Election Nominations thread (non-party specific) - Page 4

Panag · August 10, 2002, 06:39

Quote:

Originally posted by notyoueither
Well. Now might be a good time to rush through a law delegating any unfilled/abandoned post's responsibilities to the President to fulfil as he sees fit (make the decisions himself or appoint a minister).

Either that or draft Uber.

hi ,

, ...

, why dont you go for president , ....

have a nice day

Kuciwalker · August 10, 2002, 07:55

NO! We need someone for the War Ministry.

Epistax · August 10, 2002, 10:18

Oh uber,
You came and you smashed, and you helped us,
Then you pushed us away,
Oh uber,
We need you, to exact, 'nana justice,
And smash peeps to bits

*hopes at least one person recognizes the theme to this song*

jdd2007 · August 10, 2002, 11:11

*recognizes theme*

Uber, run for president. you will win, and you can re-organize the government.

are spiff or sir ralph running? if not, too bad...

Jon Shafer · August 10, 2002, 13:30

Panag, NYE is a justice of the court, so he's not allowed to become a minister until his term as a justice is up.

I would love to take the SMC job, like I originally wanted to, but I won't be around and I can't make any turnchats, so I can't.

That was the job I actually wanted, and not President or anything else.

Oh well.

Panag · August 10, 2002, 16:42

Quote:

Originally posted by Trip
Panag, NYE is a justice of the court, so he's not allowed to become a minister until his term as a justice is up.

I would love to take the SMC job, like I originally wanted to, but I won't be around and I can't make any turnchats, so I can't.

That was the job I actually wanted, and not President or anything else.

Oh well.

hi ,

indeed , but NYE could go for it later , ....

how long and when cant you be around

it would be good that you go for the SMC job , ...

if you are only gone for a couple days , someone should take over for you , this way its fixed , ....

have a nice day

Donal Graeme · August 10, 2002, 23:39

I noticed that the position of SMC is open. So I have to ask a question: Can I hold two positions at the same time?

MrWhereItsAt · August 10, 2002, 23:54

Nope. But SMC is more presitigious than the other one, so go for that.

Donal Graeme · August 11, 2002, 00:22

Ok then, I would like to officially switch from Minister of the Economy to War Minister, simply because it sounds like it would be more fun.

MrWhereItsAt · August 11, 2002, 00:31

/me dances his touchdown dance

YES!

Inverse Icarus · August 11, 2002, 01:33

alright. I'm officially going to run for SMC again.

a lot of people want me on, and i'm sure i could find the time to make the plans / whine about not being at war. Turnchats might be a lil hard but we'll see.

I have to get used to college. I'm sure this game wont affect that to much, or vica versa.

sorry for being on the fence for a while.

carpathia · August 11, 2002, 02:15

I would like to run for a position if anyone would like to nominate me it would be greatly appreciated.

Donal Graeme · August 11, 2002, 02:26

Ok, move me from SMC to Econ Minister, again. Uber decided that he would like to stay at the position he has held twice, and I won't begrudge him that. So switch me back.

carpathia · August 11, 2002, 02:29

I am running for Minister of PW. For various reasons but mostly for my own ambition and desire to make apolyton a better place for us to live by providing the people with a infrastructure.

WhiteBandit · August 11, 2002, 02:46

Well I'd like to nominate myself for Minister of Public Works! W00tness!

I guess that means I get to challenge the young skywalker.

Offtopic:

I really think we should discuss an amendment removing term limits. There really isn't that much participation in this game as of late and we can't even fill certain positions (which will become a bigger problem in the future since people can't run again for because of term limits) so we will be forced to lose talented people.

Blah, we'll deal with this later I suppose, but sign me up for the Public Works department please. I thank you very much.

Edit:
My bad, according to this thread:
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=58499
it looks like carpathia wants to run for PW as well. I may have to choose a different position (I'll analyze this over the next day since we still have an empty post apparently).

MrWhereItsAt · August 11, 2002, 02:57

The Constitution states that you can be in a position three times in a row, and after then you have to run for a DIFFERENT position. This could mean that we have the same candidates in forever, just rotating through different places. This should be OK unless we REALLY have no-one who wants to be SMC next time.

