I know the capitol well, it worked really well, especially in my role as a tourism commissioner for the last 13 years. You get to know the senators, you know, I’ve been in governor’s, I’ve been in governor’s offices how many times talking to them about either foster care or, you know, the zoo or, or tourism and things like that. You know, it helped when the governor had covid resources and the governor said, we’ll give you these funds to help the zu. ’cause the governor, you know, when you have his chief of staff’s telephone number in your phone, you know, and you can get ahold of the governor really quickly and things like that. It helped greatly. Those relationships helped greatly. You know, again, I’ve got the mayor’s cell phone number. Okay. You never abuse those relationships. You only use them to benefit the zoo and to communicate the right things.
