New Speaker Election Thread

[Joseph Cao]

I'm going to go ahead and bump this to the top, and while I'm at it I nominate Joseph Cao for speaker.

Thank you for the nomination, and I accept it.

I want to begin by thanking Sev for keeping the House running well despite having to deal with what must have been difficult RL issues. For this new session, my goal is pretty much the same as it always was: to promote activity and continue to push papers as well as the House deserves. That naturally includes PMing you all for votes, keeping the noticeboard up to date, clearly publicizing all decisions made as Speaker, mandating a competent Deputy Speaker, and so on and so forth. I'm confident that our new members will help to provide a productive session, but that requires a Speaker who has demonstrated the necessary competence required to make capable use of its activity.

And I will reiterate, again, my sincere hope that we come at this from an angle of what is best for the health and activity of the House rather than any partisan considerations. We are gathered here to consider legislation on its merits, of what helps the citizens we serve, and for the first vote of this session I hope we will all be voting on the merits of what ultimately helps the House the most.

[Joseph Cao]

By the way, while I'm hopeful this vote will be over with quickly we do still have a number of bills and procedural motions on the floor to be dealt with, and so I urge the Dean to appoint an interim Speaker to handle business while the Speakership vote works itself out.

[Dr. MB]

I'm running for speaker

[Continential]

I'm running for speaker

I'll support MB for Speaker.

[KaiserDave]

I'm running for speaker

I'll support MB for Speaker.

As do I

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

I would like to nominate MB for Speaker of the House.  I support and will vote for his leadership.

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Rep. Joseph Cao will be the interim Speaker until the position has been filled officially by the House.

Voting on the next Speaker begins now and will continue for 48 hours or until all members have voted.

For Speaker of the House:
[   ] Rep. Joseph Cao
[   ] MB298

[Continential]

Rep. Joseph Cao will be the interim Speaker until the position has been filled officially by the House.

Voting on the next Speaker begins now and will continue for 48 hours or until all members have voted.

For Speaker of the House:
[  2 ] Rep. Joseph Cao
[  1 ] MB

[lfromnj]

For Speaker
1. Cao
2. MB

[Sirius_]

Cao

[KaiserDave]

1. MB
2. Cao

[Dr. MB]

Rep. Joseph Cao will be the interim Speaker until the position has been filled officially by the House.

Voting on the next Speaker begins now and will continue for 48 hours or until all members have voted.

For Speaker of the House:
[  2 ] Rep. Joseph Cao
[  1 ] MB

[Joseph Cao]

For Speaker of the House:
[ 1 ] Rep. Joseph Cao
[ 2 ] MB298

[Saint Milei]

For Speaker
1. Cao
2. MB

[Joseph Cao]

Rep. Joseph Cao will be the interim Speaker until the position has been filled officially by the House.

Just for the record, by the way – as interim Speaker I will focus on clearing up any unfinished business remaining from Sev's tenure rather than starting new discussions, as that will be more easily handled by whoever gets an entire term at the dais.

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

1. MB

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

MB

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

For Speaker of the House:

• MB298: 5 votes ^{(Ishan, KaiserDave, MB, jtsmd2, razze)}
• Rep. Joseph Cao: 4 votes ^{(lfromnj, Ninja0428, Rep. Joseph Cao, DeadPrez)}

MB has been elected Speaker of the House.

[Joseph Cao]

Bumping.

I will not be running for Speaker.

[Dr. MB]

Running for speaker again

[Esteemed Jimmy]

I'll be nominating myself

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Good morning everyone, sorry I was late to swearing in and starting this vote. Seeing as two people have already put forward their candidacies, I'm going to go straight to voting from right here. This means I will be skipping the 24-hour nomination window. If someone has a problem with that then I'll allow write-in votes for Speaker, in case you want someone else for the job other than the two on the ballot. Anyway, voting begins now and will continue for 48 hours or until all members have voted.

For Speaker of the House:
[   ] Jimmy7812
[   ] MB

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

I will proudly be casting my vote for the proven and honorable leadership of MB.


Long live Speaker MB!

[Continential]

Good morning everyone, sorry I was late to swearing in and starting this vote. Seeing as two people have already put forward their candidacies, I'm going to go straight to voting from right here. This means I will be skipping the 24-hour nomination window. If someone has a problem with that then I'll allow write-in votes for Speaker, in case you want someone else for the job other than the two on the ballot. Anyway, voting begins now and will continue for 48 hours or until all members have voted.

For Speaker of the House:
[ NO ] Jimmy7812
[ 1  ] MB

[lfromnj]

1. Jimmy
2. MB