1st Northern Assembly Thread

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I'm sworn in....let's get this party started!

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Gentlemen of the first Assembly,

Congratulations on your elections.  The people of the North trust that you will each help carry out a productive first session.  After this body elects its Speaker and the Governor appoints a Lieutenant Governor among you, I urge you to address the SOAP I drafted here and vote on the regional symbols proposed here as your first orders of business.

The proposed rules of order look good, and I will be supporting them. 

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Clyde and Logan Palmer still need to swear in before we can get moving.

Yes, I see they have not done that yet. 

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Sounds like we have a consensus pick, then.  Let's get this ball rolling. 

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Is this where I'd appoint the Lt. Governor?

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Thanks! But does this mean I can't be speaker?

After looking over the regional Constitution....I'd have to say that I don't know.  At this time, there appears to be nothing in the rules that prohibits one from being Lt. Governor and Speaker at the same time....correct me if I'm wrong, please. 

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If we adopt the SOAP, we will have an issue.

What if we "drop the SOAP" ? Sorry, bad political joke. 

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Agreed.  I just fired off a PM to Flo.  Hopefully, she'll have a nominee for us within the next day or so. 

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I nominate Gass3268 to be the next Lt. Gov of the Northern region.

X Flo

Cool.  Let's get a hearing started....I defer to LLR on that. 

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Ah.  My bad. 

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I'm not sure if this is in order.  We still have no Speaker, and the SOAP says nothing about who the Acting Speaker would be.  It would be the Acting Speaker's job to open hearings, which would last for 72 hours (three days).  I note that this can be shortened to a minimum of 36 hours (one day and twelve hours). 

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If only to get this moving again, I vote Aye on Gass to Lt. Governor.