A rant about our congress and the impeachment.
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by Claire Louise
Earlier today, a vote to impeach our CP, Cyber.Casper was put up for Congress to vote on. For anyone who doesn't know (and in all fairness, you SHOULD), Cyber.Casper has LEFT the game thanks to an altercation on IRC in which certain players were very nasty to him.
Having checked the results, four of our ten congressmen have voted NO to the impeachment. For a vote to pass, it needs 66% of congress to vote yes. Because of Aus only holding one region at the time of senate elections, we only have 10 congress members. That means that we would need 7 yes votes out of 10. We already have 4 no votes. In other words, the impeachment will NOT pass, and an impeachment will NOT be able to be proposed for another 7 days.
Senate... You messed up, big time. No other way to put it, it can't be sugar coated. At least 5 people on that congress list use the forums and would have known about this. Some congress members this term I have never heard of, but that is down to the party presidents. You messed up. Oh, and for those who didn't know... It's currently top news, on the ADF article... In the damn title, so I'm not entirely sure what feasible excuse any of you would have for voting no.
Mind... Blown.
/end rant
EDIT: Decided to go through the congress list.
Marcos Ariola - Active on forums, should have known.
Argi The Eliminator - Active on forums, should have known.
Skraus - Active, last on forums yesterday.
LetRockNRoll - not on forums, unsure about in game activity, new player on my radar.
Csanat - Active on forums, should have known.
Jeff Vader - somewhat active on forums, has been on today, should have known.
Damien Gaby - not on forums, unsure of in game activity, new player on my radar.
Majester - active for the most part, last on forums yesterday.
Binda - Active, knew all about it.
Sirjames244 - Active, was on forums yesterday, should have known.
10 people. Marcos, Argi, Csanat, Jeff and Binda should have all been absolute 100% yes votes considering they were active today on the forums. Skraus, Jeff, Majester and Sirjames should have been yes votes given that they are active in the game, and given that my ADF article with CC leaving in the title is top news. The other two...either way.
2nd EDIT: I'm not calling any one single person out (well, maybe one person in particular) so please don't take offense, but we're all struggling to understand what has gone on here.
3rd update: can the two remaining congressmen who have yet to vote please vote yes. I have a plan.
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Idiots, now we are rudderless for 5 days and that's if they can be trusted to vote 'Yes' to the next Impeachment.
Well we both have a hunch of where at least one of those no votes has come from.
It's in top news, in the title of the ADF article. There are NO excuses for this.
I'm also annoyed that you have spent quite literally ALL DAY, having had no sleep since 3pm yesterday (that's now 31 hours without sleep you have had) trying to organise things for Aus that are now put into jeopardy because of this.
I even messaged the speaker yesterday a good 6 hrs BEFORE the vote was started to check the forums.
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and after checking he was active on forums as well 😞 makes it worse
I did not see the thread or the message within the game until it was too late in all honesty. RL has claimed the vast majority of my attention the past three days.
What a waste of time; lots of time and effort put into jeopardy because of pure ignorance. How can you be in a ten person congress and not see the media?
Five more days of uncertainty for the eAus citizens.
7 mate. It's 7 days. I'm absolutely gobsmacked.
Mark for congress? 😛 Just kidding
Just how much effort have you and Hugh put into solidifying eAustralia? It's even worse that most of the Congress can be trusted - maybe there is some rational explanation? I'd like to hear it...
I honestly can't justify in my head why any of them would have voted no. I mean, it's in the title of my ADF article which is top news and has been since yesterday. I mentioned the impeachment in that article. It's been mentioned in other articles. It's all over the forums.
And hey - as long as you're active and have brain cells (and you definitely seem like you have some of those!) then go for it!
As for mine and Hugh's work - he does a lot more than me, especially since the past two months he's been hard at work with VCP and MOFA stuff. It's him I feel sorry for right now. I'm usually just the new player guy 😛
MarkTD, can you read this? If so welcome aboard!
Maybe some people thought he'd return? Clutching at threads, but, well...
I like to think I have brain cells; never thought to check... Hugh needs to be paid back somehow; an Order of Australia sounds good, eh? 😛
Welcome aboard?!
🙁
++++++ - I guess politics in erep isn't that different to real life
From the office of Senator Jeff Vader.
When a vote pops up I do investigate -
I) who initiated the vote
II) if they have an agenda
III) the argument for a yes/no vote
IV) supporting evidence
It is a shame Australia will be left drifting for a week.
I had only just voted yes a few minutes ago after reviewing the evidence and making my conclusions – That our CP is now Missing In Action (MIA) and that a succession plan in the form of impeachment must proceed.
Senator Jeff Vader
Thanks Jeff!
you got who and what you voted for, just saying.
I certainly did not vote for two cabinet members to hound a CP that much he quit the game.
Couldn't agree more Claire.
CC and the Senators were voted for. The ones in office were the winners and CC put his cabinet in place. Sorry it didn't work out for the best of all involved but the people chose who they wanted.
Then produce an article explaining why people should vote KH, all I have seen from that party is literally nothing since Gatto left as PP.
So you're saying it wasn't an APP or ARP member that shot down the impeachment vote?
KH have 2 senators, 4 people voted down the impeachment.
We all know Plato rigs this game but he won't double the votes of just 2 people from the same party
Me? No It was a response to lany saying we should have voted KH. I'm just saying that with the majority of parties inactive you can't really blame anyone other than their members for voting for them...after all KH was PTO'd again recently, hardly a confidence booster for voting them into senate.
As for the Impeachment I think there were one or two malicious votes and two idiotic but innocent ones.
* you can't really blame anyone other than their members for not voting for them
You can only blame PP's for stupid senators, they have the right to adjust before votes cast as to who would make the senate ballot.
As for the PTO of KH I won't say it here but I know of the reason as to why they were again taken over and that falls directly onto one person for splitting the votes
voted Yes as I started it... wrote a letter to the senators after I saw what is happening...
CC is a good guy with a good head on his shoulders. He left because two people were unbelievably spiteful to him. As for congress... That list, bar two, maybe three people, is full of active, lost standing Aus players, who ha s no excuse for voting this down.
Why did CC leave in the first place?
binda bindering
and this is why i have started playing vpop lol
Theres always another game you could go to...
It starts with V and its pretty POPular.
what happened?
What was the last thing you remember so I can tell you what you've missed...
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1-week1-2383011/1/20
pretty much everything
start from the beginning 🙂
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1-week1-2383011/1/20#comments
sorry I'm drunk and my friend voted wrong
Doing things the same time and again and expecting a different outcome is insanity
Does it count if you keep quoting that and nothing changes?
Oh dear.
Make an applicable sentence using only the following words.....
"Piss-up/brewery/organize/couldn't/in/a"
Thank you for putting into words how I feel.
Very true - a brothel and a root comes to mind as well.
Pity nobody tried to use the ingame Senate thread. Anyway, result is arbitrary. It is possible to organisation we and run a government without an in game CP. So relax and focus on he real problem...
How do you get Tim to build a unity government when he is guaranteed to rip everything apart?
Frankly, its a pretty good reason to just keep voting no.
as usual I am agreeing with Maj on this one. We've done it before and handled the situation quite fine. It's not perfect but perhaps the senators feel its better than the other option.
soz I didn;t vote, it was my firend on, as I was extremely sick and asleep.
he didn't vote...
I have not been online much in the past three days. However, I will accept responsibility for this blunder 🙁.