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like to do, to kid ourselves. We just get a great kick
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out of it.
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Of course, we have many cities that operate on
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this basis and the reason for it is basically that in the
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latter part of the last century and the early part of this,
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we had a lot of corrupt political machines in our states
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and in our cities, and a lot of people developed the notion
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that politics was a dirty business and that politicians
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are undesirable characters and no man in his right mind
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would want to be associated with them; all this bunk that
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we are still afflicted from the results of it. 1 think it
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is very unfortunate.
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Oh, there are, sure, there are machines left,
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but they are not like the machines they used to have.
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They don't have the power they used to have. That is my
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reaction.
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THE CHAIRMAN: May I ask you a quick question?
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Who does have the power structure there? I asked where
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was the power structure, since it does not lie within the
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political organization, which we are accustomed to here
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in Maryland and they had some difficulty actually
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