(07-13-2020, 10:22 PM)South Pacific Independent News Network Wrote: ASSEMBLY
LEGISLATOR COMMITTEE DID NOT CONDUCT JUNE LEGISLATOR CHECK
Chair of the Assembly Rabbitz published their first State of the Assembly report on July 10, accounting for changes to the legislator roster, recent debates and votes held. In addition to announcing the admission of 10 new legislators during the past month, Rabbitz said that the monthly activity check, which would lead to legislator removals, would not taken place given that the Legislator Committee Act requires the Legislator Committee to perform activity checks only during the first week of a month.

This is highly misleading.

For over two years now, the established practice has been a cooperation between the Chair and LegComm, operating on a shared roster of Legislators. The reason is simple - it's the Chair's Charter-given duty to record votes, while it's LegComm's responsibility to perform checks in part based on the voting record, so the CoA office and LegComm have worked out a way to coordinate these overlapping responsibilities. What happened this month was not what the headline so capriciously implies, but rather that there was a miscommunication between the new Chair and LegComm on the expected mutual expectations, and we have since cleared those up.

I strongly condemn the SPINN editors for letting this headline pass.