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Wisconsin governor gets creative with veto, increases public school funding for 400 years (www.usatoday.com)
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In signing the state budget, Gov. Tony Evers used his broad partial veto powers to make permanent annual per-pupil increases for public schools.

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[–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure this was done to freak out the legislation and force them to remove the partial veto

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