Plemby, your recent veto of the
evidence redaction bill is only inflaming tensions around a situation which has led to the resignation of cabinet members and the Attorney General, and caused one of your opponents to withdraw their candidacy for delegate. While I was inclined to wait until the end of the elections to take action on this, your veto has forced me to bring this up now.
For the benefit of people who have not been present in Discord through all this,
here is a post containing all the information which has been made public thus far.
I have several questions for you, as follows:
1) Will you continue your policy of forcing government officials to vote in unison on domestic policy, including bills in the Regional Assembly? Do you understand the legal concerns former Attorney General Ash had with regards to this policy?
2) Why did you feel the need to question the integrity of an election commissioner because of his roleplay connections to another candidate? Do you also doubt the integrity of your roleplay family members who were appointed as election commissioners?
3) Ash's investigation into your conduct was stopped after you and Lord Ravenclaw convinced the plaintiff to back down. Lord Ravenclaw has consistently defended this action as necessary to regional security, because he thought it was unknown how you would react if “backed into a corner” by an indictment.
How are we to trust your integrity if your closest friend and ally believes you capable of illegally usurping power?
4) Yesterday, several rank and file citizens in Discord publicly asked for an investigation into the reasons behind Praetor's resignation. Yourself, the vice delegate, and “advisor to the delegate” Mad Jack all began to flood the channel with spam.
Lord Ravenclaw responded to the citizens' concerns with, “oh let them have their tantrums.” Mad Jack told them that “the TNP government owes you precisely jack shit.”
The attacks leveled at rank and file citizens by government officials became so intense that it caused one citizen to say,
“well considering most of the people don't like me for some reason I don't think I should ask because if I did then they wouldn't tell me.”
How do you justify this response? Does it bother you at all that citizens coming into our chat room feel alienated because they are personally attacked by the highest ranking figures in the regional government?
5) Do you categorically deny that your veto of the evidence redaction bill has nothing to do with the calls for an investigation? This is the most popular bill ever to have been vetoed, passing with 41 to 10. Your veto of this bill would protect yourself and other government officials from an investigation. Your veto also came only hours after multiple citizens had requested such an investigation in Discord chat.
6) Your opponents all withdrew their candidacy in the final hour or two before the end of the nomination deadline. We know at least one of these withdrawals was related to the situation surrounding Ash's investigation.
If you should be re-elected, do you believe you have a legitimate mandate to continue as delegate?
I would appreciate your perspective on these issues, as I consider them to be of serious concern to all TNP citizens. Thank you.
EDIT: Added link to the public information thread.
The goals you linked to from September are far too minimal to justify not outlining your goals for the next 4 months here in my opinion.
