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MR. RENNIE: Sure. The Governor could do any thin
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he wanted with it.
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MR. SACHS: Could I ask one short question,
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gentlemen?
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MR. RENNIE: It's purely permissive.
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MR. SACHS: Mr. Rennie, Mr. Slicher, we talked
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before about what impediments, if any, the mandatory
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aspects of the education budget, as a constitutional matter
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might present, and I think I understand your reactions to
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that.
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Do you have any special reactions to the fact
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that the judicial and the legislative budgets are also
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mandatory, can not be revised by the Governor? Has that
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in practice proven difficult, in this Constitution?
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MR. SLICHER: No, because the judiciary of its ve
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nature has been very cooperative. As a matter of fact, .
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it is up to almost the deadline of the date that we have
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to go to the printer with it. If there is some adjustment
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downward, they don't hesitate to call us and say, well,
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now, we've got so much money in here for retirement, the
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judges and judges' wives. A certain judge died or some
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