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anjo · 12-19-2021, 06:32 AM

Anjo for Chair!
(again)

*emerges from the shadows of the Chair's Private Chambers* Why hello, it's me again, your friendly neighbourhood bureaucrat, and I'm running for re-election as Chair of the Assembly (on relatively short notice, admittedly Tounge

)! Sadly, my brain did not grace me with some innovative motto this time round, so a boring standard campaign title it is.

First of all, a short introduction for those who don't know me Smile

Hi, I'm anjo, professional introvert & lurker. I joined NS in December '19 and moved to TSP a month after. For the best part of my stay here, I was mainly involved in the Office of WA Legislation, writing voting recommendations and even programming a Discord bot for some tasks (although it's currently not in use); I served as OWL Director for about 9 months until October this year. I'm a member of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Engagement, serving as ambassador to the Free Nations Region and Dispatch proofreader/up-to-date-keeper respectively. In the Assembly, besides being a legislator, I was a Deputy Chair under my predecessor Purple Hyacinth for three terms and succeeded her as Chair in August.

I've greatly enjoyed serving as your Chair of the Assembly for the past four months, and I hope that I could live up to my campaign promises for the term: Although the evil, evil electorate cold-heartedly ripped my poor Deputy Chairs from my office to stuff them in a Cabinet a few weeks into my term (so I couldn't do as much together with them as I'd liked), the new Chair Guide will hopefully do the part of helping educate people who are interested in the office a bit more, and the auto-formatter tools for the Chair have also been completed (granted, they're a bit bare-bones right now since I went 100% functionality over any styling, but I will definitely try and make them less of an eyesore in any case, regardless of this election's outcome!) to reduce the time and mental capacity strain on future Chairs. I did take some weeks getting the Weekly Assembly Updates for the RMB out regularly, but they've consistently been published for the last months.

But, I should get to the point ‒ why should you re-elect me as Chair, and what have I planned for the coming term if you do so? First of all, I know the office well: Over my tenure as deputy and now my term as actual Chair, I've learned our legislative procedure pretty much by heart and can act quickly and correctly when it comes to official Assembly business. Also, I love the job ‒ administrative, procedure-focused positions is just what I enjoy, and if there's spreadsheets involved, that's the icing on top for me Cheese

! Regarding projects, honestly, I'm relatively content with the state of the office of Chair right now and don't have anything too massive that I'd like to see implemented, so I don't have any shiny-sparkly mega-project I can buy your vote with present to you. However, there's still a few things that I'd like to do:

Assembly Infrastructure, Outreach & Integration

After I had posted the Chair Guide, I reviewed the other parts that were listed to be included in the info thread revamp, and I'd like to continue filling them in if elected, so that we have one central location for all the forumside Assembly informational stuff (after the old thread's parts partly got swept into the archives, where the Chair can't edit them to keep them up to date). I'd also like to revisit the idea of an Assembly Mentorship Program revamp that was planned in the Chair's office under Hya, especially now that people have started posting applications for it again, showing that there's interest in such a program. The Weekly Assembly Updates on the RMB will also be continued if I am re-elected, and I recently had a vague idea to start something like an "Assembly Gazette" in the form of a gameside dispatch to accompany them: Basically, when a new vote or something else important is started, an entry is made there and it gets posted to the RMB, sort-of like the "This is now at vote" post in bill debate threads, but with the additional records to put it into context (as I'd imagine not everybody on the RMB would know what's going on from just a standalone post) and possibly wake interest in the Assembly in more people.

Law Cleanup

I'd also like to do another cleanup of our laws ‒ Hya mainly did the formatting, and I'll focus on the text here. I remember that when I thoroughly read a number of them when working for the Commission on Laws back in… January, I think?, there were still some inconsistencies between a couple of them, or some sections just didn't read that well. If elected, I will systematically go through all of our laws and work out any improvements that could be made and present them to the Assembly for discretionary edits (or of course as regular bills, if there is ambiguity in the intent of the respective law or it's a more extensive rephrasing). I might do this even if I'm not returned to the Chair, but a clean slate of discretionary edits would certainly be more organized and efficient than a bunch of separate amendments Wink

Deputy Involvement

If elected, I'll naturally seek to appoint a number of Deputy Chairs again. For this, I will again be publicly asking for interested people to apply, and I'll strive to provide them the opportunity to become accustomed to Chair duties if they'd like to perhaps run in the future, letting them open/close votes themselves every now and then and of course also involving them in the other tasks of the Chair. If they want, I'd also let them handle parts of the projects this term themselves, but in any case I will always be consulting with them regarding the projects so we can achieve the best results with joint brainpower. Admittedly, there was a bit of a rocky start to my attempt at this last term and my deputies and I didn't have much time together, but with this experience I am confident I'll be able to handle it better now!

The Usual Stuff

Lastly, I will of course continue faithfully fulfilling all the duties of the Chair if you entrust me with the office again: I will remain impartial in the execution of the office, open and close votes in a timely manner (including all the quality-of-life steps for fellow legislators, like Discord and gameside pings), publish States of the Assembly on time (perhaps even with graphs too in the future?), and keep the Legislative Activity spreadsheet uniform and up to date with LoAs, individual votes and the like.

That's basically it: Quickly summarized, in addition to the usual Chair pledge of working dutifully, I'm promising to continue filling in the new Assembly info thread, work with my deputies to revive the AMP, continue and expand the RMB outreach of the Assembly, conduct a complete consistency check of our laws, and involve interested legislators in the office as Deputy Chairs. I hope I could convince you to approve of me on your ballot when the voting period starts ‒ if you have any questions for me, please do post them below! Smile

Conflicts of Interest

I am currently serving as Chair of the Assembly, MoFA Ambassador, and MoE staff member in the South Pacific. I am not involved in any other regions besides my service as Ambassador to the Free Nations Region and being the Founder of my puppet storage region.

I have access to the following nations: Tepertopia, Socialist Tepertopia, Free Tepertopia, The Class Council, and Anjo (primarily for Issues); Office of WA Legislation (OWL staff duties); all nations in United Protectorate of Tepertopia (puppet storage for nations I once created as factbook props).