{"id":11380,"date":"2023-08-06T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T14:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T14:14:48","slug":"how-wisconsins-governor-bested-the-gop-and-secured-education-funding-for-400-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11380","title":{"rendered":"How Wisconsin\u2019s governor bested the GOP and secured education funding for 400 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Evers pulled these changes off by leveraging a tool known as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4082783-line-item-veto-explained\/#:~:text=Governors%20in%2044%20states%20currently,allow%20a%20line%2Ditem%20veto.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">line-item veto<\/a>, a power granted to governors in 44 states<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4082783-line-item-veto-explained\/#:~:text=Governors%20in%2044%20states%20currently,allow%20a%20line%2Ditem%20veto.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">,<\/a>&nbsp;which allows them to veto parts of a budget bill instead of the entire measure.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/3a7a571dfbb3422e9cffd32e3cf98aac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wisconsin, in particular,<\/a>&nbsp;gives governors \u201cuniquely powerful\u201d line-item veto authorities for appropriations bills that allow them to target \u201csentences, words or in some cases even a single character or digit,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiscontext.org\/story-wisconsins-singular-partial-veto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to WisContext\u2019s Will Cushman<\/a>.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/7\/6\/23786064\/wisconsin-governor-tony-evers-education-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/7\/6\/23786064\/wisconsin-governor-tony-evers-education-funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Evers pulled these changes off by leveraging a tool known as the line-item veto, a power granted to governors in 44 states, which allows them to veto parts of a budget bill instead of the entire measure. Wisconsin, in particular, gives governors \u201cuniquely powerful\u201d line-item veto authorities for appropriations bills that allow them to target \u201csentences, words or in some cases even a single character or digit,\u201d according to WisContext\u2019s Will Cushman.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[356,653,291],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-education","tag-governors","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11381,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}