Mark Hargrove of Covington, 47th District state representative, expresses disappointment as Legislature wraps up regular session

The state Legislature ended its 60-day session by adjourning Sine Die without a supplemental state budget plan.

The state Legislature ended its 60-day session by adjourning Sine Die without a supplemental state budget plan.

Rep. Mark Hargrove, R-Covington expressed his disappointment in a press release statement.

Despite the governor’s and majority party’s promises that the state supplemental budget would be the focus from day one of the 2012 legislative session, lawmakers in the majority party dawdled around on policies wholly unrelated to addressing state spending,” he said. “The budget seemed to be the last priority of the majority party, not the first as promised. It is extremely frustrating to know that by last Friday we had four budget proposals on the table to create a bipartisan compromise between the House and Senate that would have gotten us out of Olympia on time and with a sustainable budget moving forward.”