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Congress speaker reports back
Congress has nearly reached the end of its journey and it’s my job as congressional speaker to give an end of term report to eSouth Africans. Both so you can judge better who to vote in again and also to see our progress over the past month.
General comments
Congress members were mostly extremely active and dedicated this congressional term. Exceptions will be highlighted below, but there will always be exceptions. The challenge is coming up with eSouth Africa moving from 20 congress members to 40. The next congressional speaker will have his hands full in terms of organising this large group of people and keeping them active.
But party presidents are also the ones responsible for keeping their congress representatives active, otherwise it will reflect badly on the party.
Congress this term degenerated into personal spats this term which I will elaborate on below and should come as no surprise to any readers since these arguments were often made public.
Voting report
Total laws: 21
Passed: 14
Rejected: 5
Pending: 2
Donations: 8 (7 passed, 1 pending)
New Citizen Message: 2 (1 accepted, 1 rejected)
Tax change: 6
- Grain (2 accepted, 1 rejected)
- Moving tickets (1 accepted)
- Wood (1 pending)
- Food (1 rejected)
Issue money: 3 (1 accepted, 2 rejected)
Alliance: 2 (2 accepted)
Congress report
Note: In order of how many votes achieved in the election, statistics objective, comments subjective, colour of name indicates performance (green excellent, blue average, red bad).
Edit: the colours seem to have disappeared?
Ali Mentary
Rating: Green
Elected from: United SA
Status: Resigned
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 6.7 posts per day
Comments: Ali has been extremely active both in the forums and as a congressman in game. He was always professional and participated in most discussions.
Enoch Root
Rating: Green
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Resigned (elected as president)
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 6.6 posts per day
Comments: Enoch is active every day and comments on most discussions in the congressional hall.
Ines Schumacher
Rating: n/a
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Resigned (RW lottery winner)
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 1.9 posts per day
Comments: Congressional speaker (I can’t really rate myself)
Oceanus
Rating: Green
Elected from: United SA
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 3.2 posts per day
Comments: Active in congressional hall and in congress business.
Champinator
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Associates of General Wellness
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 2
Forum activity: 1.4 posts per day
Comments: Moderate activity in forums, performs basic duties of congressman.
Exilious
Rating: Red
Elected from: African National Alliance
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 2
Forum activity: 3.5 posts per day
Comments: Performs duties of congressman. However, he gets a RED rating due to the fact that he is destructive and disruptive in the congressional hall, insulting other members of congress and deliberately flaunting the rules. He went behind the back of the eSouth African people to negotiate with EDEN, which isn’t the worst of his sins. Most congress members have written to me to complain about Exilious, he was banned more times than I can count and he is a disruptive influence which distracts congress from its actual duties. I recommend for him NOT to be re-elected.
Remon777
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 0.4 posts per day
Comments: Moderately active on forum, contributes to discussions in an intelligent way and makes good suggestions. Could be more active.
Frank Furglar
Rating: Green
Elected from: United South Africa
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 4.5 posts per day
Comments: Very active and dedicated congress member. Difficult to deal with sometimes, tends to get a little emotional and off topic when it comes to arguments. Rational contributions he makes are well thought out.
Azreal
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 2
Forum activity: 1.1 posts per day
Comments: Moderately active, dedicated member of congress. Could be more active.
Amun Nefer
Rating: Green
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Resigned (RW medal winner)
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 2.5 posts per day
Comments: Active in congressional hall, made all proposals and approved citizenships before he left congress to start a RW in the most recent Indo liberations.
ERDWURM
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 2.4 posts per day
Comments: Moderately active in congressional hall.
Robert Reid
Rating: Green
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 2.6
Comments: Very active in congressional hall, makes good contributions and represents his constituents well.
Little Missy
Rating: Red
Elected from: United South Africa
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 0 posts made
Comments: Completely inactive, after being asked to become more active I got no response and the proposal she made recently was a throw away proposal which was voted down. Suspicion she is elected because of profile picture and not because she actually does anything. Her citizenship approval was rogue.
Epic Thoughts
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 1.4 posts per day
Comments: Mildly active on forum, performs basic duties of congressman. Could be more involved.
Stagnation
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 0.5 posts per day
Comments: Slightly active, could be worse.
Guss1972
Rating: n/a
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 1.1 posts per day
Comments: Mostly inactive due to RL problems. Exempt from verdict.
MarioXXL
Rating: Red
Elected from: United South Africa
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 0.2 posts per day
Comments: Completely inactive except to respond to an accusation of approving his friend’s citizenship request without approval. Never donated his 5 gold to the RBSA.
Awrek
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 2
Forum activity: 0.6 posts per day
Comments: Seemingly not very active on forums, but saving grace is that he followed procedure in approving those two citizens, indicating activity and performing basic duties of congressman.
