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Nomination of Roman Lekpin for Chancellor
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| Senator_Cynum | Date: Thursday, 17 April 14, 10:55 PM | Message # 11 |
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| Senator.
To be clear, genuinely, in this Senate... You are proposing your policies as an independent Chancellor un-related to Lorrd will be to...
Policy 1
You propose to Push a trade route from your home world through two sectors in which each world has a population average of less than one million. You're planning to push this through an area of isolated space notoriously difficult to navigate and replete with dangerous asteroid fields and largely inhabited only by piratical groups, smugglers and slavers who use the region precisely for its isolation and difficulty in navigating. Any such route would require so many dozens of course changes (and thus dozens of stop points, each a perfect ambush site for the local pirates and slavers) and so (according to an initial estimate from a provisional examination of the Star charts we imagine this route would be 4-6 times slower than simply using the current trade lanes to reach any location, in addition to being slower it'd be an open invitation to pirates. The "Lorrdian Switchback Trail" as our Astrogators suggest it be nicknamed will cost billions to explore, register and then hundreds of millions yearly to secure.
It's the fiscal opinion of the Trade Federation (and we believe the Hyperlanes Bureau will back us up on this one) from it's initial analysis that such a route would be astronomical in cost and could literally never even pay off the costs of it's formation due to the slow nature of the route it is unlikely anyone would pick it as a route, and that if you wished to put sufficient comprehensive defenses on the route to secure it, this would be ten times worse.
A very fine drawing with a marker pen on a map though.
So to clarify; the number 1 policy is to give Lorrd a trade route that will make it the laughingstock of the Galaxy's navigators, but certainly not a matter for laughter for anyone sailing it's dangerous gauntlet.
Policy 2
Your health policy for your "Neutral" stint as Chancellor, your health policy would be to distribute this unproven drug widely, an unlicensed pharmaceutical that lacks comperehensive studies but happens to be expensive and distributed by Lorrdians for high profits... And which has been described by more than one world as "Just another Spice" for its varying and indeed addictive and narcotic effects on some species..
So to clarify Senator Lekpin's health policy is to flood the market with an unknown drug that has many potential dangers and from which the profits go to Lorrd.
On the Blind and Mindless push of the Lorrdian agenda
Quote Roman_Lekpin (  ) I have lobbied for Lorrdian interests in the past as their senator.
I think the fact that you are lobbying for their bizarre policies now instead of actually presenting a credible political roadmap to a better Galaxy is very telling. It shows you cannot truly serve the Republic it seems, because when asked for policies you presented only two farces that happen to roll cash into Lorrdian hands...
No, I can see your independence is beyond reproach.
You're humiliating yourself Senator Lekpin and it disturbs me you can't see that.
Senator Prentiss Cynum
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Chair of the Security Committee
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| Draken_Turot | Date: Thursday, 17 April 14, 11:00 PM | Message # 12 |
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| WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Senator Lekpin!!!!!!!!!!!! Have you gone mad?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apologizing to these... war-mongers?!!!!!!!!!!!!! How could you think like that?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You sure as heck will NOT have my vote in this election!!!!!! A strong leader does not simply make 'apologies' for what has happened!!!!! The Republic had to do what it needed to to stop the Mandalorians from conquering the galaxy!!!!! Allowing yourself to even CONSIDER making an apology to the Mandalorians is an outrage!!!! Had his people not been stopped... we'd all be speaking the disgusting Mandalorian language and SEVERAL members of this Senate would either not be in existance!!!! (Because let's face it, the Mandalorians simply get bored and start slaughtering innocents!!!!!!), OR... be in slavery!!!! And I for one will NOT support this type of action. You would be slapping the spirits of all the long-dead PROUD, service members that enlisted to fight the Mandalorian conquest of the galaxy!!!!! Without THEIR sacrifice, we would ALL be living in a different life-style!!!! HOW DARE YOU SENATOR!!!!!
Senator of Lantillies
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| Aine_Ciaran | Date: Friday, 18 April 14, 3:59 AM | Message # 13 |
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| Surely this constant assault on our ears is excessive. Senator Turot is.....passionate about his cause, certainly, as most of us are, but we do not require screaming at candidates in order to get our point across....
