Recently in this blog, I wrote about this other lobbyist who used to tease me whenever he saw me at the state capitol.
But he didn't tease me all the time, he also helped me.
In the first year when I did this work, there was a bill that the members of the association I worked for hoped would be voted down, and some of them came to the legislature when the bill was to be heard in committee, and they testified against it.
The committee "eighty-sixed" the bill (killed it) and when the gavel came down (wham!) the people in the audience applauded.
Out in the hall afterwards, the man who "turned my world into a living heck" spoke to me quietly in the midst of a bunch of people, but no one could hear him except me, and he said, Tell your members don't clap in the committee room - it's like court, you're supposed to show no emotion.
You don't clap if the vote goes your way, and if the vote does not go your way, you don't "boo"! (Right?) It - isn't a ballgame.
I did not know that until he told me, so that was helpful.
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