Election Nomination Thread

[adaMada]

Sure .

I only included it since you mentioned it in your post.

-- adaMada

[Shiber]

I thereby nominate Panag for the position of Minister of Entertainment. He'll be in charge of making sure that all of us will have a nice day.

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Reddawg
Apoc how old are you? anyway i dunno it sounds like youre really busy dude, im not sure we should have a VP that was considering quitting before he was even elected lol. no offense

18. I am veru willing to not be VP if someone else wants the job. I'm fine with staying Minister of Science. I just think it is better to have a busy VP than no VP.

[Duddha]

I'm running on a Hawk ticket if we're still putting party designation next to our names.

[Reddawg]

Apoc it's true, a busy VP is better than none at all...
I'm not about to run for such a high office though w/o ever having been in the government. so i'll shut up.

[Apocalypse]

One thing I forgot about my schedule. I will soon be working for a soon to be named X-COM site. I'll mainly news though so it won't take up too much time.

[adaMada]

Originally posted by Duddha
I'm running on a Hawk ticket if we're still putting party designation next to our names.

Added.

I'll also put links to the Campeign Threads (any that are started) as the name of the office being run for.

I'll add (incumbant) next to all the incumbants if anyone wants, but I won't do that unless asked since I'm not sure if it'd create any bias...

-- adaMada

EDIT: One note about bias. Adding party affiliations could potentially be negative, if you're the only person with an affiliation (Could also be positive, I'm not really sure if it'll make any difference). That's why I'm only flagging people who specifically request it, even if I know they're from a given party.

[Apocalypse]

Do you guys realize that if none of you run for Minister of the Economy that will be one of my jobs as VP?

[adaMada]

Apoc,
I'm hoping that someone will pick it up before the nomination period ends... (When is that, by the way?) I made a point of underlining the fact in my top post, to make sure everyone sees it.

If worst comes to worst, I probably could run for MoE -- I'd just rather not. I really like working in the Foreign Ministry, and hope to continue serving as a Deputy for another term. If worst came to absolute worst, however, I probably could do it... but I wouldn't volunteer for it until the day before the nomination period was up, and only then if I really thought it needed to be done.

-- adaMada

[Apocalypse]

The Minister of the Economy does have a few FM related jobs. You'd get to talk about resource trading You'd even get veto power. I won't really have to do MoE stuff. Me and OPD would have the power to appoint people to open minister slots.

I think elections start the 12th, but I don't know for sure.

[adaMada]

Yea, the MoE wouldn't be a bad job, but I'm really enjoying the FM, so I'd personally rather stay there.

If you and OPD have the power to appoint someone else to that position, then I'll probably just stay out of it... I also wouldn't be supprised if a less active player who wants to try his (or her) hand at government took it up before the elections either.

Actually, just had one thought... Reddawg, would you like to try running as Minister of the Economy? It's a lighter position right now, so it wouldn't take a lot of work, and based on your work with the stats I think you'd be great at it... It'd probably be about as much work as being an active assistant to one of the more busy ministers too. Just a thought, of course.

-- adaMada

[Shiber]

If noone is willing to run for MoE then I will. Keep in mind though that I will most likely not be able to attend any turnchats due to hours and connectivity problems with Dalnet so I'll make a crappy minister.

[Apocalypse]

The MoE doesn't really need to attend chats. I, at least, will mainly do turnthreads too.

[Shiber]

Yeah, the president or vice or whoever is playing the game can do the basics such as adjusting the sliders upon demand himself. However I still think ministers should participate in turnchats.

[Thud]

In order to back up my language in the DIA charter, I'd like to run with the DIA name.

I'd like to assure the voting population that I will not run a partisan election, and will not use partisan politics in my post if elected. If anyone has any idea as to how you would go about being partisan with a position like Minister of Science, I'd like to hear it. It's bound to be funny.

Btw, this is just me. If political suicide doesn't appeal to you, you don't have to run with the DIA name if a member .

Actually, my opponent was once a DIA member, so I don't think you should put too much stock in party differences in this particular election anyhow.

Um, should candidates be responsible for posting election threads, or should that be done by ada or another neutral?