[Lancey Howard]

$35 billion minus $84 million = $34 billion, 916 million.

Rounded just slightly, that equals.... $35 billion.

You can expect stories like this every week as a prelude to these scumbag Democrats throwing up their hands and saying, "We've trimmed everywhere there is to trim.... We've cut everywhere there is to cut. We are now left with no choice but to raise taxes."

Guaranteed this little "renegotiation" has been a done deal for weeks, if not months.

As far as truly cutting the budget, Davis and his scumbag minions are going to announce smoke-and-mirrors "cuts" every week or so and, on cue, the teachers and the rest of the Democrat parasite constituencies will play their part and squawk like crazy in order to try to give the announcements credibility - - make them seem real. I do not believe for a minute that any of the $10 billion in "cuts" announced recently by Davis contain any real cuts at all. Smoke and mirrors, all of it.

[Jorge]

$35 billion minus $84 million = $34 billion, 916 million.

Wow...looks like they are finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel.....a very long tunnel.

[Dog Gone]

I'm not sure this cost savings trims the budget deficit at all. It counts against the 43 billion dollars of power that the state committed to buy over two decades, but certainly not all $84 million was going to be in the first year.

And since the contracts were on behalf of the Water Department and passed directly to electricity bills of consumers, I'm not even sure it is a budget item at all.