“We’re still a couple votes short,” Glenn Svoboda said, “Carpenter, Brisson, Charles, and of course Cantor will vote for it, and Paul and Clinton are the only votes we have against it.
“No, Glenn, you gotta count Rainn as a vote against, and I’m going to get on that committee,” Michael said back to him with a tinge of impatience in his voice, “we’re going to kill it before it even gets to the floor.”
“We’ve better kill it before this gets to the floor, because I don’t like our chances if we have to kill this in the full legislature,” Glenn responded.
Michael sat at a corner table at Goldbergs, a diner in Dundee on Dodge Street in Omaha, squeezed in with the executive committee of Omaha’s PFLAG chapter: Glenn, their president, Marcy Gray, their Vice President, and Andrew Volcker, their s
