The Mideast Record-Courier (Exclusive Interview with Roy Barnes)

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I have expressed that there is no use in getting mad, but yes, I do find it frustrating to see an effort with widespread support being defeated due to not showing up to vote. And as Windjammer pointed out, it's not the first time legislation fails due to a lack of votes.

I urge the President or Senator Windjammer to re-introduce this amendment.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

The weird thing this myopic nostalgia for 2011 () fails to touch upon is that RPP was terrible. Not that the entire stagnant duopoly wasn't, but you know. I can't fathom pining for the days when BRTD would win a Senate seat on write-in votes because he had a JCP tag.

2010 not 2011.

Because I am proud of what we in the RPP were working for. I am proud of the fact that we worked as a team. Duke, Cincy, PiT, TJ, Junkie, Cathcon, Zuwo and even Marokai as well as so many more. You were never an RPPer, how the hell would you be able to judge our party from the perspective of a willing facilitator of the JCP for so long. Nobody pines for that era because of your party at the time and the way it was run. It was terrible. We never elected a BRTD. We had True Con but he was appointed and didn't run in the election.

And perhaps you as TPP Chair should realize that considering just what Duke had in mind when he created the TPP or perhaps I know more about your party then you do.

I know of no RPPer who joined under my term as chair who left regretting having joined the Party. They loved the RPP that Duke and I had rebuilt from the ashes of 2009. They hated the JCP and its dominance. I never wanted a two-party system. I did everything I could to save the Populares. In hindsight I probably should have just started aggressively seeking to poach their members and kept them in the game instead of letting them slip away like Goldwater who first joined for six months as a Populares in 2010. One vote closer to electing Duke over Snowguy.

I will never accept the dissolution of the RPP because we paid the price for bgwah's exit from the stage since he was too much of a narcissist to not do something like that and no one had the balls to shake things up organically as long as he was around (So like all leftists, the approach to the problem is force ). Also because we ran a party the our members could be proud of. Former RPPers are now found in Labor, TPP and Federalist Parties. The failure to appreciate the RPPs legacy from another whose perspective came from that of the left at that time, helped cost your party a Senate seat recently.

I for one cannot fathom this desire on the part of leftists and former members of the JCP to project the way that the JCP ran onto the RPP and assume they were two sides of the same coin. We operated completely differently.

Which was?

In all that time I never really figured out what it was, aside from being the mainstream conservative party.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

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I think this refers to the November 2014 special election that was At-Large.
Another At-large special that ended with a one vote difference is Lumine vs Griffin.
Simfan won a seat in a speacial at-large with a fraction of a vote in November 2012.

Special At-large elections have produced some very close results considering the total number of votes. 

All of the examples you mentioned were races for a single seat in the Senate, which adds credence to the argument that such elections are more competitive and engaging than multi-seat elections.

That's kind of the point, indeed. Picking out random single-seat races is indicative of the problem. District seats would be a number of single-seat races, with their own idiosyncrasies and dynamics.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Just to clarify - the new Senate will sit from next Friday (first Friday in the month following the election).