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special funds. I don't agree with this one hundred per
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cent, but education being the sacred cow that it is, whether
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you want to disturb this and upset the apple cart by
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tightening up this provision on education —
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THE CHAIRMAN: What I'm getting at is how badly
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would the apple cart be upset? From what you said, I rathe
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gather that there is very little the Governor can do becaus
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the budget is controlled by a formula which has been set
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up by State law and, to the extent that the formula require
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so many dollars to be appropriated, he has really no choice
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has he?
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MR. RENNIE: No, not in these instances. Under
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the Attorney General's rulings, it has been — in fact, I
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have to go back in history again. In 1951, that was the
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year or the. time I used the expression that I pulled the
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rug out from under Tom Pullen on this very thing. I had
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recently taken over from Mr. Kirkman, and he tried to sell
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me the bill of goods that everything in here was sacred,
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and I knew it wasn't, but I quietly asked an opinion of
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Paul Hammond who was the Attorney General at that time. I
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wrote him a letter, and I was just reading it the other day
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