Regional Protection Party

[DownWithTheLeft]

Someone open the damn convention

     Okay. I think it'll be in Indianapolis since Sewer's vote should be counted & also Smid & dead0man voted too late.

What?  That's sets a horrible precedent if we count Sewer's vote.  I ask that the convention then be halted until Duke can rule on the matter

[tmthforu94]

Does which city we host our convention really matter enough to delay the convention, possibly until tomorrow?

[Rowan]

Someone open the damn convention

     Okay. I think it'll be in Indianapolis since Sewer's vote should be counted & also Smid & dead0man voted too late.

What?  That's sets a horrible precedent if we count Sewer's vote.  I ask that the convention then be halted until Duke can rule on the matter

What horrible precedent? That members of the party can vote?

[Alexander Hamilton]

Second the motion to hold for Duke's ruling.

[DownWithTheLeft]

What horrible precedent? That members of the party can vote?

No, the idea that vote stacking is allowed.  My CRs had a similar problem last year, some kid brought all his friends to one meeting and vote so he would get a spot on the board.  This lead to adaption of a new constitution that included a clause saying you needed to attend 50% of meetings to vote.  The RPP needs something similar like that you must have been in the party for a certain amount of time, otherwise people could just join our party to vote on internal matters and then leave.  There are too many possible issues that could come at this convention to allow stunts like this to be precedent.

[Sewer]

Someone open the damn convention

     Okay. I think it'll be in Indianapolis since Sewer's vote should be counted & also Smid & dead0man voted too late.

What?  That's sets a horrible precedent if we count Sewer's vote.  I ask that the convention then be halted until Duke can rule on the matter

What horrible precedent? That members of the party can vote?

[Associate Justice PiT]

     How about we just start the convention now & say it's in a city "to be determined"? We're already starting late as it is.

[Sewer]

    How about we just start the convention now & say it's in a city "to be determined"? We're already starting late as it is.

I second the motion.

[DownWithTheLeft]

    How about we just start the convention now & say it's in a city "to be determined"? We're already starting late as it is.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking

[Alexander Hamilton]

Rowan and Sewer... Big Troll supporting Small Troll that is actually funny

[tmthforu94]

What horrible precedent? That members of the party can vote?

No, the idea that vote stacking is allowed.  My CRs had a similar problem last year, some kid brought all his friends to one meeting and vote so he would get a spot on the board.  This lead to adaption of a new constitution that included a clause saying you needed to attend 50% of meetings to vote.  The RPP needs something similar like that you must have been in the party for a certain amount of time, otherwise people could just join our party to vote on internal matters and then leave.  There are too many possible issues that could come at this convention to allow stunts like this to be precedent.

That's a good idea for a party bylaw. Maybe, you have to be a member of the party for two weeks to participate in party votes?

[Alexander Hamilton]

I will motion for a "No Sewer or Rowan Clause" banning infamous trolls.

[Sewer]

Rowan and Sewer... Big Troll supporting Small Troll that is actually funny

:^D

[Хahar 🤔]

I will motion for a "No Sewer or Rowan Clause" banning infamous trolls.

Reminds me of the legendarily successful AUB.

[Sewer]

I will motion for a "No Hamilton Clause" banning infamous trolls.

[Rowan]

I would like private forum access please.

[afleitch]

There you go. I was saving that torch for...something that did not quite come to pass.

[Psychic Octopus]

There you go. I was saving that torch for...something that did not quite come to pass.

I like it; Both of the ones we made were good.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

After reading through this, I find actions surronding the counting of the votes despicable and criminal. Rule are rules and must be applied equally and fairly to everyone.

[DownWithTheLeft]

BUMP

The party needs to take a more active role, regional senate seats are almost in as much danger as they were in August 2008.  With smaller numbers we defeated this absurd proposal but we need to organize the way we were back then. 

[Alexander Hamilton]

Any members of this party who believe in small government should head to the New Register Thread and join the Atlasia Reform Coalition.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I think many sectors of the PC believe in smaller government, but the question that arises is how will your party, or our party for that matter, accomplish this in the Atlasia environment? As I have said, I am for smaller government, more civil liberties, lower taxes, and lower government spending, but I am a realist first and foremost in knowing that changes like that, economically speaking, are pretty unrealistic given the makeup of Atlasia at its present. I look favorably to any party that espouses those said principles, but realize it may not be a realistic goal given the disproportionate number of left leaners in this "nation."

Unlike others, I will wish you luck in your endeavors.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Well, for starters, our party will be more accessible for most Atlasians, being less ideologically-driven. You have to give props to a party that can house me, Einzige, and Libertas all at once.

We don't hate the Progressive Conservatives. We just hate their lack of adherence to small government principles. The party might not be able to win the Midwest Senate seat or the Mideast Senate seat without big government supporters like Tmth and MJ, but why do they still support the same populist ideologues in the Southeast and At-Large. Einzige is right when he says that the libertarian wing is stifled. Much like the Republican Party, you abandon the base in the swing states/regions but then you use the same strategies for the safe seats, essentially abandoning much of the base altogether.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Our base since our founding has always been to preserve the rights of regions and ensure that certain rights were not infringed upon by the federal government, with an end goal of transferring certain powers from the federal government to the regions. In fact, ideologies in Atlasia, back when I joined and the RPP was founded, was basically regionalists versus anti-regionalists, rather than the left and right we see today. The PC has had libertarians, liberals, populists and conservatives elected to office in our existence, and there is nothing to suggest we are not going to do that again in the future. Our current makeup is not what it was, but we are not a purist, single ideology party, which is funny considering you and Eizign claim we are too purist. But we haven't abandoned our base as long as we fight for regional rights. That is our base.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Nationalistic populism defies regional governments their own self-governance.