Transcript for: Sen. Deb Cherry (D-Burton) offers a no-vote explanation on passage of the capital outlay budget, which excluded funds for university and community college building projects that would have created thousands of new jobs. (May 1, 2008)

Mr. President, I have to say that I am very outraged about what just happened here. We had the opportunity to invest in our state, to invest in our community colleges, and to invest in our universities and we chose to drop them. We chose to not provide jobs throughout our state and to not improve our economy and to make sure that we were not providing the improvements to our universities and community colleges that we so need to do. We made a major mistake, I believe. We also did that without proper debate.