I have to leave again...

[MrWhereItsAt]

I hope we all agree that one of the least productive things we can do is blame our Ministers for every little thing. I do not recall any controversy at all over civman's election, when everyone knew he would not be around the whole term. We who voted for him either accepted this, were guilty of voting without reading the candidates' posts, or just did not think ahead.

I think in this case we can not blame Timeline for any of it. However, everyone must also accept that it is non-ideal to have candidates unable to complete their terms as often as we have experienced to date. We must, next elections, make sure we think long and hard about voting for a candidate who may leave early. If we are to accept this behaviour, we need to have some acceptable way around it - via appointee, the runner-up in the election or the VP taking that position whilst the elected official is away. We don't need to further clog up the Constitution with this either, just have an acceptable way of getting around it.

So, what do you say - have the VP take over? That is what they are there for. And if the VP is too busy, then we may need a snap election.

[UnOrthOdOx]

I stated my aprehension in the election thread, and again here. It seems that I am the only one concerned about this, or the potential abuse of this assistant takin over, so I will shut my trap... For now.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Your points, as always, are intelligent and we all can take note from them. I wouldn't have thought about it at all if you hadn't posted, UnOrthO. But for the moment they are (somewhat) isolated incidents. It is where they become frequent that we need to worry. I have faith in the Ministers (at the moment ) - I hope it doesn't change, but it may.

[Ninot]

For an assistant, i assure you, I wont do anything dumb and appoint my horse (Caligula)

Who do you folk deem a good replacement? or, heres an idea, we know about exactly when CM is leaving, lets just plan an election that ends around when he is leaving, so we dont need any of this presidentially chosen assistant hoopla.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Your points, as always, are intelligent and we all can take note from them. I wouldn't have thought about it at all if you hadn't posted, UnOrthO. But for the moment they are (somewhat) isolated incidents. It is where they become frequent that we need to worry. I have faith in the Ministers (at the moment ) - I hope it doesn't change, but it may.

Perhaps it is the reporter in me, but I always look at worse-case, and think we should plan for that. The current administration is worthy of trust, I am pointing out potential flaws to consider, not to be reflected on CM, Ninot, or any other current official.

[Timeline]

What is the time period CM will be leaving Ninot?

[civman2000]

My absence: Early morning 7/28-evening 8/11 (US time)