The other people in the room were busy discussing policy.

I was participating, but then I said to myself, “We can talk endlessly about policy among ourselves, but how are we going to make it the law of Maryland?”

So I got to work.

I emailed someone who works for an advocate whose input should be persuasive with an important legislator.

That someone called me right away and agreed to ask the advocate to call the legislator tomorrow.

The levers of power are in motion…