Marokai Blue for Senator: Re-election time is-a comin'

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

As always I'd like to address something here at my campaign.

     That aside, I decided to run for President because while partisan bickering is lots of fun, we are facing a genuine crisis in Atlasia, & have been facing one for a long time. This crisis relates to the fact that Atlasian voters tend to be very inactive outside of election time. While I am proud to say that we are making progress in this regard, Atlasian activity is a mere shadow of what it once was. If elected President, I will dedicate myself to finding solutions to this problem.

Admirable, Senator, truly admirable. I am absolutely in agreement that bickering and debate can be alot of fun (and I pledge that fiery discussion and passionate debate where necessary if I am elected), and that we have a terrible problem of people only popping in when absolutely necessary. It's the same problem we face in the Constitutional Convention, and in the Senate.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to add up to who you're supporting for DWTL's seat. Duke has openly admitted to being woefully inactive until, suddenly, he wants to run for the Senate, then he comes up with a bunch of poorly thought-out gimmicks and makes grand promises about activity.

Perhaps if you want a solution to your problem, voting for the candidate with consistent activity and a track record of keeping promises and working hard in every area he can, would be your first step!

College is not an easy thing to handle, especially when your college is nicknamed "Work Forest." I have stated time and again that it is completely on me for my inactivity, but I'm not sacrificing my real life for an internet game. I will say that for the next three months, I will be home, unemployed, and completely available for a term in the Senate. I would not be running just to become inactive. When I start school in September and I find I am too busy to adequately keep up, I will retire. Simple as that.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ebowed's intial posts indicated the economy was declining but the dearth of info since then means we could be in a Great Depression and not even know it. Even what he did post lacked enough info to gives us a broad economic picture.

Well, you would rather expect so, given the Senate's propensity to ignore the majority of my articles when I was writing them.  I never did see any response by the Senate to address the failing automobile industries.  And there's no point making the situation worse if no one is going to bother addressing it.

Truman said if you can't fix a problem make it bigger. Have one of the Auto Makers go bankrupt and not like we have seen in RL I mean chapter 7 the bastards. Post updates headlined "UNEMPLOYMENT SOARS TO NEW RECORD HIGH AFTER CHRSYLER DECLARES BANKRUPTCY". The Senate would have to address that especially now, with all the newbies running around asking questions to practically every Senate candidate, that would definately come up. Yes I might have gone a bit over board on how specific the info is, But Unemployment, and the others are pretty easy and it don't take a rocket scientist, just a basic understanding of economics and a bit of an imagination.

[Marokai Backbeat]

As always I'd like to address something here at my campaign.

     That aside, I decided to run for President because while partisan bickering is lots of fun, we are facing a genuine crisis in Atlasia, & have been facing one for a long time. This crisis relates to the fact that Atlasian voters tend to be very inactive outside of election time. While I am proud to say that we are making progress in this regard, Atlasian activity is a mere shadow of what it once was. If elected President, I will dedicate myself to finding solutions to this problem.

Admirable, Senator, truly admirable. I am absolutely in agreement that bickering and debate can be alot of fun (and I pledge that fiery discussion and passionate debate where necessary if I am elected), and that we have a terrible problem of people only popping in when absolutely necessary. It's the same problem we face in the Constitutional Convention, and in the Senate.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to add up to who you're supporting for DWTL's seat. Duke has openly admitted to being woefully inactive until, suddenly, he wants to run for the Senate, then he comes up with a bunch of poorly thought-out gimmicks and makes grand promises about activity.

Perhaps if you want a solution to your problem, voting for the candidate with consistent activity and a track record of keeping promises and working hard in every area he can, would be your first step!

College is not an easy thing to handle, especially when your college is nicknamed "Work Forest." I have stated time and again that it is completely on me for my inactivity, but I'm not sacrificing my real life for an internet game. I will say that for the next three months, I will be home, unemployed, and completely available for a term in the Senate. I would not be running just to become inactive. When I start school in September and I find I am too busy to adequately keep up, I will retire. Simple as that.

I understand how real life commitments and school can be a drain on one's activity, believe me, but I'm sure you could have found an hour here and there if these issues were so important to you that you decided to run for the Senate. It wouldn't have taken too much time to do a few things like creating a noticeboard here for the general public to see Senate business, or at least float the ideas on your own.

Such things can drain your activity and one's initiative, but don't insult our intelligence, Governor School is rough and time consuming, like many things, but you showed no interest until this very moment, an election.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

As always I'd like to address something here at my campaign.

