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On the recordNovember 16, 2015
operating a complex business with eight or nine appointed governors who are part-time and meet four or five times a year is a recipe for--to call it dysfunction would be to assume that could somehow be functional.
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee

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Corker highlights the dysfunction in managing a complex organization with part-time governors.

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