(The Center Square) — More voices are pushing Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine to use his line-item veto authority to strike out parts of a recently passed budget.

Attorney General Dave Yost has already expressed displeasure about plans to funnel $600 million in taxpayer money to the Cleveland Browns for a new stadium. Now, Senate Democrats have sent a letter that asks for 27 items to be vetoed.

“This veto letter includes items that we believe are not in the best interest of all Ohioans,” said Senate Democrat Leader Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood. “We have asked the governor to consider line-item vetoing them. I am hopeful that he will give thoughtful consideration to each and every item.”

At the top of the list is the Republican plan to use individual taxpayers’ money in unclaimed funds and give them to the Browns for a stadium in Brook Park.

J.C. Bradbury, one of the nation’s leading economists who has studied and published reports on taxpayer-funded sports stadiums, called the plan “willful ignorance” and said promised benefits rarely, if ever, turn into reality because it diverts spending from other areas.

Democrats want to follow DeWine’s original plan of increasing taxes on sports gambling in the state and using the new revenue to develop a fund for stadiums and other sports needs.

Republicans, in their budget, also included a provision that would force state school board and local school board candidates to run under a party affiliation. Currently, those elections are nonpartisan.

“Education is not a partisan, political issue, however this provision, by requiring political affiliations for school board candidates, makes education a partisan and political issue,” the letter reads. “We are concerned that making school board races partisan could restrict who can run due to their employment with state, federal or nonprofit entities. If we want our schools to be represented well, we should not add requirements that make it harder to run.”

Democrats are also pushing for line-item vetoes in areas such as Medicaid restrictions, public library restrictions, a public records exemption for legislators, repeal of the sales tax exemption for newspapers, limits on the amount of money schools can save, elimination of allowable tax levies and a 20-mill minimum levy, requiring health care providers to collect and report abortion data, the recognition of only two sexes, and several other areas.