It's not a matter of not liking it. It's removing the influencing body from the board.

[Veronica hopes to make that clear.]

But since we're going to play to it: we need to make it so they want to gain our favor. If we put ourselves in the position of begging for attention, we'll always be subservient. We might have their ear, but they can always decide that whatever we say doesn't matter.

If we're not going to corner them, then we do it another way. They can corner themselves while looking for our attention.