Twilight's Last Gleaming: An American Political RP OOC (Open

[Indiana Controlled Florida]

Why has Tomas Pilar not been accepted yet? I was told he was still under scrutiny with more to come by Vaquas. That more never came. If you're going to scrutinize tell me why so I can fix it.

I highly recommend being patient

[Dentali]

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[Meretica]

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If you have not specified what committees your characters belong to in your application PLEASE REPLY TO THIS POST WITH THE COMMITTEES. If you don't we will assigned you committees

Mattox-- Education, Labor, Judiciary, Ethics

CHS-- Agriculture, Foreign Policy, one other (no pref)

McHale (for later use)-- Energy, Ag, Judiciary

[Kavanis]

Here’s what I’m thinking for Jack’s committees (as mentioned in the app, he previously served on the Rules Committee). I doubt any of these will be RPed at all, it’s just here for flavor:

• Financial Services
  
  • Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
  • Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises (ranking member)
• Small Business
  
  • Rural and Urban Entrepreneurship
  • Regulations, Health Care, and Trade

I only listed the RM one in my app but could I retroactively be on the others? Again, I highly doubt they do anything, it is just for flavor.

[Dentali]

CURRENT DATE



June 15th, 2007 to June 29th, 2007

[Dentali]

Here’s what I’m thinking for Jack’s committees (as mentioned in the app, he previously served on the Rules Committee). I doubt any of these will be RPed at all, it’s just here for flavor:

• Financial Services
  
  • Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
  • Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises (ranking member)
• Small Business
  
  • Rural and Urban Entrepreneurship
  • Regulations, Health Care, and Trade

I only listed the RM one in my app but could I retroactively be on the others? Again, I highly doubt they do anything, it is just for flavor.

We are going to fill things out a bit with other players who don't have positions. Once thats done we can start adding more on yours, im sure their will be room.

[Madrinpoor]

Why has Tomas Pilar not been accepted yet? I was told he was still under scrutiny with more to come by Vaquas. That more never came. If you're going to scrutinize tell me why so I can fix it.

In honesty, we were looking over the premise of the character. Because he reads a bit like a mary sue, with a very small number of weaknesses, and seems as if you want him to be more powerful than he actually is based on his position and history. On top of that, Miami does not have ghettoes the same as New York or Detroit (you can argue for places like Wynwood Gardens before it got gentrified, but those are very Black and Haitian and have small numbers of Cuban-Americans). But after discussion, we have come to the conclusion that Tomas Pilar is accepted.

Could you please repost the app for a formal acceptance?

[Dentali]

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Current WIP please let me know if changes or additions need to be made, this will take most of my day


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

[Deblar]

oh shit, forgot this existed, lol

[Madrinpoor]

oh shit, forgot this existed, lol

You're welcome to join!

[Deblar]

oh shit, forgot this existed, lol

You're welcome to join!

Would definitely be interested. Haven't been keeping up with stuff, what's the sitch?

[New Luciannova]

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Ethics
Judiciary- Constitution, Civil Rights & Civil Liberties (ranking member)
Financial Services--Financial Institutions & Consumer Protection

[Madrinpoor]

You're welcome to join!

Would definitely be interested. Haven't been keeping up with stuff, what's the sitch?

Well, the big thing is the presidential race, where it's a battle between Carole Martel (CA Sen) on the center and Upton Fleming (PA Gov) on the "left". On the far left is my character, Jéan-Jacques St. Cierge, former mayor of Baltimore and radio host and workers rights firebrand, as well as the bland and white version of him, Robert Wallace (Vermont Senator). On the center is new-to-the-race Washington Senator Julie Littenbaum, who made waves by arguing against gay marriage with Tripp Baylor, who has dropped out but was an airline CEO. Another candidate that dropped out is Bob Woolworth, NC congressman whose career was destroyed when a tape of him saying the n-word surfaced. The candidate with most upward mobility is Everest Laakso, North Dakota Senator, who is boring and bland now but could become the front runner. Louisiana Senator L. L. Bream is considering a run, on the moderate side of the party.

On the GOP side, Hawaiian governor Olivia Calalo is sort of the front runner. Apparently the GOP side is significantly more presidential. They have seen Deb Feyrer, Alabama Senator, take the conservative evangelical position after Ruskie Helms, Senate Minority Whip from NC and son of the infamous Jesse Helms, dropped out to care for his ailing dad. Ben Eriksen, former governor of Oklahoma, has been steadily rising in national significance too, I think. I don't pay as much attention to the GOP side. Cassandra Hepburn-Smith, Senator from Virginia, has been stuck with the unhelpful label of "liberal" because of her liberal views on guns and sexism. Meanwhile Amadeus Putnam, a New Hampshire representative and self-described "libertarian", is the party's fighter candidate after he spoke about mass incarceration, weed legalization, and gay marriage.

Meanwhile, the Speaker of the House, Abilene Wilson-Carter, resigned a while ago over blowback from her calls for Bob Woolworth to resign over his "n-word tape". She was replaced by Elliot Cragie, Dem caucus chair from Georgia, who is Speaker now and trying to wrangle the Democrats into a coherent policy for 2008. Texas governor Marc Pender banned abortion after a heartbeat is discovered — a lawsuit brought against him could strike this down in court? It would need to be brought by someone from Texas.

