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1	I am not suggesting this is e good or bad thing, but
2	that the fact that the Comptroller, and the Attorney
3	General are presently elected, introduces a kind of
4	potential, if not actual political competition between
5	the Attorney General and Comptroller, between them and as
6	to them on the one hand and the Governor on the other,
7	even in the same political party, not to mention opposite
8	political parties? I am not saying that is good or bad,
9	but isn't it a fact there is an element of political
10	competition between these various elected officials, be-
11	cause, I think this carries Mr. Eney's point a little
12	further, because of the very obvious shot at the State
13	House that the elected Comptroller and elected Attorney
14	General by virtue of their positions, being in the public
15	eye, would have.
16	MR. GOLDSTEIN: I see no evidence of that.
17	Let's assume what you say would be right. The fact that
18	they are public officials elected means they have to go
19	out day by day and do a good job because of public
20	scrutiny. The people in Maryland know what goes on.
21	Through newspapers , TV, they watch everything you do in