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| Senator_Finbar | Date: Saturday, 19 April 14, 6:31 PM | Message # 14 |
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| Senator Lekpin, Chancellor Pryce commuted the sentences of Alyn Stark and other individuals on Lorrd involved in the selling of arms to the slave-holding Senex Sector. He also reduced the penalties for Lorrd Engineering, which sold the arms in question. Would you have done the same if you were Chancellor? Why or why not?
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| Roman_Lekpin | Date: Saturday, 19 April 14, 7:39 PM | Message # 15 |
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| Senator Cynum, good Senator Cynum... I feel sorry for you, truly.
I show you something of a working resume, to demonstrate what I have helped bring together in so many areas, and all you can see it as, is that I am pushing Lorrd's agenda.
I feel badly for you, Senator, that you are so blinded. You've focused solely on facts in regards to Lorrd rather than see the foundations I have spoken of with evidence to back. I daresay many of your facts are incorrect as well.
To begin, the Daranc Run, a heavily traveled hyperspace route between the Corva and Meram Sectors, lies quite close to where the proposed Lorrd-Praadost Trade Route will go. There are large sectors of space already mapped and, despite the dangers, I feel that, in part, to remove criminal elements, combat slavery and to strengthen free trade, not to mention colonization and expansion, this route will do much to bring forth these items across several sectors. Furthermore, it is not a task asking for a Republic handout. Would it be slower for, perhaps, someone in the Dalonbian Sector to ship goods through this proposed route? Quite right you are, Senator Cynum! However, what you seem to have missed in the examination of this route is that, for the sectors it runs through, it grants expedient and direct access to the major Hydian Way.
To clarify your first point, therefore, you are focusing too little on a matter Lorrdian and not seeing that, as Chancellor, I propose more worlds work together to achieve aims and ends, than solely relying on the help of the larger Core Worlds. Certainly, many would wish to have an Alsakan corvette with their ships, or an Alderranian gunship, or even a Tetan cruiser. Realistically, though, these worlds alone cannot be expected to safeguard the galaxy by themselves.
Secondly, I believe that although you only focus on Lorrd's contribution of bota, which, I might add, has never been listed to be distributed at high prices, you miss where I wish to see more Rim worlds outfitted with better medical equipment and funding.
As to the rest, it appears you already wear blinders, Senator Cynum, seeing Lorrd as a villain only wanting to take credits. No further questions will be answered for Senator Cynum, who only wishes to find the negative, rather than the positive and realistic.
Now, Senator Tu'Rot, a strong leader carries a great weight. He must know when to be firm and unflinching, but he must also know when to mend wounds and grant forgiveness. Many, many years ago, the Mandalorians were a different people. Do they still have splinter offshoots that are not recognized as legitimate? Yes. Is their legitimate government, headed by Ambassador Vanden and his cabinet a different sort of people? Quite so. However, Senator Tu'Rot, I feel that this discussion is a waste of time. While you are, as ever, adamant and vocal about the Republic, you fail to see that the Republic is only as strong as its member worlds and its allies.
Senator Finbar, perhaps you ask the most difficult question. A simple one to ask, but not to answer. There was much about the Stark Trial that was in question, from what I understand. Lack of knowledge here, a mistake there. All ending in a terrible mess. Now, would I have commuted the sentence of Lord Alyn Stark? Likely not. All crimes have a punishment. Do I believe that all sentences and charges rendered were accurate? Well, that is not for me to say here, Senator Finbar. I put my trust in the Republic's Supreme Court, whether or not I agree with certain things.
Now, do I believe that a company whose owner made mistakes should be punished? That's a different matter, Senator. A company's workers require the company to make money, so that their families can be fed and their children attend schools. If there were cases of a complicit nature in Lorrd Engineering's internal structure, certainly, I would have advocated that those guilty be punished. Let me try to explain it another way, if you'll bear with me, Senator. A man with a BlasTech pistol murders his family, his neighbor and goes on a rampage before being apprehended. We do not charge BlasTech with a crime, nor fine them and their workers. The focus is on the man himself. Likewise, if a company creates a product and ships it, at the orders of a higher authority whose responsibility it is to prevent issues, such as that which happened, the responsibility lies with higher authority and not on the company itself.
