Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 77
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Allred
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least in my case, a part-time job. And I think that in most cases
that is true. Now in California and some of the other states they
have gone to a full-time job. The argument here is that if you
pay a man eighty-four hundred dollars a year that is enough for
him to live on and he can then become a full-time legislator and
perhaps that is true. But I think that many of them will still
retain private businesses. It will, however, be an increasing
compensation and in that respect it will attract probably a better
quality of individual. A great many people who want to run for
office can't do so because they lack the money and I don't mean
necessarily political contributions, although that is definitely
a factor. I was talking to a man who was considering running for
lieutenant governor, which would be a state-wide race. If you are
going to run state-wide, you have to start well in advance. He
wanted to start, let's say this September, for a primary next May.
But the question becomes, "What will his family live on?" We just
recently had a case of Senator Dodd of Connecticut being censured
by the United States Senate for using campaign contributions for
personal expenses. The other side of the dilemma is that a man who
wants to run for office may be headed off not by any lack of ability
or anything else except a lack of personal funds. I am not defending
Tom Dodd, I am just making this observation.
I would like to turn for a second to the subject of Negores
in the legislature. This session of the legislature for the first
time since Reconstruction days had three Negro members, Representa-tive Curtis Graves of Houston, Representative Joe Lockridge of
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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/m1/78/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.