Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Mauzy, July 12, 1973 Page: 2
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Mauzy
2my fourth session as you know. And yet having said
that, this was also the most productive session that
I've ever served in, which on the surface seems like
an anomaly.
How do you explain the fact that the Senate was more
conservative this time?
Oh, as usual the people who traditionally make up
the liberal coalition in Texas went to sleep at the
switch. Labor has been going through a terrible
ordeal and crisis within itself. I hope that'll
be resolved the day after tomorrow--Mr. Evans is
president of the AFL-CIO, and maybe they'll get
on the track again. Labor didn't provide the kind
of financial support or other help for the candidates
who were running that they should have. Secondly,
we lost an awful lot of our good members who
sought higher office to Congress. We lost Jordan
and Wilson who were successful. We lost McKool who
was unsuccessful. Joe Bernal down in San Antonio
just had a death-wish and got himself beat, and
there's no excuse for it. I never thought Ronald
Bridges was all that great, but that district should
have elected a liberal, and they elected the mostMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Mauzy, Oscar H. Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Mauzy, July 12, 1973, book, July 12, 1973; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223619/m1/3/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.