This is simply not how democracy is supposed to work," says Wisconsin Senator Scott Fitzgerald of the extraordinary veto power exercised by the state's governors.

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This is simply not how democracy is supposed to work," says Wisconsin Senator Scott Fitzgerald of the extraordinary veto power exercised by the state's governors. The so-called partial veto authority granted constitutionally to Wisconsin governors has been dubbed "the Frankenstein veto" because a governor can cut words, cobble others together and completely change legislative intent. Governor Jim Doyle has been particularly adept at it. He moved $427 million the Legislature had...