Republican-led legislature exerts more independence; political analyst says the governor still has power

“So I think the governor’s strategy is going to be, he’s going to try and pick off a few of those Republicans in advance to get them to side with him to try and stop those veto overrides,” said Collins. “With the line-item veto power I think that, that gives the governor a lot of leverage to bring over specific Republican legislators who basically don’t want to see projects within their districts taken out by the line-item veto.”