Thursday, January 14 - 12 Votes

“Do we have 12 votes?”

That’s the question I asked at our death penalty strategy meeting.

One of our lobbyists had begun describing the commitments she had received from Judiciary Committee members over the last 24 hours.

But then the discussion strayed off course.

“We need to know if we have a committee majority – 12 votes,” I stated, “or if that’s the case for those who want to modify last year’s bill.”

Everything else we do depends on that.