or colorado. If they simply get republican states voting republican, they dont need to win any swing states, or, if they lose both, they need to win two out of the purple or green categories. Ive put it at 60 . Stu rothenberg hes sticking with his prediction of seven seats. One last thing and then we will bring up neil and stan. Sometimes, people ask me why the heck do we need to listen to charlie cook or his team . Why do we need to listen to them or stu rothenberg and his terrific colleague if weve got nate silver and New York Times and these other models that are out there. My analogy is the money ball