If you're wearing long sleeves, roll them up. The highest court in the land has ordered them to do something and they haven't done it. It's fair to think of them as your opponents. Them and people from the governor's office. They're the primary targets of the mau-mau.
Polite people are easy to put off.
They vague out real easy once bureaucrats offer them a seat on the Olmstead subcommittee. Yes, there are going to be times when mau-mauing is not in order. The first meeting with the head of your legislature's appropriations committees, for instance. If they're coming within 30 days of the wire for the state budget and they still haven't made a move, quick get in there and mau-mau them. You don't, as a rule, mau-mau anybody until you have good reason to be pissed off, until they have promised and failed to deliver, until they have put a roadblock in front of you, until they snuck around behind your back and did some sneaky shitass thing.