Labor Party Standing Committee (10/12-6/13)

[Adam Griffin]

Just another 10 hours or so until the endorsement request period is over.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

I'd also like to request an endorsement, please.  Labor and I have worked together on many issues during my tenure as Northeast Governor, and I wish to continue this working relationship in a second term.

[Adam Griffin]

I'd also like to request an endorsement, please.  Labor and I have worked together on many issues during my tenure as Northeast Governor, and I wish to continue this working relationship in a second term.

I'm sure many within the caucus will be happy to endorse you in your second term, but since your election is next month, those endorsements will be handled in February. This round of endorsements is for the January elections in the Mideast and IDS.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

I'd also like to request an endorsement, please.  Labor and I have worked together on many issues during my tenure as Northeast Governor, and I wish to continue this working relationship in a second term.

I'm sure many within the caucus will be happy to endorse you in your second term, but since your election is next month, those endorsements will be handled in February. This round of endorsements is for the January elections in the Mideast and IDS.

Okay.  Thanks!

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I would like to ask the labor party for their endorsement in the IDS legislature race. I am currently 1 of 3 active members of its body in the past week.

[Northeast Rep Snowball]

I would like to ask the labor party for their endorsement in the IDS legislature race. I am currently 1 of 3 active members of its body in the past week.

You are VP, how could you be this too?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I would like to ask the labor party for their endorsement in the IDS legislature race. I am currently 1 of 3 active members of its body in the past week.

You are VP, how could you be this too?

Last I checked, I wasn't VP. Just a legislator in the IDS. Maybe I will be VP one day!

[JerryArkansas]

I would like to have your endorsement also. 

[Dereich]

So will I! I would like an endorsement from the party that's making the IDS exciting and lively again.

[Adam Griffin]

The endorsement request period is now over.


We will now vote upon endorsements for the IDS Legislature and Mideast Assembly. Labor candidates are automatically endorsed. Please cast a ballot for each non-Labor candidate in the affirmative, negative or an absention. Voting will last 72 hours.


IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)
[  ] AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
[  ] Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)
[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)
[  ] TexasDem (MO-TPP)
[  ] Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

[Kitteh]

IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)
[ X ] AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
[  ] Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)
[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)
[ X ] TexasDem (MO-TPP)
[ X ] Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)
[ X ] AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
[  ] Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)
[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)
[ X ] TexasDem (MO-TPP)
[ X ] Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

[Northeast Rep Snowball]

IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)
[ X ] AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
[  ] Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)
[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)
[ X ] TexasDem (MO-TPP)
[ X ] Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

[Gass3268]

IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)
[ X ] AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
[  ] Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)
[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)
[ X ] TexasDem (MO-TPP)
[ X ] Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

[Barnes]

IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)
[ X ] AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
[  ] Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)
[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)
[ X ] TexasDem (MO-TPP)
[ X ] Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

[Zanas]

I would like to announce the founding of a Cultural Marxist caucus within the Labor Party.

I would like to announce a split of said caucus and the foundation of the Bretzelite Cultural Marxist caucus within the Labor Party.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)
[  ] AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
[ X ] Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)
[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)
[ abst ] TexasDem (MO-TPP)
[ X ] Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

[Niemeyerite]

IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2):

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)

• AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
• Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)

[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2):

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)

• TexasDem (MO-TPP)
• Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

[Kitteh]

I would like to announce the founding of a Cultural Marxist caucus within the Labor Party.

I would like to announce a split of said caucus and the foundation of the Bretzelite Cultural Marxist caucus within the Labor Party.

I demand our party un-endorse Zanas for his counterrevolutionary revisionist beliefs deviating from true Marxism-Leninism-Sibbolethism.

[Adam Griffin]

IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)
[ X ] AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
[  ] Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)
[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)
[ X ] TexasDem (MO-TPP)
[ X ] Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

[Velasco]

IDS Legislature; 3 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Zanas46 (LAB-AL)
[ X ] AHDuke99 (TPP-SC)
[  ] Jerryarkansas (FED-AR)
[  ] Dereich (FED-FL)

Mideast Assembly; 5 Seats Available (Please Select 2)

[X] Gass3268 (LAB-WI)
[X] drj101 (LAB-VA)
[X] a Person (LAB-IL)
[ X ] TexasDem (MO-TPP)
[ X ] Clinton1996 (LIB-VA)

I would like to announce the founding of a Cultural Marxist caucus within the Labor Party.

