Democrats have ~80% in both houses of the MA Legislature. Here are the times they have overridden our Republican governor's veto this year outside of budget line items: (1) When they voted to raise their own pay Yeah, it's just that one.
1) Those spending bill veto overrides looked PRETTY important to me. 2) The only non-budget governors veto I could find an article on was about requiring insurers to provide antibiotics for Lyme disease and MA Leg did override that...https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/08/01/legislature-orders-insurers-cover-long-term-lyme-treatment-overriding-baker-veto/YBZ3DGaUy8bHRWMYaOyQdM/story.html …
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What are some of the things MA Gov vetoed that Dem leg should have overridden veto on?
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I dug for a while and I found a Vehicle Miles Travelled tax that appears to have been vetoed? Which I guess is bad but raising taxes is pretty unpopular in general, so kinda not a shock that they couldn't get an override going on that.
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