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Executive of the State, if we don't pay a decent salary then

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we are going to discourage men of modest means with

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superior ability from running for public office and I

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think it is a disgrace to now say that after we have spent

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all of these months and weeks in devising a new structure

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to improve the efficiency of Government to cut down the

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salaries so that we leave to the next generation the doors

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open for the corruption we want to clean up is a disgrace

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and I think we own the State leadership. We have all been

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elected to this Convention on non-partisan and non-political

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grounds and it is our responsibility from that standpoint

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to give leadership to the citizens and the voters of the

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State.

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I hope we will vote down this amendment and begin

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to pay the public servants of Maryland the kind of salaries

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so that they won't have to go outside of their office in

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order to exist.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Are you ready for the question?

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Delegate Boyles.

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DELEGATE BOYLES: Thank you, Mr. President. I

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will say just a few words. I oppose this amendment and