For Immediate Release: May 17, 2006

Senate Democrat Budget Shortchanges Taxpayers

State Senate Republican Leader Glenn Coffee said Senate Republicans do not support the Senate Democrats’ big-spending budget proposal unveiled Wednesday.

“Senate Republicans are not supportive of this bloated budget proposal,” Coffee said. “Senate Democrats may be angry about the budget agreement between the speaker and the governor, but they shouldn’t take it out on Oklahoma taxpayers by blowing through the surplus like they just won the Oklahoma lottery.”

“The Senate Democrat plan spends more than 90 percent of the nearly $1 billion surplus to grow government. Their budget shortchanges the Oklahoma taxpayers who created the surplus, and that’s not acceptable to Senate Republicans,” stated Coffee, R-Oklahoma City.

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