Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 31
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me to anything. I have never gone out and hunted up a sponsor for
dinner or anything like that, but lobbyists have bought me lunches.
They will come and say, if you are going to lunch, how about going
with me? And I will go to lunch with them and listen to their
arguments and I don't feel that the fact that that man pays for
my lunch obligates me to him to vote his way or anything.
The lobbyists work a lot through friendship, through the fact
that if you like a guy, you are going to...perhaps unconsiously,
be a little more disposed toward his point of view. They do argue
their point as an advocate of a particular cause. And there is a
lot of pressure through their membership. For example, when you
are talking to a man from...let me pick one...Texas State Teachers
Association, TSTA...you know it is a vast organization. Texas
Restaurant Association is another one. The Texas Restaurant
Association, I have been told, is the largest trade association in
the state. Well, certainly when you talk to someone from TSTA or
the Texas Restaurant Association, you are aware of the people who
are members of their association. They don't come in and say, "I
represent five thousand people throughout Texas," or twenty-five
thousand people or whatever it happens to be. But you know their
membership is there.
Really more people are informed of more legislative activities
through organization membership than through any other one source
of information, I think.
This can be helpful and hurtful to representatives. Mostpeople don't know what goes on in their state legislature except
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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/m1/32/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.