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Byline: Tim Archuleta TRIBUNE POLITICAL EDITOR
Legislature 1999
SANTA FE -- Gov. Gary Johnson today used his veto pen for the first time this session to trim about $2.2 million from a legislative expense bill, charging that legislators are spending too much on themselves.
Johnson line-vetoed the money earmarked for legislative staffing and benefits from the Legislature's $16.4 million feed bill.
Johnson informed legislative leaders of his partial veto of the feed bill in a two-page veto message release this morning.
The House Bill 1 partial veto could put a chilly end to talk of cooperation between the Republican Johnson and the …