Anyone who adopts this issue will therefore have to be creative as well as brave.
Simon Duffy, former chief executive of In Control, the organisation that pioneered the concept of self-directed support and developed individual budgets (now called personal budgets) and encouraged the government to adopt this system, recently issued a public apology for it.
We are honestly going to have to adopt this for all issues.
This forced one of the two parties to adopt the issue of the era, or become the Whigs and disappear.
The self-styled maverick had been driven by polls to adopt the issues, if not the precise stands, that Bill Clinton and the Democrats championed.
Citizens leaning toward each extreme tend to adopt the issues of their fellow extremists (Hetherington and Weiler 2009).
Within days, the Committee to Save New York also adopted the issue, adding legalized gambling to its list of priorities for the 2011 legislative session.
Ronald Reagan adopted the issue as a central one in his 1980 presidential campaign, and in 1981 he won passage of a 23percentt cut over three years.
Governments have become very adept at paying the idea of reform lip service -- especially in the months since Washington adopted the issue -- but practice lags.
In 2011, Representative Dwight Bullard, now a state Senator, adopted the issue as his own and is currently on a crusade to help it move along.
