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Mauzy;Comment on this statement: '1lnitiativerreferendum has never
lived up to its expectations,'1
I don't know who said it, so I don't know what their
expectations were, As I say, I just donut think it is necessary
today in Texas because we have already got it, We have a
form of even lawmaking authority in that constitutional amend-
ments have to be submitted from the Legislature to the people
for ratification, so I just think it is something we can do
without.
How important do you really think it was on Clements's wish list
of the things he wanted in this legislative session?
Oh, it obviously wasnt important to him at all, He had learned
in the 1979 session that he wasnt going to get it, and Walter
1Mengden used to cry on my shoulder all the time about how that
damn fool Clements had walked off and left him, that he wasn't
ready for it and that he wasn ,t pushing it and all this--all
of which is true, I think he intended to use it just as a
campaign issue so he would have something to run on again this
year,
As I recall, he did say a great deal about it at the beginning
of the legislative session, but as the session rolled on, it
seemed to me as though it virtually disappeared as an issue, so
far as he was concerned,
That's right, He quit talking about it, and if he had"ve
really been serious about it, he would have sent someone over
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Mauzy, Oscar H. Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Mauzy, February 19, 1982, book, February 19, 1982; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223641/m1/8/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.