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The Caucus Bus

Fifty years ago, I had a boss, a congressman, that liked to say the difference between a cactus and a caucus, is that on a cactus all the pricks are on the outside.

I was 28 when I attended my first party caucus as an elected official.

At first, I was thankful that the others were all older and seemed to know how to organize things and what to do.

I was young and naïve, but not entirely witless. By meetings end I got it, sharing information about legislation sat in the back of the bus.  You were in that bus to discuss ways of driving it over the opposition.

Richard Kimball

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