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he designation ot McCloud as Robbs chief of staff was coordinated with and approved by the office of the Attorney General before it was announced. There appears to be no question about its legal standing.
Beside this, it should be remembered that every governor for the past four decades has had someone serving in a similar capacity, although with, perhaps, a different title.
While Robb’s appointment of McCloud was more formal, functionally and historically there was nothing unique about it.
The proposal to dump the Department of Education was interesting in that it may have had its origin in the arcane politics of the state Capitol. Since the advent of the Robb administration, there has reportedly been a genteel turf fight going on between Dr. Gordon K. Davies, the director of the Council of Higher Education and Dr. John T. Casteen III, the Secretary of Education. Some Capitol observers suspect that the council’s lobbyists may have had a hand in the JLARC recommendation. As one administration spokesman delicately put it, “Davies and Casteen have different agendas.”
Robb and the state college presidents have rallied strongly to the defense of the Education Department, saying it should be strengthened rather than eliminated.
It should be noted that these proposals are staff recommendations only, and have not been considered by the full commission. On Nov. 15 the governor will present his own reorganization recommendations to JLARC. They will likely coincide with some of the staff proposals.
But those involving McCloud and the Department of Education will not be among them.
There is an old saying around the state Capitol which the Robb people believe applies in these cases.
That saying is: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
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