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Article: ELECTION 2008; Governor's selective veto at issue; Amendment would end stitched-together phrases
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2008
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Madison -- The words Frankenstein veto won't be on the April 1
ballot.
That's just the sound-bite phrase used by legislators who want to
limit the veto authority of Wisconsin governors. Those lawmakers
want voters to approve the question on the ballot that asks whether
the Wisconsin Constitution should "be amended to prohibit the
governor, in exercising his or her partial veto authority, from
creating a new sentence by combining parts of two or more sentences
of the enrolled bill?"
Lawmakers who pushed the amendment through the Legislature and
sent it to voters say it is needed to prevent the growing practice
of governors cutting out whole words, sentences and paragraphs and
stitching ...