Conservatively Speaking
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
Kill the monster!
By Mary Lazich
Tuesday, Jan 22 2008, 05:30 AM
You get to vote on April 1, 2008 if you want to see an end to the Frankenstein veto.
I co-sponsored the constitutional amendment that will prohibit Wisconsin governors, Republican or Democrat, from using their expansive veto power to form new words, phrases or sentences to authorize spending the Legislature never approved. Here are more details.
Here’s a reminder of what prompted the constitutional amendment and why the Frankenstein veto must go.
Governor Doyle used his partial veto 139 times on the 2005-07 state budget. One of his Frankenstein vetoes increased a transfer from the transportation fund to the general fund from $268 million to $427 million.
Look at how Doyle did it.
The vote on April 1 is to get rid of the Frankenstein veto.