Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 81
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members from districts or wards. The same could hold true for the
city council. We were both serving on the School Districts
Committee, headed by Representative Tom Bass of Houston. One ploy
that is used to perpetuate the group in power on a school board is:
if they know someone is going to resign or not going to run again,
they will arrange for that person to resign a few months ahead of
time and have someone else appointed in his place. They make sure
that that someone is friendly to the current administration. Then
that appointee can run as an incumbent when the election comes up.
It's a political fact that it is much harder to defeat an incumbent
than it is if both candidates are running for an open seat.
But in any event this particular question came up concerning
the way the school district elections would be held in Tarrant County.
Curtis wanted to amend it. But it was a local bill. Curtis was
told by some of the local members, "Leave it alone Buddy--you don't
mess with somebody else's local bill." But he insisted. I
suggested to him that he instead introduce a bill of statewide
application providing that in all cities in the state the candidates
for school boards and city councils would have to run from districts
or something along that line. But Curtis said that he had been
told by some of his advisors to amend this bill. He had talked to
several men, such as college professors who taught in the Negro
colleges and such. He had been told by them (by one man especially,
I think he said) that they felt this bill should be defeated. Curtis
was named to a three-man subcommittee on the bill. The other two
members of the subcommittee didn't want to mess with the local bill.
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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/m1/82/?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.