Office of Delegate JustinTimeCuber

[JustinTimeCuber]

I'm running for the Southern Chamber of Delegates. I want to be a strong, progressive voice in the Chamber who will work across the aisle with Delegates more conservative or libertarian than me on issues where we can find common ground, without compromising basic progressive values that I believe can help poor southerners succeed in life, that can protect minority and LGBT southerners from discrimination, that can create true equality of opportunity. I may not be the most qualified candidate, but I can say this: If I'm elected, southerners will know that they have a principled progressive fighting for them in the Chamber of Delegates. I ask for your vote in the election starting March 10 and ending the 12th, five weeks from this weekend.

Platform:
- Minimum wage increase [PROPOSED LEGISLATION]
- A ban on "right-to-work" laws in the South
- Increased regional funding for higher education
- Opposing secret ballot election reform, "don't fix something that isn't broken". Former President of Atlasia Blair2015 makes some good points on this topic.
- Do an infrastructure project to create hundreds of thousands of decent-paying jobs for southerners.
- Propose an amendment to allow for an increase in the number of Representatives to Congress if the Atlasian voter population grows.

I will begin writing legislation to implement this platform, so that if elected, progressives in the Chamber of Delegates can quickly start playing offense instead of defense. My proposals list may expand over the next few weeks as I think of more specific ideas to improve southerners' lives.

Endorsements:
White Trash/Southern Gothic, Former Representative to Congress and Feb '17 Labor VP Nominee
NeverAgain, Southern Delegate and Feb '17 Labor Presidential Nominee
OneJ_, Representative to Congress, Minority Whip
Harry S Truman, Prime Minister of Fremont
1184AZ, Representative to Congress
CXSmith, Lincoln Assemblyman
Blair2015, 40th President of Atlasia
VirginStar (Peebs' real account), Representative to Congress, Minority Leader

[White Trash]

Endorsed. While I do support a secret ballot, the rest of the platform is great

[JustinTimeCuber]

Endorsed. While I do support a secret ballot, the rest of the platform is great

Thanks for the endorsement! I am of course willing to hear different points of view, but my current position is that there could be accountability problems. I don't believe that Governor dfwlibertylover would cheat in the counting of votes, but having just one or two people in charge of the votes is generally concerning.

[NeverAgain]

Beautiful platform! Obvious endorsement here! I look forward to your candidacy, and your work in the CoD! Please let me know if you need anything!

[JustinTimeCuber]

Beautiful platform! Obvious endorsement here! I look forward to your candidacy, and your work in the CoD! Please let me know if you need anything!

Thanks!

[OneJ]

Endorsed! I'd be happy to work with you in the Chamber.

[JustinTimeCuber]

Endorsed! I'd be happy to work with you in the Chamber.

Glad to have the support of a potential future colleague.

I wrote a draft of a minimum wage bill (see OP). It's open for suggestions, I want to get these platform proposals made into well-written, clear legislation before (hopefully, if I'm elected that is) they get debated in the Chamber.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Glad to have new people running and taking the initiative!

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Endorsed! You've produced an excellent platform, and I'm sure you'll make a strong addition to the Chamber of Delegates.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Glad to have new people running and taking the initiative! Endorsed!

[This account no longer in use.]

Endorsed.

[JustinTimeCuber]

Endorsed! You've produced an excellent platform, and I'm sure you'll make a strong addition to the Chamber of Delegates.

Glad to have new people running and taking the initiative! Endorsed!

Thanks for the support! I think with these endorsements from Fremont politicians, I should get 100% of the vote out of Fremont. lol

Endorsed.

Endorsed.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Endorsed! You've produced an excellent platform, and I'm sure you'll make a strong addition to the Chamber of Delegates.

Glad to have new people running and taking the initiative! Endorsed!

Thanks for the support! I think with these endorsements from Fremont politicians, I should get 100% of the vote out of Fremont. lol

Feel free to carpetbag out here if you fall short in the CoD.

[JustinTimeCuber]

Platform:
- Minimum wage increase [PROPOSED LEGISLATION]

To carry out this part of my platform, I have been working on a bill. I'm looking for suggestions on how to improve this legislation. I want to have very clear and detailed bills ready to implement a progressive platform if I'm elected to the Chamber.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

It's a nice bill but Atlasia already recently raised the national minimum wage

[JustinTimeCuber]

It's a nice bill but Atlasia already recently raised the national minimum wage

Are you talking about the A Real Living Wage Act? If so, this bill is supposed to be an extension thereto. Notice the correspondence in the effective date, April 16, 2017.

Speaking of the A Real Living Wage Act, Section 2 seems somewhat vague. 20% of the minimum wage? 20% of the average wage? 20% of the minimum wage hike? Can someone clarify?

[Blair]

Yeah I'd definitely blame who-ever wrote that legislation I'll make sure to amend/fix the tax credit part of the bill.

It's great to see a new player this active, and brings me back memories of my own youth in Atlasia. Endorsed

[JustinTimeCuber]

Yeah I'd definitely blame who-ever wrote that legislation I'll make sure to amend/fix the tax credit part of the bill.

It's great to see a new player this active, and brings me back memories of my own youth in Atlasia. Endorsed

Glad to have your support!

[JustinTimeCuber]

I have begun work on an anti-right-to-work constitutional referendum.

[JustinTimeCuber]

Congratulations to President-elect dfwlibertylover on his victory tonight!

[JustinTimeCuber]

It's just one week until the Southern regional election. Here are the people I support. (colors are by national party because no one cares about the regional ones tbh)

Governor: NeverAgain
Running against: diptheriadan (NPP)

Chamber of Delegates: fhtagn and Jacobin American (also vote for me lol)
Running against: Classic Conservative, Carpetbagger, Ben Kenobi (ACP)

I hope we can turn the south red (pink for you hamarambois) by showing up at the polls and voting for Labor candidates.

e: RIP Nev stole Peebs' governor run
e2: lmao Santander also dropped out
e3: I swear to god guys make up your mind

[JustinTimeCuber]

BRIEF STATEMENT ON SOUTHERN BILL S2
S2, which was recently introduced in the Southern Chamber of Delegates by Delegate Ben Kenobi, would ban all physician-assisted suicide in the South. I am very strongly opposed to this measure.  It's absolutely ridiculous for people to claim they support freedom, but then when it's someone who is going to die in the next 6 months, who is over 18 years old, and who makes a decision based on free will that they don't want to suffer through those final months filled with physical, mental, and emotional pain, they don't support that person's freedom of choice. Delegate Kenobi and anyone else who joins him on this issue should be ashamed of the suffering they will cause people.

[diptheriadan]

Have you meet with Ben and heard his concerns?

[JustinTimeCuber]

Have you meet with Ben and heard his concerns?

I'm PMing him and his concerns are things that are already clearly illegal under the current law (someone got killed by a doctor who was in a vegetative state, and therefore clearly couldn't give consent)

[diptheriadan]

Have you meet with Ben and heard his concerns?

I'm PMing him and his concerns are things that are already clearly illegal under the current law (someone got killed by a doctor who was in a vegetative state, and therefore clearly couldn't give consent)

Still feel the same way about Ben?