Jan Olivier
Rating: Red
Elected from: United SA
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 0
Forum activity: 0.5 posts per day
Comments: Undoubtedly the most inactive congressman this term. After being asked to become active, he responded and posted one or two comments in the congressional hall, but faded into obscurity again.
Ryan Dagari
Rating Blue
Elected from: United SA
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 1.6 posts per day
Comments: Moderately active, could be more active. Has great ideas when he does contribute.
Here ends the congress speaker’s report for the October/November congressional term. The above statistics are true to the best of my knowledge. Thank you to congress for giving me a chance to serve eSouth Africa in this capacity.
General comments
Congress members were mostly extremely active and dedicated this congressional term. Exceptions will be highlighted below, but there will always be exceptions. The challenge is coming up with eSouth Africa moving from 20 congress members to 40. The next congressional speaker will have his hands full in terms of organising this large group of people and keeping them active.
But party presidents are also the ones responsible for keeping their congress representatives active, otherwise it will reflect badly on the party.
Congress this term degenerated into personal spats this term which I will elaborate on below and should come as no surprise to any readers since these arguments were often made public.
Voting report
Total laws: 21
Passed: 14
Rejected: 5
Pending: 2
Donations: 8 (7 passed, 1 pending)
New Citizen Message: 2 (1 accepted, 1 rejected)
Tax change: 6
- Grain (2 accepted, 1 rejected)
- Moving tickets (1 accepted)
- Wood (1 pending)
- Food (1 rejected)
Issue money: 3 (1 accepted, 2 rejected)
Alliance: 2 (2 accepted)
Congress report
Note: In order of how many votes achieved in the election, statistics objective, comments subjective, colour of name indicates performance (green excellent, blue average, red bad).
Edit: the colours seem to have disappeared?
Ali Mentary
Rating: Green
Elected from: United SA
Status: Resigned
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 6.7 posts per day
Comments: Ali has been extremely active both in the forums and as a congressman in game. He was always professional and participated in most discussions.
Enoch Root
Rating: Green
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Resigned (elected as president)
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 6.6 posts per day
Comments: Enoch is active every day and comments on most discussions in the congressional hall.
Ines Schumacher
Rating: n/a
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Resigned (RW lottery winner)
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 1.9 posts per day
Comments: Congressional speaker (I can’t really rate myself)
Oceanus
Rating: Green
Elected from: United SA
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 3.2 posts per day
Comments: Active in congressional hall and in congress business.
Champinator
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Associates of General Wellness
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 2
Forum activity: 1.4 posts per day
Comments: Moderate activity in forums, performs basic duties of congressman.
Exilious
Rating: Red
Elected from: African National Alliance
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 2
Forum activity: 3.5 posts per day
Comments: Performs duties of congressman. However, he gets a RED rating due to the fact that he is destructive and disruptive in the congressional hall, insulting other members of congress and deliberately flaunting the rules. He went behind the back of the eSouth African people to negotiate with EDEN, which isn’t the worst of his sins. Most congress members have written to me to complain about Exilious, he was banned more times than I can count and he is a disruptive influence which distracts congress from its actual duties. I recommend for him NOT to be re-elected.
Remon777
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 0.4 posts per day
Comments: Moderately active on forum, contributes to discussions in an intelligent way and makes good suggestions. Could be more active.
Frank Furglar
Rating: Green
Elected from: United South Africa
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 4.5 posts per day
Comments: Very active and dedicated congress member. Difficult to deal with sometimes, tends to get a little emotional and off topic when it comes to arguments. Rational contributions he makes are well thought out.
Azreal
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 2
Forum activity: 1.1 posts per day
Comments: Moderately active, dedicated member of congress. Could be more active.
Amun Nefer
Rating: Green
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Resigned (RW medal winner)
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 2.5 posts per day
Comments: Active in congressional hall, made all proposals and approved citizenships before he left congress to start a RW in the most recent Indo liberations.
ERDWURM
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 2.4 posts per day
Comments: Moderately active in congressional hall.
Robert Reid
Rating: Green
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 2
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 2.6
Comments: Very active in congressional hall, makes good contributions and represents his constituents well.
Little Missy
Rating: Red
Elected from: United South Africa
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 0 posts made
Comments: Completely inactive, after being asked to become more active I got no response and the proposal she made recently was a throw away proposal which was voted down. Suspicion she is elected because of profile picture and not because she actually does anything. Her citizenship approval was rogue.
Epic Thoughts
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 1.4 posts per day
Comments: Mildly active on forum, performs basic duties of congressman. Could be more involved.
Stagnation
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 3
Forum activity: 0.5 posts per day
Comments: Slightly active, could be worse.
Guss1972
Rating: n/a
Elected from: Gold Party
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 1.1 posts per day
Comments: Mostly inactive due to RL problems. Exempt from verdict.
MarioXXL
Rating: Red
Elected from: United South Africa
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 1
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 0.2 posts per day
Comments: Completely inactive except to respond to an accusation of approving his friend’s citizenship request without approval. Never donated his 5 gold to the RBSA.
