Beebe pledge shifts vote
Job-training boost turns senator, called 27th
Posted: February 19, 2014 at 5:02 a.m.
State Sen. Jane English, R-North Little Rock, said “a lot of folks are going to hate me” for switching her vote on the private option, but she said a funding boost for job training was “a game changer.”
Senate President Pro Tempore Michael Lamoureux, R-Russellville, said Tuesday that the Senate has sufficient votes to authorize federal funding for the private option in fiscal 2015, after Sen. Jane English, R-North Little Rock, said she’ll vote for the measure after opposing it last year.
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