Senator Vercáriâ

[D. N. Vercáriâ]

Good Morning, Fiôvâ!

First, let me thank Miestrâ and Ián for mentioning reasons to vote for me. Let me say in return, that if they are elected, they surely will do their best to dare something worthy in the Senate.

Now if you think they are good enough, why should you think I am any better? Not that much better, but different, I'd say.

For instance, I'm endorsing reforms like the introduction of a secret ballot in general elections. But I assume it will take a while until we have talked the majority of traditionalists in this country into seeing things our way. IMHO, it will take patience in addition to passion to get there. In the mean time, I believe, we should try to achieve small improvements, like for instance an open ballot that is not displayed before the voting time is over. Thus we could reduce an possible impact of public votes of "celebrities", while the supporters of open voting aren't depraved of the advantages that they see in their preferred voting method.

This is an example for the style of politicking that I am planning to provide. Rome wasn't built in a day, as the saying goes, but there certainly are ways to improve the united Talossa by and by.

I promise to be the democratic watchdog that I've been all the way since I joined the Republic of Talossa. You know me, I will not just hang around apathetically, if you send me out to sit in the Senate.

I'm strongly feeling Republican, therefore I will endorse any intiative that is making Talossan more Republlican; but, see above, it's not my intention to zap it over the heads of those who prefer to stick to what they perceive as the tradtional form of government. It will take a long breath and a lot of good arguments till they eventually may see things our way.

I'm a Peculiarist, too, which means that IMHO Talossa must not ape other nations to become more real. Neither do we have to act intentionally funny to become more different. Talossa is Talossa, which way ever it may choose, as long as we are feeling Talossan at heart.

There might be more you want to know: Just ask, I'm here and I won't run away.

Again, good morning, Fiôvâ. Vote Vercariâ, make him your Senator. He won't let you down.

[Ián B. Anglatzarâ]

Actually, if you put Vercáriâ in the Senäts, he will destroy everything that is good and holy. It is a well hidden fact, but he has the number of the best* tattoed onto his left rump. He is pure evil.

(Is there a way to post things anonymously around here?)

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[D. N. Vercáriâ]

Heh. Let's assume that you posted this anonymously. ;D

[Ián B. Anglatzarâ]

Jun 13, 2012 2:57:39 GMT -6 D. N. Vercáriâ said:

Heh. Let's assume that you posted this anonymously. ;D

I didn't?

ETA: I mean, he/she didn't?

[D. N. Vercáriâ]

Well, the rattling of the lid of the mailbox distracted me.... forgot to say that one thing I'm finding crucial is the abolition of the 200-seat-Cosâ in favour of a Chamber of Parliament of -say- 15 seats, which are held by real MCs, instead of fictitious cohorts of up to 29 imaginary people. One MC, one vote! I'm a very derivatist Peculiarist in this, for the sake of my own sanity.

[Ián B. Anglatzarâ]

Jun 13, 2012 3:15:02 GMT -6 D. N. Vercáriâ said:

Well, the rattling of the lid of the mailbox distracted me.... forgot to say that one thing I'm finding crucial is the abolition of the 200-seat-Cosâ in favour of a Chamber of Parliament of -say- 15 seats, which are held by real MCs, instead of fictitious cohorts of up to 29 imaginary people. One MC, one vote! I'm a very derivatist Peculiarist in this, for the sake of my own sanity.

You're stealing my planks!

Hey, don't vote for this plank stealer who would have me drown!

[D. N. Vercáriâ]

We may look like triplets in some issues, I suppose. But you know, Peculiarists aren't trying to look different for the sake of looking different by all means.

[Gjermund Higraff]

Jun 13, 2012 3:19:51 GMT -6 Ián B. Anglatzarâ said:

You're stealing my planks!

I would say it shows a willingness to go the extra mile to make sure that his nation-building projects are cheap.

You need planks to nation-build, no? Or is that house-building....I always confuse those two.

[Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN]

I would put a secret ballot and party lists above a "Real Cosâ", but all three are pretty important reforms.

The question I'd have for candidate Polarbear is exactly what his relationship with the APT is. Is he standing as an APT candidate or an "Independent Peculiarist"?

[D. N. Vercáriâ]

In the Senate election I am standing as an independent Peculiarist, as I believe that a Senator as a representative of all citizens of a province shouldn't be too much of a partisan. In the Senate election, I'm more or less a "by-the-way"-Peculiarist.

(But take this with a grain of salt. Beyond the duties of a Senator, I will try my best to make the APT something that is more than but a sketch of a political party. Especially now that some prominent members of the former M.R.P. are "back in town", I hope there will be a way to give the cause of Peculiarism a new momentum, even if this will not lead to an organisation with traditional party structures. IMO, Peculiarists in this country still have to find and kind of reinvent themselves.)

[D. N. Vercáriâ]

Jun 13, 2012 14:48:40 GMT -6 Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN said:

I would put a secret ballot and party lists above a "Real Cosâ", but all three are pretty important reforms.

IMO without a so-called Real Cosâ party lists will remain a bit "wobbly" as long as it is not defined how many fictitious seats are held by one real MC, but I would agree that this is but an unimportant detail in the big picture.

[D. N. Vercáriâ]

Also, still thinking from the Republican experience, I remember that party lists couldn't solve the problem of having less candidates than actual seats in the (real!) CoD. For the government, Ministers were therefore recruited where they could be found and trapped. Which is to say, we had a partly unelected, simply appointed government (proposed by the Seneschal, formally appointed by the President). Sometimes nice theories have to be sacrificed on the alter of reality - I'm kind of wondering if it is similar in the Kingdom, our new home, in the issue of fixed party lists.

Anyway, to repeat, I would find it more important to reform the Cosâ first. There is a Senate consisting of (soon) 8 Senators, who are representing the provinces; my draft proposal would be that the Cosâ should consist of either one more or one less MCs than there are Senators, thus we'll eventually have a Ziû of a total of either 17 or 15 members.

[Ián B. Anglatzarâ]

Jun 14, 2012 5:00:31 GMT -6 D. N. Vercáriâ said:

Also, still thinking from the Republican experience, I remember that party lists couldn't solve the problem of having less candidates than actual seats in the (real!) CoD. For the government, Ministers were therefore recruited where they could be found and trapped. Which is to say, we had a partly unelected, simply appointed government (proposed by the Seneschal, formally appointed by the President). Sometimes nice theories have to be sacrificed on the alter of reality - I'm kind of wondering if it is similar in the Kingdom, our new home, in the issue of fixed party lists.

From this we take away the following nuggets of wisdom:

1. At the end, the Republic was seriously understaffed to function as a nation. That was the main reason we decided to offer to pool our resources with the Kingdom.

2. You shouldn't run in an election if you haven't recruited a few people under your banner. If you do, you might make them disappointed. Eventually, voters will learn that they shouldn't vote for one- or two-man parties and hope to be represented.

And that is a good thing. (Possibly both are/were good things, I kind of like it here back in the Kingdom.)

[Üc R. Tärfâ]

Go Polarbear...

HE CAN

[ián txáglh]

Jun 14, 2012 6:43:24 GMT -6 Üc R. Tärfâ said:

Go Polarbear...

HE CAN

since when are bears made of tin?