I think this might be a little too harsh on CAIP (discouragement risk). If shit hits the fan, they’ll have a serious bill ready to go for that contingency.
Seriously writing a bill-that-actually-works shows beforehand that they’re serious, and the only problem was the lack of political will (which in that contingency would be resolved).
If they put out a watered-down bill designed to maximize the odds of passage then they’d be no different from any other lobbyists.
It’s better in this case to instead have a track record for writing perfect bills that are passable (but only given that shit hits the fan), than a track record for successfully pumping the usual garbage through the legislative process (which I don’t see them doing well at; playing to your strengths is the name of the game for lobbying and “turning out to be right” is CAIP’s strength).
I don’t see this response as harsh at all? I see it as engaging in detail with the substance, note the bill is highly thoughtful overall, with a bunch of explicit encouragement, defend a bunch of their specific choices, and I say I am very happy they offered this bill. It seems good and constructive to note where I think they are asking for too much? While noting that the right amount of ‘any given person reacting thinks you went too far in some places’ is definitely not zero.
I think this might be a little too harsh on CAIP (discouragement risk). If shit hits the fan, they’ll have a serious bill ready to go for that contingency.
Seriously writing a bill-that-actually-works shows beforehand that they’re serious, and the only problem was the lack of political will (which in that contingency would be resolved).
If they put out a watered-down bill designed to maximize the odds of passage then they’d be no different from any other lobbyists.
It’s better in this case to instead have a track record for writing perfect bills that are passable (but only given that shit hits the fan), than a track record for successfully pumping the usual garbage through the legislative process (which I don’t see them doing well at; playing to your strengths is the name of the game for lobbying and “turning out to be right” is CAIP’s strength).
I don’t see this response as harsh at all? I see it as engaging in detail with the substance, note the bill is highly thoughtful overall, with a bunch of explicit encouragement, defend a bunch of their specific choices, and I say I am very happy they offered this bill. It seems good and constructive to note where I think they are asking for too much? While noting that the right amount of ‘any given person reacting thinks you went too far in some places’ is definitely not zero.
This is CAIP, not CAIS; CAIP doesn’t really have a track record yet.