Many of the articles last week concerning Governor Matt Blunt's line-item vetoes on the budget noted that the legislature had restored some of the items Blunt said he wanted cut, so the governor simply vetoed those items.
That included $227,000 for Alzheimer's research. The governor and his aides said they didn't think that money was necessary since it was used primarily for seed money for efforts to get federal grants.
Apparently, the governor felt strongly about continuing to subsidize rail traffic in the state since he allowed the restored money for Amtrak service between Kansas City and St. Louis to escape a veto.
They made the wrong decision.
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