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19 Cards in this Set
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Who is the attorney general?
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Greg Abbott
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Who is the Comptroller of Public Accounts?
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Susan Combs
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Who is the Commissioner of Agriculture?
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Todd Staples
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Who is the Commissioner of general land office?
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Jerry Patterson
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what is the power of the attorney general?
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power to interpret law and enforces civil law
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What is the job of the Comptroller of Public Accounts?
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administer state tax system, monitors spending state agencies, and act as state banker
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What is the job of Commissioner of Agriculture?
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regulate and promote agriculture
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What is the job of commissioner of general land office?
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land office supervises leasing of state land for oil and gas
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who is the bureaucracy of the government?
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teachers, police, highway contruction workers
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What provides for publice and media access to most meetins and records in Texas?
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Texas Open Records Act
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What is the whistle blower protection?
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protects job security of employees who report illegal or unethical conduct
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What does the Secrety of State do?
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appointes the governor, administers Texas' election laws, maintains voter registration records
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what is the ex officion boards?
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boards who memenbers are automatically assigned due to their holding some other position
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what does revolving door mean?
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practices of special interest groups help them gain in fluence over public policy
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What is public policy?
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it's very complex
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what groups are the most natural allies for an agency?
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Clientele groups
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what kind of legislative accountablitiy is there?
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auditing, budgeting and oversighting boards as well as legislative committees
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what requires the records of all government proceedings to be available to the public?
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open record law
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what is the job of a whistle blower?
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expose bureaucratic excessses, blunders, corruption, and facvoritism
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