Realistic CP Options
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by SaraDroz
First I apologise 100% to Treian for my mistake in my last article: I was wrong in saying, in my last article, there were only 2 articles by him while CP and this was an honest and unintentional mistake. I aplogise and am sad to see no Treian on the the options list for tomorrows vote.
This leaves us with THREE potential choices: ('Dark Horse') Aeriala, ('Thief') Rolo and ('Daddy') Addy Lawrence.
Addy is a great addition to our choices in my opinion: A wealth of experience and a wizard of erep and eCanadian economics in general. Though some may question his foreign policy experience and future choices for Natural Enemy there is no doubt that Addy is a great eCanadian and would make a capable and conscientious CP. In many ways Addy is a 'safe and trusted' choice. I wonder though how serious he is... To my eyes its reads that MOO, Addys own Party creation is supporting Rolo and Rolo... (see: http://www.erepublik.com/en/presidential-candidates/country-23). Nor have I seen any policy statement by Addy, though as with my Treian mistake I may be wrong but can't find one. I am therefore somewhat confused about his name being on the ballot and this alone is cause for fears.
T-Rolo-llo has raised publicity recently regrding Aerialas nomination: Who are the Partys supporting Rolo? MOO... I thought they back Addy? The 'MOO' that supports Rolo has... wait for it... 1 member! The 'Apathetic non-Party'... you gessed it: 1 member! The 'Citizen Party' a whole 2 members (whoop!); 'Party Hard' an enourmous 5 members, Rolos MDP 1, Rolo DAL 4 members etc etc... 14 'Rolos' in total from 6 Parties. To accuse Aeriala of 'candidacy fraud' is therefore a bluff that ignores his own creditentials to say the least.
Moreover we are used to Rolo tactics; deceit and thefts hoping his publicity will pull him through to perhaps steal again. His election would devide the ecountry between those he has fooled and those who don't get fooled twice. Wars innitiated by a Rolo lead eGovernment would perhaps have less support and quite possibly he would be impeached and steal eCanadas funds (again). I would argue that this is NOT a wise choice.
Following Aerialas call for more political debate this has become a keenly argued election and for this we should be grateful. Even I, a semi retired ereper due to lack of time, am doing a second article! In this alone Aeriala has succeeded already. Aeriala has possibly less financial experience than say Addy Lawrence, who is arguably our best economic 'guru'. On the plus side though Aeriala has more foreign policy (arguably) than 'Daddy' Addy having been Terra SG. Idealy a future Aeriala eGovernment would appoint Addy as VP and MoF to give the next eGovernment in both economics and foreign policy while helping create unity.
As I see it Rolo is trying to con the electorate - a whole 14 people support Rolos candidacy! The question is why? Well he stole from us before... Perhaps he is reformed but I'm not willing to bet on it. Who then is best placed to defeat him? In my opinion Aeriala. I therefore stand by my previous article and beg to differ with Jacobi and Cypher for the reasons above.
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Actually with Etemenaki's lack of time, i do need a MoF. I believe Addy is well suited if he would accept. Consider this a public offer.
vote o/
addy regularly puts our parties viewpoint in the media. he did a spot on each of our 6 points over the past few weeks.
and here he is talking about his candidacy:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-wyd-when-opportunity-knocks-day-1384--1856780/1/20
"To accuse Aeriala of 'candidacy fraud' is therefore a bluff that ignores his own creditentials to say the least."
To be completely fair and balanced you should of included that Aeriala commit Candidacy Fraud in the election in June. He renamed his OWN party to the CPP and changed it's logo in an attempt to steal second instead of working with me to ensure Rolo didn't win.
As the saying goes, you can't polish a turd.
It's not wise to polish a turd, but you sure can try 😁
I did rename my party to CPP. I was also in the CPP channel. Rolo faked the top 5 parties that month with CPP as the top party listed. Now if I wanted to steal votes a smart person would have faked an EPIC nomination. What sense does making a double face party make? The obvious is that make someone ask why. The grand omg, yea i doubled it to make ppl ask. You need better fishing. Also let's remember the law made right after, if someone fakes parties they get impeached immediately. Will you stick by it?
Political party imitation act
A Bill to punish party presidents that imitate other political parties.
Provisions
1. a) The party president shall not change his party logo to use the same logo or a similar logo of another existing eCanadian political party.
b) The party president shall not change his party name to use the same name or a similar name of another existing eCanadian political party.
2. Any violation of Provision 1 will be considered an offence. Unless reason be shown to the contrary, the offending party president shall lose his masking on eCanada's forum and his access on eCanada's IRC channel for 2 months.
That's the law. Where does it say anything about impeachment? And it's not fishing when you openly admit to doing it.
So congress went crazy and did nothing. Hmmmm seems like a running theme.
Decent article Sara, Thanks for writing it.
On a personal note I will never, EVER support Rolo, and don't really understand why anyone would unless they are getting paid to. And no Rolo, even if you paid me, you wouldn't buy my silence, let alone support.
In this election, it's a tough call for me. I actually liked and admired many aspects of Aeriala's previous term as President, there were no serious gaffs, we worked well with our allies, and Congress actually debated some issues rather than just dividing into polarized camps over the presidency. So I don't really get the negative opinions being expressed against Aeriala. Perhaps his performance didn't please everyone while he held other posts, but shouldn't his prior record as CP be what matters most?
The other factor making this a tough choice for me personally, is that Addy has jumped into the contest. Perhaps too late to make a difference, but I really respect Addy for his prior performance in numerous government posts, which is the main reason I count him a friend. Addy my good chum, you've made this election a very tough choice for me indeed, I'm going to have to do a lot of reading and thinking in the next 26 hours.
Goran Thrax
Aeriala - the reason impeachment for the CP isn't a punishment there is because someone could throw their party's support behind a CP, or have one of their friends do it, and then have that party impersonate another. That would make it possible for one person (let's say Rolo, since he has all of those one person parties under his control) or a small group of people to choose who our CP would be. You might call that crazy, but I call that logical.
The best candidate in this race is Mr. Rock