#but cersei did in fact go thru that

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george did not write “if i were a woman id be cersei” and vice versa as correct statements imo. while i do believe that their respective trials that they faced as a result of their gender had grave effects on them as people and shaped them into much of what they are, i still think there are fundamental differences in nature. like this is demonstrated by how differently they acted as little children (treatment of tyrion, murder of melara, etc). i think they have some core distinctions. especially with what they personally desire the most above all else and their differing levels of empathy. this was no doubt influenced by their experiences and societal roles as well but i do still think it is part of their nature too. they have some very interesting and important similarities, but they are by no means the exact same only distinguished by experiences. i think it is always a mix of nature and nurturer, like your experiences can suppress or intensify certain qualities that you have, for better or worse. they have agency. they responded to their trauma in their own way. the twins not being the same person on a fundamental level is meant to be subversive. put in opposite positions i do not think we would have the exact same people just switched. like this feels like it is emphasized in the text to me

#like even when jaime says that line it feels ironic #he says hed make them kill him #but cersei did in fact go thru that #and she did not make them kill her #once again just random twitter thread was put on my feed #dont even disagree w some of it #just believe this part is not very correct #i always wondered if they were opposite genders they might have turned out to be more well adjusted #maybe yes maybe not we cant know for sure it depends on the circumstances #i do think it seems to allign w their core desires more and could end up being less devastating #u can argue how that core desire really developed in cersei to begin with #but still i think she is just an inherently more ambitious person than jaime in this regard #like maybe cers would have a healthier relationship w power if she had more access to it #but then again like both are constructs that could destroy them anyway #there is an inherent violence present in both that could destroy a person #like it did the both of them in canon #so that might happen again but just in different ways #and if we r gonna get into the biology of it (not that it matters its not like asoiaf canon is good at this shhshs) they are fraternal twins #same as regular siblings

[sunny12th]

I think people using Euron teaming up with a woman theory due to Aeron's vision on Twow .But your speculation about him teaming up with the Others got me thinking .What about if that woman is the Other's queen or smth ? Similar with how a former lord commander of the night's watch (the night's king) was with and Other .

Wasn't the Nights King wife a Corpse Bride? That sounds like it'd progress the story towards War with the Others, give us more info about the Others, and fit the Horror Villain themes of Eurons story.

I think Euron could team up with a woman, like the Corpse Bride (he's after a "bride" afterall) but I dont think it'll be Cersei or Dany. I could be wrong about Cersei ofc but I'd be surprised. I'd want him to team up with someone to progress the story towards the War for the Dawn.

At first, I thought he would team up with Cersei to use the inevitable KL burning as a human sacrifice event but I dont like that actually. KL burning needs to be a direct result of Cersei's (and probably JonCon) decisions. This is her city, her fire, her throne and she's gonna burn it down before she let's anyone take it from her ... or something like that lmao. I dont want Euron to have an influence there, and its not needed bc we can clearly see where its all going with Cersei becoming Aerys 2.0, JonCon and the bells, the blacks versus the greens, etc. But if Euron isn't gonna have a part in KL burning then what's the point of him being in Cersei's story? That's the big event, the final showdown (for her) most likely.

I guess maybe he could still use it as a human sacrifice event depending on how the magic works but who the hell knows lol.

There's also Lady Stoneheart to consider, another Corpse Bride. Her future is largely unclear imo except that she's probably going to receive the gift of mercy from Arya. Until Arya shows up, who knows what's gonna happen with her? Euron could promise her death to every single Frey or something like that?

ANYWAYS! Yeah it's still certainly possible he's going to team up with a woman at some point, I just don't think it'll be Dany or Cersei. It's possible Aeron saw a potential future of Dany if she did join forces with Euron but, again, I don't think that's likely to happen. I think Euron will definitely try to reach Dany thru her dreams again (yay more creepy rape dreams for us to read 🤢) but I don't think that's gonna work out for him. In fact, I think Dany will recognize him from her dream and it'll horrify her. She's not even safe in her dreams until he's dead.

My main thing tho is that his team up has to progress the story towards the Others imo and I don't think an alliance with Cersei would do that unless it's to use KL burning as a human sacrifice, and I don't think that added motivation is necessary to build up KL burning. But that's just me and my opinion.

#ty for the ask! #in all honesty i totally forgot aeron saw a woman in his visions #also i wrote this on my phone at 7am so im sorry if it's a mess. i will not be doing research and rereads at 7am tho #also the dany/euron team-up is a dany antis wet dream so im biased against it lol. but also it just doesnt work for me #for a few different reasons. like Why would she? there's other alliances to make that would help her more #what's the benefit to her? what would motivate her to team up with euron? #and i just dont think the team up adds anything to cersei's story. it's not needed there #anon #ask game #mine #euron greyjoy #asoiaf

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✏️💰❤️

❤️ Who is your favorite character to write for and why?

