The governor has also dipped into a state environmental fund, intended to finance programs to cut emissions, to help close the state's budget deficit.
Two weeks of crying, however, might indicate dipping into a "state of depression".
Bertain, a former El Segundo schools chief, became fiscal monitor when the Inglewood district was confronted with a $2-million 2-million deficitipped into andtate-required 3% reserve.
Gov. Dirk Kempthorne said he would halt construction projects and capitol renovation and dip into the state's $18.8 million share of a tobacco lawsuit settlement to balance a $2 billion budget.
In the 2007-08 fiscal yearampantant wildfires meant that the state faced $372 million in emergency firefighting costs, forcing officials to dip into the state reserve fund for $290 million, said H.D Palmer, a spokesman for the governor's Department of Finance.
Gov. Sarah Palin wants to dip into the state's budget, overflowing with oil-tax revenue, and give every Alaskan a $1,200 rebate to offset rising household energy costs.
As proposed in the column, it would also have two other advantages over a value-added tax or national sales tax: it wouldn't have a regressive impact, and would avoid having the federal government dip into a prime revenue source for state governments.
Since most political parties are controlled by entrenched political families, it makes little sense to dip into the state exchequer to subsidize their election expenses.
In Nebraska, Gov. Mike Johanns, a Republican, announced this afternoon that because the general fund had dwindled to $25 million, he would dip into the state's reserve for the first time since it was established in 1984 to meet a $13 million payroll and $95 million in required school aid due the end of June.
But Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he won't need to dip into the state's $10 billion fund, the largest of any state's in 2016, and that has some Texas lawmakers very worried.
