Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 15
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the way he voted. One of our members was gone and we were trying
to find him. One of the Speaker's lieutenants said: "Let's not
look too hard for him because we don't want to tie this up and make
the Speaker vote. This is one he could get cut up on." I didn't
find the member. I don't know whether the lieutenant found him and
dumped him somewhere or what. But whatever the case, I felt that
there were times when politics was the overriding consideration.
I felt particularly that some of the arch-liberals were more
interested in cutting the Governor than they were in accomplishing
anything.
But these were only just a few people. We might compare this
situation with these civil rights disorders now. Some of the people
are getting pretty wild-eyed in their claims. Rap Brown, I think
it was, said, "The Negro built this country and we're going to
burn it." This is obviously not the case or a good approach and
I think by their own excess such people weaken their case. One
example might be the bill for state employees pay increase where
it was proposed that it be done ahead of schedule. The governor
opposed it and I think some of the people who pushed that proposal
--not all certainly, because many of them were very definitely
concerned about the state employees and justifiably so--were more
interested in embarrassing Connally. The state employees are vastly
underpaid. Some woman the other day was testifying in a court case
that I heard. She was an employee at the state hospital. It seems
to me her take-home pay was something like $260, no $160 a month
or something like that. It was ridiculous. In this day and time,
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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/m1/16/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.