LC 5.12: Gubernatorial Veto Powers Act (Vote to Table)

[Peanut]

Hi, former Governor and guy you've all worked with speaking.

This is, quite frankly, a bad measure. The whole point of our constitutional structure as framed is to give the people the final say on whichever passed bill the Council and the Governor disagree on, and removing that will neither make the position of Governor more "fun" nor in any way help our region's democratic legitimacy. I disagree with ASV: if the Rt. Hon. Chancellor is undecided, then he should see how debate moves before making a judgement.

To put it simply, tje only thing this bill would do is take away even more power from the Legislature and the People, and for what, exactly? I see no plausible benefit to that: what is wrong with letting the people be the final arbiters on a bill the Governor vetoes? It's not like  the power has been misused since the new Constitution was adopted, and it's not the case that we haven't done some tweaks either. I strongly urge the Councillors to vote against this, and am completely open to further conversations with them if needed .

[Peanut]

This bill is pretty self-explanatory. It increases the threshold for the Council to override the veto of the Governor should she or he do so from just a simple majority to two-thirds of the Council. I support this given that a higher number of councilors on the same page to push a bill through in spite of what the Governor's decision and it can go into referendum if it needs to.

We already did that. We passed the Legumes Deserve Respect Amendment (which was originally the MPGA Amendment) to deal with the threshold issue, so for practical matters it only removes the referendum from the legislative process, a move which I'm not in favor of.