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Article: Low budget: feeling blue and seeing red over a free-spending administration. (Rant).
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- July 1, 2003
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IF MITCH DANIELS, recently departed director of the Office of Management and Budget and the putative fiscal conservative on President Bush's economic team, succeeds in his ambition to become governor of Indiana, grateful Hoosiers might want to send thanks to the people who made it all possible--the taxpayers of New Jersey.
No, New Jerseyans haven't been canvassing Muncie on Daniels' behalf. They've shown their support with Yankee greenbacks. If not for the Garden State's winning combination of generous giving to and modest expectations from Washington, D.C., Daniels couldn't have enjoyed his brief, troubled tenure in the nation's capital.
New Jersey, as ...