Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell followed through Wednesday on her vow to veto the two-year state budget that Democrats pushed through the legislature late last week, saying, "It is neither balanced nor remotely realistic in its assumed 'savings' and 'spending cuts.'" Rell had signed an undated veto message over the weekend in anticipation of the Democrats' budget bill arriving at her desk, and she exercised it Wednesday, on the first day of the new fiscal year -- which begins without an approved state budget for the first time since 2003. When Rell's office issued a press release that repeated the previously-aired the veto message, Democratic legislative leaders responded with a salvo of their own later Wednesday. Meanwhile, the state government will operate and pay its bills under an executive order issued this week by Rell,...
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