Hecate says:
Maybe you have heard the wonderful advice from Frank Mankiewicz, Press Secretary to Robert Kennedy’s Presidential campaign. Keep your own counsel. Pay no attention to what you see and hear. In practice that means you soak it all in – listen to every insider’s theory — no matter how goofy or cockamamie and file away every single factoid in your head. Assuming you have a reasonable amount of judgement and common sense, there will come a moment when one of the insiders will give you one piece of gossip that will set off bells and whistles and all the odd pieces of information will fall into place. HA! That’s what the SOB’s were doing! Then keep it to your self and act on it strategically. None of the other insiders have to know you figured it out.
Hecate’s general advice seems sensible enough, but it sounds like it’s supposed to be obvious which line item the correspondent is talking about. Should it be?
Surely, it applies to THAT.
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Then there is the fact that 25% of the vetoed money came out of the Trial Court Budget – most from the money that pays for guardian ad litems and translators and stenos…could it be that having a healthy and independent judicial branch is a bit of a political orphan? Just wondering.
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Could it be that the legal rights and remedies for poor folk is not #1 on the dance card? Still wondering.
Hecate was offering consolidated advice to 12 different advocates who asked her advice on how to convince the the Legislature to over ride a Governor’s veto of their hard won earmark funding their programs.
Do away with “hard fought” earmarks. If you want the dance to stop, shut off the music.
There is no time limit on taking up overrides. Just because they went on vacation is no reason why the earmark couldn’t be taken up on Halloween. You WOULD lost the 1st quarter increase in funding, but the rest would be established.
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Porcupine, just trying to help, as he has no idea what these varied earmarks might be….