View Topic

Title
This shall be cited as the Chanku Censure Act.

Act
1. This Storting recognizes the unique accomplishments and achievements of Chanku. However,

2. This Storting finds itself shocked and disappointed by the actions and behavior of Chanku over the past week.

3. This Storting does not want to send a message to the citizenry that such behavior will be tolerated, especially from someone as accomplished as Chanku.

4. Therefore, this Storting hereby officially censures Chanku for her actions as outlined in Section 6 and 7.

5. This Storting hopes Chanku will take this as a signal to change her behavior, to apologize to the community for her actions and that this sends a message to the community as a whole that abusive and toxic behavior will not be tolerated by any citizen of Wintreath, especially from a member of government.

Evidence

6. The first incident on Monday, 14th of October: Chanku engaged in conduct grossly unbecoming a member of the government by using vulgar language to belittle and bully another member of the government in public.

7. The second incident on Friday, 18 October: Chanku did express unacceptably offensive statements against the community at large and did also engage in conduct grossly unbecoming by using belittling language to refer to a member of government and an initiative they had previously introduced.

Statement

8. This Storting does hereby censure Chanku for the above mentioned incidents. We express our profound disappointment and disapproval for her behavior. We also express that we will not tolerate bullying, willfully toxic behavior or any other form of abuse from so prominent a citizen, a member of government and a citizen previously honoured by the Storting. We also warn Chanku that if such behavior continues the Storting will not tolerate it and will take further action as needed.

Peers (myself, @Wintermoot, @Aragonn, @Cinciri and @trader) may now vote Aye, Nay, or may Abstain from voting.

I think I'm going to have to vote Abstain, as I don't know enough about the situation and I am unable to be impartial in this matter.

Aye

I will remind peers (@Wintermoot, @Aragonn, and @Cinciri) that there are less than 48 hours left on this vote.

Aye

Obviously, Chanku's comments were regretful and inappropriate coming from a member of the senior leadership of this community, and I agree that it's entirely within the purview of the Storting to express dissatisfaction with the actions of a member of government, which is why I have voted aye.

However, I think it should be recognized that Chanku's anger in these incidents stems from her care for the institution of the Underhusen, something that she has helped shape throughout the history of the region...as well as perhaps hurt at proposals that she may feel threatens that institution or directly mocks her care of of the institution. That doesn't excuse or condone what she said, but it does make her actions more understandable, and understanding is something that we should strive for when there are disputes. These incidents were made in anger, in the heat of the moment, during a period of tension and volatility for Chanku...and while they are definitely inappropriate and worthy of censure, I want to clarify that I do not believe this resolution should be taken to be a judgement of Chanku's overall character. I don't believe text of this resolution attempts to do that, but it would be easy for someone to infer a judgement based on the fact that this is a censure resolution, so I wanted to specifically include that clarification into the record.

With two ayes for and three abstentions (two automatic), I declare this has PASSED the Overhusen and Chanku is officially censured by the Storting.