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Meetings were unusual in that very few bills have been introduced in Sacramento this year--lots of attention devoted the modest budget shortfall and the new Governor. The tsunami will come in about a week, but in SD there was little to look at. The down side is the next state organization meetings in May (first time ever--always in June since they went to 3 meetings a year in mid 90's) will start from ground zero and seriously test the still new committee system. Meetings already run over the time limit--inconvenient at least, but if an important issue ends up at the crunch toward the end of the agenda discussion could be truncated and that opens the door for complications in Leg. or Exec. and when that still leaves doubt the terrifying result is "doing committee work on the floor of the Director's Session"---OMG! That can get a little contentious--1000 people all with their own view--and often with barely slight understanding of any view remotely related to the matter on the floor.

Next post will address some recent examples of GroupThink and DoubleSpeak, the mother's milk of state association organizational culture. They just get better and better! We're talkin Banks--alternating between good, bad and ugly. It's actually humorous--unless you're short selling, REOing, or modifying--or know someone who is--OK maybe not so much humor after all--the only ones laughing would be. . . the banks and the politicians--and perhaps some higher ups with the state and national associations. That's not funny!