The one common thread is that I can't figure out what the job description really is for Francis, Burke and Davidson. They seem to be mostly figureheads with no real power.
Tarheel explained this last week. The executive chain of command is: Ownership --> President---> President of Hockey Ops = COO ---> General Manager
The President is in charge of the whole shebang, POHO runs the Hockey side while his equivalent handles the front office, then the General Manager handles the day-to-day running of the organization on the hockey side. For the
Flames, Ken King is Brian Burke's boss, Burke handles the hockey side and is Brad Treliving's boss, Treliving handles day to day affairs.
This is the context of the tweet, "The new GM will answer the Dundon directly." POHO could be a legitimate promotion, a signal of organizational restructuring in which Francis still retains an important, but very different, role: but here, it's just a title. Francis will not be the new GM's boss, that will be Dundon.
(So really, it's not saying that Dundon will meddle, it's saying Francis is just a figurehead, not an actual POHO with power)