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I think you're buying your drugs from the wrong people if you keep getting killed and robbed. I don't really think it's a good idea to turn this post into the veto of the marijuana legislation, it was done for good reasons and nobody inside the senate really objects to it. There's so much more we could discuss and moving forward we, in the senate, realise the kind of things we need to get clarified prior to submitting for debate, for me that closes the issue. I'd rather talk about other concerns and issues 🙂

I think it's more likely that it was a one-off case as it just wasn't the right time to legalise it due to the state of the drug economy rather than the staff team enforcing it's will over political RP, I wouldn't expect to see a veto on much other legislation.

An American Affair.

Hello everyone! 'Tis the season once again, election season is amongst us - six months ago we ran a city council election, which, while it had it's flaws, brought political roleplay to GTAW with a bang, and now the time has come again for we, the people, to have their say once again in the State Senate Election, which will elect ten State Senators! Could it be you? What's the system? This election is going to work a little differently to the last for multiple reasons, learning on mistakes and things that we realised we could do better after the last election, mainly, we are no longer going to elect via districts (although they will still exist!), but via a system commonly known as the Party List system. The party list system is a form of proportional representation which allocates seats proportionally to the amount of votes a political party gets, for example, if there are three seats, and the Democrats get 200 votes, and the Republicans 100, the seats are divided 2-1. Independents still exist under this system and are elected the same way. Parties choose prior to the election the ranking of their candidates, so that, using our example again, the top two people on the Democratic ticket, and the top person on the Republican ticket will be elected. Why the change? Proportional Representation is being brought in to replace district first-past-the-post to, well, make the system more proportional to the voting base of the server, meaning that no votes are wasted. An issue discovered during the last election was that some districts voted incredibly moreso than others, despite having equal populations, this meant that some candidates were winning with two hundred votes, and some with twenty. If you want to play around with how the party list system gives seats, there's an online tool (the same as we'll be using) here. Voting will take place via the UCP rather than IG due to technical difficulties discovered during the last election, this will streamline the process for elections and ensure that candidates, and voters, can enjoy the roleplay surrounding the election more rather than worry about their ability to vote or get voters to the polls. Though don't fret, we'll still have plenty of IG activities on election day! How do I run? As we wish to replicate the two-party system of America, and the party-list systems favouring of political parties, we heavily recommend you join and run with a political party. Parties will register you with their candidate list when submitted for Faction Management approval. Whether you're a hard-line, gunslinging Republican or a moderate 'small-government' one, or the other side of a universal-healthcare dreaming Democrat or one who favours state regulation, our political parties are designed to be big-tent parties that will suit any range of the political spectrum and would love to have you on-board regardless of where your character stands politically. TO JOIN AND RUN FOR THE DEMOCRATS - CLICK HERE. TO JOIN AND RUN FOR THE REPUBLICANS - CLICK HERE. To consider running for an independent, contact @Doosty via forum PM with your interest, independent slots are limited. Election dates: 7 March - Candidate Registration Deadline 26 March - Voting Opens 28 March - Voting Closes, Results Announced.

Gabriela Morales "One Way Or Another" “You can call me Gabby.” After replacing the popular outgoing state senator, Gabriela Morales stood proudly on the sun-soaked streets of Los Santos. It wasn’t the high life or worldwide praise and renown that got her into politics - nor was it, really, about the ‘public good’ and ‘need’ of the state she was elected to serve. When she pondered it, she doesn’t really know why she’s doing it at all - sure, she had a natural knack for politics, rivalling a electoral record similar to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (albeit, for class president) but really, why was she doing this? I suppose not everything needs an answer - why are postmen, postmen, why are horribly corrupt businessmen, horribly corrupt businessmen? Ultimately I guess you can pine it down simply to ‘just one of those things’. Born to a nurse and an engineer, Gabriela never really had it tough, in her childhood, her and her family were always known to be ‘getting-by’, Biennial vacations to Las Venturas, Salt Lake City, Vice, Disneyworld, sure, but her mom drove a crappy Sedan and her dad took the bicycle - for his health, apparently. Politically, her and her family were always proud, card-carrying Democrats, while they leaned more on the moderate side, Gabriela always had bigger visions of grandeur and progressivism. Of course, back in the late nineties, the most progressive you’re going to get is Al Gore. What really inspired Gabriela was the rise to fame of politicians like Bernie Sanders in his ‘16 run and the election of politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Rashida Tlaib. Progressive, forward-thinking, European-left politicians taking places of more moderate, right-wing Democrats. Urged to become part of the democratic revolution, Gabriela began working more and more within the Los Santos Democratic Party. While she considered the city-level party to be simply full of dinosaurs and poor press management, it was, well, a start. One thing after another, when the city party held a contest after the surprise retirement of the current state senator, Gabriele rallied the troops and stormed to the ballots, capturing the hearts of the youth of the Democratic party - the very youth she had once been a part of, the very youth she knew were actively annoyed. “It’s not the young folks that vote, Gabby.” “Don’t waste your time moving left, the world is moving right.” With the election of Donald Trump, she believed the party believed people were moving right - in her view, it was the reverse. Opposites attract, right? Feisty, with little time for ‘decorum’ or formalities, Gabriela storms in with a social media-heavy presence, and, heart by heart, intends to capture the rest of the state, and ultimately drag the party, or at least within the state, to the left, with the aim, and hope, of dragging San Andreas kicking and screaming with her into progressivism.

