Saturday, November 10, 2007

Too Close for Mike Miller's Comfort?

Keep an eye on that list of nay votes on the Senate tax bill - the one that barely scraped by with no votes to spare.

Senate president Mike Miller cannot possibly be happy with how close he came to losing this bill - or with the Democrats who voted against it.

Living in Montgomery County, I’m particularly interested in the only no-vote from my county: Rona Kramer’s. She’s the new chair of the Montgomery County Senate delegation.

Montgomery County successfully got the bill amended to have a smaller income tax increase. So when Kramer voted against the bill, I suspect she did not endear herself to the president. I’ll be interested to see if this affects her ability to get things done in Mike Miller’s Senate. (And make no mistake. It is Mike Miller’s Senate).