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__ ., =pc§isses artthpoissppst thine; in the world, and like
B bat:shoop thsssii they 1:.3bgpt1, have little valu:? oh thsothsr '
v a roeoMGQof'asrgorglhoo I sonsthins on which you can depend, -
'csudb tor tuo,ihouolnd5yisrs ithss been true that you know a tree.
t} its fruit. ._ K'il ,
f In this easps£3£5££;'h§ gdysrnarship there are three candidates
. with pontim iatqr governor; the present governor,
and your speakor'gal-viiihguvisrris Bryant.- Three trees iywhat is
their fruit? yielded ror Florida?
This for. to whoa I refer, promises no new taxes and
t." themtiiul promises, butvlhat is the record --
I. what isths fruit four years administration or the affairs of
Florida. 'v . .
Ll .§iqpt your: ago this Inn was running for governor? as.he is now.
-.s waiibeins oii!.by's{gandidate who told the dbopie or Florida
r' that a favored diluted tales tax. nu forur (overnor promised
the people or Florida dhst their would be no sales tax then he broke
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O I show you has a platostatic copy or a campaign publicity release,
I! dated February 20, 19%. This is a release from the Publicity
. Beadquarters of that candidate himself. It came from Pensacola, ,
Florida, and stated that Fuller warren, of Jacksonville, repeatep his
that no sales tax is necessary in Florida.
5 On April 22nd, 1948, this for-er governor spoke in Daytona Beach,
Florida. ills publicity head was Frank 8. Wright, now a resident of
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f- llisni. He- I: ,e 01. of that former governor, in
s [inch he H at commuters:- governor;
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._ his pledge to veto t1. A sales tax. The fact is new
written in the histori only did not veto the prepoeed
nes teat. but u. used all ne powers of tin governors office first
Mime so much sub: that national teams were necessary, and then
& thrust the sales to: itselfvuben the unwilling people of Florin.
' i New, that of premises-to bring y'ou honesty in government?
in 1953 when I served ss mm of the House, I charged that the .
norios State W omission under the women administretion,
had permitted the mutiat'iui of sheep materiel: in a construction
3:30]: at the capitol a: tunnels and in another in the mental hospital
at chattshoocm. A omittee pee appointed to investigate that
' ; ehsrge! end I haveth Qvening an exact cops} of that report.
The Omittee fouid, end I quote, that improper political influences
rein comsoti with the construction Job at the Capitol and that in
' othe stem hospitsl st ehsttshooohie, he I quote, "resulted in excessive
1 .cost and loss to W" of the State- of Florida."
I e Omitt furthegreported that the responsible ofcials of
the uids $t¢t¢1~xwement Comission, selected by your fomr
governor, "werenerelict in their duty to the public of Florida in
permitting politioel inuences to sway thgm in awarding contracts
and naming purchases on both Jobs." the course of that
investigation, the director and engineering supervisor of the Florida
State Improvement Comissim resigned, and thereaftemthe Illprovelgnt
Omission itself was abolished.
These are the fruits of that tree, and the taste of them is till
hitter in the mouth of Florida.
poo-pushed in has, k (titled to great smut because
.itnsawoneermipq-m. adobestx, along with the other
people in floriEA, heartily eppgoved. Re now seeks to be Judged on i
lhs reeerd, and that in Inst I went to help you to do this evening. 3 .
tells you mm: after night-tint durim the last legislative onion
p. passed ninety meant or his~§egisletive program. mm m the
facts? Inst are the fruit! or has edliniotretion?
' In his leeeege togthe logislure be set forth in great detail
bis legislative progzil, age it is that message I would like to review.
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' (1) Reapportth or a? Legislature by constitutional mane;
' (2) Re-orgenizstinn or m nemuve Departments;
(3) may or the load bill evil: .
(h) 1 e1.eetion of s mutant-Governor;
E (5) 31; sum-issue to thejeople or Florida of a revised .
'-. oatation it awn-Whoa cm: lbvenber, by special session
of tin ugmsme, 1r '
(6) Consihiestien or tax collection agenbies;
. (7) Creation? a-gtntnl poi-chains system;
(8) crestion :0! egivision or investnents;
(9) Abolition of the tee system;
(10). Repeal of the quickie divorce law;
(11) Strengthening of the segregation law, it that becomes
necessary;
(12) Abolition by legislative action of the power or the Hill:
Commission to fix prices;
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4'. (ll) tradicatigot the Jade nenaee;
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(15) notabilth or to produce 25,000,000 sore pine
seedlings annually: i
Li (16) Increase or the do; track tax to provide additional uoney '
for the general revenue for schools and hospitals and other
iorying needs or the atite} I
' v (17) Abolition. of closed neetirss by public bodies;
(18) Department center! i.
(19) Better Metinq precede-en;
I (20) Fixed speed lilit; -
(21) School Health m;
(2:2) niacintheradication. .
