The Honolulu City Council passed a $4 billion operating budget on Wednesday, eliciting a promise from Mayor Rick Blangiardi that he would line-item veto a part of the budget that guts the city’s economic revitalization office.
“This is nonsensical,” the mayor said in his office after the vote, “and that’s the part that irritates me.”
While the mayor can line-item veto the budget, council members can override the veto with at least six out of nine votes. And the council voted with a veto-proof majority…