Governor Jim “no new taxes” Gibbons hammered legislative bill after legislative bill (41 of them) with his red VETO stamp, setting a new record for Nevada. And the Nevada legislature keeps overriding his vetoes, or most of them anyway. [Las Vegas Review Journal]
The legislature is set to wrap it up Monday and return home. But it has been a classic example of the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches.
All 28 Democrats voted to override the tax veto. One Republican, John Carpenter of Elko, joined them.
But Republicans Chad Christensen, Ty Cobb (no not THE Ty Cobb), Nye County’s Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, Don Gustavson and John Hambrick stuck with the Governor and wouldn’t vote to override his veto. Goedhart must have taken some time away from his personal computer and research for his trip to Brazil to vote on behalf of Governor Gibbons.
Goedhart also voted against the state employee salary and furlough bill. There is sure to be elation in the Nye County Republican ranks about how their representatives stood tall in the saddle and upheld Gibbons to the bitter end.
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