I would like to announce a split of said caucus and the foundation of the Bretzelite Cultural Marxist caucus within the Labor Party.

I demand our party un-endorse Zanas for his counterrevolutionary revisionist beliefs deviating from true Marxism-Leninism-Sibbolethism.

We are the Laborites, a bourgeois and revisionist party in Sibboleth's mind, not the CMPA. As a member of the informal one-member caucus of the Friends of Groucho Marx, I endorse Zanas and all the rest of the laborite revisionist bunch.

[Adam Griffin]

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These candidates receive the endorsement of the Labor Party in the Mideast Assembly elections.

[Adam Griffin]

The Labor Party Convention has adopted the following as its new set of by-laws effective immediately.


I. CREATION & AMENDMENT OF PARTY BY-LAWS

1. The Chair, along with two Party members appointed by the Chair, will have the initial task of creating any proposed changes to the by-laws and will be in charge of initial changes in subsequent conventions. By-laws are then presented to the members at the convention, with members allowed to make objections and suggest changes to the by-laws.
    a. If there are no objections within 24 hours, the by-laws will be automatically approved.
    b. If there are objections, 24 hours will be given for the members to discuss and make changes as a group; more time can be given by the Politburo if necessary.
    c. Then a 72 hour vote will take place to approve or reject the by-laws.

2. The Chair may, in circumstances and times outside the convention, place on a caucus ballot any revisions, retractions and additions to the Labor Party by-laws assuming the motion receives verbal support from at least 25% of the caucus. If said threshold is attained, a voting booth will be opened immediately to either approve or reject the changes.

II. CREATION & AMENDMENT OF PARTY PLATFORM

1. The Vice Chair, along with two Party members appointed by the Vice Chair, will have the initial task of creating the Party platform and will be in charge of initial changes in subsequent conventions. Platform is then presented to the members, who will then be allowed to make objections and suggest changes to the platform.
    a. If there are no objections within 24 hours, the platform will be automatically approved.
    b. If there are objections, 24 hours will be given for the members to discuss and make changes as a group; more time can be given by the Politburo if necessary.
    c. Then a 72 hour vote will take place to approve or reject the platform.

2. The Vice-Chair may, in circumstances and times outside the convention, place on a caucus ballot any revisions, retractions and additions to the Labor Party platform assuming the motion receives verbal support from at least 25% of the caucus. If said threshold is attained, a voting booth will be opened immediately to either approve or reject the changes.

III. ESTABLISHMENT & MANAGEMENT OF CONVENTIONS

1. Convention will start one month before the Atlasia Presidential Election, with the location of the convention rotating among the five regions of Atlasia in the following order: Mideast, Imperial Dominion, Pacific, Northeast and Midwest.

2. Establishing the next convention shall employ the following process: Each Member is given 24 hours to nominate one city in the given region assigned for the next convention, with the top three (3) nominations being placed on the ballot. Members will be given 24 hours to select their choice.

3. Each convention will have the following agenda:
   a. Updating and amending the Party by-laws
   b. Updating and amending the Party platform
   c. Endorsements for the upcoming Atlasia Federal Elections
   d. Special and irregular business put forward by the Politburo
   e. Establishing the date and city for the upcoming convention

IV. ELECTION OF THE POLITBURO

1. Members will have 48 hours to declare that they wish to seek the following positions, beginning on the fourth Friday of February, June and October: Chair, Vice-Chair & General Secretary. There will then be 72 hours for campaigning, followed by a 48 hour election.

