Deeply disturbing (Part Neuf)

[Dr. Cynic]

I will say that I never did have a talent for writing legislation, so any bill that I sponsored and wrote in my Senate term, there were about 5 of them or so, were generally not particularly lengthy or life changing. I anticipated being GM by this point though so that's why my Senate participation has been rather quiet. That and for a few other personal things. I haven't spent a lot of time on the forum. Fortunately after Thanksgiving, I'll have more time.

[Dr. Cynic]

Allow me to speak for my decisions here. This is my POV of everything that went down. Make what you will of them:

I was going to register as an independent no matter what as GM, because I believe the office shouldn't be involved with party politics. When I registered as an independent, I was messaged by multiple people, who I will not name because they have a right to the privacy of our conversations making me aware and asking if I was aware of it. I explained that I was aware and I received an understanding and fair reply. There were no hard feelings. No feuding.

Now, why did I register as an independent early? Here's the deal on that from my perspective: My confirmation was being slowed so that a Senator could be appointed. I spoke with the President over this and made my displeasure clear. The office of GM has always been most important to me and I wanted to get started at it as soon as I possibly could. In order to break the stalemate and because I was going to do it anyway, I registered as an independent to speed up the process and get the confirmation process going. There would be a special election rather than an appointed Senator, but I felt it needed to be done. Now, here's where it goes a little bit awry and my displeasure was pretty evident:

The confirmation process was smooth to start with. However, through whatever reason, it was heavily delayed even before the start of the holiday. I should've been at this job at least a week before I was actually confirmed and in the confirmation thread, I and several other Senators made no secret how pissed and impatient they and I were becoming. Also, I felt stuck in a limbo as a sitting Senator. I had no idea when I'd be confirmed, so how could I focus on working on and debating legislation if I could be confirmed at any time and would it create a conflict of interest? Those were the questions I was asking myself internally and it went on longer than it should have.

It's not my desire to lay blame at anyone over this situation. Not the leadership of TPP, not the President, not anyone. I've explained my action over that as best I can and my feelings of the time. Now, I could've gone back and re-registered with TPP to avoid all this, but I didn't because then I'd have to re-register again as an independent as I intended to do anyway. To have done so would have made me both feel and look ridiculous. I had hoped to be confirmed in time for a special election, but I wasn't.

Now, my job is to make the office of GM, which has been dysfunctional for years, work as best I can. That is what I intend to do... Unless my statements here have pissed everyone off and I'm fired tomorrow.

[Dr. Cynic]

Allow me to speak for my decisions here. This is my POV of everything that went down. Make what you will of them:

I was going to register as an independent no matter what as GM, because I believe the office shouldn't be involved with party politics. When I registered as an independent, I was messaged by multiple people, who I will not name because they have a right to the privacy of our conversations making me aware and asking if I was aware of it. I explained that I was aware and I received an understanding and fair reply. There were no hard feelings. No feuding.

Now, why did I register as an independent early? Here's the deal on that from my perspective: My confirmation was being slowed so that a Senator could be appointed. I spoke with the President over this and made my displeasure clear. The office of GM has always been most important to me and I wanted to get started at it as soon as I possibly could. In order to break the stalemate and because I was going to do it anyway, I registered as an independent to speed up the process and get the confirmation process going. There would be a special election rather than an appointed Senator, but I felt it needed to be done. Now, here's where it goes a little bit awry and my displeasure was pretty evident:

The confirmation process was smooth to start with. However, through whatever reason, it was heavily delayed even before the start of the holiday. I should've been at this job at least a week before I was actually confirmed and in the confirmation thread, I and several other Senators made no secret how pissed and impatient they and I were becoming. Also, I felt stuck in a limbo as a sitting Senator. I had no idea when I'd be confirmed, so how could I focus on working on and debating legislation if I could be confirmed at any time and would it create a conflict of interest? Those were the questions I was asking myself internally and it went on longer than it should have.

It's not my desire to lay blame at anyone over this situation. Not the leadership of TPP, not the President, not anyone. I've explained my action over that as best I can and my feelings of the time. Now, I could've gone back and re-registered with TPP to avoid all this, but I didn't because then I'd have to re-register again as an independent as I intended to do anyway. To have done so would have made me both feel and look ridiculous. I had hoped to be confirmed in time for a special election, but I wasn't.

Now, my job is to make the office of GM, which has been dysfunctional for years, work as best I can. That is what I intend to do... Unless my statements here have pissed everyone off and I'm fired tomorrow.

...Wow. This brings up a lot of questions for sure, but I'm too tired right now to try to really delve deep.

So basically, your nomination was being slowed down (for a month, no less) by your party and/or the administration because they were in fact acutely aware of this, and wanted to make an appointment rather than have a special election? Man, I had no idea at the time how right I might have actually been...

I can't speak for what the party wanted. The thing that I got most agitated with was that the confirmation process was dragged out longer than it should have been. Even TPP Senators were literally begging the confirmation thread to be closed, one of whom is the Party's Chairman (who was aware of my decision and why it was made through PM). So, I don't think it's really fair to blame the TPP, nor the administration because Lumine nominated me almost immediately after I re-registered. The blame for the vacancy goes to whatever caused the delayed confirmation.