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"Thank you very much, it was a big help all right, but how

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do I get this chewing gum out of my ear?" (Laughter).

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My advice, I hope , will be better received and

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better acted upon than that poor fellow on the airline.

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What I want to say to you is this: We are in

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favor of the freedom to know, but not as Delegate Sherbow

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has said, just opening the floodgates. I think the matter

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can properly be handled by the legislature, and I think

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that it can be handled intelligently by the legislature,

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but if we left it to the legislature to close all the

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floodgates, we are opening, we are in trouble.

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The exceptions raised by the various experts

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who came over to speak on the right to know law disenchanted

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me on it.

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Delegate Willoner has advised you as a matter of

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common law right you would have a right to the record.

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If you don't know it, the Maryland code provides that all

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meetings, regular and special, by the legislative body

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by whatever name known, and every municipal corporation of

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Maryland, including the City of B altimore, shall be public

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meetings and open to the public at all times.