Temporary Headquarters of the Labor Party (Leadership election)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

People don't vote based on ideological veneers, they vote based on individual issues that form that sum total of those ideologies and who is best to deliver for them at any given time.


Also, I have long since established that 1) Politics is not linear, it is 3-Dimensional and 2) I don't give a damn about lazy political analysis and its poorly conceived "rules" for who must side with who. People are people, not herds of sheep.


You don't see me demanding the 11 Feds back who made you Vice President, Windjammer.

[windjammer]

People don't vote based on ideological veneers, they vote based on individual issues that form that sum total of those ideologies and who is best to deliver for them at any given time.


Also, I have long since established that 1) Politics is not linear, it is 3-Dimensional and 2) I don't give a damn about lazy political analysis and its poorly conceived "rules" for who must side with who. People are people, not herds of sheep.


You don't see me demanding the 11 Feds back who made you Vice President, Windjammer.

These 11 Feds backed me because they were ideologically closer to me than the guy who legalized polygamy and incest. Not because I made some "Nice guys FF" campaign

[Blair]

1.) WindJammer

[LLR]

Symbolic abstention

[Barnes]

Chair

• Windjammer

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

People don't vote based on ideological veneers, they vote based on individual issues that form that sum total of those ideologies and who is best to deliver for them at any given time.


Also, I have long since established that 1) Politics is not linear, it is 3-Dimensional and 2) I don't give a damn about lazy political analysis and its poorly conceived "rules" for who must side with who. People are people, not herds of sheep.


You don't see me demanding the 11 Feds back who made you Vice President, Windjammer.

These 11 Feds backed me because they were ideologically closer to me than the guy who legalized polygamy and incest. Not because I made some "Nice guys FF" campaign

Or they did so because Hagrid and Tmth asked them to, or at the very least encourged them to do so. So maybe, it was "nice guys ff" after all. We'll never know, will we?

[Wikipedia delenda est]

LABOR PARTY OF ATLASIA
EMERGENCY LEADERSHIP ELECTION
JUNE-JULY 2017

FOR CHAIR
[2] Tim Turner of the South
[1] Windjammer of Fremont
[  ] Write-in :

[Donerail]

[1]TimTurner
[2]Windjammer

[JGibson]

[2] Tim Turner of the South
[1] Windjammer of Fremont
[  ] Write-in :

[IceAgeComing]

Chair

Windjammer

[windjammer]

1) Windjammer
2) Tim

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

(48 hours have passed)

I congratulate Windjammer on his election as Labor Chair, and encourage him to dissolve the labor party.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

(48 hours have passed)

I congratulate Windjammer on his election as Labor Chair, and encourage him to dissolve the labor party.

Knowing Windjammer, he is probably more likely to dissolve you for annoying him than anything else.

He has the power you know. I think he picked it up with a magic amulet somewhere in France, a truly magical place.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

(48 hours have passed)

I congratulate Windjammer on his election as Labor Chair, and encourage him to dissolve the labor party.

Knowing Windjammer, he is probably more likely to dissolve you for annoying him than anything else.

He has the power you know. I think he picked it up with a magic amulet somewhere in France, a truly magical place.

DId someone mention a magic amulet? !

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

As someone who has been registered Labor my entire time in Atlasia, I was shocked to see our margin in the last election. It was big. It made me worry critically about the future of the party. I decided I would run for Chair around that time, because I won't let the party that I have always been with and have always served loyally suffer in such fashion and I will do what i can to make a difference to prevent that.

I did not prevail, but I do want to make clear my desire to help advance the party in the months ahead. I lost and Windjammer won; but we are all Laborites, and we are bound by common purpose and sharing common interests. We must work together as a party. We should strive to make the Labor brand golden again, and put hard work into rebuilding. We should make sure people in our party put in pride in their party card and the fact they are members of our glorious party.

I for one am willing to work towards this even if I am not asked. I want work. I want to be one of those who serves our incoming chair Windjammer. Ideally many more shall think the same. I congralute Windjammer on his win, wish him well, and call upon all Laborites to make themselves available in the months ahead for the task of helping rebuild the party. I believe Windjammer is up to the task. He recruited me into the party back in 2015, and I have had the pleasure of knowing him. Together, me, Windjammer, and every laborites, we should all work together. Rebuilding begins now.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

RESULTS - JUNE-JULY LEADERSHIP ELECTION
Windjammer : 12
Tim Turner : 3

Windjammer has been elected Chair of the Labor Party

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Also, a reminder to the incoming Labor Congressional Caucus that an election for the office of Congressional Leader needs to happen before the 7th Congress convenes next Friday. For those of you who haven't memorized the bylaws, the Congressional Leader acts as a combined floor leader and Congressional whip, as well our party's official candidate for Speaker of the House whenever we are the majority party.

In order to be elected Congressional Leader, a candidate must:

(a) Be a registered member of the Labor Party; AND
(b) Be an elected member of the House of Representatives

In order to vote in the election for Congressional Leader, an elector must:

(1a) Be a registered member of the Labor Party, OR
(2a) Be an independent who has pledged to support a majority of the Labor Party program in Congress; AND

(1b) Be an elected member of the House of Representatives, OR
(2b) Be an elected member of the Senate

[windjammer]

Thank you all.

So it's time to work!

[JGibson]

Congrats on Windjammer being named as our party's new chair.

[windjammer]

Obviously, it is important to not do that all alone.

So I hereby appoint 3 regional coordinators:
-Truman for Fremont
-Scott for Lincoln
-Peebs for South

I intend to work closely with them for election stuff, recruitment in their region etc etc.

If anyone want to be involved in party GOVT operation in the future, please PM me. I don't plan to be chair for a long time so I want to transmit my knowledge of this game for party GOVT operation before I go back to retirement again. Biggest mistake Griffin and I made was to have run the party for 2 years by being a duo, and not having tried to incorporate more members in the leadership who would have then succeeded us, a mistake I don't plan to make again.

[West_Midlander]

So I hereby appoint 3 regional coordinators:
-Truman for Fremont
-Scott for Lincoln
-Peebs for South

Good picks tbh.

I congratulate Windjammer on his election as Labor Chair.

[windjammer]

There is a vacancy in the House and I must appoint someone. So anyone interested please let me know by PM.
WJ

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

How would the party feel about expanding the Congressional caucus so that senators have a role in it as well?  The left has had a de facto majority in the Senate for some time now and I'm running for PPT in the next session.  I think it would be appropriate for us to elect party leadership for Senate the same way we do for House.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

How would the party feel about expanding the Congressional caucus so that senators have a role in it as well?  The left has had a de facto majority in the Senate for some time now and I'm running for PPT in the next session.  I think it would be appropriate for us to elect party leadership for Senate the same way we do for House.

I would note that as of this time we have yet to successfully give any purpose to said positions. The Caucus positions were the ones I cooked up February, Peebs copied them and has done a better job keeping them filled, but beyond that have served little to no purpose, though both Labor and Feds have integrated them into the bylaws.

Also, if you are going to go with Caucuses for the Senate, I would advise they be separate from the House one because the nature of the House and Senate are different both in who they represent and the organizational premise.

[windjammer]

How would the party feel about expanding the Congressional caucus so that senators have a role in it as well?  The left has had a de facto majority in the Senate for some time now and I'm running for PPT in the next session.  I think it would be appropriate for us to elect party leadership for Senate the same way we do for House.

Honestly,
You all do whatever you want, this kind of things is so irrelevant anyway.