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I certainly hope you will stand your ground and

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support this measure.

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THE PRESIDENT: D elegate Jett.

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DELEGATE JETT: Mr. President, and fellow

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delegates: I wish to speak in favor of reconsideration,

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because this item is an item that is too important to

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vote on lightly.

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Regardless of all of our feelings as to the

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consumer -- and we are all consumers -- this is something

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to affect every man, woman and child in this State, and

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in every walk of life.

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I further want you to reflect on the fact that

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I think this is an unwarranted reflection on the thousands

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of honest merchants in this State, and the millions of

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intelligent consumers in this State. We are not infested

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with a bunch of crooked merchants, and we are not a state

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inhabitated by subversives.

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This provision makes you stop and ask "What is

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unfair" What is harmful? Are we attacking the profit

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motive? Is the amount of profit unfair?"

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In trying to ask the public want have we done for