Sansa. Sansasansasansasansansasansasansasansa. I identify very, very strongly with Sansa--being a "good girl", lady-like, finding a lot of dignity in courtesy and politeness, using courtesy as armor, the compulsive empathy, the romanticism, the way she resists difficult situations in these subtle ways. Also, the darker parts of her: the moments of self-hatred, etc. I funnel a lot of personal pain through her and when I write through her eyes, it just feels so good and natural. In contrast, I feel like I'm only now beginning to learn how to write the other characters, especially Tyrion, Bran, and Brienne--all of them elude me constantly.

💰 What’s one trope you wouldn’t write, except for money?

I mean...I'd write any trope for money lol. But honestly--I've never really gotten the coffee shop AU...maybe because I'm not a big fluff reader/writer. Someone recently commented on 'our praise', requesting that I write a Jon Snow harem fic w/ like a bunch of smut tropes like ABO and sex pollen...which felt...off-brand for me lolol. (and like also, please leave a comment or two on the fic before you request porn from an internet stranger pls + ty) And he didn't offer money so he was out of luck on that lol.

✏️What is your fave fic from another writer?

Okay, I have so so so so many. I'll stick to asioaf/GoT. Fair warning, I am not monogamous at all when it comes to reading GoT fic and I have been blessed (cursed) with a high squick tolerance. So, I totally get if some of these pairings are not your cup of tea but there are so many talented creators in so many different ships that I can't not read and marvel at the varied genius, ya know? I know I'm going to forget fics, too, which stresses me out because there's so many that are dear to me.

the fact that i'm obsessed with @attonitos-gloria's work is common knowledge but, for real, every piece she writes is so gorgeously insightful. Seriously, I cannot name all the incredible Sanrion stories and writers in one post so just check out the tag, babe.

I love love love coffeeandoranges: The Cat-king; the beggar boy (Tyrion/Jon Snow) and Shame Would Not Hold Down Your Eyes (Sansa/Wynafryd Manderly) is, to me, the definitive queer!Sansa story. liketreesinnovember is the monarch of Tyrion ships, generally. But Look At the Sun (Tyrion/Oberyn; Tyrion/Cersei; Tyrion/Jaime) floored me. The Threesome in the North (Jon/Sansa/Val) by fairfleming & honeywheeler seems, surface level, like just smut but it is so so so much more than that. All our silence could not excuse by dwellingondreams changed how i wrote catelyn forever.

fun fact: i came to asioaf thru a fanfic my friend sent me and that fanfic was: Facets by expected_abberance (Petyr Baelish/Sansa) which DID make me think Baelish was the hero of GoT (bitofashockformewhenifoundout). seriously i get why people don't vibe/feel safe with petyr/sansa but it's a ship with one of the most consistently talented pool of writers in any ship in any fandom. Ones that haunt me are numb and awry by Drwhob which do this magical thing of making you feel gaslit/manipulated right with Sansa and I'm still trying to figure it out how they did it.

a little explosion of hope, let the rough winds fly, then comes blood all by @charmtion (okay, everything she writes, those are just the first ones on my bookmarks page) have all made me go insane at different points.

Omg this got so long and there's so many here but, ugh, i just cannot get invested in shipping drama when i am so overwhelmed by the sheer amount of talent in this fandom?!?

#i don't know how to be concise #asks

[thefudge]

omg like i loved book!sansa and i loved season 1-4 show!sansa, but i HATED season 6-8 show!sansa. it’s so funny because the writers were clearly trying to make us love sansa and hate daenerys, but it had the opposite effect on me. the show made me re-evaluate my opinion of daenerys, and now she’s my favourite character because they did her so dirty (i mean i think they did sansa dirty too, just in a different way). they literally stripped sansa of everything that made me love her in the (1/2)

first place. and i still can’t believe how her stans ate it up. like they totally decimated sansa’s character and all her stans could say was “MAH QUEEN IN THE NORTH YAS”. which was totally what d&d were intending, to distract from their misogyny with their hollow empowerment of sansa. your comparison to a young Margaret thatcher was spot on. especially how the narrative rewarded sansa for her xenophobia and racism. (2/2)

^^^^^^^^

all of this!

