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1 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Wed, Oct 12, 2011 4:30:08am

“To save money.”

Riiight…

2 Obdicut  Wed, Oct 12, 2011 4:58:20am

To give more background, this is really the fault of the county which failed to fund the DA as he said they’d have to. Topeka never prosecuted these cases before, the DA did.

Taylor spoke Friday with The Capital-Journal about how his office would be affected if its 2012 budget — when it is finalized this week by commissioners Vic Miller, Shelly Buhler and Ted Ensley — continues to contain a tentative 10 percent cut from its 2011 budget.

Commissioners voted Thursday to reduce 12 separate county budget line items by 10 percent or more, including cutting the district attorney’s budget for 2012 by 10 percent, or $347,765, from its 2011 amount of $3,477,651.

Commissioners entered Thursday’s meeting needing to cut slightly more than $10 million from the 2012 county budget to avoid raising the county’s property tax mill levy and to end 2012 with the recommended cash carryover of $4.4 million. Commissioners made $4.8 million in tentative cuts Thursday.

Taylor also questioned the priorities commissioners have chosen with the budgets they’ve approved in recent years.

He indicated figures from the county’s website show funding for the county parks and recreation department rose by 78.8 percent from 2004 to 2011, compared to a 34.6 percent increase over that period for the district’s attorney’s office.

The county didn’t want to raise taxes, so they cut the DA’s budget, even after he informed them of what it would mean.

3 Lidane  Wed, Oct 12, 2011 6:58:25am

re: #2 Obdicut

The county didn’t want to raise taxes, so they cut the DA’s budget, even after he informed them of what it would mean.

And I’ll bet money that everyone who voted to cut the DA’s budget ran as being “tough on crime”.

Pathetic.

4 theheat  Wed, Oct 12, 2011 8:03:36am

re: #3 Lidane

And the battered women standing in line to file domestic violence reports are just welfare hos that made bad choices they need to deal with. Bootstraps! Lemons to lemonade!
//

That tough on crime shit is pretty worn out.

5 calochortus  Wed, Oct 12, 2011 8:22:22am

re: #2 Obdicut

I know this is part of an ongoing budget fight, but there’s plenty of fault to go around, Topeka chose to repeal that particular law to balance their budget rather than another law that might affect people with more power.

Anyway, come on, its just men asserting their property rights… (Do I need to put a sarc tag on this?)

Free market!

6 dragonfire1981  Wed, Oct 12, 2011 8:35:16am

Mayor Bunten, who has made numerous promises of working toward a compromise, admitted tonight that he hasn’t even talked to Shawnee County DA Chad Taylor in ten days. Ten days of batterers being let free to repeat their abuse.

This is the kind of shit that would get you either severely reprimanded or fired from a private sector job. I truly believe it should be easier to “fire” public servants. I’m sure if the people of Topeka had their say right now, the Mayor would be out on his ass for that.

7 Goosestepping Obama Tina Brown(New Dance Craze)  Wed, Oct 12, 2011 8:50:50am

New slogan
Topeka: We keep our pimp hand strong

8 HappyWarrior  Wed, Oct 12, 2011 9:18:45am

Yay for ignoring crime.


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