Byline: Ken Dixon
Oct. 7--Sixteen days after Democratic majorities pushed through a $3.2-billion package of statewide infrastructure projects, Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed it Saturday, less than 24 hours after it landed on her desk.
Rell said if she didn't kill the legislation, it could feed Connecticut's "troubling addiction" to bloating its long-term debt. Democrats criticized the Republican governor for attempting to change the way that bonding projects are allocated and authorized, in an apparent attempt to expand her executive powers, The veto, which she promised when majority lawmakers forced the legislation on Sept. 20, is a political victory for Rell, since Senate ...