State Sen. Dan Thatcher told his legislative colleagues Wednesday that they have two options for dealing with the state’s ambiguous laws around filling midterm vacancies in the U.S. House and Senate.
Either they allow candidates to qualify for the ballot by gathering signatures, the West Valley Republican said, or they can effectively do nothing by continuing to pass legislation that is vetoed by the governor.
“I don’t think that we will reach a point where we will have enough support in the Legislature to overturn signatures or override a governor’s veto,” Thatcher said. “If we pass something and it gets vetoed like this last one did, we don’t have a bill, which means the governor does essentially exactly whatever he wants.