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Inter-University Case Program (ICP #60) [Published date: 1961]. Paper covers, 35 pp.
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In acceptable condition. Tan paper covers with black lettering on front. Light nicking and creasing to edges and corners and light overall rubbing and soiling. Previous owner's name and number on bottom of front cover. Binding tight (staple bound). First 8 pages have underlining and margin lines in red ink. NOT Ex-library. A solid reading copy. [From Introduction] In the fall of 1951 the Republican Party in Minnesota lost a gubernatorial election for the first time since 1936. Along with the governorship, it lost every other statewide office except that of state auditor. Control of the lower house of the Legislature slipped from the hands of the Conservative Caucus (allied with the state Republican Party) into the hands of the Liberals (allied with the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party)... The incoming Governor was the 36 year old Orville L. Freeman, the first member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to be elected to that office. This case study, written from the perspective of the Governor's office, describes the preparation and passage of Freeman's budget. Since the Governor's term was for two years only and the Legislature would meet only once in that two-year period, this was the only budget and tax program for which Freeman would be responsible during his term. The first section of this study describes the efforts of Freeman and his aides to prepare a budget and a fiscal program for presentation to the Legislature. They had less than two months for this task - from shortly after Freeman's election in November 1954 to the opening of the legislative session in January 1955. Their first examination of the state's finances revealed that existing taxes would not even pay for continuing state services at the level set by the previous administration, much less permit the increase in state services which Freeman and his party had pledged during the campaign. . . The second section of this study describes Freeman's four-month negotiations with the members of the Legislature and the decisions made by that body. The Governor's proposed fiscal program became the most controversial issue in the 1955 session. Soon the Legislature was debating not only specific fiscal proposals but different theories of taxation and different views about the future shape of Minnesota's tax system. The author, who had assisted the Governor in his campaign, was in the Governor's office (but not a paid member of his staff) during the period described here. Much of the information on which the study is based was gained by direct observation of staff meetings, executive legislative conferences, partisan legislative caucuses, and informal discussions of all kinds. . .