Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 74
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to know. But what you run into is that on election years, as they
find in Congress, the members are in a hurry to adjourn so they
can get home and politic. As I say, you've got to get elected to
be a statesman.
In a legislative session, you do a lot of good. You make a
lot of people happy. This past session we passed a teacher's pay
raise. We passed a pay raise for state employees. And things like
this make a lot of people happy but legislative bodies also have
to pass some tax bills. We didn't have to do this in the last
session because of the way the governor manipulated things. But
you can make a few people unhappy as well. And I would think that
election year-psychology might well be that you don't want to make
anybody unhappy you don't have to. And this could present some
problems in the idea of annual sessions.
Looking at it from an appropriation standpoint, however, it
seems annual sessions would be a much better thing. Professor
Edwards here in town is a former government professor at Midwestern
University and is now the chairman of the Wichita County Democratic
Executive Committee. He points out a legislature is something like
a board of directors for a company. When you are trying to
appropriate money for something that may be needed twenty-four or
twenty-eight months ahead it is a little difficult in your planning;
I think probably annual sessions would help from the planning stand-
point. But you run into other difficulties, such as politics. The
particular situation that came up concerning taxation in thissession dealt with the governor's proposal. The governor has an
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Marcello, Ronald E.; Kamp, H. W. & Allred, David. Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967, book, November 20, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223569/m1/75/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.