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June 18, 2008 - 4:14pm

Raggio: I want to work with Democrats

By Joseph K. Cooper
Category: Governor, LocalTags: special session, BUDGET CRISIS, Jim Gibbons, Bill Raggio, Sheila Leslie

LAS VEGAS - State Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio (R-Reno) called Wednesday for Democratic legislators to work with him to come up with a consensus proposal to fix the state's budget shortfall.

"I have asked the Democrats in both the Assembly and the Senate," said Raggio. "I want to work with them-we want to work with them to make this an apolitical session. It should be a short session. It should be dealing with how we deal with whatever the number is and not be a partisan fight."

Raggio has proposed deferring a 4 percent increase in state and university employees and school teachers' cost-of-living allowances to meet the shortfall, but that appears unlikely to pass the Democrat-dominated state assembly.

"That is not going to happen," Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie (D-Reno) told the Las Vegas Review Journal Tuesday.

Raggio would not comment on any other proposals, however, saying that he is "not going to start throwing things out on the table" until he receives updated numbers from the budget division "in a day or two."

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posted by Jimi

I think Bill Raggio needs to step back and take a look at himself in the mirror and see where he came from. I believe some cuts should be made. Let's start at the top. Let's reduce his salary to $18 an hour and put him on social security and reduce his benefits to match that of the everyday State worker. No more lifetime free benefits for Congress or Senate. If the State workers do not get the legislative passed cost of living raise that would be a cut in pay. They are already paid less than the other government employees of the same job classifications. Bill Raggio needs to step down and realize he has failed in his attempt to make a change and has only done what is best for himself. I wonder if he even owns a mirror.

06/23/08 11:22 am

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