Northeast Assembly Thread

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Alright, time for the vote on this....24 hours.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Nay

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

If this bill fails I can assure you my first bill of the next assembly will be something you'll find more objectionable.

I had no doubt

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Do we want to carry on through the election weekend?

Or have the Assembly conclude business until the new Assembly is formed.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Voting for this Bill has now closed -
Ayes - 1
Nays - 3

The Bill fails.

As the next order of business I'd like to officially propose the business of this session of the Assembly has ended - and has risen, pending the outcome of the regional elections.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I hereby return the gavel of the Speaker, and wish my successor to this office the best of luck.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

2011 Northeast Assembly Speaker Election Ballot

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Hold the phone dude. You don't have any authority to do this.

I checked the Constitution, and the Gov/Lt Gov swear-in following the election. I have PMed Rowan outlining the situation to him and asking him to swear-in, and hopefully he obliges. Elsewise, Governor Ghost can conduct the vote.

Yep, sorry eager beaver...

But I was checking the provisions just as Dallas wrote this...

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

If I may butt in here...

I did end up here initially through a weird confluence of events.

But personally however we get there, it's how you treat that privilege. I never put myself in as a joke, I was fully prepared to serve. However, my surprise was based on the idea that I would have gotten enough votes to actually secure a place, not because I didn't take the idea seriously... k

I for the record support reducing the size of the Assembly. 

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Just a quick speech to my colleagues...

Friends,

I'd be honored to serve as your speaker. I thank wormyguy for his tenure as speaker and I thank him for all he's taught me about Atlasian politics. It is painful to watch an old friend of mine leave this job behind, but I would be ever so grateful to be the one to receive the baton in our relay race to make the Northeast Region the best in Atlasia.

God bless.

Hopefully you can forget all that and return to the promise you had before

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I'm also putting myself forward if there's any way I can be of use.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

As usual, jumping right over the top of the sublime and going straight for the ridiculous.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Welcome to my time in the Assembly, enjoy.

It's all about turning the region into extremist libertarian 'paradise' ie Anarchy... basically the laws of the jungle.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

The particularly polluted stream of 'libertarianism' - "taxation is theft"  - the state should not own anything... that's how it fits.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

He doesn't do compromise... unless that compromise ends up with him getting what he wants.... also, I don't think their heads are stuck in the sand... think darker.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Giving away land for free is theft from the taxpayer.

Uh, no.  The land was taken by force from its original owners, and therefore the thing which would involve the least moral turpitude is to return it to the legal heirs of the original owners.  Tax moeny is also taken by force from taxpayers, however this happened after the land was taken by force, and conflicting grievances ought to be settled on the principle of "oldest first;" especially since said taxpayers are a party in the first grievance (they are living on land taken by force from the indigenous peoples of the area).  BTW, does this mean you are retroactively against the Homestead Act?  I'd give you points for being a consistently good Democrat.

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I just don't understand why these dumb laws mean so much to Napoleon that he is willing to make a mockery of our region and constitution to get rid of them. I thought we were working together pretty well until this whole mess started.  (Do note that it is you, rather than I, who initiated this entire dispute, I was merely attempting to be helpful).

And Polnut is a fine one to talk about compromise, given that he opposed every single thing I ever introduced, even when my bills were "moderate," had broad popular support, and required him to be a hypocrite to oppose them.  (There was one in which he listed a laundry list of "concerns" - all of which I had already specifically addressed in the bill beforehand.  When I and others pointed this out to him, he declared he would oppose it anyway).

Rubbish,

1. You addressed them as far as you were concerned - not to my satisfaction

2. I'm glad you put the " " around moderate - because I'm yet to see a genuinely moderate piece of legislation from you

3. And you also opposed everything I put forward, even things with appreciable benefits (back-filling HepB vaccinations for example) and low costs...

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Sbane, if you remember, I wanted to present an amended version which would permit Native tribes full access to their lands... but it was a pointless exercise. 

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I honestly had the feeling that this would be the response to the SRC - there is support for it until it challenges some of the highly questionable laws of the past.

But wow... even during some of my more heated fights with Wormy and his minions - I don't recall it getting this vicious in the Assembly.