Office of Senator Talleyrand (Announcement)

[Adam Griffin]

Representative Barnes resigned from the Northeast Assembly today, citing his frustration with an increase in ad hominem attacks and a frustrating group that appears to want to debate already-settled pieces of legislation by repealing them (in my own humble opinion, as a way to score political points for certain future elections). What do you think is the root cause of this, and how did your leadership in various NE regional positions prevent such an environment from manifesting?

[Adam Griffin]

I wanted to throw this on my thread as well:

Representative Barnes resigned from the Northeast Assembly today, citing his frustration with an increase in ad hominem attacks and a frustrating group that appears to want to debate already-settled pieces of legislation by repealing them (in my own humble opinion, as a way to score political points for certain future elections). What do you think is the root cause of this, and how did your leadership in various NE regional positions prevent such an environment from manifesting?

Sorry for jumping in on your thread Talleyrand

I was thinking about what Griffin said, because it is frustrating that we keep simply going back and forth with passing bills, repealing bills, etc. I think the root cause of this is that we can't see the effects of bills, for better or worse. For instance I brought up earlier on a thread that we really don't know the effects of legalizing incest or group marriage. Maybe incest levels have decreased since it was decriminalized -- we don't know. Without seeing the effects, we're really arguing in the dark.

The GM could answer these questions, but its A LOT if all the regions were asking at once for this and that. I'm still very much in favor of creating a system where we create regional (or multi regional) GMs -- these (lets call them...) Deputy GMs would have their own beat and be familiar with regional issues. They could create smaller storylines for regions to respond to and quickly respond to requests about the effects of policies.

My idea isn't perfect, we need people willing to do this -- but maybe by decreasing workloads more people would be interested.

EDIT: I will add, that during my leadership as Governor, GM Griffin responded to requests about the effects of bills, so we weren't arguing in the dark. Unfortunately when I was GM, I only received a handful of requests

Polygamy and incest can't be quantified by a GM in any meaningful way. I would have absolutely rejected any request for information on such a bill unless it addressed some sort of financial component (how much economic activity will be generated from additional marriages). With so few recent examples of this in the real world and case studies by which to examine, the GM is in effect going to have to make up numbers for such a request (something you yourself have been vocally in opposition to recently).

Furthermore, in the two particular examples, you formally introduced the initiatives to repeal the previously-passed laws. Is your response to a lack of documented data on a particular bill really to just go ahead and repeal it before requesting such information in the first place? Has anyone even asked for such figures in the first place?

[Adam Griffin]

Obviously endorsed!

[Adam Griffin]

What is your opinion of the A Jackson per Sixty Act, which has been proposed by one of your opponents in this race? I'll paste it here/bold the contentious parts to help make it easier for you and anyone else to read:

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[Adam Griffin]

Congratulations, comrade!