V. ROLES OF THE POLITBURO

1. Chairman
   a. The official leader of the Labor Party, unless there is a Labor Party President
   b. Is in charge of the convention process
   c. Officiates Party voting
   d. Giving the Vice Chairman and the General Secretary goals and objectives for their given jobs
   e. Is in charge of Party political strategy
   f. Is allowed to create and/or appoint other Party officials as he or she sees fit, including Regional Co-Ordinators
   g. Is in charge of creating and updating the by-laws at the Party convention with the assistance of a personally-appointed committee
   h. Ensures insubordination by other members of the Politburo is handled within the caucus

2. Vice Chairman
   a. Takes over for the Chairman temporarily if the Chairman requests a leave of absence or has been absent for 48 hours
   b. Is in charge of Party recruitment in order to grow the Party
   c. Responsible for keeping up with business on the Federal and Regional levels and making sure that the Labor Party has an official stance on the issue; this will be done in collaboration with the rest of the Politburo and the advice of the Party
   d. Deals with logistics and personnel
   e. Is in charge of creating and updating the platform at the Party convention with the assistance of a personally appointed committee

3. General Secretary
   a. Takes over for the Chairman and Vice Chairman if the Chairman and Vice Chairman both have requested a leave of absence or both have been absent for 24 hours
   b. Is in charge of candidate recruitment for all levels of government
   c. Is in charge of GOTV operations for both the Party and allied factions, including supporters not officially registered with the Party
   d. Serves as a Whip for the Senate, working with Senators to find common ground and support for bills proposed by the Party

4. Regional Co-Ordinators
   a. Performs duties similar to Vice-Chair and General Secretary at the regional level, with respect to candidate recruitment, GOTV and party recruitment
   b. Communicates via PM to regional Party members on a consistent basis
   c. Appointed by Chair; can be replaced with reasonable justification

VI. ENDORSEMENT PROCEDURE

1. Endorsement elections will take place one (1) week before the respective election, with the exception of endorsements handled during conventions.

2. All Labor Party candidates in compliance with Section VII-1a; b; c are automatically endorsed by the Party.

3. If there are not enough Labor Party members running in a given election, we will then endorse candidates from other partieswho agree with the Party's principles and values, allowing our Party to endorse a maximum number of candidates equivalent to the number of open seats in an election.

4. In order to be eligible to receive the endorsement of the Labor Party, the candidate from the other party has to declare that he or she wishes to receive our Party’s endorsement during the endorsement suggestion period, which lasts for 48 hours. The candidate must also have a Laborite second the endorsement nomination in order to be placed on the endorsement ballot.

5. Endorsement voting will begin immediately following the endorsement suggestion period and will last for 72 hours. Votes for each non-Party candidate shall be cast and counted either as an affirmative, negative or abstention. An abstention ballot is counted against a candidate's affirmative percentage as it applies in Section VI-6.

6. A non-Party candidate must receive affirmative preference from at least 60% of all endorsement ballots cast in order to receive the endorsement of the Party. In the event there are more candidates with 60%+ affirmative preference than available endorsements, they will be awarded from highest percentage affirmative preference downward.

VII. PRIMARY PROCEDURE

1. All Labor Party candidates are automatically endorsed by the Party, except for the following situations in which there will be a Labor Party Primary:
   a. If there are more Labor Party members running than open spots in a given election
   b. A Labor Party member is a presidential candidate on a cross-party ticket
   c. A Labor Party member lost a primary and proceeded to run as a independent

2. Primaries will take place two (2) weeks before the respective election, with the exception of a Presidential or Senatorial primary between multiple Labor candidates, which will occur four (4) weeks before the respective election. Voting will last for 72 hours.

3. The loser is strongly encouraged not to run as an independent, as doing so will result in losing a position in the Politburo, not being allowed to run in primaries or receive the Party’s endorsement in the subsequent three (3) Federal elections.

