Palin's Budget

Palin said she wished she'd been able to veto some of that legislative spending, making it sound as if the legislature forced her to increase spending. I just talked to a couple of legislators who say HER budgets came to the legislature already significantly higher than previous budgets. Here are the budget numbers for her first two years...2008 is her first budget year. For comparison, here are the past several years' budgets.

Also, she says she wants the state to divest its oil fund money from Darfur-involved countries. Yes... but her administration initially opposed it -- "mocked it," in the words of the bill's sponsor -- and came around to supporting it only late in the legislative session, when it was already de facto dead.

-- Martin Kaste

11:20 PM ET | 10- 2-2008 | permalink

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