Governor Beshear on special session

Governor Beshear penned an op-ed piece for today's Courier-Journal. Here's an excerpt:

Kentucky's Constitution directs the legislature to enact a budget and keep it balanced.

But Sen. Williams' refusal to rebalance the current year's Medicaid budget jeopardizes the health care services upon which some 800,000 Kentuckians rely — not to mention putting thousands of jobs at risk at the institutions that provide those services.

His refusal to act on a minor shift in the higher education budget may also force Kentucky's school districts to pay back $135 million in federal funds.