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. Not one of these Inch-needed reforms were enacted into law.
(, Instead Q ("eeing ninety per. cent. or his legislative program, it
. more accurate to he passed ten per cent or his program,
" as?! pinety gar cent of unfilled. It failed because he lacks
' leadership-this rotation for leadership is the product of the largest.
hex-debt state;paidese agents in history. .
_ But though an legislative program railed, there may be other
achievements to his thhich'nake up for that failure. He pronieed
the peeple of Florida that roads would be built on a of need,
not of greed. The other evening in Orlando he 'tooka for-er chairman
of the Road Department severely to task for apehdlng .01" money per
capita in his on county then was spent in other larger and sore
neediul counties. His promise to build on Ithe basis of need, not of
greed, had a particular appeal for this great area where bumper to
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. up almost sOpeIate situation. What is
, mil-.1339? '
4'4 M1955 he infer ths primary funds in Dede county
did his predecessor, Acting Governor Johns, when the people or
thisaresrspudistedstthepsus. Inmcmnccomtyornccu he ,
spent over twice Is not: ;I 1955 as did his predecessor, Acting Governor
{ohms ns spent twin-es. not: money in his house county as
* 'spent by the Ada-iniction. otthe Ronorsble Dan uccmy. In 1955,
:io-Deon County, with in: than sixty thousand people, he spent at this
M my t1,2uo.oOo mine 1.; Dede-County, with 715,000 popunticn,
>4: spent only $2,460,000. He spent 3.3.00 per capita or state primary
fnmda'in Dede county, and $20 per capits in his no... county of Leon.
,You know, as sell snyhody in Florida; whether or not this is
3'oonstruction on the basis or need or on the basis of greed.
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5 But shove all these thins, this governor of Florida has promised'
.you, and praises you new, that under his administration we 11 have
' clean, efficient, economics; covert-Ont at all levels -- that our
.fgrment nust begun both legal moralistsndards. I believed
_this prolise, end-I know thst 'you dig. Therefore it case as a shock
to use, as I 101911.11: to the my tine people or Florida who have
isupported his before..i\d$one or who; are supporting now, that the
Issue sorry tale otpoliticsl fsvoritiss and illegal practices st the
-.;_sxpsnse or the taxpayer prevails now as it hes. before.
This is a photoststic copy or the public or s in suit
.tried in Leon County, Florida, the governor's ho- cotnty, before that
some fine Judge who held the governor eligible to run again.
There are two methods it nice concrete pipc for drainage work
in road construction. One cospsny in this area uses the cast method,
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m. fifteenyeara both methods
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ve been a -,. Rhe Me 3:! Mt for the production or
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_ crete pipe, I arestillgapproved by the State Road
epartnahtinall nee-beam -neceowmty.
In Dede dainty. the Associatiated Concrete Pipe Company lakes 4 -
(generate pipe by the chod. acne or the'epners or that
' Qwerty did not support'mpresent smoc- in hie race tor election
'two years egg. On $51955, the state aoad Department or notice
{under the present sought bit for the construction of
the 53th Street prefect Dade County. .frhis pxgject rec'uired concrete
fjipe for drainage. specifications for that pipe were changed
1' no that machine exonerate pipe produced by the Associated Pipe
Comany could not be used on that Job. vrhat coupany charged in its
t complaint that the result of thataction, if allowed to stand, would
drive it out of business Florida and give to its competitor a
b monopolyrin the furnishing of concrete pipe in the nade Count; area.
' The amt that there was no rational basis for requiring, an a
part or the apeoietionsfor the Job In questim, that the pipe for
this Joanne Mead-by any particular method. It found, indeed,.,
that the concret pipe nade by one method is fully the equal of concrete
pipe made by the other lethal. Ilhe caurt noted that one of the engineers
of the State Road Department, upon examining samples of both pipes
before thecourt, could not tell the difference between the aaauplee
or pipe, and confused one kind with the other.
The court mrther found that the specifications on this Job were
in violation or both the spirit and the intent or the coupetitive bid
statutes of Florida, and were invalid and.void.. The court ordered the
Road Department not to enforce these illegal specications in the
xture .
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V eept to I the; although this order
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' good have been reprimanded by the Governor. ':
' nose the taste. You, voters of Florida, lust draw
an conclusions. 11' the '1sran ugly one, it is only because
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._ Rhea Firrll'Brzgngiggtazgtnog ot*31or1ds, the road funds belonging
to one county e111'nkvor beyusod to build political fences in other
counties. '1he women's-of the state I111 be conducted as a public"
l)mst. I will never,* guided by vlndlotlveness against those who
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jponnosl favoritism for those who no use, because the government
|xpelorus to the people,~b6t the ofcials whom they elect. The old
spoils systep may be good polities-4t is .not hood government.
