The Mississippi Democratic Party has started the first in a series of updates on the budget legacy of Appropriations Committee Chairman Alan Nunnelee. Nunnelee recently referred to his work on this year’s state budget as “one of the legacies I’ll leave.” [Clarion Ledger, 4/21/10]
THE LEGACY OF ALAN NUNNELEE, REPORT #1
The Clarion Ledger reports that this year’s budget legislation, sent to Governor Barbour on Friday afternoon, “amounts to a pay cut for thousands of state and local employees.” The budget will “increase employee contributions to the state pension system.” [Clarion Ledger, 4/24/10]
“Alan Nunnelee promises he stands against tax increases but he’s happy to raise fees and cut pay for teachers, law enforcement officers and other state and local employees rather than use the state’s reserve funds,” said Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Director Sam Hall. “Whether they work in K-12 education, law enforcement or at our community colleges, these families will have less money to pay the bills because of Alan Nunnelee. Those are his values and that is his destructive and dangerous legacy.”
Other state leaders had suggested taking funds out of the state’s reserve account to fix the retirement system or to wait for the continuing stock and economic recovery to take hold and rectify the shortfall. [NEMS Daily Journal, 4/23/10]
Over the weeks ahead, the Mississippi Democratic Party will be exploring the other implications of Alan Nunnelee’s legacy in the state budget.
For more information, please contact Sam Hall at (601) 969-2913 or via email to sam@mississippidemocrats.org.
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