Mead 'deliberate' with vetoes to check legislative overreach
Gov. Matt Mead has used his veto to check legislative overreach and to strike down poorly written laws, he said Monday.
Mead described his vetoes during the 2018 legislative session — the last he’ll oversee as governor — as consistent with this philosophy and his application of the executive prerogative throughout his eight-year tenure.
The process begins well before legislation reaches his desk, the governor told WyoFile in an interview. As legislative sessions began, Mead’s staff divided bills by subject matter and assigned them to the appropriate policy advisors for tracking.
“Some we have an idea are going to be big in the sense that they might be controversial,” Mead said. Others are less anticipated. Like many legislative observers, the governor was at times unaware of bills brought by individual lawmakers until they became public in the days or weeks before a session, he said.
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