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(14) E-d-. f h tid, -b(15) E-b-Isbment --r t. 72du72 ,000,O00Ore pine .edlng nnuy; (6) ... d th 7777t77 gener7l 7evenu 77nd 7777chol2bndhop1t7777ad 77777 -rIng ned f the tae (17) Ab7tn f l...ed 7771-7 by public77die7 (17) 727p77777n7 77lor (77) 77777r Budge777ng p7o7ed7r77 (27) 7bb7d77p7ed7bi17t (2) bhol-ath p--.am (22) byacinth ... d7i7.77 ...uId 1. moe ccrte to -y he Pas-e -e p., -tt of hspor -n.nnty P-r -.t of It -2-ed It -1.le because b. I.-k ledrhp-hsrputt1y l.ed...ilp i. the prdc f hlagt h-rd of --,-rai p-es -.et. initoy (6 thb hb 67 pga. them b th th pepl f F-oida -ba -od yld b. .uIlt -In a aifned 777d71l2777n7ies. pit. bu7ld 7 n 7he b-7. of n-.d,n -red, p .. p 1tcua apea r this -ret --e -he. bumper t.
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b-mp 1ra 5 511 1reated 1111115 Sp I I uaion. 51515 Ib -he fri f ta euiu r Dur119 1955 51 1pent11ess 1515h pr5,11ry 1und1 in Dade 5ounty .111.m III II5't-1 1111 thndid hi. P-de...so, Actin GoenrJohn, pho ... pe .l .1 -5 rudded t -1-i.te -ll I II home In f l he -pnt --e t.-e a1 -uh 195 .did -i1 1r515115, AnG.vrn J-hnH-pent f-uree ti-e -s mu -o y in -i h-m -1nt wa p-t by -h Ad-l-i t -io .1 --. -ooal a Mc-aty. In 1955, -L 5 C1u5y, It' 51-551 -i1, th-u d P-op1 hI 1 p-nt .1 th1 1 1-ad -,ney $1,24, ,1111 1 D-d nty, 1 ith 715,1 Pu.laIo., 11p-t 1 nly $2,46,11 .H. p-nt $3.P-r pita f .$ 5-st pImry n1 D C ty, $2 P$1 p -r p 1n551 .,h11 couty f LI... Y111,1 k5 I-, ..e Y-Y 5155d.y FI d, whether -l nth1 11 1111 5511 -f5,1 -d,-11 bb-1 -1111 lgl 51 11-11. B55 abI Ill the1e tbIS,t11151111 511151 d h11 po1 I ed -Ie1 n -b. .1-an b1 b. 11 gl nd -.r1 1nd15 .1 beli5ve this P -.is, an I knwthat Y.u di TeeoeIt aea h k i. me, .. I k-o It wl otemn iepol fFoiawoh -upo-d hi. b-for, .nd -oeo ho f spotig -1w tht th exes f the -tapyrPril... .. It -a beforThi is Photi -oPy of -h publi reQrd f -awsIt tried 1n I-o Co-n F-oida, -h go-en--' -om ..uty, b.-or that saefine -ug -h he -d .h1ovrore ible t. ru -gi.. Ther -toehd. of ..k. Iocr t ie d--iag -ok
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hoc t I. .byt ehd r tl ppoe yteSaeRa I.crt Ipe -ty th pacin mehd-,meo heoneeofta 1ompan d I ot sp t t"e pe nt -.-rno I. ..s .a .o ...e...... .w y... a. nAuut 9,1955, 1"e St-t RPad ePartmet .1 lorid tn. 54t, Stre rjc nDdeCut.Ti rZec eurdcnrt ",I. .... "Ir d "inge ..... th pcf ton o ha pip .. r .h... Coman cul no b uedonthat job. -ht Company chage 1n d.iIt t --.f tuiesi l-rda -n giv t. it1 ome1. r ..np.ly in -h -urihg f -onr .t PIP, In -h I-d Coutyar this jIII odc b y I n p-rtcua1-1 tod It 1-udinee,. tha bh. ocet iemd by te -ehdi uly Ih eqa f c rt PIP. made by --1the -ehd Teeut -.te that on f t -een -ne of l th t -IdDprmnupneaidg mle.o"bt ie The -Iut fu-the f-ud thteseiiain.o hsjbwr
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excet t. _1l Y.u att_-io t. h atta lhuhti re Tby tl was ygned yn th 27th oyyJanuy,156,yyynyyfthe~ yyyiyyals h Rad Depatmet haebeen uspded yy epimade y1 te ovrn Thee rethefats Yo, hevotrsofFlorid., mutdrw yo yyayoncu ylny.Iybhe oyylyynyy a ygyyyne, iy iy ony beyauye the fact. areugl. When psyyis Byynt i. g.,esr of Pfloidy, the rsy yundy bslyng.ng ty n be 1ed tb bul politbblbbnb btyer belbngs Tb the peopi, It the bbybbiyls hy. thyye.. Thy yd yypbiysysysm y y opoitic--IT bsb s n. g&..I rnmnt.
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