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...their state surpluses are small relative to their budgets, and that they are required to set aside much of the extra money in "rainy day funds" for emergencies. To give greater help to the cities, the Governors say, they would have to raise taxes. Pennsylvania's Republican Govenor Richard Thornburgh said he was worried the Administration might be considering "some kind of bizarre reverse revenue sharing that would make this supposed pot of state surpluses available for solving the federal deficit...
...conference of Republican Governors in Des Moines last week, there were frequent complaints that Washington was not dealing fairly with the states. Said David Runkel, a spokesman for Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh: "We had to take certain steps since 1980 to reduce our own budgetary imbalances. Should our success now be used by the Federal Government to say they can take advantage of it?" Agreed Raymond Scheppach, executive director of the NGA: "The Governors want to be helpful in trying to get the deficit down. But states have already made a major contribution to that end in the last three...
...intend to tolerate continued discrimination borne of eastbound winds and hidebound bureaucrats," declared Richard Thornburgh, the Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, in 1980. Thornburgh was referring to his demand that the federal Environmental Protection Agency stop other states from befouling Pennsylvania's air in violation of the 1970 Clean Air Act. New York and Maine joined Pennsylvania in petitioning the EPA to order seven states, mostly in the Midwest, to reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions that are carried eastward by prevailing winds and fall in the form of acid rain...
Officials of the suing states were distressed by the EPA position. Thornburgh suggested that it continued a pattern of "discriminatory enforcement." New York's Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo claimed that his state has "the most comprehensive program in the nation to reduce acid rain, but 90% of the acid rain killing our lakes originates in other states. The Administration is leaving us all but defenseless." As for Maine's Democratic Governor Joseph Brennan, he angrily accused the Administration of "saying, in effect, it's O.K. to dump your garbage on your neighbor's lawn...
...twist to the usual scenario of politicians children being docked for speeding. Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh came under fire last month for using state troopers to whisk his sons--one of whom is a K-School student--from Harrisburg to Cambridge. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Thornburgh used state funds to pay for several trips this year. According to the Inquirer, the trips, including hotel rooms for the cops, were paid out of state coffers...