PAR: Convention won’t fix immediate budget problem

While several public officials have called for a constitutional convention to solve the state’s budget woes, rewriting the constitution completely—much less limited revision—won’t do a thing to help balance the budget for the approaching fiscal year, according to the Public Affairs Research Council. In statement released today, PAR President Jim Brandt says that the state’s budget crafters “seem to have been caught off guard by the convergence of falling oil and gas prices, increased spending and the tax breaks they recently granted.” Click here to read the full PAR statement.—Steve Clark