Don’t Tell Rick Perry About This
Voters in Wisconsin this week limited their Governor’s ability to freely edit state budget bills by deleting word or phrases “to create entirely new meanings never intended by the original authors.”
Once known as the Vanna White veto, the practice was reduced (but not eliminated) by more than 70 percent of voters in a statewide referendum on Tuesday. Gov. Jim Doyle and his successors will still be allowed to get creative, but they won’t be able to merge whole sentences to shift, for example, $427 million from a transportation bill to education, as apparently happened in 2005.
Posted on April 3, 2008 – 7:35 am by APR
One Response to “Don’t Tell Rick Perry About This”
Maybe he will change the language just enough to let him sell off the Lottery?
By Double D on Apr 3, 2008