Here's what my dear pal wrote on a few group pages in Facebook:
I've been with Gene Hamilton and Jay Villwock on a few of the occasions that they've been to the Capitol and with 150 legislators milling about (100 Representatives of the House and 50 Senators of the Senate) it is a very difficult job to know who to talk to, let alone keep track of who is who. I think Gene has done a phenomenal job of remembering everything each time and it is surprising that a mis-indentification hasn't happened earlier. It is certainly not a fatal error and Gene made a very strong effort to correct the problem. For all of his and Jay's efforts, they deserve our recognition and for us to jump in and help.
Now that the real perpetrator of this ridiculously small $150,000 budget counter-proposal has been identified, Representative Jason Schultz, we can write him (at jason.schultz@legis.state.ia.us ) and fill him in on the facts.
As it stands, the $400,000 merely gets us a horse in the race. It starts off mired in the muddy back stretch while the others are furlongs ahead on dryer ground. What Schultz's counter-proposal does is cut off three of the horse's legs so we can see if "Stumpy" can hop fast enough to catch up with the pack or is lucky enough to have the other horses stop for a rest. If we want a horse (a new Iowa Film Office) in the race in order to win the prize (paying film and television productions shot in Iowa) then we need to give it at least reasonable odds by funding it fully.
(photo: Dave Thrasher)
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