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GOVERNOR TAWES: I would go along with that.
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The Governor is not going to dismiss a good employee, a
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man who is doing his duty and doing his job, and doing it
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well, and whose knowledge of the work that he has been
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called upon to do is excellent. He wants that kind of a
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department head, but, you know, you get fooled sometimes,
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human nature being what it is, you get fooled occasionally.
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Now, I have experienced that. At the time we didn't know.
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I think some of you around this table will understand, I
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mean can recall some of the problems I have had. I think
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the Governor should have the right to dismiss. He puts
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the fear in that particular individual. You call, him in,
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you say, Now, listen here, you are not performing properly,
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and you have got to do this job like it should be done,
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and you are taking too much time off and going to Florida
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every winter, and you are not putting the time in that you
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need, and I think the Governor should have the right to
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put the fear in that particular individual to keep him on
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the job, because if he knows that he can't be dismissed
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for the minor infractions as you might refer to them, he
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would thumb his nose, so to speak, at the Governor, and he
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