Ken Cooley

@mikegatto You’re channeling the spirit FDR brought Americans to battle the Great Depression: “One thing is sure.  We have to do something.  We have to do the best we know how at any moment....  If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.” It’s a model of focused leading.

About which policy would you like to hear a politician say: “We tried __________. It was an experiment. Clearly we were wrong. It’s time to switch gears and go back to: ____________.”

@CaucusRedux @JeremyBWhite @AIDSHealthcare Time to check into “The Road to Your Future Runs Through Someone’s Head”. I applied ideas here to write ballot args for successful Prop 21 in June 1984 after same concept had failed Nov 1982.

@JeremyBWhite @AIDSHealthcare As Paul Tudor Jones once remarked: “losers average losers.” #CALeg

.@AIDSHealthcare chief Michael Weinstein on a third rent control initiative after first two failed: “We’ll do it again if we have to – and again and again and again"

@AsmArambula December 2017 Capitol Annex Project Planning Study annex.assembly.ca.gov/sites/annex.as…

@AsmArambula Thanks #AsmArambula a key part of the Capitol Annex Project is better access to all California’s variously-abled people!

@RussellLowery10 @C_King47 Yes Russel. Law-making is a collaboration. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. In 45 years I never drafted anything w/o inviting input this way: “Let me know what you think. I like the way I’m doing it wrong better than the way you are doing it not at all!”

No, you don't ignore them. You try to understand their concern and address it. If they are not bringing technical assistance meet with them and the committee staff. Invite leg counsel to your meeting. Meet with the chair of the agencies budget subcommittee. Explain your bill and ask for help in getting technical help out of the department.

Aurelius’ words astonish in our era’s. His oft-determined outlook is why I for 30+ years I’ve found inspiration (& an occasional kick-in-the-butt to persevere) from this: “Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.” (MA Med 6.19)

Reading the Classic meditations of Marcus Aurelius today. The challenges of living in society are now as they were then, and his realism + perspective that encourages rising above the invective and unkindness is still most apt.

“Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who’ve seen what’s good can not be injured by any of them”

@C_King47 You can but its at your peril. Agencies have lots of bills to weigh and do so w/in a more formal chain of command that vets “external” statements of their views. Ignoring late input can often draw a veto. This is just speaking in the abstract, not knowing the specifics.

Headed toDisneyland with wife and 7 y.o. Grandchild. It’ll have lots of fake Sierra Nevada monumentality and beauty. Here’s the real thing on our flyby!

@SameeaKamal One good pineapple deserves another….

Spotted at Cora 👀

Calif’s asbestos-sick Capitol Annex is gone. A welcoming Annex looms. The plan would deconflict entries by again greeting visitors below an 1860’s showcase - an allegory in stone they’ve been steered away from for years. The allegory? Govt’s work is to subdue life’s risks

@TweetsFromKatie Nice. My first Annex office (1977-1985) was here. 6 of the the 8 I was in (77-85, 88-91, 2009-11 , 2012-2022) are gone now. A new People’s House is coming! annex.assembly.ca.gov

The People’s House

@ZavalaA Where to?

Out of the office and into the “wild” for the rest of the week 🏜️

@DanCALmatters Truth. Also, “a long persistence in the same direction” which is likewise an epic accomplishment, Dan Walters!

Verbose is writing more than 10,000 columns in last 42 years

For my 6 years as Chair of the Cal. Senate & Assembly Joint Rules Committee, the Capitol Annex re-build - very daunting - was my job. Despite its hurdles, I told staff was all good things must work through 3 words - Impossible, Improbable & Inevitable. Here it is yesterday.

@GarrySouth Garry: I adjure you to not tell your followers to look up apt but esoteric words.

My (eponymous — look it up) book is finally here. A collection of all the op-eds I’ve had published in the 30 years I’ve live in CA — a total of 85 in all. Which just goes to show that I’m, um, verbose, I guess.

@AlexCVassar Here’s are nice views of Grouse Lake in Desolation Wilderness.

#CALeg #BillIdea: "Branan Creek"

@ZavalaA Great view of Mt. Diablo

Capitol Corridor first timer here and would ride this again just to sit and stare out of the windows

As the old Capitol Annex comes down - a product of a process that Governor Schwarzenegger began in 2005-6 - its worth noting that updating People’s Houses has been unfolding around the US and California looked at their beauty & innovations in detail: annex.assembly.ca.gov/content/outrea…