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There are a lot of closed doors at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe, and presumably behind some of them leaders are talking about how to solve the states budget crisis. Among them are House Republican leaders, who say they are on the outside looking in, just like the public.
“Apparently since we’re not going to support tax increases, that must be the only thing going on in the meetings,” said House Minority Whip Keith Gardner, R-Roswell.
Gardner says he and Minority Leader Tom Taylor, R-Farmington were at the Roundhouse on Tuesday and spoke with House leadership about taking part in the budget talks. According to Gardner the Democratic leadership didn’t say much in response and told the two R’s they were “working on something.”
Gardner says not involving the GOP is worrisome because of the gridlock that ended the last session without a budget. “You would think they would learn [from the regular session], but when you have a super-majority in the House and you can’t get anything done, what does that say?”
Gardner says even though the GOP has a different view of the budget, they should be at the table.
“You have one group of legislators trying to do this whole thing which isnt how the governance was designed,” he said.
