South Gubernatorial Debate Commentary Thread.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

The behavior in this election is really off putting.

I also don't appreciate seeing the legislature dragged through the mud for political expediency.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I understand why the opposition is clinging to this healthcare market thing, but Cranberry is right: enacting a healthcare market isn't going to get my cock hard or really increase activity in the south. No region has taken action on it. Further, I left office almost a year ago now, and no mention of this has ever come up until this election, and we had almost a year to talk about it or propose it.

Also, I am getting tired of being compared to DeadPrez. When I first joined Atlasia, yes, I was more controversial, I helped lead the birth of a new movement, but I worked my tail off and was as active as I could be. I wasn't a do-nothing during my first term in office and then was unaware i hadn't been re-elected. None of us can help DeadPrez left a bad first impression on us, but it's pretty unfair to try to say he's just like me starting out. Or Flo for that matter. Flo was always enthusiastic about the game even if people gave him a hard time initially.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

It's fine for Deadprez to run. I don't think anyone here is advocating that we should have uncontested elections. I'm glad he's running because it is leading to discussions like this and ultimately more awareness for our issues in the south.

But, if he is going to talk about how inactive the legislature is, which is an attack directed at me, or how Flo has been bad for the south, which is an attack directed at my party, then it's fair game to fire shots back at him.

Instead of dragging the entire region through the mud, he needs to convince us why he would be a better governor and why we should trust installing him into the governor's mansion when his trackrecord is one of no accomplishments and inactivity.

So far, all I have seen is long paragraphs of things that make little sense to me, like complaining that bills are passed without unanimous consent and how our debates right now are not "serious." If we required things to pass with unanimous consent, then we'd never pass anything. 

Further, issues like abortion and healthcare markets aren't things that really need to be at the top of the list to help better the region. I'd be happy to establish the healthcare marketplace, but attacking Flo for not doing anything with it is unfair when no one else has touched the issue at any level of government.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I just don't want to be brought into the middle of this by somehow relating me to Deadprez. My issues during my early days in Atlasia were not watching what I said, and yes, I also had inactivity, but I think we all go through periods of that from time to time, and my inactivity came a year after I was in office, not initially. The problem here is, in the first office Deadprez held, he did nothing. He wasn't even aware he hadn't been re-elected when that event occurred. If I had done that during my first term as governor, I'd have been an also ran and likely would never had advanced to any other office.

The time you are inactive matters, and prior to my stint of inactivity, I had been known as being a good governor and helping the south grow exponentially, controversy and all.

Deadprez hasn't done anything wrong, and again, I am not saying I don't want him in the race, he is free to run for office, but he started attacking both Flo and myself, calling the former bad for the south, so it is fair that I can defend myself.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I'm not sure why Deadprez is comparing the state of the legislature when he was in it to our legislature now and claiming it is a product of Flo's failed leadership and our lack of debate. Last I checked, we were having more than 3-4 comments before we voted on a bill.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

It wasn't me. No one wants to hear from me anymore.