Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Brogdon Rips Henry On Budget Claim


State Senator Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, says today that claims by Governor Brad Henry, Democrat seeking reelection, that he replenished the Rainy Day Fund and improved the state budget don't match the facts. Brogdon said, "overspending by Brad Henry sent the state spiraling downward" in years past. He said the Rainy Day Fund ran dry "because big spending politicians like then-Senator Henry spent hundreds of millions" and thus, set the state up for budgetary problems. Henry's first television commercial of the general election campaign is based on his claims that he met the financial crisis the state faced in his first year in office and that he presented a balanced budget and filled the once-depleted Rainy Day Fund.

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