Tonight was the follow-up to the January 31st meeting at Columbia High School. Tonight was about how to do effective advocacy. The short version is, advocacy is about relationships, so you can't expect result from a one-off interaction with an elected official in the midst of some crisis. Perhaps the fiscal situation will motivate people to start making those relationships, so that future crises can be avoided.
I'm a little torn about what exactly to ask of elected officials, so it is actually kind of nice to focus on getting to know them and getting them to know me without trying ask for too much too fast.
At the end there were presenters from EducationSpeak.org, which sounds very interesting and will likely become part of my weekly web routine.
