Lawmakers Override "Frankenstein Veto" in State Budget

WBAY-TV, Green Bay, WI

Associated Press

Wisconsin lawmakers have approved erasing a partial veto Governor Jim Doyle made in the state budget contrary to a constitutional ban on so-called "Frankenstein vetos."

Governor Doyle acknowledged the veto was in error. He blamed it on employees in his budget office working too fast.

The veto deleted the creation of a study committee to look into mentally-ill care facilities.

The Joint Committee on Legislative Organization voted to approve ordering that part of the budget republished with a correction. The effect will be that Governor Doyle's veto never occurred.

Voters last year approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting governors from vetoing parts of two or more sentences to create a new sentence. The governor's veto cut from three sentences to make one.

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