Among the vetoes was $3 million toward a $4.5 million stormwater runoff project that Berman requested along with Rep. David Silvers, a Lake Clarke Shores Democrat, on the House side. She hopes that the federal government can make up for what the state couldn’t provide.
But not everyone felt that way.
“I had $25 million of appropriations in play and I walked away with $23.5 million, so I’m a happy guy,” said state Rep. Mike Caruso, a Boca Raton Republican. Among the wins was dollars toward a Lake Worth Lagoon monitoring project, a project that was vetoed last year.
Yet a loss is a loss, no matter how you slice it, he added.