Budget crisis follows Malloy into Clinton campaign event

[Divernan]

1. This governor shares Clinton's values. Don't tax the wealthy; cut social services instead.

These are horribly deep cuts. As one comment following the article states: "He chooses cuts to mental health and social services before asking the wealthy to pay some more. Priorities."

The governor has proposed cutting $34.5 million from the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services – a number nearly three times greater than what his commissioner indicated could be cut while preserving the safety net clients rely on. He also proposed nearly $16 million in cuts to grants for mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Clinton praised him for his leadership on winning passage of gun-control legislation after Newtown that banned some weapons and required universal background checks for the purchase of firearms and ammunition

Now I know that to Hillary Clinton, $34.5 million is peanuts - just a mere 10 dinners with George Clooney, but that and the governor's other $16 million cut for mental health and substance abuse treatment is barbaric for the segment of his state's population in need of those services.