GOP still mulling Dem offer; Fitzgerald may be out of hospital soon
Republicans working on the overdue state budget met into the evening yesterday with LFB director Bob Lang to dissect the latest offer from Democrats.
Josh Wescott, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson, D-Beloit, said the package put on the table last Thursday by the Dems is not a final offer, but it "pretty much brings resolution to all the lightning rod items in the budget."
It wasn't clear this morning whether Robson and Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, would meet today to continue talks. The two did not meet face-to-face yesterday, Wescott said.
Senate Minority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, one of the eight legislators on the budget conference committee, could be released from the hospital as soon as today or tomorrow as he recuperates from a motorcycle accident, a spokesman said.
Ryan Murray said Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, had a second surgery on his leg yesterday. Murray said Fitzgerald is not expected to have any more surgeries beyond the two already done. He said the senator hasn't discussed yet when he might be back in the Capitol.
