Sanford Vetoes Bobtailed Bill
PROPS TO THE GOVERNOR FOR STANDING UP FOR OUR CONSTITUTION, AGAINST FEDERAL MANDATES
FITSNews - June 12, 2008 - S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford has vetoed a bobtailed bill which included a controversial amendment on ethanol fuel blending, saying it “clearly violates” our state constitution and would “undoubtedly be held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.”
The amendment, which was inserted into a sales tax exemption bill at the behest of special interests, violates the requirement that proposed legislation “relate to but one subject.” Even the bill’s original sponsor, Senate President Glenn McConnell, objected to the amendment and voted against it on the floor of the State Senate.
Sanford also found fault with the amendment’s attempt to “permanently entangle a misguided federal ethanol policy with state law,” saying that “the federal policy of subsidizing and mandating ethanol production has caused food prices to rise and increased the amount of land devoted to farming, which often has damaging consequences to the environment.”
Bravo to both Sanford and Senator McConnell. This bill is not only illegal, but the amendment seeks to perpetuate the fiction that ethanol is a silver bullet that will solve our nation’s energy woes. It isn’t, and the only reason it gets such unrequited love from the feds is that everybody wants to kiss Iowa’s ass given its primacy in the presidential selection process …
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By trust fund baby watcher on June 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am
you know, marshall clement sanfraud really could do a little better than getting that $4 hairacut at the beauty school. but that would conflict with the image he’s created of mr. everyman. what a flavor…….
By veritas on June 12th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
But he signed S 1171 that was even a worse case of bobtailing. The 2008 BAT bill.
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