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the Legislature rather than take it from the contingency fund at this
time.

Q. Governor, in line with that question, do you believe that the
State ought to spend money to promote voter interest in the conven-
tion draft or should it take a position?

A. No, I don't believe that the State should spend money to simply
promote interest. But I do think the State and the Convention have a
serious obligation to be certain that those voters who have an interest
are able to determine what needs to be determined about the issues
facing the Convention. In short, I think that the convention has an
obligation to make readily available to interested voters sufficient in-
formation in depth about what's going on so that they can be fully
apprised of the Convention's work. Now, unfortunately, because of
the limitations of space in a newspaper, they can't always get the
definition that they need so they have to have recourse to other ma-
terials to supplement their attention that's triggered on new articles.

Q. Now, some delegates suggest that what Mr. Eney wants to do
with this extra money is run a propaganda campaign calling on people
to vote for the Convention constitution. Do you think that that's what
Mr. Eney wants?

A. No, I certainly don't. In the first place, Mr. Eney can't do any-
thing single-handedly. He is simply the president of the Convention.
He has to operate through his committees, and to appoint committees
he has to have the support of the Convention. So, when we say Mr.
Eney is going to do this or that it's really not an accuracy. We have to
regard the Convention as a working functional instrument in itself.
And whatever it decides to do through its committees is the conglom-
erate judgment of the majority of the members. The commission is
not a political organization, not seeking to perpetuate itself indi-
vidually in office, and I think it's sort of a disservice to try to make
it look like they are trying to make a big thing out of an unnecessary
use of publicity materials.

Q. But you don't think they ought to propagandize their own draft,
or do you?

A. If it's the consensus of the Constitutional Convention Commission
that such is the position of the majority of its members, I think they
have an obligation to publicize it.

Q. Governor, while we are on the subject of the Constitutional Con-
vention, Thomas Hunter Lowe takes issue with the proposal to in-