Wisconsin Supreme Court June 30, 1995, 94-1519-OA (Citizens Utility Board v. Klauser)

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, J.

(dissenting). Justice Connor T. Hansen, dissenting in the Kleczka case, objected to a governor writing laws with the eraser end of the pencil.1 Today the majority allows a governor to write laws with the pointed end of the pencil. I dissent.

The majority holds that a governor has a "write-in" veto power that "extends only to monetary figures and is not applicable ...