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Bill: The people have spoken on national sport bill.
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Unified Lodamun Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2418
Description[?]:
| After the elections, we feel that we are completley within our right to bring this back up as the URP shot this down, and the people shot him down. We at the Unified Lodamun Party cannot figure any other reason for the election results aside from this. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The official national sport.
Old value:: (American) Football
Current: Lodamese Football and Lodamese Stickball
Proposed: Football (soccer)
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:02:42, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Free Lodamun | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | It is the more international of sports. This is all I can muster beyond a rousing "who cares." I do prefer this over american football. |
| Date | 05:43:19, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Lodamun Distributionist Party | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | It IS the world's sport. |
| Date | 07:18:52, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | 'It IS the world's sport.' I'm surprised we can find something to agree on, LDP. Favorite club? |
| Date | 07:52:18, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Lodamun Distributionist Party | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | Hmm...OOC? I really just began to enjoy the game about a year ago - I'm an American, we come late to the party. I haven't yet made any real connections with any European teams. The Columbus Crew from the MLS is the closest thing I have to a hometown club, but they've been awful for 5 or 6 years. You? |
| Date | 08:05:49, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | I don't like any clubs in my country, but I am a fan of the European leagues. I've several favorite clubs, categorized by country, but I have currently 3 most favorites: - Liverpool F.C. (England) - Leeds United, still loyal even though it is currently shit (England) - A.S. Roma (Italy) For national teams, I favor my country, though we are shit, and Argentina. |
| Date | 08:33:08, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Lodamun Distributionist Party | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | Oh, yeah...nationally I'm a big fan of the ol' US of A, of course. What IS your country, by the way? |
| Date | 08:36:56, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | Indonesia |
| Date | 08:38:40, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Lodamun Distributionist Party | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | Ah...yeah, I haven't seen them make a big splash on the international football scene recently. Interesting. |
| Date | 12:07:08, June 23, 2007 CET | From | United Republics Party | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | I have offered to change the sport to just football. I ask why we must make it football (soccer)? |
| Date | 12:07:25, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Radical Nationalist Party | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | Yes 1000000%. OOC: Liverpool FC rock! |
| Date | 22:46:43, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Free Lodamun | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | I'll vote for this, but as much as i hate to say it, I agree with urp. That's a compromise everyone can support. Let's see how this vote works out and if it fails, I'll support just "football." Or as a homage to the Koreans, "Starcraft" |
| Date | 22:47:13, June 23, 2007 CET | From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | I don't like watching specific teams per se, I like specific styles of play, and therefore teams that employ those styles. Obviously, I love the U.S., but they are not direct enough. We hold possession for 55 percent of matches against the best in the world, seriously, however we lose 2-0 in those very same matches because we aren't direct enough. Argentina and Italy are fairly direct, and we are extremely annoyed by German style football. Its just not pretty, much more like American football than soccer. They try to play so that the bigger, faster team wins, not the team that plays the best. If I were forced to pick a team though, I'd be forced to pick Buron Munich (sp). The reason has nothing to do with German, and everything to do with being in Munich on Champtions day a few years back, and having a giant load of BM fans surround me singing and chanting. The leader stepped forward and asked a friend I if we were for or against them. We asked what would happen if we were against them. He said that their were 60 of them, and two of us, and they had lots of face paint, and silly string. Brian and I looked at each ohter, and immediately stated that we were forever Byron Munich fans. |
| Date | 23:04:36, June 23, 2007 CET | From | United Republics Party | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | URP would like to thank FL for its support. |
| Date | 11:34:11, June 24, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the The people have spoken on national sport bill. |
| Message | 'OOC: Liverpool FC rock!' OOC: You'll Never Walk Alone |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 210 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 318 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 71 |
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