The weather may not have cooperated with us this year, but Lobby Day 2012 was a thorough success by all other accounts.
We were poised for victory by approaching the day with a record number of registrations and legislative meetings, a revised scheduling system, and completely overhauled materials.
Thanks to the dedication of ACSS members from around the state, our voice was heard all throughout the Capitol.
Our members had pre-arranged meetings with most of the state's 120 legislators, and they worked overtime to ensure that each and every legislator at least received a copy of our official fact sheet.
The award ceremony for Assemblymember Joan Buchanan was well attended, and members were pleased to hear Assm. Buchanan's supportive message, especially at a time when so many excluded employees face a lack of support from the state.
The award presented to Assm. Buchanan by ACSS President Arlene Espinoza - a 150-year-old balancing scale - symbolized not only the long history of the state's imbalanced treatment of excluded employees, but also Assm. Buchanan's work to rectify those imbalances.
President Espinoza remarked that this was the "most well-organized, highest impact lobbying event we've held in my twenty years with ACSS."
The weather may not have cooperated with us this year, but Lobby Day 2012 was a thorough success by all other accounts.
We were poised for victory by approaching the day with a record number of registrations and legislative meetings, a revised scheduling system, and completely overhauled materials.
Thanks to the dedication of ACSS members from around the state, our voice was heard all throughout the Capitol.
Our members had pre-arranged meetings with most of the state's 120 legislators, and they worked overtime to ensure that each and every legislator at least received a copy of our official fact sheet.
The award ceremony for Assemblymember Joan Buchanan was well attended, and members were pleased to hear Assm. Buchanan's supportive message, especially at a time when so many excluded employees face a lack of support from the state.
The award presented to Assm. Buchanan by ACSS President Arlene Espinoza - a 150-year-old balancing scale - symbolized not only the long history of the state's imbalanced treatment of excluded employees, but also Assm. Buchanan's work to rectify those imbalances.
President Espinoza remarked that this was the "most well-organized, highest impact lobbying event we've held in my twenty years with ACSS."