“I’ll get that information to you next week,” the advocate told me.

“Next week will be too late,” I responded. “The session ends on Monday.”

If you don’t get it done by midnight Monday, it’s wait ‘til next year.

Just before the start of the day’s session is the best time to chat with a senator on the Senate floor. As a delegate, I have access to the chamber then.

However, the House and Senate have not begun our sessions at the same time the last two days.

I prefer to lobby people in person, but I do know how to text. That’s what I did this afternoon with a senator on a committee that heard my bill last week.

Regardless of the legislative outcome on the Preakness, the two weeks between the Kentucky Derby and this year’s race will be a good opportunity to make the case for keeping the race at Pimlico.

I already have a list of bills I want to work on for 2020, but they can wait, I remind myself.