Your best port of call is certainly with newer players and people that just want to roleplay being mailmen. It's not the kind of venture you go into to make money but as long as you're paying okay it should be fine, and then there's government and LFM grants to help you out too.

You're doing great, what a turnaround, keep it up 🙂

I'd agree with the idea, knowing the lists myself, that corruption is low. I think the SD is more well-known for it as they have clearly defined tiers and I'd say the split in SD is probably 50-50 between tier 0 and tier 1 (minor corruption). I agree with what Bospy said a few posts back about "corrupt for the sake of being corrupt", you need to consider how much power an LEO has on a scene, they can enhance your character or destroy weeks of development in a simple action so, if you're role-playing a corrupt deputy or police officer and you're just being a dick for the sake of being one and going out of your way to impact a scene negatively, I wouldn't say that's a good thing for the server to have. Rather than enhancing your character or enhancing the scene, the more likely scenario is that you're just coming off as a bit of a jerk. With this in mind, any big changes to the corruption systems of either faction needs to be carefully considered to avoid running into the issue above. Legal Faction Management has been fairly hands-off with how the LEO factions handle corruption, although changes have been certainly discussed recently actually. In order for us to facilitate this, any changes to the corruption permissions will have to satisfy both of the following; would this change enhance the faction(s) effected? Would these changes positively impact illegal roleplay? A difficult one for sure but a good question to bring up, I'll be back if there's any updates on this! Although again I find myself agreeing with Bospy, right now there's a little too much corruption at the minor level, and very little in the middle-top levels.

Moved to Groups until faction approval.

Approved. L&A.

Oh yeah, it's not even on the same level as here, RP standards were like DarkRP servers, but for a 13 year old me it was a fun start!

MTARP, same name!

Legal Faction Management does intend to continue making these 'niche' forms of roleplay more accessible, GTAW already boasts the most active legal scene seen in any other server but there are still strides to be made in terms of bureaucracy and accessibility. But, the unsolvable question is, can you really simplify law? If you're in politics and you're legislating, we want that to be accessible so that the only thing you need is the basics of each party, a willingness to learn and good roleplay basics, but when it gets into the thick of writing law, or in the judiciary, applying law, things get tricky. Recently we've seen a lawyer go after legal factions for loopholes, overlooked common law, and general simplification of the law. Which has posed problems both IC and OOC. This strengthens the barriers to entry for this roleplay as this stuff is cracked down on and over-analysed for future mistakes or issues, leading us to the situation we're in today. It's the taking advantage that has been seen so many times on the community that has led to such huge increases in bureaucracy for all legal factions, and, while I agree it needs to be more accessible, it needs to be a community effort, not an LFM enforced one. Ultimately? If we want legal/law/political roleplay to become more accessible and open to people, we'll equally need players to be unwilling to take advantage of simplified or more-open laws, procedures or features.

Good idea.

Made me visibly angry already, great work.

Ultimately when I ran Saints News many moons ago my faction made money from page hits. To be quite honest, nobody cares about a murder outside the gas station in Davis - happens all the time and the only thing you're doing is putting your reporters in harm's way. You know what people cared about? Drama - cheap, populist drama, my most read article from the Saints News days was about a guy who managed nightclubs driving around speeding and serving underaged alcohol. When I tried to write about gangs I got very view page hits and my sources were always limited. The one thing I'm thankful for and the only reason that Saints News got actual news at all was because of the cooperation of @Big_Smokes, the Chief of Police at the time, I couldn't have ran the faction without him and his outright perseverance to providing fantastic sources. If news companies aren't getting crime stories, don't seek the criminals, seek out the police.

Medicare for all when?? @SunFun

Gz!

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