(Editor's note: This letter was submitted in response to a previous letter by officers in the New York City Bar Association's Council for Children, 'Not a Done Deal': City Bar Committee Responds to Law Journal Letter to the Editor on Funding for Assigned Counsel, which was published on April 12.)

While we appreciate Dawne Mitchell and Theresa Moser's attempt to clarify in their letter what they meant when they wrote to the governor, the actual letter to the governor has gone out, and damage has been done as a result.