Potts: 'No End In Sight'

Quotes made by Sen. Russ Potts from The Leesburg Today, Saturday, April 15, 2006 regarding the HOD proposed budget.

“There’s no end in sight,” he said. “The Senate is united and solid that we are not going to sign off on some Band-Aid proposal, and that’s what it is. You have to have long-term sustainable consistent funding. So what are we going to do? Go out there and sign on the House’s proposal that would provide funding out of the General Fund at the expense of higher ed, health care and public safety and worse yet then have funding in place for two years. So what are we going to do, build the road to nowhere?”

“This pitiful amount of money they are talking about won’t even pay for the transportation challenges of the 27th District I represent. Not one Senate district. It won’t pay for the Springfield Bypass which is in its sixth year.”

....Potts said today that the House's new proposal is just a tactic to get the budget adopted and that when September comes, House Republicans will "say 'what transportation problem?'"

"It’s unanimous. I don’t know anybody in the entire Senate who will give it the time or day," he said about the House's proposal.