They could do a lot worse than you was as high praise as one could expect from a Dempsey sibling; Oz was actually touched.
"You may have a point," he admitted, regarding the inadequacies of most of his friends to run campaigns. He'd already had one of them named a campaign manager, but they had entered into it with the same spirit that Oz had first declared his candidacy — namely, on the assumption that it would be easy. There had been more than one occasion already in which said friend was obviously overwhelmed, and it wasn't as though Oz had the bandwidth to pick up the slack when he was focused on the actual campaigning.
"I'll let you organize events if you promise not to talk to anyone of manifestos," he said wryly (I'll let you as though she was not offering to do him a huge favor in taking this up; as though it were a privilege he were affording her rather than a burden). "Probably half of the voters won't know what to do with a word so large, and another quarter will assume we're communist."
"You may have a point," he admitted, regarding the inadequacies of most of his friends to run campaigns. He'd already had one of them named a campaign manager, but they had entered into it with the same spirit that Oz had first declared his candidacy — namely, on the assumption that it would be easy. There had been more than one occasion already in which said friend was obviously overwhelmed, and it wasn't as though Oz had the bandwidth to pick up the slack when he was focused on the actual campaigning.
"I'll let you organize events if you promise not to talk to anyone of manifestos," he said wryly (I'll let you as though she was not offering to do him a huge favor in taking this up; as though it were a privilege he were affording her rather than a burden). "Probably half of the voters won't know what to do with a word so large, and another quarter will assume we're communist."

MJ is the light of my life <3