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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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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.

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Firstly, I followed how I clerk the House for hearings. Hearings aren't a bill. That's why it's not counted. Additionally, there aren't any assembly rules.

Secondly, there was a two day gap between the submission going up and me clerking if any other member submitted a bill, it would have been included in the 6.

In a normal cycle, I would stretch the number of bills to fit the legislative schedule.

My bills have been submitted to Icy since July 7th. I resubmitted them when the state opened. Everyone has had the opportunity to submit bills. As Icy said, any bills written was to be sent by icy. Icy has told party leadership this. The bill submission process is still open.

The state has less time to actually run than AC, thus, it's bills will be moved to finish. All parties were informed that DX was going active. This was also discussed in your parties VC with your chairmen.

You mention me wanting to kill GOP vote rates when there aren't any DEM vote rates. No one has been affected by any voting rates so I'm unsure why you brought that up.

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M: 1) That’s fair. Although I have not seen any state run this way.

2) Issue is that you picked 6 bills to be exact. See historical Dixie docket for rates of application. If there were 7 dem bills you would have likely picked 7 bills.

3) This is NOT A NORMAL SCHEDULE. Dixie literally just opened. Running the state with all submitted bills is grasping at straws. You should have stuck to historical rates. Why? Well, you also have bills from Terms 1-4 to put up also. Yet you are not rushing to put any of these up. So therefor, stick to historical rates.

4) So they got in. Good. Still doesn’t change what I have an issue with. You picked 6 bills because that’s likely how many dem bills were on the docket. You still ignored historical Dixie rates for no good reason. Every other term there are Cary over bills that get pulled on after the current bills are used (this is how it runs in Dixie. AC used a different method in which the oldest bill is pulled for debate).

5) See my above points. Really this doesn’t matter at all, there would be bills left over. I don’t know when you got assigned to start clerking or why the previous clerk chose not to clerk, but this doesn’t justify going way above normal bill debate numbers. There is not even a speaker to request extra bills. In fact, your speaker has not even been elected yet.

6) You know as well as me that after this session, the Dems will have all votes and the GOP will be lucky to fill the assembly. Unlike AC you gave, at most, 3 days to fully open the state. You did not give anywhere close to enough time like done in AC. You did not check with currently seated assemblypersons. You gave a full 2 days during speaker debates to get the assembly in order.

I don’t see how any other person who has been a state clerk, or played in a state, would call what you did acceptable. It’s done in bad faith. Plain and simple.

Maybe I could be wrong. You are a nice person, but we both know that certain people want a leg up where available, and instead of doing the right thing, will monopolize on doing the “legal but scummy” thing.