Will the final state budget cut out the governor? A budget conference committee meets this evening. Where does that leave Governor Jim Doyle? Senate Majority Leader, Russ Decker, was asked about that this afternoon. “The governor’s always in play, he’s at the beginning, he’s there at the end, so we’ll be talking to the governor,” said Decker. “Well, the governor’s people, I should say.”
“It sounds like the governor’s been cut out of the whole thing, to me,” said Senate Minority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. “It’ll be interesting to see if they push this right up to the final minute, ’cause obviously he doesn’t have the ability then to veto anything. So if they give him kind of a bag of goods, that he doesn’t know what’s in it, that’s going to make it very difficult.”