Roman Lekpin
Former Senator, Lorrd (100 BBY-92 BBY)
Chosen of House Garth
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| Senator_Cynum | Date: Sunday, 20 April 14, 4:55 PM | Message # 16 |
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| Again, Senator Lekpin is to provide his full career history... I have no desire to debate him on matters he or his world know little of, so lets set that to one side. However, I have the desire to see if the man's previous achievements and roles suit him to the title of Chancellor. So again I challenge you (the third time I believe) to produce your credentials and history for us? Added (20 April 14, 4:55 PM)
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Quote Roman_Lekpin ( ) No further questions will be answered for Senator Cynum
A tyrant's words if I have ever heard them? Speak as I wish or I will silence you. Would anybody really consider voting this man control over who has the floor when he wishes to strike me of the right to question him during his nomination for Chancellor?
Senator Prentiss Cynum
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Senator for the Trade Federation
Chair of the Trade Commission
Chair of the Security Committee
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| Draken_Turot | Date: Sunday, 20 April 14, 5:39 PM | Message # 17 |
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| A WASTE OF TIME?!!!!!! Senator Lepkin!!!!! Such words are spoken only from the lips of WEAK MEN!!!!!! I see EVERYTHING, Senator Lepkin!!!!!!!! That is why I am very vocal about the Republic!!!!! But for you to display such weak and tarnishing qualities would only bring the REPUBLIC TO HER KNEES IN FRONT OF HER ENEMIES!!!!!!! We do not need weak leadership, we need someone with a backbone!!!!!! And I feel that voting for Senator Lepkin would ONLY strike to weaken the Republic!!!!!! And then with the Republic weak, then we will see what is truly a WASTE OF TIME, when the Mandalorian banner hangs from the Rotunda!!!!!!!!!!
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| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Sunday, 20 April 14, 10:46 PM | Message # 18 |
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| Your position is confusing. You oppose slavery and yet fail to comment on or vote in favour of my act (actually bearing a little more legal force than your own), may I ask if you simply support acts you propose against slavery? Having neglected elsewhere to vote in favour of Senator Kruus' excellent groundwork for my own act.
What if Lorrd were again implicated in another scandal? How could you be expected to be Impartial when you've spent your whole life as Senator simply toadying and following the whims of your world's lords... Can I ask you to name five times you've advocated for the Republic as a whole before today?
And some examples of you passing or pushing legislation to help the Lorrdian people and not the criminal aristocracy who rules over them? I'll be impressed if you can.
Verence Terrawin
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First Lord of the Foreign Office, Alsakan
Director of the Senate Bureau of Intelligence
Chairbeing of the Appropriations Committee
Head of the Republic Stellar Cartography Service.
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| Chancellor_Kruus | Date: Sunday, 20 April 14, 11:17 PM | Message # 19 |
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| Senator Lekpin.
When there was recently a Vote of No Confidence in the Chancellor, you enthusiastically orated in favour of him and his current policies and agenda and to protect him in office. Do you see yourself as his "natural successor" and sharing a good deal of common ground as that speech implied?
I personally didn't vote in favour because I believe in the election cycle and it not being disrupted unless there were more evidence. But your more extensive and personal defense surely is more worthy of explanaton?
Chancellor Luneray Kruus
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| Roman_Lekpin | Date: Tuesday, 22 April 14, 6:29 PM | Message # 20 |
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| There are a lot of questions flying about, so it's completely understandable that I would have missed Senator Cynum's re-request to outline my career history.
However, I don't believe I will be answering any more questions at this time. I have decided to drop out of the running and support Senator Kongming.
I urge all of my supporters to do the same.
Roman Lekpin
Former Senator, Lorrd (100 BBY-92 BBY)
Chosen of House Garth
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