I met him in Charleston at the rally on the USS Yorktown, and had a good, substantive talk with him. He gets it, and I believe I made enough of an impression on him that he will take a look at what I’ll be sending him. It’s a draft of a speech that he will deliver to the ALEC luncheon in Dallas on August 1.
I’m going to take a week to write this speech, and it will be the best distillation of all the arguments in favor of Article V and the BBA that I know of. Some one-liners. I’m really going to give it everything I’ve got.
He wrote a fairly pedestrian op-ed on Article V recently, and I’m sure I’ll be able to come up with something a lot better. Hopefully his ego won’t get in the way of adopting my language. He’s actually a good public speaker in a down home kind of way, and this speech should be a home run for him.
The theme of the speech is that the 7,383 state legislators in this country are actually, because of Article V, a kind of super-legislature — a fourth branch of the government, superior to the other three. I call it the National Legislature.
It works for me.
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