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Wednesday June 28, 2006

Just what does Peter Kinder do? The Board of Public Buildings recently decided that the offices of the state auditor and the Lieutenant Governor should be swapped. Much ado has been made on this being an office grab by the current Lieutenant Governor, Peter Kinder, with the expected Republican and Democrat bickering. However, no real discussion has emerged on just what the office actually does. Based on my reading, not much except jumping to higher office, yet there is a staff of seven assigned to Peter Kinder. If Governor Blunt is truly interested in cutting government costs, he would look into reducing this staff or eliminating the position of Lieutenant Governor outright. But then he may just be waiting until a Democrat gets into that position first. ( Jun 28 2006, 12:02:55 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [1]

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I guess Peter Kinder is our Lt. Governor? I agree wholeheartedly...there is no reason to really have a Lt. Governor, and there is certainly little reason to have one with much in the way of a staff. If the Governor really thinks he needs one, toss him into a closet-sized office in the Governor's suite and pull him out when there is some public function the Governor doesn't want to attend. Amusingly, a few years back, 'ol One Term Bob (Holden) griped about how he needed a security staff. Hopefully that was never granted. In the event our Governor croaks in office (ala Carnahan), it really won't be the end of the world if the reigns of state leadership fall into the lap of some other elected official with an actual job until such time as a special election could be called.

However, I imagine all this would essentially require some major retooling of the ol' state constitution; something that you shouldn't ever trust modern politicians to do.

Posted by Richard on June 28, 2006 at 01:17 PM CDT #

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