MA: Amendment to Article III Section 1 Clause 2 (Debating)

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

The current law is an incentive for there to be competitive elections. I'm not against having five permanent assemblymen but our level of activity needs to be consistent enough to handle it and at the moment I'm skeptical of that. We're losing two of our current assembly to the Senate (which is why Riley is wrong in his decision of who he appointed to the senate). That is something that hurts activity in an assembly when you have a qualified candidate for senate who is a private citizen who wants to serve the region in that capacity yet the governor refuses that person an opportunity to face confirmation and turns around and offers appointment to one of his assemblyman and offers the jilted senate candidate the assembly seat which said candidate for senate doesn't want. Needless to say I digress and say I think we need to wait and see before we make the assembly five permanently.