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help the consumer.

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The riots and the protests that we have today I

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think are more from political promises that are incapable

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of enforcement than anything else.

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This particular provision does absolutely

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nothing. It holds out hope, but still it may well do

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great harm to those people who we seek to help.

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I say that for this reason: The General Assembly

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of Maryland has acted in this field, the Attorney General has

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set up a consumer's protection section within its office.

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These people are running hard to help the consumer, and

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sometimes when someone is running hard, you give them a little

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push and you make them fall. And this push, if the

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General Assembly and all of those who are working so

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hard to help the consumer, may just be the thing that says,

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well, we can't satisfy everybody, so let us get out of this

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and not beat our brains out, and I ask you to vote to

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reconsider this, and let us strike this thing out of

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our Constitution.

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We talk about freezing in the Constitution things

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that aren't necessary there, and if we freeze in ehough