Northeast Assembly Thread II

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I nominate Alfred F. Jones.

Seconded.

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[X] Alfred F. Jones

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Aye

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Aye on the debate proposal.

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Seeing as we don't seem to have a large amount of bills on the floor or coming and the budget has already passed, can I suggest we turn our attention to fine tuning the SOAP?

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Right then, to get this started I'll post what I think (going by the wiki plus the civic information thread). Feel free to point out any inaccuracies!

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Where would the amendments about an acting speaker go in the SOAP?

Anyway, here are my proposed changes to the SOAP

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It's rather insulting to remove the People's priority.

The Protest and Analysis thread has been created, it probably just hasn't been used in quite a while.

I'm not wedded to that edit, but, especially as we very rarely get citizen's legislation and
we don't have month long waits anyway, it makes life somewhat easier and simple.

I'm not opposed to the Protest and Analysis thread either, but I'm not sure it's necessary to have it in the SOAP. If you ask me we should be having the simplest SOAP possible. As well I kind of like the simplicity of having all assembly discussion in the one thread.

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I'm certainly not opposed to a thread, but I don't think its necessary to have it in the SOAP.

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The protest thread is not directly how the assembly works, it is accessory like the Miscellaneous category seems to indicate.

Which is why I want it out of the SOAP, as it does not have any relevence to the rest of it, and takes up unnecessary space

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That basically means abstentions don't count as anything at all, so it's a substantive change.

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I'm proposing extending the time limit to 168 hours, and I can't remember any change recently (although I might be mistaken). Perhaps you were thinking of the budget extension?

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Maybe I'm reading this wrongly, but surely the capital amendment has passed, as it got three quarters of the voting members of the assembly (as hockeydudes vote was out of time).

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Just for the record, as there are so many different stages of the soap, with different amendments included etc, I thought I'd post the most up to date version which should probably either be included on the wiki, or have the SOAP link in the civic information thread come here.

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Would this be legally watertight?

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It's to article III section 13

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Would this be legally watertight?

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It's to article III section 13

Just to clarify this is a proposed amendment, not the actual law- I'm not sure if there is anything in the constitution about an absent speaker.

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I'd like to apologise to all members of the assembly for not being clear enough that this was a proposed amendment. Regardless, if Spenstar is voted out, could one of the representatives introduce this amendment as a bill for me?

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This session of the northeast assembly is now open. Declarations/nominations for the speakership shall now be open for 24 hours.

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The nomination/declaration period is now over. All representatives shall now vote for speaker

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Just to clarify, who is actually a representative- I think its me, goldwater, snowball, poirot (who needs to swear in) and earlaw, although I could be wrong.

Also voting shall last 72 hours.

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Kalwejt swore in so I consider myself on stand by for when he needs to leave for the Senate. 

Gotcha.

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Is the voting window not 72 hours?

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[X] bore

I can call the election tomorrow, at about 11/12 o clock northeastern time, but voting will no longer be valid (only applies to snowball) after about 6am northeastern time (I can't do the calculations myself, but 3 days from my opening post).

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The election is now closed with 4 assemblymen voting

The results are:

bore 2
goldwater 1
poirot 1

bore is hereby elected speaker.

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Congratulations, Speaker bore!

Just for future reference, we skipped over the stem cell research bill.

Yeah, sorry about that, once I'd noticed the mistake it was too late to fix it, as the threads had already been commented upon. It will be the next bill on the floor.

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At some point soon we need to vote upon the Governor's debate plan. I'll put it up here for a while and then we can hold the vote:

Executive Order #25

A debate to include all Northeast Assembly, gubernatorial, and senatorial candidates will be held from June 13-20th.

The debate style shall be as follows: Both Northeast and non-Northeast citizens will ask questions in a special 'question thread' and specify which candidate (or candidates) is being asked.  Candidates will be allowed to answer, offer rebuttals, and ask each other questions throughout the debate.  On June 20th, candidates will deliver closing statements.

This debate will take place at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

This executive order will go into effect upon Assembly confirmation.

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If there are no comments on this debate then we'll have a vote in a day.

Also, there are no more bills in the legislation introduction thread, so, if anyone wants to introduce one, now is the time.