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« on: November 01, 2012, 11:38:10 PM »
« edited: November 02, 2012, 01:12:34 PM by Nathan »

No earlier than 12.00 PM EST (not EDT!) on Friday, November 2, 2012, the Senate is requested to begin a period of forty-eight hours debating amidst itself on who shall serve as its President pro tempore for its fifty-second sitting. These forty-eight hours having elapsed, at 12.00 PM EST on Sunday, November 4, 2012, I will open a vote for the position. This will last one hundred and twenty hours or until six votes are attained for any candidate. Once the President pro tempore is elected, this thread will be opened to discussion of Committee positions, which may last until 1.00 PM EDT on Sunday, November 8, 2012, at which point a seventy-two-hour vote will be opened.

I will be proctoring all said votes until further notice.

NC Yankee or anybody else, please feel free to point out any irregularities in this.
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2012, 10:43:27 AM »
« Edited: November 02, 2012, 01:26:09 PM by Senator North Carolina Yankee »

It is minimum 48 hours for the declaration periods, not 36. Tongue

The PPT election has a minimum span of five days or until someone gets a majority of the votes.

Committees:
Government Oversight and Reform
National Security
Judiciary
Internal Affairs
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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2012, 10:45:19 AM »

Now you can demand it be completed in 24 hours by demanding everyone vote in that span, but you can't close it if they don't unless 6 vote for the same person.

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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2012, 01:18:21 PM »
« Edited: November 02, 2012, 01:36:12 PM by Senator Oakvale »

I would like to declare for the Government Oversight and Reform committee.
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« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2012, 01:25:29 PM »

I declare for the Government Oversight and Reform Committee.



Try to refrain from declaring for more than one until tomorrow, when we see where we still have gaps. Most likely such would be the case as we have four of them now.

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« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2012, 01:34:15 PM »

I declare for the Government Oversight and Reform Committee.



Try to refrain from declaring for more than one until tomorrow, when we see where we still have gaps. Most likely such would be the case as we have four of them now.



Apologies, I'll change my declaration.
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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2012, 05:04:38 PM »

I declare for the Government Oversight and Reform Committee.
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« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2012, 10:45:20 PM »

Okay, you can definately start going for more then one now. Tongue


I didn't expect it to be the this lopsided for just the one committee. We need to have 12 committeemen so that is at least two people who are pulling double duty. Probaby more because there are some inactives and two seats are vacant until Monday, which is beyond the declaration period.
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« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2012, 11:10:24 PM »

That explains why it was so hard to make these legal. Wink Tongue
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« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2012, 10:44:05 AM »

WE ARE COMING UP ON 23 HOURS HERE!!! THAT MAY BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE REST OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES IN THIS GAME, BUT THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR ENOUGH FOR THE 52nd SENATE!!!!! Angry Angry Angry


We need people to start declaring for Committees.
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« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2012, 11:00:15 AM »

Okay, Okay, I'll declare for the Judiciary committee and the Internal Affairs committee.
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« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2012, 11:06:23 AM »

GOR: Oakvale, NC Yankee, Nix, Julio,
NS: None
JU: Marokai Blues on the radio
IA: Nix and Marokai Bluesky

NS - 3
JU -2
IA -1

We need five more declarations.

If we have a vacancy, we might be able to plug one of the At-Large Senators elected on Monday morning into the whole, but that could get confusing. If only BK and NV had left sooner.
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« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2012, 11:21:42 AM »

Judiciary and National Security, please. Smiley
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« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2012, 12:23:08 PM »

I declare for the National Security Committee.
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« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2012, 12:46:32 PM »

I declare for NSC.
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« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2012, 01:52:25 PM »

Damn caps lock is a powerfull weapon. Tongue

One seat on the JU and one on the IA still need people. We might be able to stick the two at-Large Seantors into them that win on Monday.
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« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2012, 01:55:12 PM »

FRanzl is theo nly sitting Senator to not have declare for a Committee yet.
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« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2012, 10:06:39 PM »

I declare for Judiciary, too.
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« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2012, 11:16:53 AM »

Since we only have 44 minutes left and biggest gap in these declarations hasn't yet been resolved, I feel obligated to move to fill it.

For the second time in a row I have stated, that only as a last resort would I desire to continue as PPT. I stated that in three locations this time and apparently, no one has seen them or they have seen them and decided they are unavailable. Therefore, I now reluctantly declare to once again serves as President Pro-Tempore of the Senate.
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« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2012, 11:23:11 AM »
« Edited: November 04, 2012, 12:03:08 PM by Senator Franzl »

I declare for judiciary.

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« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2012, 11:32:56 AM »
« Edited: November 04, 2012, 11:36:12 AM by Senator North Carolina Yankee »

I declare for judiciary.

And I'm also willing to relieve Yankee of the PPT duties, if he is not interested in continuing to serve.

At this point, I am interested in continuing as reluctant as it may be. You have served in the position before and I am confident you could handle it so don't take it as anything negative about you. It does give me confidence that there are other people will to step forward and I am not the only one. With that concern aside, it comes down to a desire to get the Senate out of this rut that it has gotten into, if that makes sense.
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« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2012, 11:39:45 AM »

That's fine, I think you're the best man for job Smiley

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« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2012, 11:58:24 AM »

That's fine, I think you're the best man for job Smiley

I appreciate that.

I have been working on plan that will help improve the areas of deficiency. I had hopped for more substance from the Townhall, then we have gotten. I plan to do one of those every two weeks or maybe three going forward. The biggest difference this past Senate wasn't that we had innactivity of a group of Senators, but also that we had lack of engagement on the part of many of the actives. And so we had a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 and last I checked we had 10 Senators not three. Previous actions geared just towards getting the inactives, active. This time, it will be more "comprehensive" (read: much more painfull for everybody Evil).
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« Reply #23 on: November 04, 2012, 12:15:07 PM »

You know I can't for the life of me figure out just how all 8 of us misread the OP and then that on top of that I misread the several PMs sent between me and Nathan. I had thought the plan was to do the declarations all at once, then the voting all at once. That was the plan Nathan had intended for last time, before fate (read RL) interveened and caused a problem, and I had understood that we would go back to that and get it all done the first week. The Thread title also seemed to confirm that, but the body of the OP is for a tandem election.

Why can we never get this done right? Tongue Every Senate, it is either a two day delay or some other confusion or both that causes delay and problems. Last time, it was positively catastrophic.

I think when we do get the GOR back up in operation, "senate exposition", the role of the VP in that and whole array of these issues needs to be looked at. Because in some way, it comes up every single time.
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« Reply #24 on: November 04, 2012, 01:17:46 PM »

I'd like to apologize for any of the confusion here that I may be implicated in having caused.

Regardless, it's time to vote for PPT.

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