i was a big dany skeptic for most of GOT’s run, but d&d’s shitty writing backfired and made me love her instead, which i never thought would happen. whereas, i was always a big sansa stan, but was completely turned off by her retrograde “make the North great again” policies and general smug attitude. and it’s so telegraphed that they are pitting these women against each other because the fandom also split in half. what a great distraction from the general fucking mess d&d created! and they knew how to shut ppl up because if you’re critical of sansa, the fans go “well, dany burned everyone!!! the children too!!!” and that’s it, you’re not allowed to say anything else, even though the burning of KL was the most poorly handled arc of the entire show. instead of criticizing the handling of both women’s storylines, some sansa fans decided that as long as their fave got a pretty crown it was fair game. so they ignored the fact that d&d’s ultimate message of the show, filtered thru sansa, is that you should close your borders, kick out the immigrants, and make sure you put down the reactionaries and radicals who are fighting (in their flawed way) for a better society because they might go craaazyyyy and destroy that society. this is absolutely classical 19th century European liberal discourse whereby we must make sure we discourage those strikers or union leaders for the good of queen and country! 

and yep, they made sansa unrecognizable. and what also left a bitter taste in my mouth is that she did not even seem to really care about the North either, except for winterfell.  i am really skeptical that she has any concern for the rest of the houses in the North (it’s precisely why the show never bothered to even marginally expand on them). and we know she’s not going to attempt a wildling-integration because they all go back beyond the wall so that sansa can happily reign over two or three houses who are very impressed by her food storage strategies. ultimately, the biggest betrayal of this character is that she ends up as a more decent version of cersei. SIGH. like i mentioned in this mini-essay, westeros, and especially the North under Sansa’s rule, is d&d’s utopia, where they get to throw people of color under the bus, reduce important female characters to robotic mouthpieces and just generally get away with whatever racist and misogynistic thing they can imagine. 

(also im laffing at  “ MAH QUEEN IN THE NORTH YAS” cuz so many fans criticized jon for his moronic declarations to dany which WERE utterly moronic, i don’t disagree there, but hmmm them uncritically clamoring for queen sansa sounds oddly similar lol)

#anti got #got meta #replies

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Takeaways – This is a Football

This post originally appeared on MDL Group's Blog and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList.

One of the things I am committed to this year is capturing my Takeaways from the various events that I attend throughout the year and sharing them. Click here for Previous Takeaways.

“Gentlemen, this is a football” is how the greatest NFL coach that ever lived, Vince Lombardi, started out every season with his team. Rookies and veterans alike would hear the same speech starting with the most fundamental part of the game… “this is a football.” Do you know what Lombardi did after he described the ball? He reaffirmed “I am the coach. You are the players.” He would then take the team out of the locker room and show them the field. He pointed out the out-of-bounds lines and the end zones. He would remind the players that the point of the game is to get the ball across the end zone line. It almost seems absurd! But you can’t argue with the results.

Thursday, July 20th NAIOP Southern Nevada’s breakfast program featured the Nevada Legislative Review: A Discussion of the 2017 Legislative Session. The room was absolutely packed. The moderator was Mitch Fox with the Porter Group. The program sponsor was SR Construction. Thank you Scott Loughridge!! You are the man. And my kids enjoyed the little hammer tchotchke.

The panelists…

Senator Scott Hammond, Co-Minority Whip, Republican Senator Joyce Woodhouse, Co-Majority Whip, Democrat Assemblyman Paul Anderson, Minority Floor Leader, Republican Jon Leleu, Greenberg Traurig, NAIOP’s Government Affairs Representative

First of all, check out those names! There aren’t very many organizations in town that can summon this many, and this caliber of elected officials for a breakfast program. Kudos to NAIOP. On to the Moderator. Fox is a class act. The dude is super versed in legislative affairs. He has a natural presence and presentation airiness about him, similar to an Ambassador to the UN. That’s clearly because he has been in the legislative game for 30 years and is an Emmy-nominated television news reporter. As smooth as Fox was that morning, Assemblyman Anderson stole the show. I say that because every time he addressed the audience he reduced his commentary to plain English. You’ve heard of “legalese”… After this program I am coining a new term… “legislativese”.

Legislativese

Slang; technical jargon used by lawmakers that is often beyond the comprehension of the nonlawmakers.

If you’re a legislative affairs pro like my friend Amber Stidham this program was probably as casual as watercooler chit chat. If you’re an average Joe or Jane when it comes to legislative affairs (which BTW, I am in this category) … this program was largely “legislativese”.

Moderator Fox did his job. In fact, he did a great job. He asked terrific questions and facilitated a probing discussion among the panelists. A lot of it was over my head though. It was over my head in the same way that a random episode of Game of Thrones would be over someone’s head if they weren’t totally current. If you’re a fan you know what I mean. Monday at the office there are a handful of folks, either at the coffee maker in the morning or at the table during lunch, that have this discussion: “Did you watch Game of Thrones last night? OMG – what did you think about the reunion between Arya Stark and Nymeria her direwolf? What the heck was that even about? Why didn’t Nymeria want to go with her to Winterfell? Oh man, don’t you remember, Nymeria moved on when Arya shooed her away in the second episode of season one so she wouldn’t be killed by Cersei for biting Joffrey. And when Arya said, “no, that’s not you”… well that was like what she said to her dad when he told her she would grow up to be a princess and live in a castle and all that.” And next to this group is Johnny from Accounting who has no idea what they’re even talking about!

