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This entire process -- with its proposed cuts to public safety, transportation and education -- has been orchestrated to scare the public.

Conn. Deputy Senate Republican leader Len Fasano, expressing his thoughts on the governor's ongoing struggle to strike a concessions deal with the unions. Fasano says "It's all been a big game, and ... there will be no oversight on where $1.6 billion in concessions come from."

Conn. Deputy Senate Republican leader Len Fasano, expressing his thoughts on the governor's ongoing struggle to strike a concessions deal with the unions. Fasano says "It's all been a big game, and ... there will be no oversight on where $1.6 billion in concessions come from."

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.