From BostonHerald.com:

House Minority Leader Bradley Jones said today he’s prepared to permit a $400 million spending bill to advance in the Legislature if Democratic leaders answer his questions.

Holding up copies of the spending plan, as well as a pair of spending bills Gov. Deval Patrick filed in June, Jones said the Patrick administration has offered little data to support the spending amounts that Democratic leaders have said are necessary to prevent jails from closing, homeless shelters from cutting off services and Medicaid recipients from losing benefits.

“The frustrating thing for us is, yesterday we had the political blackmail of people dying in the streets, jails closing – nobody could tell you what jails are going to close,” Jones said. “It’s okay for the governor to have questions about some aspects of it, but for me to have question about it … is somehow unreasonable.”

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