     That aside, I decided to run for President because while partisan bickering is lots of fun, we are facing a genuine crisis in Atlasia, & have been facing one for a long time. This crisis relates to the fact that Atlasian voters tend to be very inactive outside of election time. While I am proud to say that we are making progress in this regard, Atlasian activity is a mere shadow of what it once was. If elected President, I will dedicate myself to finding solutions to this problem.

Admirable, Senator, truly admirable. I am absolutely in agreement that bickering and debate can be alot of fun (and I pledge that fiery discussion and passionate debate where necessary if I am elected), and that we have a terrible problem of people only popping in when absolutely necessary. It's the same problem we face in the Constitutional Convention, and in the Senate.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to add up to who you're supporting for DWTL's seat. Duke has openly admitted to being woefully inactive until, suddenly, he wants to run for the Senate, then he comes up with a bunch of poorly thought-out gimmicks and makes grand promises about activity.

Perhaps if you want a solution to your problem, voting for the candidate with consistent activity and a track record of keeping promises and working hard in every area he can, would be your first step!

College is not an easy thing to handle, especially when your college is nicknamed "Work Forest." I have stated time and again that it is completely on me for my inactivity, but I'm not sacrificing my real life for an internet game. I will say that for the next three months, I will be home, unemployed, and completely available for a term in the Senate. I would not be running just to become inactive. When I start school in September and I find I am too busy to adequately keep up, I will retire. Simple as that.

Duke has typically gotten pretty active in the summer(just look at last year) and guess what this seat is up again in August, so he can retire while still in summer if he fears he will be innactive again. As far as I am concerned Duke's level of activity is no longer an issue.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

As always I'd like to address something here at my campaign.

     That aside, I decided to run for President because while partisan bickering is lots of fun, we are facing a genuine crisis in Atlasia, & have been facing one for a long time. This crisis relates to the fact that Atlasian voters tend to be very inactive outside of election time. While I am proud to say that we are making progress in this regard, Atlasian activity is a mere shadow of what it once was. If elected President, I will dedicate myself to finding solutions to this problem.

Admirable, Senator, truly admirable. I am absolutely in agreement that bickering and debate can be alot of fun (and I pledge that fiery discussion and passionate debate where necessary if I am elected), and that we have a terrible problem of people only popping in when absolutely necessary. It's the same problem we face in the Constitutional Convention, and in the Senate.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to add up to who you're supporting for DWTL's seat. Duke has openly admitted to being woefully inactive until, suddenly, he wants to run for the Senate, then he comes up with a bunch of poorly thought-out gimmicks and makes grand promises about activity.

Perhaps if you want a solution to your problem, voting for the candidate with consistent activity and a track record of keeping promises and working hard in every area he can, would be your first step!

College is not an easy thing to handle, especially when your college is nicknamed "Work Forest." I have stated time and again that it is completely on me for my inactivity, but I'm not sacrificing my real life for an internet game. I will say that for the next three months, I will be home, unemployed, and completely available for a term in the Senate. I would not be running just to become inactive. When I start school in September and I find I am too busy to adequately keep up, I will retire. Simple as that.

I understand how real life commitments and school can be a drain on one's activity, believe me, but I'm sure you could have found an hour here and there if these issues were so important to you that you decided to run for the Senate. It wouldn't have taken too much time to do a few things like creating a noticeboard here for the general public to see Senate business, or at least float the ideas on your own.

Such things can drain your activity and one's initiative, but don't insult our intelligence, Governor School is rough and time consuming, like many things, but you showed no interest until this very moment, an election.

Which also coincides with me getting out of school/my sisters graduation as well. I didn't plan on DWTL going missing, obviously. I was also not in the Senate, so one shouldn't expect me to brief myself on all the issues daily while I am in school. I'm not insulting anyone. And the Governor's job isn't the most needy job in the world either. It was initially because my region was basically in shambles and we had to do something to increase interest, but after that, things in Atlasia over all stagnated.

[Marokai Backbeat]

you know how everyone is talking about unity? well i have been thinking, maybe that is the wrong move.

Well, PiT believes in unity when it suits him

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

you know how everyone is talking about unity? well i have been thinking, maybe that is the wrong move.

Well, PiT believes in unity when it suits him

don't you mean when he wants to win?

[Associate Justice PiT]

you know how everyone is talking about unity? well i have been thinking, maybe that is the wrong move.

Well, PiT believes in unity when it suits him

don't you mean when he wants to win?

     Because of course I might not believe in unity to solve core problems of Atlasia, eh?

[Marokai Backbeat]

Before I make any decisions, I would like to ask a quick question...

