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there is a plethora of local stuff enacted. Florida
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statute laws will be about that thick, a huge volume, an
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enormous amount of local stuff. While they pass this stuff
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quickly as long as people from the districts concerned
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want it, nevertheless, they do take time and attention.
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I think that is bound to have some adverse effect upon the
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concentration of the Legislature upon matters of broader
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interest.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Turning it around, if you had
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the Legislature free of granting specific powers to local
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home rule units, and only if it were required to concern
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itself with a matter of general concern affecting a number
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of them, if those matters are there before it, it does in
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effect leave it free to concentrate on other matters and
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would tend to free it of matters of local concern to the
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extent we have had our Legislature tied up by. those matters
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heretofore .
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DEAN FORDHAM: Yes.
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MR. MELVIN: That is my point with respect to
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the charter home rule counties. The Legislature has granted
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these broad powers and has therefore been freed from local
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