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Tuesday, Sep. 23, 2008

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UPDATED mishmash: Dems sue over “GOP,” budget hole gets projected

An odd and and end for your here...

— Staff at the Senate Ways and Means Committee has released its revised six year budget outlook based on last week’s updated revenue forecast. And it pegs the projected budget shortfall for the next two-year budget cycle to be $3.2 billion.

It also projects the rainy day fund to total $728 million for the biennium. Some of that money, but not likely all of it, may be used to help plug the hole.

Check that. I meant projected hole. Because it’s just a projection. And as we've heard before the only projection that matters is the one that comes after the election. Until then there is no deficit, only a surplus and envy.

— The state Democratic Party had filed suit in King County Superior Court to have Dino Rossi identified on the general election ballot as a Republican. Its legal argument is that state law requires declaration of candidacy forms to include “a place for the candidate to indicate his or her major or minor party preference, or independent status” and that “GOP” is not a major party.

WEDNESDAY UPDATE: A hearing has been set for 9 a.m. Friday.

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