Northeast Assembly Thread

[tpfkaw]

Jake's no longer with us btw.

He never swore in, thus he never resigned and can still swear in and become an assembly member.

[AndrewTX]

Jake's no longer with us btw.

He never swore in, thus he never resigned and can still swear in and become an assembly member.

He did

[tpfkaw]

Jake's no longer with us btw.

He never swore in, thus he never resigned and can still swear in and become an assembly member.

He did

Yes but to Lt. Gov, not assembly.

[Napoleon]

Is there any precedent here?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I swore in on Monday as an Assembly person "in case I forgot" for Tuesday and then swore in as Lt. Governor.

[Napoleon]

The vote is closed. Jake Matthews is recommended with 2 votes to Fallen Morgan's 1.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

The vote is closed. Jake Matthews is recommended with 2 votes to Fallen Morgan's 1.

Wee-haw

The Governor will have to confirm this, the only problem is that as of Noon tomorrow, voting for the recall ends and as of right now, the recall effort is on track to succeed.

[Napoleon]

Simply, he should act with haste.

[homelycooking]

Simply, he should act with haste.

And if he doesn't? Do we just wait until the replacement gubernatorial election?

[Napoleon]

Simply, he should act with haste.

And if he doesn't? Do we just wait until the replacement gubernatorial election?

I'm not sure what would happen. I made sure to get this out of the way before we hit the 72 hour mark to avoid that (to the best of my ability - I can't make Ghostwhite act).

[homelycooking]

When can we hold a vote on my bill?

[Napoleon]

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We will now proceed to a final vote on this bill. Representatives, you have 24 hours.

[Napoleon]

Aye!!

When can we hold a vote on my bill?

I had to wait 48 hours, according to SOAP. We should look for ways to keep the Assembly organized while making SOAP more fluid but I intend to stick by the rules to the best of my ability.

[tpfkaw]

Aye.

I'm worried about creating new regional bodies when we can't even get enough people to run for assembly, but I suppose it can't possibly hurt.

[homelycooking]

Aye

I'm worried about creating new regional bodies when we can't even get enough people to run for assembly, but I suppose it can't possibly hurt.

I appreciate that hesitancy, but the members of this new commission would all be parliamentarians anyway.

[Sbane]

Aye.

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

I'm worried about creating new regional bodies when we can't even get enough people to run for assembly, but I suppose it can't possibly hurt.

Under my interpretation of this law, this body would merely be a task force, and not violate the 'dual office holding' clause.

Also, Jake Matthews is now Governor and should swear in.

[Yelnoc]

I hate to break in like this, but I'm doing so investigative journalism for The Independent and could use you guys' help.  Does anyone know who the "longest serving citizen of the Northeast" is?  Said service can alternate between offices (assuming they are all based in the Northeast- this includes Regional Senator) but must be in an unbroken chain, so to speak.

[Napoleon]

The Statutory "Spring Cleaning" Act of 2011 has passed 4-0.



We will now hold a nominating period for CJO recommendations.

[Napoleon]

We will simultaneously hold a nomination period for the Statutory Review Commission.

I nominate homelycooking and Dallasfan65 for SRC consideration.

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

Actually after giving this further consideration, a case could be made that this does in fact violate the dual office holding clause since the commission is a legal entity formed by the Northeast, as opposed to an executive task force which is informal.

[Napoleon]

I'm not buying it, especially since it is only temporary.  All legislatures form special committees and things of such nature. This commission has no legislative, executive, or judicial political power.

I imagine that is obvious sine it was originally only going to be comprised of sitting Representatives.

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

I'm not buying it, especially since it is only temporary.  All legislatures form special committees and things of such nature. This commission has no legislative, executive, or judicial political power.

Well, as long as it isn't considered an actual 'office' I have no objections to serving, and hope the Assembly will confirm me.

[cinyc]

The Northeast Wiki is in sorry shape.  

I've been making some minor edits to the officeholder section, but under the SOAP and Wiki Emergency Act, it's the Lt. Governor's job to update the Wiki, unless he names someone else.  I don't have the time to do much else, so if our newly appointed Lt. Governor doesn't have a wiki account or time to update the Wiki, I suggest he name a volunteer who does.  In particular, the Assembly and Assembly legislation pages haven't been updated since last August and June, respectively.  If we can't easily find our laws, they're pretty much useless.

[cinyc]

Would a convention legitimately solve that problem?  If not, I can't support one.

Well, if we were able to eliminate the quorom requirement then it would.

The quorum requirement itself isn't the problem, especially since it has been watered down to one-third.  In order to have the best chance of passing, Constitutional Amendments ought to be passed and signed into law by the governor after the Second Friday of January, March, May, July or September  in order to be put on the ballot in a regional election that most likely coincides with a federal election.  Amendments proposed earlier in those months or after the second Friday in February, etc. end up getting voted on in an irregular third-Friday election, which almost always has lower turnout.  No constitutional amendment gets put to an immediate vote because we thought it would be easier to get a quorum in a more regularly scheduled election.

We really have nobody to blame but ourselves if we can't get 14 out of 40 citizens to vote for a constitutional amendment.  I've always said that it is up to proponents of constitutional amendments to publicize it and give good reasons why a change is necessary.  There was a legitimate debate over whether to fix the size of the Assembly.  Some folks simply didn't agree it was necessary.