The Legislature’s budget committee is divided on the length of an extension and a business tax break.

A representative of the Horseracing Jobs Fairness committee, which ran the campaign, won’t comment on its 44-day drive to collect more than 61,000 signatures.

Republican Party chairman Rick Bennett says the party wants ‘to be sure there will be no doubt about our qualification for the ballot.’

The governor says he isn’t advocating vigilante justice, but calls for harsh treatment of drug dealers, including the death penalty for any dealer who sells drugs that result in a fatal overdose.