[Adam Griffin]

In order to assist in accomplishing one of our initial platform goals and to make the transparency of election information a key priority, I have constructed a schedule for 2013 that outlines when each election begins - as well as the deadlines for requesting the Labor Party's endorsement in each election. Also listed are major Labor events (Politburo elections & conventions):


2013 FEDERAL/REGIONAL ELECTIONS:

February 5, 2013 - Pacific Council Elections
February 14, 2013 - Midwest Wisard Ekstraordinar Elections
February 22, 2013 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS; Regional Senator Elections; IDS Legislature Class B, Northeast Assembly & Governor Elections
March 15, 2013 - IDS Legislature Class A Elections
March 21, 2013 - Mideast Assembly Elections
April 11, 2013 - Midwest Regional Kommissær & Wisard Ekstraordinar Elections; Pacific Council & Governor Elections
April 19, 2013 - AT-LARGE SENATOR ELECTIONS; IDS Legislature Class B & Emperor, Northeast Assembly Elections
May 16, 2013 - Mideast Assembly & Governor Elections
May 17, 2013 - IDS Legislature Class A Elections
June 13, 2013 - Midwest Wisard Ekstraordinar Elections; Pacific Council Elections
June 21, 2013 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS; Regional Senator Elections; IDS Legislature Class B, Northeast Assembly & Governor Elections
July 18, 2013 - Mideast Assembly Elections
July 19, 2013 - IDS Legislature Class A Elections
August 5, 2013 - Pacific Council & Governor Elections
August 8, 2013 - Midwest Regional Kommissær & Wisard Ekstraordinar Elections; Pacific Council & Governor Elections
August 23, 2013 - AT-LARGE SENATOR ELECTIONS; IDS Legislature Class B & Emperor, Northeast Assembly Elections
September 19, 2013 - Mideast Assembly & Governor Elections
September 20, 2013 - IDS Legislature Class A Elections
October 10, 2013 - Midwest Wisard Ekstraordinar Elections, Pacific Council Elections
October 18, 2013 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS; Regional Senator Elections; IDS Legislature Class B, Northeast Assembly & Governor Elections
November 15, 2013 - IDS Legislature Class A Elections
November 21, 2013 - Mideast Assembly Elections
December 12, 2013 - Midwest Regional Kommissær & Wisard Ekstraordinar Elections; Pacific Council & Governor Elections
December 20, 2013 - AT-LARGE SENATOR ELECTIONS; IDS Legislature Class B & Emperor, Northeast Assembly Elections

2013 LABOR PARTY ENDORSEMENT REQUEST DEADLINES:

January 29, 2013 - Pacific February Elections
February 7, 2013 - Midwest February Elections
February 8, 2013 - Regional Senator February Elections; IDS & Northeast February Elections
March 8, 2013 - IDS March Elections
March 14, 2013 - Mideast March Elections
March 29, 2013 - Pacific April Elections
April 12, 2013 - At-Large Senator April Elections; IDS, Midwest & Northeast April Elections
May 9, 2013 - Mideast May Elections
May 10, 2013 - IDS May Elections
June 6, 2013 - Midwest & Pacific June Elections
June 14, 2013 - Regional Senator June Elections; IDS, Midwest & Northeast June Elections
July 11, 2013 - Mideast July Elections
July 12, 2013 - IDS July Elections
August 1, 2013 - Midwest & Pacific August Elections
August 9, 2013 - At-Large Senator August Elections; IDS, Midwest & Northeast August Elections
September 12, 2013 - Mideast September Elections
October 3, 2013 - Midwest & Pacific October Elections
October 11, 2013 - Regional Senator October Elections; IDS & Northeast October Elections
November 8, 2013 - IDS November Elections
November 14, 2013 - Mideast November Elections
December 5, 2013 - Midwest & Pacific December Elections
December 13, 2013 - At-Large Senator December Elections; IDS & Northeast December Elections
December 29, 2013 - Pacific January 2014 Elections

2013 LABOR PARTY EVENTS:

February 27-28, 2013 - Labor Party Politburo Elections
May 24, 2013 - LABOR PARTY SPRING PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION BEGINS
July 4-5, 2013 - Labor Party Politburo Elections
September 20, 2013 - LABOR PARTY EQUINOX CONVENTION BEGINS
October 31-November 1, 2013 - Labor Party Politburo Elections


This can also be accessed from the party information post (beginning of thread).

[Marokai Backbeat]

Griffin, I adore you for writing that calendar.