The additional $190 comes mostly from non-recurring federal money, such as the stimulus and other programs, that will expire next year. Richardson has been using this money to prop up some of his favorite programs such as the Rail Runner and has been doling out discretionary federal stimulus money to various projects instead of holding it to offset the budget deficit.
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It’s Bush’s fault! Hey California only wishes their debt was in the millions instead ob BILLIONS!
Liberals, Liberals everywhere.
Richardson is a clintonoid crook.
Sounds like the surprise mess Corzine left Christie.
Just deport the Illegals.
Only a 450 million dollar shortfall for NM?
You guys are doing much better than Texas.
Now, by his own failures in NM, Richardson will have to move to Mexico to get work.
I hear Dannette Burch is hot.
Check Richardson’s sock drawer. He probably stole half of that.
Too bad Richarseson didn’t take Ron Brown’s seat on that last “trade mission”.
What a lowlife dirtbag. Wish I could say I am surprised but my friends down there clued me in to his sleazy ways a long time ago.
One of my liberal clients has a retirement home in the mountains north of Albuquerque. He was so excited and pleased because Richardson was going to spend millions of dollars of federal money to upgrade the bathrooms at all the state and federal parks in the state. Now he’s moaning because the roads up to their house are in horrible condition and there is no money to fix them.