Northeast Assembly Thread

[Antonio the Sixth]

Bump.

I think all is clear now, but we have to wait for another entire day because of rules...

Yeah - that's to make sure we all have a chance to see the legislation and propose changes - and know when we will hold a vote.  I was gone for about a day and missed the override vte since it passed by so fast.

Anyone who is absent is responsible for being. When I was, I apologized without complaining for what I missed.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Good.

I think the idea of keeping debating is hopeless, since nobody evolved in his positions, nor had a reason to do. We should just vote it now.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Aye

[Antonio the Sixth]

This passed.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Aye, FTR.

Not FTR - the vote is open until 12:31 PM tomorrow unless everyone votes sooner (Smid, that is).

We need to find someone to put our work in the wiki. Maybe each bill's sponsor can update the wiki if their bill passes.

I'll do as soon as mine will pass.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Next bill ?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Certain things, I believe, require immediate attention, such as the Constitutional Amendment to limit the number of Reps., proposed by Hamilton. Which will probably be the first or second Bill considered in the next Assembly.

Don't. I'm working with him on a better version right now, and Hamilton will probably renounce to his Amendment as soon as we'll reach an agreement.

[Antonio the Sixth]

As for the tax credit, I'm pretty torn : on the one hand, this could be very helpful to restore growth, but on the other one, this will consistently reduce our breathing space, especially about helping the most disadvantaged. This was my priority during my campaign, and I don't want to be obliged to explain people that I can't keep my promises because government hasn't money anymore.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Wait... we use a flat income tax in the Northeast ?? This absolutely needs to be changed.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Wait... we use a flat income tax in the Northeast ?? This absolutely needs to be changed.

No. It's worked for us so far. We have a balanced budget.

That's not the point. Flat tax is horribly unfair.

[Antonio the Sixth]

This is also fine with me.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'd like to see an emergency vote take place to limit the amount of Reps. to 6. 6 is a good number.

I see you never deleted your old Amendment, nor introduced the new one as you told me you would. Congratulations for pretending to pay attention about other people's opinions and then totally ignore them.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'd like to see an emergency vote take place to limit the amount of Reps. to 6. 6 is a good number.

I see you never deleted your old Amendment, nor introduced the new one as you told me you would. Congratulations for pretending to pay attention about other people's opinions and then totally ignore them.

I thought you were going to introduce it! Ok I will right now.

All right. The essential is not to have two different Amendments introduced on the same subject at the same time (and, partly, by the same people)

[Antonio the Sixth]

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker

When will we know official results of the election?

When you go read the voting booth

Oh, I'm sorry for confusion, but where's official certification from the responsible authorities. Official message who get elected

I don't know. But I want to know as well. Hope I didn't lose.

LOL You certainly know you're ahead with more than twice the quota.

[Antonio the Sixth]

We don't need to appoint two members, but just to make work normal electoral proceedings : Dr Cynic and Conor Flynn are elected since they both accepted write-ins.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The following have been duly elected:

Antonio V
Hamilton
Kalwejt
Smid
Cinyc
Fezzyfestoon

With the Assembly size increased to Eight, the Governor needs to appoint two Reps.

The New Assembly starts at Midnight, or about 17 minutes.

So there are 3 ProCons, 2 JCP-ers and, now, 1 LFN?

I'm an independent.  It's 2/2/1/1, pending the election of Dr. Cynic and Conor Flynn.  If those two are deemed elected, the composition should be 2 PCP, 2 JCP, 2 LFN (+Dr. Cynic), 1 DA (+ Conor/Rocky/Montag/whatever he's calling himself these days) and 1 independent.

The composition of the first Assembly at the time of nomination was 2 PCP, 2 JCP, 2 independents.

Nice to see how balaced the composition is.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Fellow Representatives,
For the new session beginning, I've decided to run for he office of Speaker of the Assembly. I have absolutely nothing against Smid, for which I have a lot of respect, and who certainly did a good job last session. However, as I promised during my campaign, I find necessary to make the delays the shortest possible for vote openings and closures. We have an enourmous amout of bills that need to be discussed and put on vote before the end of the session, and I would like to help making this assembly work faster and better. As soon as elected, I will start with opening the vote on Tax Credit Act.

Actually, being chosen to join you all was rather a shock to me. I wrote my own name in because I could not think of another person at that time. Having others write me in was surprising when I learned it. So much so, I didn't believe our President when he informed me.

Yeah, you seemed to be a pretty good choice. Congratulations and good luck for your new office.

[Antonio the Sixth]

[X] Rep. AntonioV
[ ] Rep. Smid

[Antonio the Sixth]

Aye.

I mentioned to someone a couple of days back that I won't be running for Speaker in the next assembly, in order to give someone else the chance to perform the role.

Thanks. Sorry for challenging you, but one-candidate elections aren't fun. Anyways, Barnes took the right decision.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Nice to see we have an unanimity.

[Antonio the Sixth]

*yawn*

Aye

[Antonio the Sixth]

What the hell do the other 4 do ?!?
Eight is really too much...

[Antonio the Sixth]

What the hell do the other 4 do ?!?
Eight is really too much...

Well, five Reps would be enough, but law cannot act retrospectivaly

The Amendment sponsored by Hamilton and I will try to deal with that, so that in decemer we will have a more competitive election and a better working Assembly.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well, I have to indicate that Hamilton and I are co-sponsor of this Amendment.

Here is the point : The unsteadiness between the number of seats and the number of real voters is a main reason for the current excessive number of reps. Linking it to the number of actual voters would drastically reduce them (for instance, even with 32 voters, we'd still have only 6 reps), but keeping a link between the number of active citizens and the number of their Representatives.


Aye, obviously.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well, no we just need to wait for 48 long hours of so-called "debate"... Proceedings are so boring !

Anyways, the main problem with this is that it's an Amendment, and Amendments need to be voted by the citizens after passing in the Assembly.