Governor John Kitzhaber is putting his 14 years of emergency room experience to work on the Oregon budget, by prioritizing cuts.
Governor John Kitzhaber is putting his 14 years of emergency room experience to work on the Oregon budget, by prioritizing cuts.
“When you suspect there’s been a penetrating wound to the heart, you open up the chest, you have the heart in your hands, and you better have been right,” Kitzhaber, a 64-year-old Democrat, said in an interview last month in his Salem office.
He now must stanch the $3.5 billion the state is hemorrhaging from its budget, a sum that represents almost a fifth of the $17.9 billion needed to maintain services at their current level. It is, he says, “an exercise in triage.”
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