Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 75
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advantage in that when he speaks to the legislature and it is covered
by television, radio, and newspapers. Legislators are not allowed
to question the governor. He simply gets up and makes his speech.
He can present his programs in such a way that they all sound
wonderful. I didn't agree with everything that Governor Connally
proposed. I was not one of those who went out of my way to cut
him just to be cutting him but I did disagree with him on occasion.
It would have been helpful to have been able to discuss with him
some of his reasoning behind his programs. But you sort of get a
chance to discuss this with him in that you are able to discuss it
with his "team" in the legislature. The "team" is the group that
agrees with the governor.
But whatever is the case, Connally's tax proposals were met
with crashing opposition. The result was that toward the end of
the session he got up and said, in effect, "All right fellows, I
will call a special session dealing with taxes later. We have
enough surplus funds to cover us the rest of this year." Well this
is all very fine and good except that it puts us into a special
session during an election year; a session dealing solely with
taxes. So if anyone wants to run against any member, all he has
to do is talk about the taxes. There is a wry little joke, as an
aside, in which a politician finds someone who is voting against
him and says: "Well why are you voting against me? After all, I
got your town a dam last year and year before that I got it a new
post office and year before that a new federal building and so forth."And the guy says, "Well I know, but what have you done for me lately?"
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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/m1/76/?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.