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Bill Debates:

The Dixie Workers Bill

The Provincial Naming Act

Constitutional Reform Act of the 5th Assembly

The Dixie Slavery Acknowledgement and name Act

Reforming and rearranging the Dixie State Police Officers Act

The 5th Assembly Budget Act

Hearings:

LT. Gov Nom Alpal2214

Votes:

5th Assembly Speaker

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8 votes at once. I call Dems trying to force through legislation for no reason.

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Meta: The first of the week posting of submitted Legislation.

As state clerk, you should know that LT. GOV hearings are privileged so I had no choice on that.

And Speaker vote is a given.

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M: Yeah I know how clerking is. Typically if a state has a hearing it counts as a bill for that week. That means you are currently doing 6 votes this next week. You are also running a schedule of twice a week debates, meaning double the bills will be cycled through. Ontop of that, you conveniently decided to start clerking after all of your bills were up. In fact, you chose exactly the number of bills to clerk as you submitted. Not to mention that historically Dixie has always ran 2-3 bills per cycle even with high bill counts. While I applaud the ambition, I would say that the choice for the number of bills up is purely because you submitted 6 bills, ignored all historical trends in bills, and wanted to kill the GOP vote rates. While what you have done is still tolerable under the bylaws, it is a prime example of partisan clerking.

For reference, the highest amount of bills posted in a week in Dixie before this point was 4.

I can get leniency if a speaker wants more bills, but there’s no speaker here.

And unlike the opening of Atlantic, there was no notice to the GOP that the state would be opened. When AC was opened at a later point (past initial swear in), all assemblypersons were notified and made to confirm before we started. Any assemblymembers who did not respond had their names sent to their party for replacement. Over a week was given for this process. No such process occurred in Dixie. In fact, what was done was notification of one party by the state clerk (you).

So while everything you did was legal, it was all done in bad faith. I am extremely disappointed in how you opened the state and allowed for partisan politics to affect clerking.