Northeast Assembly Thread

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I, Scott, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of Northeast Assemblyman and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Northeast Region, so help me Dave.

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I, Scott, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of Northeast Assemblyman and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Northeast Region, so help me Dave.

For you.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=36934.0

Thanks.

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I need to know when my full-term election is, too.  Is that later this month?

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Also, leave of absence notification: from August 21st to August 25th, I will be on vacation a diplomatic errand to Virginia Beach and most likely will not have Internet access.

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I amend this bill.

Partners in Civic Engagement Act

The Government of the Northeast shall match any individual contribution dollar-for-dollar, up to five hundred thousand dollars, to any tax-exempt charity or organization intended to promote the establishment and continued operation of:

- after-school programs in school districts in which more than one quarter of the student population is impoverished;
- educational or recreational summer camps for disabled or handicapped youth;
- public libraries;
- educational, domestic or recreational services for senior citizens;
- parks and land conservation organizations;
- animal shelters;
- soup kitchens for the poor, addiction rehabilitation centers or groups and homeless shelters; and
- financial support for the poor
- medical research into finding a cure or more effective treatment for a communicable disease or genetic disorder.

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I can't support this amendment.  Donations are wonderful in helping our poor, but I'm willing to leave an open-ended for someone to give to any low-income (or whatever we define poor as ), individual, even with the $500,000 limit.  I appreciate your intent, but I will be an assured Nay if this amendment is received friendly, or passes.

Also, I'm worried about what tax payer dollars are going to actually go to here.  I do support the intent of supporting food shelters, libraries, ect, but I'm very wary of this bill.

Would you please clarify and be more specific with what you said?

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I amend this bill a second time.

Partners in Civic Engagement Act

The Government of the Northeast shall match any individual contribution dollar-for-dollar, up to five hundred thousand dollars, to any tax-exempt charity or organization intended to promote the establishment and continued operation of:

- after-school programs in school districts in which more than one quarter of the student population is impoverished;
- educational or recreational summer camps for disabled or handicapped youth;
- public libraries;
- educational, domestic or recreational services for senior citizens;
- parks and land conservation organizations;
- animal shelters;
- soup kitchens for the poor, addiction rehabilitation centers or groups and homeless shelters; and
- medical research into finding a cure or more effective treatment for a communicable disease or genetic disorder.

All charities and organizations must be certified by a government commission before being eligible.

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So now you want to have a completely unaccountable government commission setting up taxpayer-funded slush funds for the pet causes of whoever is on the commission?  Perhaps the taxpayer will be forced to fund labor unions, but not churches, or churches, but not labor unions.

Well, no.  The commission would review charities and organizations and reject them if they are "shady", like Napoleon brought up.  They'd merely perform background checks to prevent abuse of the system.  Without a commission, there would be no oversight.

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Minor change of plans.  I am extending my leave of absence to Friday, August 26th.  We made a little error here.  I leave tomorrow.

Chances of me stopping by here when I'm at the hotel are possible, but slim.

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Unless I have the time to stop by here tomorrow morning, this will likely be my last post in the thread for now.  I will come back if I am elected to serve a full term.  In any case, I would like to (if possible) be marked as Yea for my two amendments.  Do NOT mark me for the entire bill, however.

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Greetings, gentlemen.

Snowstalker.

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I nominate Nathan.

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I accept my nomination.

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The amendment is friendly.

I proposed this bill because I believe it would respect a student's right to pray freely, if he or she wishes to.  Schools should not be allowed to deny this right.  If you would like, I would probably support an amendment permitting prayer for Muslim students at certain times of the day.

On a side-note, sorry for coming back here late.  Week-long power outage...

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I'd like to propose an amendment altering Section 1 to read:

All schools shall allow any student the opportunity for non-led student prayer in accordance with the student's religious beliefs, and may schedule one additional minute per day for non-led student prayer, before or after students recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Friendly.

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Aye

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Mostly everything looks good, except I'm not so sure about one part.

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Would this make progressive taxation and welfare unconstitutional?  If it does, I'll propose an amendment making them not so.

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Motion to extend debate on the Constitution to 120 hours.

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In that case, motion to extend the debate to 72 hours.

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Maaaaaaybe I shouldn't have extended debate for that long.  Hardly anyone's talking about the Constitution, and it doesn't look like anyone has huge objections to it.

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Who decides how many reps each region gets?

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Who decides how many reps each region gets?

There's five Representatives under this constitution.  Perhaps I'm not understanding your questions here..

Well, I mean, why did we lose Representatives? 

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Who decides how many reps each region gets?

There's five Representatives under this constitution.  Perhaps I'm not understanding your questions here..

Well, I mean, why did we lose Representatives? 

To make elections more competitive. Under the current set up anyone who runs can win. I accidentally won a seat with my own write in vote when I was first elected. I believe our Representatives should be elected on their merits as opposed to their presence. With current Representatives likely to move up the political ladder over time, a 7 member Assembly is unsustainable. At the same time, a 5 member Assembly works to ensure that we have adequate representation and difference in viewpoints to accommodate the diverse political leanings of our region.

Ah.  Gotcha.

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Anyways, on the amendment-- I personally don't believe it matters, and I don't really want to vote for or against it and take "sides" or whatever.  That's all I have to say about that.

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I can't support this Constitution if the capital isn't moved.

Why not?  This is a pretty minor thing.  It doesn't change procedure or anything significant.