pork

Waiting until January to cut capital outlay projects isn’t good enough, Governor Bill Richardson said today as he moved to freeze “pork projects.”

Hundreds of millions of dollars remain unspent on thousands of brick-and-mortar projects the Legislature has approved in recent years. How much of that cash should be used to address the budget shortfall hasn’t yet emerged as a flashpoint between Gov. Bill Richardson and the Legislature as they try to reach a deal. But given recent history, it may well flare up.