"1. The Federal Communications Commission, nor any other federal agency, shall have the power to regulate the content of television or radio broadcasts."

Was this bill intended to say "shall not have the power"? The lack of not would change the entire meaning of the bill, no?

Sorry if I'm just misunderstanding something here...

     Damn, I messed it up. Yes, it was intended to be "shall not have the power".

A bill, so lacking of debate and Senators so eager to jump and pass it, sat in the Senate for roughly four days and was voted on by all of the Senators before someone noticed an obvious typo that had the opposite intended effect.

If elected, I pledge to be a Senator that can read.

[Purple State]

To be fair, the version they passed actually is fine with me. To bad it was vetoed.

[Marokai Backbeat]

To be fair, the version they passed actually is fine with me. To bad it was vetoed.

You're not alone in thinking that,

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

Before I make any decisions, I would like to ask a quick question...

"1. The Federal Communications Commission, nor any other federal agency, shall have the power to regulate the content of television or radio broadcasts."

Was this bill intended to say "shall not have the power"? The lack of not would change the entire meaning of the bill, no?

Sorry if I'm just misunderstanding something here...

     Damn, I messed it up. Yes, it was intended to be "shall not have the power".

A bill, so lacking of debate and Senators so eager to jump and pass it, sat in the Senate for roughly four days and was voted on by all of the Senators before someone noticed an obvious typo that had the opposite intended effect.

If elected, I pledge to be a Senator that can read.

that was harsh.

[Purple State]

Before I make any decisions, I would like to ask a quick question...

"1. The Federal Communications Commission, nor any other federal agency, shall have the power to regulate the content of television or radio broadcasts."

Was this bill intended to say "shall not have the power"? The lack of not would change the entire meaning of the bill, no?

Sorry if I'm just misunderstanding something here...

     Damn, I messed it up. Yes, it was intended to be "shall not have the power".

A bill, so lacking of debate and Senators so eager to jump and pass it, sat in the Senate for roughly four days and was voted on by all of the Senators before someone noticed an obvious typo that had the opposite intended effect.

If elected, I pledge to be a Senator that can read.

that was harsh.

Nah. I'll be the first to admit we screwed that one up. The Senate was so frustrated by the issues with the first bill that we rushed into that one. And I plan on amending the next one.

[Lunar]

Marokai, may I suggest one of the following for your official mascot?

















*I didn't know there were so many Smart Balance products, I assumed there was only the butter.  But I guess you can like live off of this stuff.  Awesome.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Done

[GMantis]

I fully endorse Marokai Blue! We former SDP and current JCP members must support each other!

[Marokai Backbeat]

You just reminded me how a member from another forum used to call me Macaroni

[GMantis]

You just reminded me how a member from another forum used to call me Macaroni

Sorry.

[Marokai Backbeat]

You just reminded me how a member from another forum used to call me Macaroni

Sorry.

Just teasing Thank you for your support!

[opebo]

When/where can I vote for Marokai Blue?

[Marokai Backbeat]

When/where can I vote for Marokai Blue?

Hello everyone. A special election will be held beginning this Thursday at midnight to replace Senator DTWL.

That is all.

[Vepres]

AG Marokai, you've said you want to bring debate back to the senate, yet the only debate you have engaged in in this campaign is flaming your opponents, can you give examples of where you, in recent times, have actually added substantive debate to the discussion?

[Marokai Backbeat]

AG Marokai, you've said you want to bring debate back to the senate, yet the only debate you have engaged in in this campaign is flaming your opponents, can you give examples of where you, in recent times, have actually added substantive debate to the discussion?

I think my history in the constitutional convention and some of my comments in the Senate (which I don't like to do, I hate interfering where it's not my business to) shows that I can and have had a debate on important issues.

I'm happy to debate any issue you or my opponents would like right now,

[the artist formerly known as catmusic]

Endorsed.

I guess so too!

[Purple State]

I would like to announce my endorsement for Marokai Blue for the upcoming special Senate election.

For me, the decision came down to who I trust to remain active. Two of the candidates once showed a passionate interest in Atlasia; however, they had long ago let that fire burn down to a low simmer. One candidate has recently been exposed to this passion, but I fear that he has turned up the heat far too fast and runs the risk of simply being a flash in the pan.

Marokai, however, has proven himself to be a committed and active member of Atlasia, serving in various posts and contributing intelligent and productive discussion. Sure, sometimes he can be a bit fiery, but it is that passion that is so needed in the Senate. It's great to have a party in the majority, but even better is having a diversity of ideas from inspired and inspiring members.

I ask you all to join me in a vote for Marokai tomorrow.

~Senator Purple State