Awrek
Rating: Blue
Elected from: Independent Alternative
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 2
Forum activity: 0.6 posts per day
Comments: Seemingly not very active on forums, but saving grace is that he followed procedure in approving those two citizens, indicating activity and performing basic duties of congressman.
Jan Olivier
Rating: Red
Elected from: United SA
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 0
Forum activity: 0.5 posts per day
Comments: Undoubtedly the most inactive congressman this term. After being asked to become active, he responded and posted one or two comments in the congressional hall, but faded into obscurity again.
Ryan Dagari
Rating Blue
Elected from: United SA
Status: Congress member
Proposals made: 0
Citizenship requests approved: 1
Forum activity: 1.6 posts per day
Comments: Moderately active, could be more active. Has great ideas when he does contribute.
Here ends the congress speaker’s report for the October/November congressional term. The above statistics are true to the best of my knowledge. Thank you to congress for giving me a chance to serve eSouth Africa in this capacity.
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good job schums - it's a tough one but someone's gotta do it.
You can add a rogue citizenship approval to Little Missy's description. She approved GusDur, a former eSA citizen who spent his entire time in exile working in Eastern Cape, eIndonesia for DeLiCiOuS FoOD, a company owned by the org FIRE Ltd. GusDur (just like Little Missy) has been sending gold bonus donations to this same org and occasionally also receiving items (food?).
Will do, thanks zamrg.
This is typically biased just as I'd expect from an elitist golden politician.
You claim I have insulted other members in congressional discussion, yet you can post no proof of a such thing. I have never negotiated anything with EDEN. My presidential platform was that if elected, I would negotiate with them.
The forum activity tool just adds all posts together then divides it by the number of posts the user has made, meaning it takes into account all posts since the beginning of when the board was made and not posts inside Congressional Hall since the beginning of the term.
You give Guss1972 exemption due to RL problems. Hey, we all have RL problems. Maybe the other innactive people have RL problems, but that doesnt stop you from giving them Red, now does it? Very biased.
You gave Awrek BLUE when he didnt participate at all in discussions. Then you go and give good congressmen like Stagnation, Azreal, Remon, and Champinator also BLUE. These people were great participants. Awrek was not, yet you rate them together. Showing some more bias there, trying to boost your party.
If you're going to give me RED, then why not Frank Furglar? Do you not notice the pattern? Frank does something that offends me, so I do it back. I only started to post censure proposals once him and Amun began spamming them, wasting the time and effort of congress.
FYI, when I was writing the inactive article, I did consider adding Ines on it. Though she did vote in all proposals, she never did participate in discussion nor did she fulfill her job as Speaker. There was no unbiased arbitration. There was only Frank Furglar running a congressional monopoly. Deleting votes and comments he didnt agree with.
No. This article should not be read by anyone and used as a tool for voting for next elections. Vote based on participation. Not based on this biased display of elitist monopolism.
Good job Ines, I feel this provides a somewhat fair and unbiased view of this months congress.
Thank you for this! As someone who hasn't had the RL time to become more active and look into these issues, I appreciate the insight.
Good Job Ines.
Enough controversy rating 20 congressmen, I shudder how it will be next month. This will become even more important a duty then.
And Exilious, your rating is deserved. However, you have enough of a support base for it to really not matter and propably get re-elected again so I'm unsure why you're making a big deal of it.
Thank you Ines, you have done a good job yourself. Rating 20 congressmen is a tough task as Stagnation has said.
Exilious, you cannot really argue with what Ines said. All people need do is visit the eSA forum. They will see how you baited FF and Ryan. You have been disruptive. If this was RL you would have been escorted from congress under police guard.
So yeah, everyone gets the logic not to vote for exilious, ever.
Biased is unbecoming of a public official.
Please remember Congress voted on Ines to do this, so if you don't like it, deal with it.
Also, Awrek participated in one of the hospital discussions, one post, I believe.
Exilious the only reason you aren't banned from the forums is that Congress is tried of dealing with you, they don't want to talk about you, they don't want to look at you, they're definitely tired of going through all the trouble of banning you.
Ines stood up for you the first time Congress voted to ban you.
I hope someone did this in Argentina. We are currently trying to apply a blacklist law, but you know... that shakes some people's interests.
ppl don't bother on exilious he is just exilious : D
It isnt congresses right to deny public office to a citizen. That violates Law #1 of Erepublik.
It is the citizens' right as a collective to determine who represents the country.
I did not "bait" FF and I never said anything to Ryan on Congressional forums at all. Frank didnt like my ideas, so he proposed bans after bans wasting the time of congress.
bunch of boobs
there is no actually, telling people not to vote for someone...it's a recommendation...and telling ppl ,who are not aware ,which one congress man is good to vote and not to vote ...
good job : D
Good job Ines. The only thing I agree with Exilious about is that I should be Green. Actually I'm more of a bluish green.
I LOVE INES
Nice