Austin Democrat says GOP leaders use 'trickery' to patch over budget woes

AUSTIN — Texas’ leaders must quit writing budgets in “back rooms” and stop hiding the state’s fiscal troubles, a leading Democratic lawmaker said today. Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, said the state’s GOP leadership has used “accounting trickery” and dispensed tax cuts without equivalent reductions in spending.

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