From Capitol Weekly:

Attorney General Jerry Brown’s refusal to investigate the governor’s wholesale veto threat has drawn a pledge from one angry lawmaker to introduce legislation to bar future governors from threatening mass vetoes.

Brown, a Democrat and likely candidate for governor, on Friday declined to jump into the legal fray around Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger’s veto threats – drawing a sharp rebuke from the two lawmakers who had made the requests.

The dispute centers on the governor’s threat to veto some 700 bills on his desk unless the Legislature passes a comprehensive water bond package. The pair of legislators have alleged that this threat constituted illegal coercion and asked Brown to issue an opinion.

Brown’s Oct. 9 veto opinion was addressed to those two legislators, Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont, a contender for state attorney general next year, and Sen. Jeff Denham, R-Merced.

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