Lamont vetoes speedy earmarks: ‘My objection is to the process’

Tamara Ceaikovski

Gov. Ned Lamont used his line-item veto power Tuesday to cut grants and earmarks worth $4 million from six sections of Senate Bill 298 , a 98-section emergency-certified bill that sped with little review to passage last week by the General Assembly. “Let me be clear at the outset: my objection is not to the missions of the organizations named in these sections, nor to the goals the legislature seeks to advance. Many of these programs do meaningful work in communities across our state,” Lamont

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