55th Senate PPT and Committee Declarations (Com Chair voting)

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Please declare your intentions to challenge Yankee for PPT in this thread. You have 5 days to make your declarations.

Also, if you wish to declare for committees, do so in this thread as well. The four committees: Government Oversight and Reform, National Security, The Judiciary and Internal Affairs.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

PPT election: (5 days)

[ ] Yankee
[ ] WI:

Napoleon said he "may" which is not a declaration, so I didn't include him.

Committees:

GOR:
[ ] Yankee
[ ] Napoleon
[ ] Snowstalker
[ ] X
[ ] Maxque

NSC:
[ ] Ben
[ ] X
[ ] Kal
[ ] Snowstalker
[ ] Napoleon

JUD
[ ] Ben
[ ] Maxque
[ ] X
[] Nix

IA:
[ ] Napoleon
[ ] Snowstalker
[ ] Sbane
[ ] Maxque

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Yankee is elected PPT, to the surprise of no one.

Committee chair declarations begin now for the next 24 hours.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Sorry, Kal. I was going off Yankees list since I was behind from the past 3 weeks. We both screwed it up. We can do a revote if you would like.

Also, we need more declarations for chairs. I don't see one for the GOR or JUD. I assume Napoleon wishes to remain chair of IA?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

So far, we have 1 chair declared for 1 committee, and that's Ben.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

The period to declare has ended and we only have 1 committee with a chair declared (or 2, if Eternal Affairs is a thing...).

Why do we have committees again?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Last time I took your word for it, we left Kal out..

If we are going merely on what they "intended to say" then I suppose we have 3 declarations. What a mess if the senate has come to this...

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Why do we have committees again?

I've asked myself this question more than a few times, and never liked them to begin with. I'm proud that the lone Nay vote on their creation was from my region's Senator at the time.

I certainly would have opposed them had I still been in the senate. It's silly for a 10 person senate.

So at any rate, based on latent intent, the following candidates for chairmen:

NSC: Ben
IA: Napoleon
JUD: Maxy
GOR: Yank

Is this list correct? I will open a vote if it is.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Since no one confirmed, we are going to vote anyway on these committees. Please vote for this wide selection of candidates.

Committee Chair vote:

NSC:
[ ]Ben

IA:
[ ] Napoleon

JUD:
[ ] Maxque

GOR
[ ] Yankee

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Nice catch there Ben, at least someone remembers that gigantic text I had to compile.

If a Chairman is unopposed, can't we waive the vote?

NO CONSOLIDATING NSC.  It stands alone.

I am open to consolidation, but It think Justice and GOR would be a better combination, but that would of course leave three committees instead of two. Needing only nine committee members would be more efficient though.

Also, for those elected as Chair, take advantage of the Producitve committees Resolution to ensure that we can avoid certain things that plagued us last time. Designate people to fill in for instance in accordance with the procedures established therein.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Ease there old Marokai, I don't see what my statment does to deprive you us of "nice things"? You are back to the old demgoging ideas problem of yours once again.

Could we just eliminate the Judiciary Committee and combine Internal Affairs and Oversight/Reform? The Judiciary would mostly be dealing with "legal" matters, which, in the context of Atlasia, would just be a fancy version of forum affairs, which can basically be covered by the game reform committee. Internal Affairs barely has enough to do on it's own, anyway. As nice as the idea of eliminating one committee is, there's much more trimming that could be done to the Committee system than just having nine seats open instead of twelve, in a body of just ten.

Change occurs slowly. I would remind you that it was Scott's haste that left us with four committees last year. At the time the IA's functions were a part of the GOR.

I would have no problem with that combination suggested, however.

It's clear there was a lot of haste when these were formed in the first place. Having committees, much less 4 of them, in a 10 person senate is a recipe for inactivity and inefficiency.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

What is the status of this vote?

I suppose all those who declare win. I don't have a timeframe on it.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Ben is now NSC chair
Yankee is GOR chair
Napoleon is IA Char
Maxque is JUD chair

Congrats to all the winners.