Doyle boosts school aid

An earlier post linked to a (since-corrected) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, and I included the Wisconsin Constitution provisions on the Governor's veto power. The paper reports today on further partial vetoes of the budget bill by Gov. Doyle, including one that effectively restores the increase in state education aid he sought from the lesser increase passed by the legislature. In the transportation provisions,

For instance, to increase a transfer from the transportation account to the general fund from $268 million to $427 million, he crossed out several sections of the budget. He took the "4" from a $484,000 streetscaping grant in the Village of Oregon, the "2" and the "7" from the years 2005-'07, two "0"s from references to specific laws, and four more "0"s from an $80,000 grant to Chippewa County for a pedestrian railroad crossing.

He crossed out everything between those digits.

With the vetoes, the bienniel state budget is $52.8 billion.