[Kavanis]

What is this "objecting to the motion" stuff? I do absolutely hate parliamentary procedure stuff and find it dull as fuck so forgive me if I'm not following, but Sommo made a motion, it has received a second, and so it should be voted on. Shouting "objection" has no bearing on the matter.

[Madrinpoor]

What is this "objecting to the motion" stuff? I do absolutely hate parliamentary procedure stuff and find it dull as fuck so forgive me if I'm not following, but Sommo made a motion, it has received a second, and so it should be voted on. Shouting "objection" has no bearing on the matter.

I pushed for us to scrap the Parliamentary Procedure at the beginning of this RP, and that was consensus, but I guess that went out the window.

[Meretica]

What is this "objecting to the motion" stuff? I do absolutely hate parliamentary procedure stuff and find it dull as fuck so forgive me if I'm not following, but Sommo made a motion, it has received a second, and so it should be voted on. Shouting "objection" has no bearing on the matter.

Yes, they do. If it is objected to, even with a second, it requires a vote.

[Kavanis]

But you already objected to it. So I don't see what objecting to it a second time does, lol. Let's just vote on it.

[Meretica]

But you already objected to it. So I don't see what objecting to it a second time does, lol. Let's just vote on it.

The most recent objection is on a vote, it's on a motion to table.

[Kavanis]

Which you already objected to here: viewtopic.php?p=39610773#p39610773

Anyway shatteringly fun as this is, I'm wondering if we couldn't streamline things to cut down on the parliamentary procedure stuff? My amendment failed despite the actual vote being 5-2, presumably because we're meant to count all the NPC Dems as voting against, which is completely fair, but just illustrates how pointless it is to carry out all the PC voting when there are probably not 10 active House members. Could we, say, draw it up so that the voting is largely automatic unless some members of the majority indicate they'll break the whip, or, the majority agree to permit minority motions? That'd cut down on all the incredibly boring makework stuff and let us start legislating a bit more actively.

[Meretica]

Which you already objected to here: viewtopic.php?p=39610773#p39610773

Anyway shatteringly fun as this is, I'm wondering if we couldn't streamline things to cut down on the parliamentary procedure stuff? My amendment failed despite the actual vote being 5-2, presumably because we're meant to count all the NPC Dems as voting against, which is completely fair, but just illustrates how pointless it is to carry out all the PC voting when there are probably not 10 active House members. Could we, say, draw it up so that the voting is largely automatic unless some members of the majority indicate they'll break the whip, or, the majority agree to permit minority motions? That'd cut down on all the incredibly boring makework stuff and let us start legislating a bit more actively.

I'm not over that, but I would assume that it's necessary to some degree because we need certain votes by members on the record.

[Reorganized Portugal]

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Kaheo'ole - Veteran's Affairs, Judiciary, Ethics, Education & Labor

[New Luciannova]

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Kaheo'ole - Veteran's Affairs, Judiciary, Ethics, Education & Labor

I have asked for ranking member of Judiciar Subcommittee Constitution, Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
Member of Ethics
And
Member of Financial Seevices Subcommittee for Financial. Institutions and Consumer Protection

[Deblar]

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Deblar
Character Name: Jameson "Jamie" Armstrong
Character Gender: male
Character Age: 42
Character Date of Birth: 8/16/1965
Character Position/Role/Job:

US Representative from Florida's 17th District (2005-present)
Florida State Senator(2000-2004)

Character Country/State of Birth: Miami, Florida
Character State of Residence: Florida
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Faceclaim: Barack Obama
Main Strengths: Strong Minority Appeal, Grassroots Origins, Popular Among Progressive Democrats
Main Weaknesses: Lack of Experience, Gaff-Prone, Rather Disliked by Moderates

Biography:
Jameson Armstrong was born in Miami, Florida on August 16, 1965 to Jamaican immigrants Titus Armstrong and Audrey Armstrong (nee Thomas). Initially in poverty, Jamie’s father worked numerous jobs in order to provide for his family in this new, strange land.

Other Info:
Member of the Education and Labor, Ethics, and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties House Committees

I have read and accepted the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: DRAFT123123

[Madrinpoor]

Which you already objected to here: viewtopic.php?p=39610773#p39610773

Anyway shatteringly fun as this is, I'm wondering if we couldn't streamline things to cut down on the parliamentary procedure stuff? My amendment failed despite the actual vote being 5-2, presumably because we're meant to count all the NPC Dems as voting against, which is completely fair, but just illustrates how pointless it is to carry out all the PC voting when there are probably not 10 active House members. Could we, say, draw it up so that the voting is largely automatic unless some members of the majority indicate they'll break the whip, or, the majority agree to permit minority motions? That'd cut down on all the incredibly boring makework stuff and let us start legislating a bit more actively.

I'm totally in favor. Maybe only one day of PC voting just for maverick votes?

For the record, Kropotkin (Gaines) and I (Sommo) were talking about letting the amendment pass as part of a trade off, but that move was sabotaged by Cragie.

[Kavanis]

Yeah for the record I'm not OOC upset my amendment failed or anything, I just find doing all this procedural stuff boring when we know the Dems have the majority anyway. But you've probably had enough of my grousing by now so I'll leave it to the admins to decide.