Monday, April 28, 2014

TOC 14

Generally really great work everyone.  Everyone in the room clearly deserved clearly to be there.

Argument flow and comments on top with general comments at bottom.  Please just treat these as if they were non-interactive.

As always, take what you can from these.  If you disagree with anything I wrote, you're probably right.  (But give me a little credit for trying?)

To get them out close to when you get the rest of your ballots, I am publishing without proofreading.  Enjoy the inevitable typos.

Top 8 Round by Round
Morning Hour and PO RFD
Electricity
Chemical Facilities
Treaty-Rama
Patents
Hate Crimes
ESA
DDT
DC
FDA




Saturday, April 5, 2014

Great Midwestern Novice Nats Flow-Ballots: Updated with working links!

Don't be overwhelmed.  Instead of flows by speaker, the arguments are arranged by type.  You made the arguments beside your initials.  At the bottom of the spreadsheet, you'll see ballot-type comments in speaker order left-to-right.

If you think I'm wrong about something, it's probably true.  This is the best I could do.  

Good job, generally, overall.  My biggest complaint was that people didn't prep, even on the easy-to-prep bills like Minimum Wage (a high priority for the Dems) and Tax Reform (a major initiative met with a lukewarm embrace by both parties).  A half-hour per bill would have been enough to get anyone into Supers, I'd bet.