State Sen. Andrew Roraback, R-Goshen, wrote Wednesday to Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget office to press questions raised Tuesday by House Republican leader Lawrence Cafero of Norwalk -- about whether the concession deal now being voted on by state employee unions would save $1.6 billion over two years, as Democrats say it would.
The Republicans continue to cite statements by the legislature's non-partisan Office of Fiscal Analysis that it cannot verify about half of the claimed savings.
The issue sparked an all-day battle between Cafero and the governor's office Tuesday. On Wednesday Roraback followed up with this letter seeking specifics from the Malloy budget office, called the Office of Policy and Management, to justify the administration's claims for how much the concessions deal would save.