Photo: #Gov. Tim Pawlenty discusses his use of the line item veto in giving final approval to a bonding bill. Some of the big ticket items that Pawlenty vetoed included the $70 million for the Central Corridor project and $400,000 for a sheet music lending library in Chatfield.
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty discusses his use of the line item veto in giving final approval to a bonding bill. Some of the big ticket items that Pawlenty vetoed included the $70 million for the Central Corridor project and $400,000 for a sheet music lending library in Chatfield. (MPR Photos/Tom Scheck)

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Pawlenty points to sheet music library as example of fat in bonding bill


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At his press conference announcing his bonding bill vetos, Gov. Pawlenty had a favorite symbol of misplaced priorities by DFLers who put the bill together: a sheet music lending library in Chatfield, Minnesota. He singled out a $400,000 bonding proposal for the library in his discussion of the bill. Morning Edition host Perry Finelli talked with Teresa Cerling, library manager for the Chatfield Brass Band and Lending Library.

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