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I'm going to talk about you.
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MR. CHARLES L. BENTON: Go ahead.
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MR. RENNIE: I want to talk about your predecesso
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Herb Fallen. Everybody knows what a power Herb Fallen was
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and it was talked of as Herb Fallen's budget, not the
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Mayor's or the Board of Estimates' budget. It was Herb
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Fallen's budget, over the years, and now it's becoming
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Mr. Benton's budget. Now, this is Baltimore City.
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I have always particularly fought to stay away
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from this. Mr. Kirkman told me this when I first came into
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the office, and I just reiterated it the other day; he
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said, Rennie, we are working for the Governor. We are the
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Governor's staff, the only staff he has, really, at that
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time. Now, he has expanded his own office a little bit.
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If you can't be loyal to the Governor -- he didn't say it
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in so many words, -- but get the hell out. You could just
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about hear Walter telling it to roe, and I've always taken
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the attitude, be it Democrat or Republican, I try to keep
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my name in the background as much as I possibly can.
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I've never craved publicity, you know this, over
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the years. When McKeldin was first Governor, he started
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