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the legislation. “The university’s president has made it quite clear that he would rather see the bill vetoed than to agree to the accountability I view as essential.”
Gov. Allen also billed legislation that would protect consumers only in Fairfax County who contract for future services in lawn care, dating service and martial arts instruction. He said the measure is limited and would mislead consumers.
“This bill applies only to three types of future services contracts which encompass only a minuscule percentage of all service-related con; tracts,” he said in his veto. “Such fine line drawing based on subject matter and geography will make little sense to ordinary consumers.”
In another development, House Democrats reluctantly succumbed to the governor’s demand to give him the complete budget bill for the current biennium so he can review the entire budget rather than just the “caboose bill” that covers changes for the final few months of this fiscal year.
Democratic leaders argued that they followed the same procedure last year, saying if the governor doesn’t have any substantive objectives with the bill he shouldn’t slow down the process and threaten a court battle.
“We have struggled mightily with this question. If there’s no substantive differences, why was this gauntlet thrown down?” Del. Cranwell asked. “There’s too much of this going on in Washington, D.C., and we don’t want to do that in Virginia.”
^Republicans countered by suggesting that the issue at hand concerned separation of powers.
Del. Robert F. McDonnell, RVirginia Beach, said the sanctity of the governor’s line-item veto authority was at stake.
“Failing to (submit the entire budget) would have a terrible precedent on the future for any governor,” he said.
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