The Federalist Party: June 2014 Convention (LEADERSHIP DECLARATIONS!)

[Sbane]

X Sbane

[NHI]

X NHI

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

X Pessimistic Antineutrino

[Rooney]

I am here as well, whatever good that is.

X Rooney

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

X Sanchez

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Can I join for fun?

[TNF]

I can't wait for you all to start burning me in effigy.

[Cassius]

I can't wait for you all to start burning me in effigy.

Summer is icumen in,
Loudly sing, cuckoo!
The seed is growing
And the meadow is blooming,
And the wood is coming into leaf now,
Sing, cuckoo!

The ewe is bleating after her lamb,
The cow is lowing after her calf;
The bullock is prancing,
The billy-goat farting,

Sing merrily, cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo,
You sing well, cuckoo,
Never stop now.

Sing, cuckoo, now; sing, cuckoo;
Sing, cuckoo; sing, cuckoo, now!

[Enderman]

X Jack Enderman

16th last time and 27th now. People, I promise to be quicker next time

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Is it too late to sign in?

X Anton Kreitzer

[Associate Justice PiT]

     X PiT (The Physicist)

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

X-JCL

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

xHamster

You are welcome to attend if you desire, but only registered Federalists will be able to vote in the endorsements and any changes to the platform/bylaws.


I am pretty sure its not too late to join.

I joined. Where is the platform?

https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Platform_of_the_Federalist_Party

And beefing it up will be our first task, but we might have to stop and proceed with endorsements to ensure we get them in before the election.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Now that a majority have signed in, I am opening up a period to offer amendments to the bylaws and the platform. I will offer my amendment to the Introductory/Mission Statement shortly and I know both Riley and Scott have mentioned various ideas they were considering offering. If you have any ideas or proposals please feel free to offer them.

I am keeping this process a little bit loose for now until I get a feel for the participation versus the time available. 

[Lumine]

I have been considering possible amendments in foreign policy and to the by-laws, but with a good part of party being less interventionalist than myself I'm still wondering how to improve the language. In the meantime, I have a small proposal that I wish to discuss before offering it in a formal way: Yankee currently has control of most the Senate's activity as PPT and as Party Chairman he also has to deal with coordinating the party, the Senators, and so forth, which I believe must be incredibly frustrating at time.

If I'm not mistaken, the Labor Party nominally uses one of his leaders to serve a whip (the General Secretary, I believe), and I believe we could make Yankee's job easier by having the position of Chief Whip (not necessarily something like Francis Urquhart, xD) to coordinate efforts in Nyman with the Senators and the Cabinet Members (in the event we had one without a Federalist being the President), a position that in case of being created I believe should go to DC al Fine (based on activity levels and his time in the party).

Any thoughts?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

We do presently have the positions of Vice Chair and Secretary, the latter of which I am still working through making a choice (very tough considering what the various applicants bring to the table) with Vice Chair Dereich.

[Prince of Salem]

Sorry I'm late, can I? ^^'

X JoMCaR

[Hamster]

Can we also propose amendments to the By-Laws? Something like the following is good for every organization to have.

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Wouldn't the word "open" be preferable to "extended"?


I would support a non-discrimination clause but certainly we shouldn't word it so that it would be expected to require us to allow non-party members to vote in the party's nominations and such forth. Otherwise that would negate the purpose of having parties in what is primarily an elections game.

Sorry I'm late, can I? ^^'

X JoMCaR

Welcome back man. Its never too late to get involved.

[rpryor03]

Mr. Chair,

I move to proceed to endorsements for the General Election.

[Hamster]

Wouldn't the word "open" be preferable to "extended"?


I would support a non-discrimination clause but certainly we shouldn't word it so that it would be expected to require us to allow non-party members to vote in the party's nominations and such forth. Otherwise that would negate the purpose of having parties in what is primarily an elections game.

I'm fine with that.

[MurrayBannerman]

X - MurrayBannerman

Sorry, I'm late. Atlasing is less of a priority until I get back to the States.

[Lumine]

I hope that Riley and Scott will offer their amendments soon, but I second rpryor03 in his request to go with the endorsements so we can settle that affair now. We have less than two weeks to the election, and choosing our candidates will make the rest of the convention easier to handle in regards to the platform, by-laws and the internal elections.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Does anyone know what the rules are the Presidential election? I don't see it stated on the wiki?

Since there is a desire to proceed, I will aim to begin the process this weekend and have it completed by mid next week.

[Senator Cris]

Well? When we will vote on the presidential endorsement?