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MR. DONAHO: Who is going to mandamus the
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legislature to appropriate more, you see? But, the thing
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I objected to was that every damn time anybody gets up in
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Annapolis, from the time they start this process to the
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end, they say to these poor innocent souls who just came
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in for the first time, these are the mandatory school
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expenditures and you can't do anything about that, and all
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these poor innocents sit around and say, okay, we'll pass
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over these many millions of dollars and then we '11 jump on
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some poor fellow who is asking for $52.75 and I don't think
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that's right. I think they ought to examine these require-
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ments along with other requirements, and I think the end
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product has been to cause the legislature to ignore the
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public school situation.
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THE CHAIRMAN: As I understand it, the Attorney
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General has ruled that many of the items in the school
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budget can be revised by the Governor and by the legislatur
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MR. DONAHO: Yes, but the big ones are the —
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THE CHAIRMAN: And really the ones that cannot
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be now are those which are established by the legislature,
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and they are in these formulae, and it seems to me that
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