Game reform is the sticking point with Yankee, though, but I will say that he is one who will not dismiss a proposal out of ideology and works to make things better that he may not even like.
I did vote against the recent referenda amendment, because it came down to an issue of adding responsbilities to an office that already has quite a few. I posed a possible compromise that my opponent spoke favorably of as well. I voted against the Fix the Regions amendment, but so did numerous Laborites including Marokai and others and I highly doubt people would call them anti-reform. On the other hand, I did vote for allowing the Pacific and Midwest to merge their regional gov'ts as a termporary solution yes, and endorsed both the Nix and Duke plans for the Legislative branch were a three region consolidation come to pass. And if the Duke's plan's Senate is incorporated and the other details are worked out like which chamber does what, I will also vote for Adam's Bicameralism amendment. I also brought Antonio's four region consolidation plan to the floor
in 2012 before it was popular and voted against its
tabling, once people decided they didn't care enough to discuss it. Which in turn was a motivting factor behind the GOR committee so things like that could be pre-worked out before the floor since obviously no one had the will to do it on the floor.
I did oppose Judicial Term Limits because I worried that it would lead to politicization and eventually discriminatory rulings, which bad in any situation, would be dreadful for a game built on participation. Instead, I introduced the People's Court for Tyrion, coordinated the involvement of Justices passed and present to work out the mechanics, and
voted with TNF as the only Senators to vote to send it to the Regions and to the people.
There was a also a time when the Senate was a wild and messy place where votes were constnatly canceled for missed amendments, titles were accidentally deleted from bills and we had to pay exhorbitant fees to Bacon Kingman, Attorney at Law to bail us out.
I created the amendment tracker so fewer are missed and vote cancellations are way down now. I amended the OSPR to require clarity in amendments and made it so things not included were not removed. Last year responding to a desire for simplifcation and joining with numerous Senators (including my opponent even), we substantially reduced several sections of the OSPR in size yet boosted functionality, cut vote times and now thanks to also having a good VP we have gone from worrying about sixteen week bill waits (
) to near instant uptake. I told bore he should be ready for his doctor bill to hit the floor just a week ago it seems and now that bill is basically done. And I haven't seen BK except for the GA megathread.
I may be "discerning" when it comes to reforms, but I am certainly not against them.
