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feel as bad as the legislature, or the problems the
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legislature has, I think now, once you set it up and
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once a legislature has been convinced it has to be
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reapportioned, it took us two years to redistrict the
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City of Baltimore, as you well know, but we did it.
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It took a lot of fighting and arguing and we did it,
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but we did it; but I would be frankly scared to death to
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say to the Governor, that he do it.
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MR. HARVEY: Suppose you said if the legis-
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lature didn't do it within a certain time, that the
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Governor could do it?
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DELEGATE HANDEL: That's what we did in the
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bill we passed. If the legislature didn't do it, the
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Governor — the Governor is doing it now in Western
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Maryland. They couldn't arrive at their redistricting
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and the Governor is doing it.
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SENATOR JAMES: One thing I think ought to be
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in there, there ought to be a constitutional directive
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to reappor tion every ten years at a minimum because, if
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you don't do that, in the past we've just had the legis-
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lature ignoring this mandate and --
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