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art of the possible. The possible is what we believe this
Convention must seek.
The Majority Report of the Committee, on page
9, shows the apportionment of the proposed 35-105 legis-
latures in the 1970s. 1 invite you to take a look at it.
If you take that legislature as apportioned on
that sheet you will find that 17 counties do not have
a senator they can call their own, and nine counties do not
even have a delegate they can call their own. A delegate
in 1970 will represent 57,700 people, and the senators,
113,000 people.
The senate doesn't bother me so much and it
doesn't bother the other members of the Minority so much;
but the idea of the House of Delegates does.
I might say that I am not now and never have
been a practicing member of a political machine, nor
do I come from a county which is likely even in the distant
future to be without a delegate it can call its own.
But I do believe that the eight counties on the Shore who
don't have population enough for five delegates under
the majority proposal are entitled to some consideration. |
