Oral History Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, July 30, 1965 Page: 3
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I suppose, all in all, I should record my feeling that the Legislature
is really a better body, and the members are of a little bit better calibre
than one might ordinarily expect if he hadn't served or if he was not in
personal contact. $aggoner Carr one time made the observation that in
judging members of the Legislature ordinarily your local people always
feel that they have a good one, but most everybody else has a sorry one.
As far as a feeling of honesty and dishonesty, incidents have occurred
that I have known about where I felt that the moral calibre of a few members
was pretty poor. But the fact that these are incidents that I have to
search back in my memory to think about is perhaps significant. I don't
agree with a lot of the broad indictments of the Legislature that Ronnie
Dugger, for instance, has developed in times past in his so-called ex-
pos'es of lobbying in The Observer. I don't know that I would dispute
any of his facts, I would just feel that overall I wouldn't put it all
in the same perspective that he does. I realize that one always speaks
from his experience, and I think that the lobbyists, most of them who are
there year in and year out, who make a study of this business, certainly
don't apply uniform techniques to everybody. But in speaking about the
influence that the lobby has had over the Legislature, I would think in
terms of the kind of approaches they've made to me, and the efforts they
have made to influence me, but would have to admit that they might make
altogether different approaches to somebody else. They're smart enough
to gauge their approach to the people with whom they are working. And
if I haven't had to fight off any improper advances or any improper pressures,
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Kamp, H. W. & Jamison, Alonzo W. Oral History Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, July 30, 1965, book, February 8, 1966; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223551/m1/4/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.