Source: Mark Binker, WRAL, 5/25/15

"Handouts to cronies."
"Disappointing."
"Fiscally irresponsible."
"Stuffed with pork barrel spending."

Those reviews of the $22.1 billion budget developed by Republican leaders of the state House came not from liberal campaigners or Democratic lawmakers but conservative nonprofits that have traditionally backed policies pursued by GOP lawmakers and helped them get elected.

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