Zyvetskistaahn for Speaker

[Zyvetskistaahn]

This shall be short, I have been deputy speaker for a while and can do that which is required of the Speaker and shall do so to the best of my ability if elected.

Any questions?

 

[Crushing Our Enemies]

I formally endorse you for Speaker, and I'm glad you accepted my nomination. I've seen you become fluent with the processes of updating the rolls and writing the Weekly Digest, and I feel like you've really stepped up to learn the membership and voting procedures.

What part of the Speaker's Office would you say is your strong point, and the area you feel most comfortable with? Are there any skills you think you still need some practice with?

Do you think that distinguishing between legislative and non-legislative proposals in the procedures is a good idea? What are the strengths and weaknesses of such a policy?

When does new legislation become law?

Do you think the current membership policies are effective at removing inactive RA members and retaining active ones? Are there any cases in which you think the membership policies fail in those objectives?

 

[SillyString]

I also wholeheartedly support Zyvet's campaign.

Zyv, do you think serving as deputy speaker has better prepared you for the office of speaker? In what ways?

 

[Zyvetskistaahn]

What part of the Speaker's Office would you say is your strong point, and the area you feel most comfortable with? Are there any skills you think you still need some practice with?

I suppose the area that I would say is my strong point would also be the area in which I feel most comfortable, the administration of votes would be one which I would say, if only because it is one of the more simple or less time consuming tasks of the Speaker. I would suppose removing members is the area in which I feel less comfortable and so one where I feel I need more practice.

Do you think that distinguishing between legislative and non-legislative proposals in the procedures is a good idea? What are the strengths and weaknesses of such a policy?

Considering the reasons such distinctions already exist, namely that there is a distinction made in law for the purposes of a person maintaining membership of the RA in which legislative proposals are the only proposals taken into account for removing a person's membership which led in turn to the current distinction, so as to prevent a person from being removed from the RA by a series of legislative votes being brought in a short period of time; non-legislative procedures, when being considered by the RA are also seemingly considered fairly routine, and so do not often attract much debate beyond expressions of support, or are considered urgent in which case the delays made for the reason of good legislation and preventing undue removal of members in legislative proposals would be undesirable for the process.

When does new legislation become law?

Presuming that such legislation is an amendment to the legal code, it becomes law either seven days after its passage by the RA, after the Delegate declines to veto the legislation or after such a veto is overridden by the RA. If it were an amendment to the Constitution or the Bill of Rights is would become law immediately after its passage by the RA.

Do you think the current membership policies are effective at removing inactive RA members and retaining active ones? Are there any cases in which you think the membership policies fail in those objectives?

Largely I believe they are sufficient, however there is arguably the potential for an individual to miss four votes in relatively swift succession, or to vote consistently on non-legislative matters but to miss votes on legislative ones in between those votes, due to an unforeseen absence and to be after the twenty day period allowed by the Legal Code but still be obviously active in the region and the RA, however their ability to easily rejoin the RA does, I would say, mitigate this.

Zyv, do you think serving as deputy speaker has better prepared you for the office of speaker? In what ways?

I would say so, yes, it has allowed me to get to grips with the use of the membership rolls and to try my hand at writing parts of the RA weekly digest, something that I would do my best to continue publishing regularly if elected, these are things that would take some time to get used to if I were coming into the office without having been deputy speaker and the presence of yourself and COE to guide me when I was uncertain of matters of procedure has been beneficial in preventing potential mistakes on my part, mistakes that I would think I would be more likely to make if I were to be elected without having had such initial support.

 

[Democratic Donkeys]

Congratulations on being elected! That was a close one!