Doyle Signs Budget “Fix” With Vetoes

Congratulations, Assembly Republican Leadership… you’ve just been outflanked on the right by Doyle.  Way to set up the caucus for the election. 

Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle carved up a budget-repair deal with his veto pen today, allowing him to make deeper cuts than lawmakers approved and take money from the state’s transportation fund.

Lawmakers voted this week to make $69 million in cuts through mid-2009, but Doyle increased the cuts to $270 million with his veto powers. He also vetoed a restriction that limited how much could come from the state transportation fund.