I forgot to do one thing before I left-

KS21
Dixiecrat Party

Suck it, whiners.

Endorsed

For now-

I hereby resign as IDS Lt. Gov. effective three days before the legislative elections.

I must inform the legislature that due to health, I will not be able to be on all that often over the coming weeks.

Yelnoc-

So if I'm not here and you are, consider me "absent" and go ahead and start operating the legislature.

Sorry, everyone, for this on such short notice.

Debate lasts 24 more hours followed by a vote lasting 48.

Excellent!

The roads around St. Francisville, LA suck.

As in bumpy, poorly planned, clogged with traffic, or what exactly?

Bumpy to unpaved, mostly. A traffic light wouldn't hurt either. Roads in Louisiana generally suck, especially state roads.

And sub-levels of Government? If so, I would love to do some stuff with Arkansas (roads, monuments, parks, Little Rock urban improvement, etc.).

The roads around St. Francisville, LA suck.

Merry Christmas to you, too!

Merry Christmas!

I'm out for the time being (not that it really matters right now)

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It looks like the repeal of the What's in a Name? Amendment has passed with Miles, myself, Yankee, and Duke voting for repeal, Yelnoc, PiT, and Dibble against.

I must say I'm very pleased with this result.

btw-

Governor PiT,

The voting booth needs to be locked.

I've recovered. Anyone got a bill?

Nope.  MilesC56?  SvenssonRS?

I don't think either one has anything...

     Incorrect, it failed, due to receiving less than 2/3rds ayes. I made a mistake, though, because I did not realize at first that the 2/3rds figure excludes abstentions, which means that the second amendment passed.

     Also, I do not think that it can be proposed again until two more monthly initiative elections have been held (look at the sixth initiative in that thread), which is effectively never since we don't have them anymore.

Why don't we have monthly initiative elections anymore?  It sounds like we need to do some more Constitutional Amendment to bring the IDS up to date.

Viceroy KS21, it looks like you need to change your user title

*Sigh*

At least that's better than "Lord of Darkness"...

It looks like the repeal of the What's in a Name? Amendment has passed with Miles, myself, Yankee, and Duke voting for repeal, Yelnoc, PiT, and Dibble against.

I must say I'm very pleased with this result.

btw-

Governor PiT,

The voting booth needs to be locked.

I've recovered. Anyone got a bill?

Nope.  MilesC56?  SvenssonRS?

I don't think either one has anything...

     Incorrect, it failed, due to receiving less than 2/3rds ayes. I made a mistake, though, because I did not realize at first that the 2/3rds figure excludes abstentions, which means that the second amendment passed.

     Also, I do not think that it can be proposed again until two more monthly initiative elections have been held (look at the sixth initiative in that thread), which is effectively never since we don't have them anymore.

There's only one thing I can say about that-

That really sucks.

That is really good. Are the districts in MO different and how?

KS21 did MO for me. He's the expert in that region!

The 5 rural districts would still be Safe or Likely Republican. Ike Skelton is probably too old to make a comeback anyway.

The Kansas City district is Safe D. On the other side of the state, Lacy Clay would still be safe and Russ Carnahan would be about the same. Todd Aiken would now have a swing district.

Did Akin's district boundaries change because I would  say that's  not a real swing district currrently.

Yes, the boundaries changed on Akin's district. This was planned. With a split redistricting process, it would seem likely that a 5-3-1 R compromise would be good.

Clay's district was moved north taking parts of Akin's district, had the southern 1/3 taken out and was given to what remained of Akin's. This plan more evenly splits up the Red suburbs, Blue suburbs, and Urban STL.

Cleaver's district had the GOP suburbs taken out and replaced with Caly County, which is a swing county by Missouri standards.

It looks like the repeal of the What's in a Name? Amendment has passed with Miles, myself, Yankee, and Duke voting for repeal, Yelnoc, PiT, and Dibble against.

I must say I'm very pleased with this result.

btw-

Governor PiT,

The voting booth needs to be locked.

I've recovered. Anyone got a bill?

Nope.  MilesC56?  SvenssonRS?

I don't think either one has anything...

Great! My only real nitpick that I can see is Kansas, where I don't see the all Republican legislature creating a toss-up district right next to a safe Republican district.

My explanation-

They've done it before. They could have had Moore screwed over 5000+ ways in 2000 but they didn't because the KS GOP has created a swing districts in recent decades if it makes another district (Jenkins, in this case) safe for good.

This is ideal for the GOP because now every single Democratic area is now out of CD2, making a Boyda 2006-repeat practically impossible.

The GOP has controled the process for 3 decades now (Hayden, Graves, Brownback) and with only the exception of 1995-1999 we've had 1 or 2 Dems (Slattery, Moore, Boyda) in this very red state.

I've recovered. Anyone got a bill?

[This seems like it came from Populares members trying to throw accusations around to bait left-wingers into believing it and causing trouble for a good member.]

It's a shame there is so little trust left now because people think that any new right of centre poster must be a Hamilton sock, which leads to members such as Junkie who actually co-operate with the rules and are in the game for fun getting accusations like this. It isn't right.

The thing is I don't even know where this originated. This seems like it came from Populares members trying to throw accusations around to bait left-wingers into believing it and causing trouble for a good member.

Interesting.

Yesterday, wormyguy AIMed me (this was first and, so far, only conversation we had) just to tell me Junkie is Hamilton.

So I guess we should all keep a great deal of cautiously with a certain individual.

Why would you take wormyguy seriously?

Junkie, no one in his right mind thinks that you are Hamilton.  You are, IMHO, one of the "best" citizens Atlasia has; it would be a real shame to see you go.

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Good God, Miles, how long did that take?

I started it about 3 weeks ago. KS21 and I put a lot of time and effort into this!!

It shows. It really, really, really shows.

EXCELLENT work.

Yeah, it was a lot of work. But I was happy to help out.

But Miles deserves the most credit- I only did a few states (AR (we worked together), MO, KS, OK, NJ, GA, WA), most of which are small(er than normal).

Miles did the larger states like PA, FL, NY, OH, MI, IL, etc, which ate up a lot more time.

Thanks, Sven!

[DECLARATION OF ABSENCETIME- 60 HOURSREASON- SICK-KS21]

DECLARATION OF ABSENCE

TIME- 60 HOURS

REASON- SICK

-KS21

So are the SPCC and SLP going to organize actual regional parties or are you guys just registering that way because you can?

If I get more members, I'll start organizing a party.

I will be running for IDS Lieutenant Governor in Feb.

tbd

Here here! To the gallows!

I'd like to thank our fantastic RG for sending me a list of IDS citizens.

LMAO! This is awesome!