Election Thread for Trade Leader - Term 3

This is the election thread for the Trade Leader.

The Runner-up of this position will be Deputy Trade Leader.

Nomination Thread.

Candidates:

Strider
Chieftess

Questions from the Inquisitors:

For all candidates
1) Do you regularly attend chat turns? If no, will you do so when elected? If not, why?

2) What are your qualifications for the position?

3) What are your overall goals for Phoenatica? How will you use your position to further those goals?

4) Which parts of the Democracy forum do you read? All of it? Cabinet threads? Citizen groups?

5) Do you vote in the polls? If not, why?

6) If elected to a cabinet position will you vote in the Cabinet Polls? If not, why?

7) If you are the highest Chain of Command link present at the appointed turn chat hour are you willing to take responsibility for running the game during that session?

8) Do you feel that the primary role of a cabinet member is to operate within the boundaries of the constitution? Or do you feel that the constitution is a document open to your interpretation?

9) Term 2 saw the unexpected retirement (or attempted retirement) of several elected officials. Do you see any reason why you could not serve your full term in office if elected?

10) What method of victory do you advocate for Phoenatica?

11) Briefly describe how your election would advance that victory condition.

For current officials running again
12) What were the high points of your administration? What did you do that would make the citizens vote for you again?

13) In your past term did you have to act against your impulses to support popular (poll) decisions? When? Did you ever follow your impulses despite contrary popular decisions?

For candidates without prior elected office
14) What mistakes were made in the last administration and what would you have done differently?

1) Do you regularly attend chat turns? If no, will you do so when elected? If not, why?

Yes.

2) What are your qualifications for the position?

I am a current cabinet member (Trade), and I have successfully played several turn chat games.

3) What are your overall goals for Phoenatica? How will you use your position to further those goals?

My goals are to assist the culture department in their Cultural Assault.

4) Which parts of the Democracy forum do you read? All of it? Cabinet threads? Citizen groups?

All threads, and as much as I can as time allots.

5) Do you vote in the polls? If not, why?

yes.

6) If elected to a cabinet position will you vote in the Cabinet Polls? If not, why?

yes.

7) If you are the highest Chain of Command link present at the appointed turn chat hour are you willing to take responsibility for running the game during that session?

Yes.

8) Do you feel that the primary role of a cabinet member is to operate within the boundaries of the constitution? Or do you feel that the constitution is a document open to your interpretation?

Yes, since the government should be bound by its' laws as the people are. However, they are free to make changes, and exceptions may occur in times of an emergency.

9) Term 2 saw the unexpected retirement (or attempted retirement) of several elected officials. Do you see any reason why you could not serve your full term in office if elected?

Real Life. It's an unavoidable thing, but if something comes up, we can work around it.

10) What method of victory do you advocate for Phoenatica?

Culture or Diplomatic. Being that some nations are against us, we can persuade our neighbors to deal with them...

11) Briefly describe how your election would advance that victory condition.

I will see to it that our relations are improved, and we build more centers of culture.

For current officials running again
12) What were the high points of your administration? What did you do that would make the citizens vote for you again?

As the Trade Leader, I increased our cash flow tremendously, and during a turn chat where I was playing the game, I added another 5-10 GPT while improving our road systems.

13) In your past term did you have to act against your impulses to support popular (poll) decisions? When? Did you ever follow your impulses despite contrary popular decisions?

Our policies were pretty much inline with popular opinions. No real conflicts came about.

Everyone vote for me!!(Chieftess will still win through.... not enough people left to vote!, but I still might get 15-23 or something like that!!)

This is weird I'm getting exicited because I'm losing

1) Do you regularly attend chat turns? If no, will you do so when elected? If not, why?

Yes

2) What are your qualifications for the position?

Science Deputy(If that counts)

3) What are your overall goals for Phoenatica? How will you use your position to further those goals?

My goals are to increase science research and to aquire resources for are country to use.

4) Which parts of the Democracy forum do you read? All of it? Cabinet threads? Citizen groups?

As much as I can!(which is most of it)

5) Do you vote in the polls? If not, why?

Yes.

If elected to a cabinet position will you vote in the Cabinet Polls? If not, why?

Yes

7) If you are the highest Chain of Command link present at the appointed turn chat hour are you willing to take responsibility for running the game during that session?

Yes if I can, but my computer tends to decide those things

8) Do you feel that the primary role of a cabinet member is to operate within the boundaries of the constitution? Or do you feel that the constitution is a document open to your interpretation?

Yes

9) Term 2 saw the unexpected retirement (or attempted retirement) of several elected officials. Do you see any reason why you could not serve your full term in office if elected?

No altleast not right now.

10) What method of victory do you advocate for Phoenatica?

SpaceShip


11) Briefly describe how your election would advance that victory condition.

I will try my best to get as many resources as possible thus we need a lower lux rate and we can put more money into science(This was easier to explain in the science thread)

14) What mistakes were made in the last administration and what would you have done differently?

None!