Thanks, MT.
I think we’ve so much been in the thick of what the DOH has been doing that we don’t see the little dots any more. We see the big picture and it’s hard to convey that to somebody else without going through a lot of detail - detail that most people don’t want to wade through.
You know, I look at the e-mails I’ve sent and you’ve sent and I wonder why we didn’t throw up our hands in despair.
One time I asked for the index data for birth certificate #151-61-xxxxx (whatever the Factcheck number was). They denied me access because I hadn’t shown I have a direct and tangible interest in President Obama’s birth certificate. I asked if that meant that the cert# was for Obama’s birth certificate, since that’s the only instance where their answer would even make sense. You would not believe the spluttering I had to endure. It was unbelievable.
And the way they tried to Glomarize their responses without letting us know they were doing it - so we would never know whether they had told us anything or not.
And trying to say we were asking for a “verification” (which Okubo actually finally admitted they don’t even do. They just give a certified copy if somebody asks for a statutory verification).
Unbelievable. But if we hadn’t lived through it we probably wouldn’t realize just how bad it was either.
I think it’s very hard for people to believe we have actually used the law to our advantage. And, it didn’t take a lawyer hours in a courthouse to do it.
I might need it explained three or four times if I didn’t live it out in real time=)