Treasurer warns Reynolds budget transfers might not be legally compliant

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And of course instead of listening to the guy and trying to avoid future pain, she complains he's speaking up because he's a Democrat.

Iowa's treasurer on Friday warned Gov. Kim Reynolds she will not be in compliance with state law if she taps an emergency fund to address a budget shortfall, a move the Republican governor's staff criticized by pointing out the treasurer is a Democrat.

Reynolds later borrowed the money through an official proclamation.

Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald said in a letter to Reynolds and some legislative leaders that a certain drop in Iowa's revenue for the budget year that ended in June did not meet the legal threshold required to utilize the state's economic emergency fund. Reynolds' press secretary, Brenna Smith, said Fitzgerald was reviewing the wrong numbers.

"Democrats should quit manufacturing problems where they don't exist," she said in an email.

An improvement over brain fart, she is not.

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1. "though Democrats have no legislative power in the GOP-controlled Statehouse"

Just like at the federal level, the GOP is the fox guarding the hen house.

There has to be some way to stop this bullshit.