Asking people to cosponsor your bill is the biggest waste of time in Annapolis – except when it isn’t.
Lots of cosponsors aren’t as valuable as one or two people who are leaders on the committee that will decide the fate of your legislation.
They will be in the room where it happens.
Today, Delegate Ariana Kelly asked me to cosponsor the Abortion Care Access Act.
The other cosponsors are all senior members of the Health and Government Operations Committee.
I also took pictures of my signing the bill.
Why such a big deal?
I sent the screen grab to Aunt Margie. Thirty one years ago, at her 60th birthday party, she told her friends that I would be a floor leader when we passed the bill enacting the holding of Roe v. Wade.
We did it the next day.
I also sent the photo to Rachel, my niece.
In 1991, she was six years old. Now she’s the mother of two girls.
