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THE CHAIRMAN: Would it, in your judgment, be
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more important than the provision in the Constitution
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which prevents the General Assembly from cutting the
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budget?
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MR. RAVER: Well, yes, I think so, because you
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see, in my opinion, watching things in Annapolis, the Chief
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Executive is elected and anyone thinking that he does it
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repeatedly gets buried in his total record, but if the
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Legislature, and I certainly want to make the suggestion
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here that I wouldn't trade one for the other, but I do
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believe that Subsection (11) is number one important
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and Section 6 is important.
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DR. JENKINS: I think it is an unfair question,
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like asking which eye would I rather lose.
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MR. RAVER: That is right. I said which I thought
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was the most single important guarantee, and I think it is.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Both of you educators are anticip
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ing what I might ask, and in so anticipating, I think you
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have started a long ways down in your own behalf, digging,
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shall we say, the grave. Well, I am not going to ask
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that question. I just wanted to find out why you felt it
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