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Article: Swift on budget: Steadfast or stubborn.(Editorial)
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 24, 2002
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The painful new recession budget that acting Gov. Jane Swift announced yesterday is a declaration of war on the Democrats who seek her job and a huge gamble on whether she or they are right about what the voters really want.
The $23.5 billion budget is, as usual, more than the previous year's spending plan. Yet it is stunningly austere in some highly visible, vastly popular areas - especially its deep cuts in preventive health care - even as it adds $100 million in education aid.
This budget, the first for which Swift is fully responsible, is fraught with political peril for a governor whose poll numbers already are dropping again. The big question for ...