2 billion is a LOT of Coupe Devals. There has to be another reason.
That's the problem. When Romney left, he said there was a surplus of 2 Bill. Then, without missing a beat, Patrick shows up for his first week in the corner office and announces that Romney was lying, and of course there is a deficit rather than a surplus. This was right around the time that the Turnpike Authority was debating whether or not to drop the tolls, and all of a sudden we convenienly had a budget deficit. Deval is realizing he doesn't have enough money to pay for all of his rubbish ideas. Remember "free state-wide WiFi access?"