COSA: Free Democrats of Talossa

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Maritiimi-Maxhestic Senate: Ian Plätschisch

The TNC is right that the FreeDems have overpromised and underdelivered. The TNC is probably wrong in claiming that they can do so much better. Their email claims that "Our team is composed of two former Seneschals, a leader in provincial politics, two former ministers of foreign affairs, a current Senator and member of the Cosa," but in reality:

• Most of these people are completely inactive
• The others specialize in either bugging the Government to do things, rather than actually doing things, or only doing things in the two weeks before the election

Don't get me wrong, the Government needs to be bugged, and activity at any time is very welcome. But that alone will not result in the TNC providing such a better government than the FreeDems have. I encourage voters to see the following post for some of the things the FreeDems did accomplish during the previous term: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=1206.0. In addition, we also restarted the Patriot Points program and reformed cabinet responsibilities to put a greater emphasis on promoting immigration.

The TNC's 50-word statement claims that they want to "work with King John to implement monarchical reform." I don't see how they can claim this with a straight face:

• S:reu Breneir Tzaracomprada entered the last government promising to support monarchical reform, then promptly reversed himself and offered no explanation
• Sir Alexandreu Davinescu has opposed pretty much all monarchical reform in the past seven years
• King John has vetoed pretty much all monarchical reform in the past seven years

So what reform do they want, exactly? Probably none. If you want to continue to give King John a pass to do absolutely nothing during what we all agree is an activity crisis, the TNC would be the party for you.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 16, 2022, 07:24:33 PM

Quote from: Caleb Frenibuerg on March 16, 2022, 06:44:01 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 16, 2022, 06:32:56 PM
Oh, it's definitely done?  You said before there might be changes from other people in the Government.  Glad to hear it's all set.  @Caleb Frenibuerg , did you find it helpful when it was sent to you after your oath?  I'd love any feedback.

To be fair, I don't recall receiving any Information Packet 😅

Can the immigration minister confirm sending the information packet?

I can confirm that I forgot to :P

Excuse my interjection, and not to be a party pooper, but the gold chevron on the green background may be reminding you of my arms. The charges are also in the same three positions.

Congratulations!

I'm not sure what the point of such a pass would be, since we are not in a position to enforce a vaccine mandate anywhere even if we wanted to (and personally I hope we would not want to).

Fellow Talossans,

It is well and good to declare support for Ukraine in these trying times. However, being the unrecognized nation we are, we are rather limited in what concrete actions we can take to back up our words. Contributing financially is by far the most practical for those of us who are able.

I encourage donations to the Ukraine Crisis Fund of the International Red Cross, available here: https://www.icrc.org/en/donate/ukraine

Signed,
Ian Plätschisch

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on February 23, 2022, 07:03:15 PM
Could this perhaps be resolved by "grandfathering" Senators? Think of it this way: Neither Benito's nor Florencia's Senator is removed from office until their original term was up. Yes, this would mean that -- assuming the merger happens during the 57th Cosa -- for a partial Cosa term, Garibaldi would have two Senators. The "balance of power" in the Senate is not (immediately) changed. However, when elections for the 58th Cosa come up, Garibaldi would simply not elect a Senator. The Benitian senator term would end, and then the Florencian senator would be the sole senator from the new province, and Garibaldi would take the place of Florencia in the Senate election cycle.

This would have the unfortunate consequence of leaving formerly Benitian voters represented by a Senator they didn't elect. Maybe the short time period makes that concern not very important though.

The LCC never supported "eliminating the Monarchy." I know you think that subjecting the Monarch to a vote of approval every so often makes it not a Monarchy, but pretending like that's the only way to define it, or even the most common way, is confusing at best (and untruthful at worst).

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 22, 2022, 04:04:25 PM
Mr. Secretary @Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM, after the election could we sticky this for ease of access to new and returning citizens?

Done

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 21, 2022, 09:36:54 PM
So Ian still has it?

Yep, sorry about that. There have been plans to ship it but we could never get it coordinated

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on February 20, 2022, 11:53:39 PM
Ián Plätschisch has a snazzy green shirt/red tie combo. Or is it the other way around?

My official portrait from back when I was Seneschal in early 2019:

Sorry I can't make it smaller.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 20, 2022, 06:56:26 PM
Starting this month (February 2022), in an effort, that I hope will restart Talossan's voluntarily contributing money to the Kingdom, I will be sending $10 USD ($120 USD per year) to the Burgermeister of Inland Revenue on a monthly basis. I have been a Talossan citizen for nearly 15 years and it feels like the time is right for this.

At that level of contribution, you can be the patron of my sandwich of the month club.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 21, 2022, 01:09:53 AM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on February 21, 2022, 12:34:32 AM
BTW, can someone explain why the TNC leader is trying to get Free Democrat members to "jump ship" and join his party list?

No, Miestra. No one will play that game. Explain your record of the past six months.

To be fair, you also have a bit of explaining to do. I'm very happy to see you back, don't get me wrong, but let's not forget how this term started. You founded a party that promised to support the Monarchy reform bill, then joined the Government promising to contribute to it, then immediately quit the Government and did very little in Talossa except vote against the bill you promised to support.

If you are serious about contesting this election, one would think you would need to give some sort of account of all that.

I tried something like this on the old forum and it worked reasonably well.

https://talossa.proboards.com/thread/12851/happening-talossa-find-out