Oops. Quinn’s office announces veto that never happened

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn’s office has had to veto its own veto.

The governor’s staff sent out a statement Tuesday saying Quinn had used his amendatory veto to rewrite a bill so that it would impose tough ethics restrictions on Illinois lawmakers if they approved the bill during the fall veto session.

But that was a mistake. The Chicago Democrat had not added the ethics language.

Quinn’s office quickly announced it had made an error and explained that the amendatory veto never took place.