Gov. Bill Richardson has stripped from the junior budget bill funding for a number of judicial projects and money for public trash-can cleaning in some communities around the state.
Richardson went light on the vetoes in this bill after completely killing the capital outlay bill moments ago. Interestingly, he left intact funding for trash-can sanitizing in some communities – like Albuquerque and Portales – while killing the funding for other communities including Questa and Belen.
Richardson’s action on the bills avoids a legal showdown with Senate leaders. He complied with the 6 p.m. deadline they believed applied to the bills. But the other capital-outlay bill, Senate Bill 471, looms large. It’s become the talk of the Roundhouse as people speculate about whether the governor and House Democrats made a deal to get it approved in the next 17 hours or so.
Gov. Bill Richardson has stripped from the junior budget bill funding for a number of judicial projects and money for public trash-can cleaning in some communities around the state.