Indiana

Get Bi(partisan) With a Little Help From Your Friends

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

There must be something about a deadline that brings people together because there was a lot of bi-partisanship around the statehouse and city hall Monday.

Lawmakers unveiled a starting plan to shore up Indiana’s unemployment insurance shortfall.  The plan includes more contributions from employers, but it also gives them more ways to challenge benefits for employees who were dismissed.

Around the same time City-County Council President Bob Cockrum and Minority Leader Joanne Sanders put out a news release opposing any broad based tax increases to shore up the Capital Improvement Board operational shortfall.

And earlier that day Democratic State Representatives Ed Delaney, Mary Ann Sullivan and Republican Phil HInkle all came out with a plan to use the township trustee surpluses to pay for the CIB’s operations.

Now granted the trustee plan may not get anywhere and the unemployment trust find plan will need some work, it is nice to these guys and gals all playing together.  Now if I could just get them to do this January so we are not pushing up against the deadline in April.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).