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would literally have nothing to do. I mean, he could go
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off and take a vacation after he has made the appointments
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of many Boards and Commissions and many others that float
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about and disappear into the woods; but it is the budget
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responsibility that gives him this authority to devote time
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and give him opportunity to function as an executive. So,
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I urge you particularly to do what you apparently are doing.
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namely to work in close concert with a Committee on executive
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organization, because what they do is highly related to
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the budget process and the provisions providing the budget
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just have to fit into this mood of the executive structure.
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I don't know what the intentions of the Commission
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are. I know what mine would be, namely to have only one
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elected executive official in the State and place all
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authority and responsibility in that individual, namely
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the Governor.
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Now, we also have to think in terms of the
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fundamental characteristics of the budgetary process. As
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far as democratic control of modern government is con-
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cerned --
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MR. BOND: You mean only one elected official?
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