Williams Smacks Moberly: "...because I've killed Senate Bill 1"

This from the Courier-Journal:

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Senate President David Williams yesterday accused Rep. Harry Moberly of ramming Eastern Kentucky University projects into the state budget during closed-door conference committee meetings.

Moberly, D-Richmond, is the chairman of the House budget committee and a high-ranking official at EKU.

"I've been at the conference table in the conference many times when he has stood up to have things added for EKU in the budget," Williams, R-Burkesville, said in a session with reporters. "If he doesn't get what he wants in the budget nobody else is going to get what they want in the budget, or other people can't get things for UK or U of L if he doesn't get what he wants in the budget." ...

...earlier this week [Moberly] acknowledged that it would be "difficult" for him to work on the budget under the amended version of HB 250, the details of which are expected to be hashed out in a conference committee of House and Senate members.

"It's an effort to strike out at Democrats and particularly me because I've killed Senate Bill 1," Moberly said this week.

He was referring to the Republican-backed bill to eliminate the CATS test in public schools.

Moberly, who has served in the House since 1980, was promoted to executive director for administration at EKU last fall...