PPT and Committee thread for the 52nd Senate

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

It is minimum 48 hours for the declaration periods, not 36.

The PPT election has a minimum span of five days or until someone gets a majority of the votes.

Committees:
Government Oversight and Reform
National Security
Judiciary
Internal Affairs

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Now you can demand it be completed in 24 hours by demanding everyone vote in that span, but you can't close it if they don't unless 6 vote for the same person.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I declare for the Government Oversight and Reform Committee.



Try to refrain from declaring for more than one until tomorrow, when we see where we still have gaps. Most likely such would be the case as we have four of them now.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Okay, you can definately start going for more then one now.


I didn't expect it to be the this lopsided for just the one committee. We need to have 12 committeemen so that is at least two people who are pulling double duty. Probaby more because there are some inactives and two seats are vacant until Monday, which is beyond the declaration period.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

That explains why it was so hard to make these legal.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

WE ARE COMING UP ON 23 HOURS HERE!!! THAT MAY BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE REST OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES IN THIS GAME, BUT THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR ENOUGH FOR THE 52nd SENATE!!!!!


We need people to start declaring for Committees.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

GOR: Oakvale, NC Yankee, Nix, Julio,
NS: None
JU: Marokai Blues on the radio
IA: Nix and Marokai Bluesky

NS - 3
JU -2
IA -1

We need five more declarations.

If we have a vacancy, we might be able to plug one of the At-Large Senators elected on Monday morning into the whole, but that could get confusing. If only BK and NV had left sooner.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Damn caps lock is a powerfull weapon.

One seat on the JU and one on the IA still need people. We might be able to stick the two at-Large Seantors into them that win on Monday.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

FRanzl is theo nly sitting Senator to not have declare for a Committee yet.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Since we only have 44 minutes left and biggest gap in these declarations hasn't yet been resolved, I feel obligated to move to fill it.

For the second time in a row I have stated, that only as a last resort would I desire to continue as PPT. I stated that in three locations this time and apparently, no one has seen them or they have seen them and decided they are unavailable. Therefore, I now reluctantly declare to once again serves as President Pro-Tempore of the Senate.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I declare for judiciary.

And I'm also willing to relieve Yankee of the PPT duties, if he is not interested in continuing to serve.

At this point, I am interested in continuing as reluctant as it may be. You have served in the position before and I am confident you could handle it so don't take it as anything negative about you. It does give me confidence that there are other people will to step forward and I am not the only one. With that concern aside, it comes down to a desire to get the Senate out of this rut that it has gotten into, if that makes sense.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

That's fine, I think you're the best man for job

I appreciate that.

I have been working on plan that will help improve the areas of deficiency. I had hopped for more substance from the Townhall, then we have gotten. I plan to do one of those every two weeks or maybe three going forward. The biggest difference this past Senate wasn't that we had innactivity of a group of Senators, but also that we had lack of engagement on the part of many of the actives. And so we had a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 and last I checked we had 10 Senators not three. Previous actions geared just towards getting the inactives, active. This time, it will be more "comprehensive" (read: much more painfull for everybody ).

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

You know I can't for the life of me figure out just how all 8 of us misread the OP and then that on top of that I misread the several PMs sent between me and Nathan. I had thought the plan was to do the declarations all at once, then the voting all at once. That was the plan Nathan had intended for last time, before fate (read RL) interveened and caused a problem, and I had understood that we would go back to that and get it all done the first week. The Thread title also seemed to confirm that, but the body of the OP is for a tandem election.

Why can we never get this done right? Every Senate, it is either a two day delay or some other confusion or both that causes delay and problems. Last time, it was positively catastrophic.

I think when we do get the GOR back up in operation, "senate exposition", the role of the VP in that and whole array of these issues needs to be looked at. Because in some way, it comes up every single time.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

[1] NC Yankee
[2] Other: Franzl
[3] Other: Ben
[4] Other: Marokai
[5] Other: HagridofthDeep
[6] Other: Averroës Nix
[7] Other: Oakvale
[8] Other: Julio

Because I'm taking you with me!

I would like to apologize as well for that confusion.

Atleast this way, we got several more days to figure out who is going for what committee. But I WOULD STRONGLY ADVISE THAT ALL PREVIOUS DECLARATIONS BE REPOSTED DURING THE SPECIFIED TIME!!!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Judiciary and National Security.

NOW IS NOT THE SPECIFIED TIME!!!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Even if I was his last choice...:

[X] NC Yankee

I'm pretty sure he was just listing us in order of seniority...

1. Volunteers
2. Seniority

And Julio shouldn't be last by the end of today, unless that special drags on for days.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Who is missing, it couldn't possibly be Magic Blueman, could it?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I declare for the Government Oversight and Reform Committee.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

GOR:  NC Yankee, Averroës Nix, Oakvale, Julio
NSC: Ben, Hagrid
Ju: Hagrid, Oakvale Franzl
IA: Averroës Nix


One more NSC and two more IA

Simfan, Marokai, and snowstalker haven't declared.

About 22 hours remaining.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

GOR:  NC Yankee, Averroës Nix, Oakvale, Julio
NSC: Ben, Hagrid, Snowman
Ju: Hagrid, Oakvale, Franzl, Marokai
IA: Averroës Nix, Marokai, Snowman


Simfan, haven't declared.

About 2 hours remaining.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

GOR:  NC Yankee, Averroës Nix, Oakvale, Julio
NSC: Ben, Hagrid, Snowman, Simfan
Ju: Hagrid, Oakvale, Franzl, Marokai
IA: Averroës Nix, Marokai, Snowman, Simfan


30 minutes to go. All Senators have declared for atleast one committe.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Nathan will have to decided whether or not to include you for the second committee. Technically you did go more then 48 hours after he opened the declarations, which is the stated times in the OP.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

GOR:

[1] NC Yankee
[2] Averroës Nix
[4] Oakvale
[3] Julio

NSC:

[2] Ben
[1] Hagrid
[3] Snowman
[4] Simfan

Ju:

[4] Hagrid
[3] Oakvale
[2] Franzl
[1] Marokai
[5] Julio

IA:

[4] Averroës Nix
[3] Marokai
[2] Snowman
[1] Simfan

Tried to make sure I got everyone atleast in the top 3 on at least one committee. Very tough and I don't want someone to go innactive, because they lose here either.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Remember people, that only those on the respected committee may vote for that committee's chairmanship election.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I guess I'll take GOR chair. I really didn't want to do both again.