Holden hits 'callous' Republican budget cuts

Saturday, April 3, 2004

ST. LOUIS -- Democratic Gov. Bob Holden criticized a Republican budget plan to eliminate vacant state jobs as "callous and careless," suggesting it would harm the education of the deaf, blind and disabled.

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