Kuciwalker · August 11, 2002, 09:44

Shoot. I'm going to lose. Again. To people who are actually here about 1/10 the amount of time I am. Please, I've been in the Civ3 Demo Game the entire time, I was with the Civ2 Demo Game for a month, and I was with the CFC Civ2 Demo Game for about two months, and I've NEVER HELD A MINISTRY POSITION.

Please, PLEASE elect me this time.

Duddha · August 11, 2002, 11:46

I would like to retract my campiagn for minister of Science. I'm going to be too busy and Apocalypse will do a fine job anyways.

Donal Graeme · August 11, 2002, 12:11

Good, it looks like everything was fixed, so that Uber is running for SMC again, and I am running for Econ Minister. I hope MWIA doesn't try to kill me for all the trouble I have caused him...

Inverse Icarus · August 11, 2002, 12:16

we should kill term limits in the next reform

Epistax · August 11, 2002, 12:20

That's kinda a tough issue. Anyone that likes the job, with the citizens liking them-- they should be able to keep at it, right?

But that could also prevent other people from running for a position. Gah!

Ninot · August 11, 2002, 14:30

Quote:

Originally posted by Epistax
That's kinda a tough issue. Anyone that likes the job, with the citizens liking them-- they should be able to keep at it, right?

But that could also prevent other people from running for a position. Gah!

Well its like this

we want to put limits so everyone can participate
but as it is, not enough people want to do the jobs anyways.

OPD · August 11, 2002, 14:45

I remember seeing some poll from months ago over minister term lengths. The most popular response being terms should last as long as the minister is popular.
I would post a link but i don't know how to and can't find the poll.

Trevman · August 11, 2002, 15:01

After much consideration, I have decided to run for public historian.

Panag · August 11, 2002, 15:42

Quote:

Originally posted by UberKruX
we should kill term limits in the next reform

hi ,

no , just make the terms a bit longer , like two or three months or so , ...

have a nice day

MrWhereItsAt · August 11, 2002, 15:45

2-3 month terms?

You would have everyone quitting after one month. I certainly couldn't take President after these next four weeks.

And we just need an emergency clause - in the situation where no other candidate can be found, the incumbent who has held that position three times (or more) running may stand and hold that position again. It is the understanding from the Civ2 game.

Panag · August 11, 2002, 16:20

Quote:

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
2-3 month terms?

You would have everyone quitting after one month. I certainly couldn't take President after these next four weeks.

And we just need an emergency clause - in the situation where no other candidate can be found, the incumbent who has held that position three times (or more) running may stand and hold that position again. It is the understanding from the Civ2 game.

hi ,

, why would they run away after more then one month , ....

make them something like 6 weeks or so , ....

what should we do , the term's we have now are a bit short , ....

have a nice day

jdjdjd · August 11, 2002, 19:59

Hey, don't forget to vote in the Impeachment Amendment vote...

go here: Impeachment Amendment

GhengisFarb™ · August 11, 2002, 21:43

Suggestion for the whole term limit controversy:

Would it be possible to ammend the constitution so that we could have an approval poll where more that 50% of those voting would have to approve of letting the candidate run for another consecutive term after 3.

This way we would have an "out" if we had a really good person filling a particular position.

MrWhereItsAt · August 12, 2002, 01:19

Quote:

Originally posted by panag

hi ,

, why would they run away after more then one month , ....

make them something like 6 weeks or so , ....

what should we do , the term's we have now are a bit short , ....

have a nice day

A month means elections happen on the same days, making things easy to remember. For me anyway, it is easy to commit for a month, but 6 weeks is a sizeable chunk of time and it is well beyond me to be in ANY position for this long. A month shows you have the dedication to hang around and do a decent job, whilst not forcing you into being stuck.

But start a poll if you really want. But if it passes, there's no way in hell I'd ever stand for a 6-8 week term. I suspect I am not alone amongst past, present and prospective Ministers in this thought.