Office of Zanas46 - Get out to vote !

[Zanas]

Howdy y'all !

I would like to take the occasion that I'm running for the Imperial Legislature for the Labour Party to : a) explain my motives, convictions and ideas a bit, and b) get to answer the voters' questions on particular issues or bills.

To introduce myself, I'd say I am quite a political UFO. I've been a radical leftist since I was 15. I started as an anarchist, close to Proudhon but heavily influenced by the realizations of the CNT-FAI in Catalogne and Aragon in 1936. Then I shifted towards parties that actually believed in participating in elections and got my election "fetish" which brought me on this forum. I was a revolutionary communist, but got tired of their will to protest without getting to act and govern.

I am now what you'd call a "responsible socialist", my objective is that the party of the working people achieve government for the benefit of all.

I am a UFO because I did all that path in a mostly conservative suburb and my friends are all more conservative than me, some more than others. That means that I was always trained in discussing issues from various points of views, and I always try to get to the point where I can find the least common denominator between my contradictor and myself, and try to build from that point on. I usually get to some results, and I am always satisfied when I've succeeded to turn one of my conservative friends' point of view on a question from right-wing to centre-left or even centre. That's because I'm nearly 0% dogmatic, and I don't try to hammer in 100% of my personal view from scratch.

So enough about myself. The policies I would like to support in the Legislature, and maybe propose after a bit, are mainly on the preservation of the environment, the conquest of new rights for the workers in the companies, the protection of the most vulnerable (infants, disabled people, seniors, minorities), all that with the help of much more sharing on the economic ground, that is to say redistribution of wealth.

I'm now open to questions. If you have a question on a particular bill, please link to it in your message, as I don't necessarily have the time to browse the entire forum for it.

Thanks, and vote for me ! :-)

[tmthforu94]

Good luck to you!!!

[Donerail]

Best of luck! With all due respect, I hope you're crushed

Welcome to the race.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Does this protection extend to the child in the womb?

[Zanas]

It extends to the embryo then the foetus in the uterus. I don't know about children in wombs.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

It extends to the embryo then the foetus in the uterus. I don't know about children in wombs.

The embryo/fetus= child in the womb.

[CatoMinor]

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?

[Supersonic]

Uh-oh. Another Commie for the South.

[Zanas]

It extends to the embryo then the foetus in the uterus. I don't know about children in wombs.

The embryo/fetus= child in the womb.

I make a distinction between the two. I'm not one who considers the embryo or the foetus have legal personhood. A child however has, once he is legally born and living.

[Zanas]

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?

No, and never have, IRL or in Atlasia (don't know if there ever has been such a party here ?). However I'm used to work with them on several occasions, as with other more moderate parties of the left or the centre.

[Hash]

What is your opinion of Mustafinism-Komovism?

[Zanas]

Whereas in general I'm not that much into one-topic-based lobbying parties, I found that supporters of the Mustafinist-Komovist may have a slight Communist kinship of some kind when I saw this picture on their website :
So I'd say I am benevolent towards the Movement, waiting to see them in their acts.

[Napoleon]

Endorsed.

[Zanas]

Thanks, Mr President, that's an honor !

[Velasco]

Good luck. I have an important question for you: Judean People's Front or People's Front of Judea?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNqLKFWQ17s

[Zanas]

- We must unite against our common enemy !
- Judea's People Front ??!!!
- No ! The Romans !
- Oh, yeah...

That scene is one of the best pictures of groupuscular trotskyism I've ever seen. I've been raised with Monty Python's since I was 10 so...

Romani eunt domum !

[HagridOfTheDeep]

It appears Zanas has been appointed to fill a vacancy in the legislature. Good luck. Please help pass the education bill.

[Zanas]

I will certainly look into it. And thanks to both of you.

[LastVoter]

The booth is open, I urge all the supporters to vote!

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

'We done don't take too kahndly 'tu 'ya carpetbagga's here in 'da dirty south.


Welcome to the IDS, I wish you luck

[Donerail]

3rd preferenced! You may be a Labor and part of their carpetbagger plot, but still.

[Zanas]

Thanks very much ! You'll have my 3d preference as an exchange of good wills.

Also : I hereby declare that should I be elected, the members of the Mustafinism-Komovism movement can count on me to push the declaration of September 30th as Aliya Mustafina Day, as I think we should have a day that promotes grace, sportswomanship, tininess and cuteness.

[Zanas]

I would like to take a moment to thank all the good citizens of the Southern Region that got me elected to their representative body, the Imperial Legislature. I'll do my best to guarantee that your vote shall not be in vain.

If my fellow Labour members allow me, I should be addressing an acceptance speech in a few days at the Labour Convention in Birmingham, AL.

This thread will stay open and serve as my parliamentary office. Questions from Southern citizens, fellow Legislators, or any citizen in Atlasia or elsewhere are of course always welcome, and I'll do my best to answer them asap.

[Hash]

I was going to vote for you, but I was unbelievably busy this weekend and I forgot to vote. But you won anyway, so congratsz. I hope you live up to the trust placed in you by the Mustafinist-Komovist movement.

[Zanas]

One could think that clientelism should suppose actually voting for the person from which a favor is expected...

But I grew fond of that refreshing movement so I'll include it in my agenda.