potential leave of absence, 15-10-23 - ?

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

will be going in for inpatient mental health treatment. they said it'd be around a month, i think. don't know if/how much they'll allow me to access the internet. please wait at least like a week or so before removing me from anything. thanks.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

can use my phone but that's terrible for browsing atlas. we'll see.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

yeah y'know i think i'll resign and probably run again once i'm out

[Clyde1998]

yeah y'know i think i'll resign and probably run again once i'm out

Okay - I'll contact cynic and see who's next in line to be elected from the Assembly election, if you wish.

Hope your out soon

[Blair]

Don't I get to appoint someone?

[Clyde1998]

Don't I get to appoint someone?

I've asked Cynic to check. It might be that the sixth placed person in the election gets elected, or we hold a special election.

[Clyde1998]

I think this is the most recent law on it...

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[cinyc]

If evergreen resigns today, a special election will be held next weekend.  The governor can appoint a temporary replacement.  He or she must be from the same party as evergreen, though, IIRC, evergreen was NNP at the time of the election and it is no longer a federally recognized party.  I'll double check the registration.

If not, we'd have to wait until evergreen misses the requisite number of votes before removal.  I don't think you can take an indefinite leave of absence that might last the entire term.

Get well, evergreen!  That's the most important thing.

[Clyde1998]

If evergreen resigns today, a special election will be held next weekend.  The governor can appoint a temporary replacement.  He or she must be from the same party as evergreen, though, IIRC, evergreen was NNP at the time of the election and it is no longer a federally recognized party.  I'll double check the registration.

If not, we'd have to wait until evergreen misses the requisite number of votes before removal.  I don't think you can take an indefinite leave of absence that might last the entire term.

Get well, evergreen!  That's the most important thing.

Regardless of whether the NNP is federally recognised (and I don't think we are) - we only have three members in the Northeast: Oakvale (who's Senator), myself and Evergreen. There'd be no-one else to fill that role, unless someone else joined the NNP without me noticing.

[Blair]

You don't have to appoint someone-it's just what's often happened. Unless somethings changed since February (probably has!) the Governor doesn't have to appoint someone from the same party (I remember there was a controversy when Sawx gave an assembly seat up)

[cinyc]

You don't have to appoint someone-it's just what's often happened. Unless somethings changed since February (probably has!) the Governor doesn't have to appoint someone from the same party (I remember there was a controversy when Sawx gave an assembly seat up)

The law was changed this year, going back to the same-party appointment requirement.  This has been ignored by various governors, but that's what current law says.

This is one of the many reasons I've proposed a bill to create a committee to look at and codify all election law into one act that we can easily find.  It's hard to find on the wiki, if it's there at all, and also inconsistent in places.