Budget Knife Is Selective ; Nixon Spares Fellow Officeholders.

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While departments of state government are scurrying to figure out which positions to eliminate from the payroll next year, statewide elected offices seem immune from the budget knife.

Gov. Jay Nixon last week proposed a 2010 budget that saves $170 million by cutting 1,329 state jobs. He touted it as the largest government reduction in 30 years. But no positions are being cut from the governor's office or from the offices of the lieutenant governor, auditor or state treasurer.

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Budget Knife Is Selective ; Nixon Spares Fellow Officeholders.

And the secretary of state's office would add three positions under Nixon's budget recommendation, while the attorney general is budgeted to get ...

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