Gubernatorial Amendment (Amendment at Vote)

[minionofmidas]

LOL @ Lief being "pro-regions", it will be interesting to see what "pro-region" HappyWarrior does

I supported a compromise that would have kept a reasonable balance between regional and federal power. You guys defeated that, and this bill increases regional power for no reason.

When something is virtually powerless, its a good idea to give them power.  The reason the regions aren't as active as some would like, is that nothing really rides on a regional.  This bill will certainly make gubenatorial elections more competitive

Right, but at the moment, in the legislature (which is just the Senate), there's an even split between regional interests and national interests (5 seats to 5 seats). Adding the Council of Governor's will make that split at least 1:2 in power of the regions and arguably 1:3.

Uh, no. Regional interests aren't currently represented in the Senate.

[Lief 🗽]

LOL @ Lief being "pro-regions", it will be interesting to see what "pro-region" HappyWarrior does

I supported a compromise that would have kept a reasonable balance between regional and federal power. You guys defeated that, and this bill increases regional power for no reason.

When something is virtually powerless, its a good idea to give them power.  The reason the regions aren't as active as some would like, is that nothing really rides on a regional.  This bill will certainly make gubenatorial elections more competitive

Right, but at the moment, in the legislature (which is just the Senate), there's an even split between regional interests and national interests (5 seats to 5 seats). Adding the Council of Governor's will make that split at least 1:2 in power of the regions and arguably 1:3.

Uh, no. Regional interests aren't currently represented in the Senate.

Well, the regional senate seats are supposed to.

[Associate Justice PiT]

LOL @ Lief being "pro-regions", it will be interesting to see what "pro-region" HappyWarrior does

I supported a compromise that would have kept a reasonable balance between regional and federal power. You guys defeated that, and this bill increases regional power for no reason.

When something is virtually powerless, its a good idea to give them power.  The reason the regions aren't as active as some would like, is that nothing really rides on a regional.  This bill will certainly make gubenatorial elections more competitive

Right, but at the moment, in the legislature (which is just the Senate), there's an even split between regional interests and national interests (5 seats to 5 seats). Adding the Council of Governor's will make that split at least 1:2 in power of the regions and arguably 1:3.

Uh, no. Regional interests aren't currently represented in the Senate.

     Maybe it's because you aren't pushing for hugs hard enough.

[minionofmidas]

Well, the regional senate seats are supposed to.

Hardly. The issue for regional vs district seats was to have unchanging constituencies that people could identify with, vs equal-sized constituencies.
Mind you, people *do* indeed identify with their regions... which is why the attempt to get rid of them is getting nowhere, and has been, effectively, abandoned.

[Meeker]

Vote Count

Aye: 6 (DWTL, Torie, SPC, PiT, Bacon King, HappyWarrior)
Nay: 2 (Lewis, Lief)
Abstain (Yet to vote): 2 (Al, AndrewCT)

[DownWithTheLeft]

I bring an injunction to keep this vote open

[Јas]

I bring an injunction to keep this vote open

The vote time expired 4/5 days ago.
Your proposed injunction is out of time.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Then I plan to bring a Supreme Court case that proper warning was never given of the vote closing. 

[Јas]

Then I plan to bring a Supreme Court case that proper warning was never given of the vote closing. 

Well...okay.
Best of luck backing up your case!

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Maybe I should just re-introduce the bill.

[DownWithTheLeft]

     Maybe I should just re-introduce the bill.

You can do that too while I figure out if I have a case

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This Amendment has failed.

I think. It's late and I'm not well. It's possible that I misread something somewhere.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     It did fail. I re-introduced it since the votes to make it pass definitely appear to be there.