Barely two months later, she pushed for the additional 10 percent cut and again put pressure on the Republican legislative leadership to deliver.

"That's very troubling that he would use such a homophobic way of trying to put down legislative leadership."

His popularity's endurance does not have much to do with legislative leadership.

But there is a question of his legislative leadership.

But on this day, the Governor is scheduled for a different exercise, a meeting with the Republican legislative leadership.

But with the legislative leadership on board, the Governor's office predicted that the changes would be enacted by the end of next month.

Mr. Sullivan was the first member of the legislative leadership to go that far.

"My guess is that they would exceed 1997 just based on the number of states in which governors and legislative leadership are talking about them."

In the days and nights before Jan. 5, the legislative leadership held several fund-raisers.

The legislative leadership has begun to hire staff to assist the committee.