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**inmeirulez** · 07-04-2011, 10:21 AM

Here's some more detail on what provoked that lawmaker's comment.

NJ.com: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...tml#incart_mce

From around the state, lawmakers, child advocates, mayors and college officials expressed outrage and disappointment yesterday over Gov. Chris Christie’s liberal use of the line-item veto on the budget enacted by the Democratic Legislature.

Christie slashed almost a billion dollars from the Democrats’ $30.6 billion budget that had restored spending for education, health care and tax credits for the working poor, aid to the state’s struggling cities and — in what was widely viewed as revenge for spurning his own budget — cuts to the Legislature.

The governor then signed the budget he had trimmed to $29.7 billion before the fiscal year ended at midnight Thursday, and Democratic hopes of overriding his veto are seemingly slim.

"New Jersey should be working harder to protect children from abuse and neglect, not pulling the plug on programs that work for children," said Nancy Erika Smith of the Newark-based Wynona Lipman Child Advocacy Center, which helps sexually and physically abused children.

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inmeirulez Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 489 Senior Member	Here's some more detail on what provoked that lawmaker's comment. NJ.com: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...tml#incart_mce From around the state, lawmakers, child advocates, mayors and college officials expressed outrage and disappointment yesterday over Gov. Chris Christie’s liberal use of the line-item veto on the budget enacted by the Democratic Legislature. Christie slashed almost a billion dollars from the Democrats’ $30.6 billion budget that had restored spending for education, health care and tax credits for the working poor, aid to the state’s struggling cities and — in what was widely viewed as revenge for spurning his own budget — cuts to the Legislature. The governor then signed the budget he had trimmed to $29.7 billion before the fiscal year ended at midnight Thursday, and Democratic hopes of overriding his veto are seemingly slim. "New Jersey should be working harder to protect children from abuse and neglect, not pulling the plug on programs that work for children," said Nancy Erika Smith of the Newark-based Wynona Lipman Child Advocacy Center, which helps sexually and physically abused children.
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