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University Daily Kansan, November 22, 1982
Lt. Gov.-elect to oversee tax strategy Docking predicting active role
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
When Lt. Gov.-elect Tom Docking predicts what his new duties will include, he stresses that history will not repeat itself in the second Carlin administration.
The lieutenant governor's position received criticism when Paul Dugan, the current lieutenant governor, became a forgotten man in the Capital of the United States during the job after he repeatedly was passed over for executive duties.
But Docking, who teamed with Carlin to soundly defeat the Republican gubernatorial ticket of Sam Hardage
and Dan Thiessen, said he would be active in forming tax strategy and creating a better business climate for the state.
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"There are particular areas that I feel I can make a contribution to the Carlin administration," he said Friday. "In some particular areas I intend to be very active. But I will be available in any area of public policy."
THE TAX committee, still in its embryonic stages, will map a long-range tax strategy, Docking said.
Docking, a Wichita attorney, said one of his biggest tasks would be to oversee a committee assigned to study long-term tax problems facing the state.
Tom Docking
"The committee will examine all sources of revenue at the state level," he said. "There will be an examination of all revenue sources, where our sources are common, now we make us take in the future, whether we have equity in the current system, and whether our system will be equitable in the future."
Another of Docking's ambitions is to establish a close working relationship with the Kansas Department of Economic Development. The KDED came under intense scrutiny during this fall's gub, material campaign after Hardage questioned Kansas' ability to attract new industry.
"The lieutenant governor has historically had a close relationship with KIDED." Docking said, "and I hope to work with him to prevent department heads on many projects.
"We must attract new businesses to the state. And a lot can be done to encourage businesses to stay in Kansas."
DOCKING SAID the tax committee's
recommendations could play an important role in building a business climate attractive to industry.
Other issues in which Docking expressed interest were agriculture, food and energy.
Docking, the heir to a rich political tradition, said that growing up in a political atmosphere gave him an advantage when preparing for his new job. His father, Robert Docking, served four two-year terms as governor, and his grandfather also was elected governor.
"I have known many of the people in government, and I understand how government operates," he said. "It is important the whole ball of wax, but it will help."
"Right now, I'm doing a lot of behind-the-scenes things. I've made some trips to Topeka to visit with Carlin administration officials and members of the Legislature. But I'm mainly getting my house in order."
MANY STATE Democratic leaders, including Jim Ploger, executive director of the state party, have called him a rising star in Kansas politics.
Those same observers have predicted that the "Building a New Tradition" campaign theme for Carlin and Docking means a Docking candidacy for the 2016 presidential election. Docking plays rumors that he is being granted to succeed Carlin in 1986.
"It is so early to talk about that when I haven't even been inaugurated to do the job I was elected to do," he said. "We are not even to the position where we are now." First, we have to see if I do a good job as lieutenant governor."
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