Murray pulled the rug out from under DeLeo’s win on casino legislation in April - saying after the measure passed she’d let it sit until June and write her own bill.
DeLeo, in turn, poo-pooed Murray’s prized health-care reform bill last week, saying he might not be able to get it through the House.
Just Tuesday, Murray, seeking to claim the reformer mantle after an explosive patronage scandal, didn’t alert DeLeo to a high-profile press conference introducing her plan to give the judiciary more power over the troubled Probation Department.
“It’s become a heightened game of cat and mouse,” said one stymied senator. “Tensions have been mounting and nobody’s blinking yet.”Noah Bierman reports that the budget debate is heating up in the Senate. This is going to be a long and arduous project, getting both houses to agree on a budget.
The Outraged Liberal is less than impressed with the game of chicken between DeLeo and Murray.
[T]hey would have to go a long way to match the epic battles between Tom Finneran and Tom Birmingham, whose 1999 budget standoff stretched into November and included negotiating sessions on office balconies.
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