In signing the state budget, Gov. Tony Evers used his broad partial veto powers to make permanent annual per-pupil increases for public schools.
This is kind of a dick move but the republican congress in Wisconsin removed a bunch of his powers in a lame duck session. You if play dirty you can expect things like this. Wisconsin is kind of a mess politically
Wisconsin has had a line item veto since 1930, and it has been used by Democrats and Republicans.
Yeah Robin Vos did a lot of shady things to curtail Evers’ executive powers prior to him taking office, yet this kind of veto power has been used before. Both Scott Walker and Tommy Thompson used the veto power during their time in office as well.
Here’s a history of the line item veto from the Wisconsin.gov website.
LOL Page 158
The result was good this time, but doesn’t that allow the governor to pass any law as long as they can find the right words in the right order? I can easily imagine this going very wrong.
I’m pretty sure this was done to freak out the legislation and force them to remove the partial veto
They can only remove it via constitutional amendment, so it would have to go to the voters first.
not remove the power of veto, just override this specific exercise of it
The manipulation of the numbers suggests that you just need the right letters in the right order…
I’m glad about the funding but partial vetoes and line item vetoes should be outlawed.
“Oh there’s just a little space dust on here, let me get that for you”
For real, though, Evers is awesome. More Democratic governors should start standing up to Republicans like this.
