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Rell Backs Off, Signs Bill Removing Her Senate Vacancy Power
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| Contributor | MadViking |
| Last Edited | MadViking Jun 26, 2009 07:16pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Jon Lender |
| News Date | Saturday, June 27, 2009 01:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | n a dramatic reversal Friday, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced that she has signed a bill that she and her lieutenants had previously belittled -- a measure that takes away her appointment power to fill vacancies for U.S. Senate, and instead requires direct elections to choose successors for senators who leave office during their terms.
Rell and her Republican legislative allies had bitterly denounced the bill recently, after the Democrat-controlled House and Senate approved it by strong majorities. The Republicans called it an unwarranted infringement on a longstanding power of the governor in this and other states.
The strength of those previous denunciations magnified the impact of Friday's reversal -- and it suggested that Rell and her people came to believe that Democrats could make good on their recent talk of overriding any Rell veto of the bill. |
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