Yes, this is an isolated case...and I will perhaps be demonized for speaking on this matter, and speaking in support of this...but my friends, I must reach out to you. Our job is make the Republic a better government than our predecessors. Our job is to improve the bureaucracy, and streamline it. Our job is to make this galaxy a better place. Our job is to be the galactic government. I am shocked that Senator Oswaldt has come up with a bill that makes sense to me, but it does. I praise him for this. And to point those that may argue against this, we have already begun a position in other sectors similar to this, called Governor-General. This is an effort to streamline this trend, and the sector governance system all together. However, I believe some implied intent, and some resemblence to previous positions, require the following ammendment.

The Forte Ammendment
The newly established position of Regional Governor, shall be democratically elected by majority vote of the citizens of the governed sector.

Should this ammendment be incorporated, I vote In Favor of this legislation.

I am frankly appauled by this motion, which sets out to abolish a democratically elected parliament for each Sector, de-centralising power and preventing tyranny, and replacing it with an unelected (or elected) Moff.

Mr Forte is an un-patriotic being who has set out to again display this. Governor Oswaldt and Senator Forte are proposing no less than the re-introduction of Moffs. When these powerful Moffs are put in to governorship, what stops the Senate's "temporary" suspension and then the re-introduction of the Empire?

This is a not-so-subtle attempt to restore an Imperial Institution, and one that must not be allowed to stand. I am appauled it was proposed, and frankly more appauled that a Senator has voted for it. I vote against this travesty of a motion.

I very strongly oppose this bill. To do so would be to turn back the clocks and re-make the problems of the Empire, not to rectify them, or the Problems of the Old Republic. The Sector Assemblies have served as an important check and balance and have taken a huge weight off the center pertaining to legislating.

I would cite an important example of this being the Corellian Crisis we recently had, where the Sector Assembly effectively provided a check to the rise of the attempted dictator of the Corellian Sector, Orion Karath, and has kept power out of the hands of one world.

Gentlemen, while a larger government may be useful at times, putting one single being (vunerable to being misled etc) in power of a Sector would be a step back 20 years in time, and would be putting back something we have all fought to stop. I would not have another Tarkin.

The centralising role of this Institution is no longer fully nessesary, thanks to the sector assemblies. No more does the New Republic need to be a monolith. The war is over gentlemen. While I envision the New Republic being important as a night-watchman, the Sector Assemblies can now legislate, the Sector Assemblies can now run individual sectors. The New Republic must not be expanding its role to become a New Empire, instead we must become a hand on the tiller, regulating affairs, from the distant perspective. We must trust to local people, and democratically elected assemblies, to run things. Instead of a cabal of un-accountable Sector Moffs ruling with impunity.

Naturally, I vote in favour of Democracy, and I vote against this motion.

Tremaine Fowlkes,
Senator of Mowgle

The Forte Ammendment
The newly established position of Regional Governor, shall be democratically elected by majority vote of the citizens of the governed sector.

There are very few who can truely doubt my patriotism and devotion to the Republic. I vote merely out of wish of making the Republic more efficient and a better galactic government. I again emphasize that I am for this Regional Governor position should it be democratically elected.

I am getting away from the point here. I do not think it is necessary to have Regional Governors representing Sectors. Senator Oswaldt may very well be proposing that the Republic turn away from Democracy and move toward totalitarian democracy. We already have Senators and Representatives representing planets. I believe Regional Governors would have more power over a Senator. We do not want to allow that to happen. If we allows this to pass, then this could be where the path to Dictatorship begins. We do not need another Galactic Empire. Once again, I must vote against the proposal and the amendment made by Senator Forte.

Should the Sector Assemblies be dissolved, planets would have broad latitude to legislate for themselves, determine their own laws, etc. The Regional Governor would have, primarily, two responsibilities; 1.) to strike down planetary laws that conflict with the Senate's laws and decrees, and 2.) to strike down planetary laws that conflict with the interests of the Sector, as concerns law and order, commercial harmony, and so on. The Regional Governor may also appoint as many subordinates as he requires to accomplish this. Senators would continue to function as they do now, proposing measures to benefit their particular worlds or Sectors, which the Regional Governors would be required to enforce.

It is a streamlined system, far more efficient than the Sector Assemblies. Nowhere does the word "Moff" appear in it. The Regional Governor would be a public administrator, not a dictator. However, I don't think the Regional Governor should be elected because he should be concerned only with the will of the Senate and not be influenced by politics. He should be able to do what is necessary for the good of his Sector, not simply what is necessary to be elected.