Today we skipped the Legislative Building and started with a meeting over lunch at Café Carolina in The Village. Our meeting was to discuss the same charter school bills as yesterday, but this time it was with two lawyers (and a few lobbyists from before). After getting a scrumptious tuna salad, Ms. DeVivo and I sat down with another lobbyist, though there was a last minute schedule change so we had a few minutes. We chatted for a few minutes, and it actually turned out that the lobbyist’s son played tennis with a graduating senior from CA! Pretty cool.
Anyways, the rest of our lunch entourage came in, ordered food, and got to discussing bills. Most of it was the lobbyists presenting the bills to the lawyers by explaining their clients problems and wishes, and then lawyers gave feedback on problematic language that would the legislation hard to get through the General Assembly.
Andrew L.
I didn’t get any new pictures today, so here is a short clip from yesterday of a protest outside the General Assembly on biomass emissions (featuring original song “Where’s Cooper?”).