Like the Game of Thrones example, it seemed like each question to the NAIOP panel required a background from the panelist who was answering. And if you’re not totally up to date on each of the issues and all of the characters then it was over your head. For example, the first question Fox posed was “When you think back to the 2017 Session, what would you say it was known for?” Jon Leleu gave the most elaborate answer. But in order to do that he went back to season one episode two… err I mean he went back to the 2013, and 2015 legislative sessions to give us perspective.

• The 2013 Session was about Economic Development; • The 2015 Session was about Revenue; • The 2017 Session was about Education, Infrastructure

That’s how most of the answers went. And if the panelists didn’t give the background… legislativese. The next bit of exchanges were like a blur. And I even took notes. They got into a discussion of how the media portrayed the session with a lot of dissent vs. the realities that they perceived behind the scenes. So many acronyms got thrown around – ESA – SJR – SB this – SB that – GoT – JK – WTH?! They talked about the UNLV Medical School, property tax caps, and at some point a need to change energy policy.

So, “This is a football” is what came to mind about ¼ of the way through this “discussion”. To be clear, its wasn’t the panelists fault that this program was over my head. It’s my fault. It’s my responsibility to be up to snuff on the legislative process and up to date on the issues. Just like if Johnny from Accounting wants to participate in the Monday Game of Thrones discussion at the office, it’s his responsibility to be current on the show. So the rest of this post is going to be a “This is the Iron Throne a football” type read about the Nevada legislature.

If you were at the NAIOP program with a blank look on your face like me… then spend a few minutes to get up to snuff. There is a really good article at the end that covers the specific legislation from the 2017 session, one heckuva Lombardi quote to check out, and a prediction about Bulletproof coffee.

If you are one of my readers that lives outside of Nevada, you can probably skip most of this. I’ll have something more interesting for you in my next post. So…

•  How many members and what is the structure of the Nevada Legislature?

•  What is a bicameral body, what is biennial, why should I care?

•  Who were the winners and losers of the 2017 Session?

OK – you made it this far. Keep going and I promise you will be more interesting at the next cocktail party when Nevada Legislature trivia comes up! Or even better, you’ll make a better and more informed citizen. 😊 😊 I learned a lot putting this together. It actually felt like I was preparing for a high school exam. Don’t worry this won’t be on any tests. And to make it super-fast to get thru I put everything into bullet points. Before we start… a word from Vince Lombardi!

“After all the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written, and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and after the pomp and fanfare have faded, the enduring thing that is left is the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.”

•  The Nevada Legislature is a bicameral body – meaning it consists of two separate chambers or houses •  The lower house is the Nevada Assembly – with 42 members. If you care currently 25 are male; 17 female; 27 Democrats; 15 Republicans •  The upper house is the Nevada Senate – with 21 members. Currently 13 are male; 8 female; 11 Democrats; 9 Republicans; 1 nonpartisan •  For those of you who don’t do math in your head at this hour – there are 63 total elected members

•  Assemblymen and Assemblywomen are elected for two-year terms with term limits of six terms (up to 12 years) •  Senators are elected for four-year terms with term limits of three terms (up to 12 years) •  The qualifications for election into the Assembly and Senate require a person must be a U. S. Citizen, at least 21 years old, a Nevada resident for 1 year, and to be a qualified voter in the residing district •  To run for Governor by the way, a person must be at least 25 and a citizen of Nevada at least 2 years

•  The Nevada Legislature meets biennially – meaning every other year – and on odd numbered years •  They convene on the first Monday of February following the election and conclude 120 days after •  The 2017 session was the 79th session, it adjourned June 6th at 12:19 AM

•  Phew – negotiating all those bills in 120 days and ending at 12:19 AM… makes me wonder (Bulletproof coffee anyone?) If you haven’t heard about Bulletproof coffee its worth checking out. Pretty soon you will see Bulletproof coffee shops popping up competing with Starbucks. And don’t forget… you heard it heard first.

Now that we have a base of knowledge let’s get into the session. Who won and who lost? What were the issues?

Here is a very well written article that I promised you. It goes into all of that. I say well written because it lays out each issue in an outline with a concise description or background.

Shazam – Now we are all better and more informed citizens!! So let’s ‘do with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.’

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Takeaways – This is a Football

This post originally appeared on MDL Group's Blog and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList.

One of the things I am committed to this year is capturing my Takeaways from the various events that I attend throughout the year and sharing them. Click here for Previous Takeaways.

“Gentlemen, this is a football” is how the greatest NFL coach that ever lived, Vince Lombardi, started out every season with his team. Rookies and veterans alike would hear the same speech starting with the most fundamental part of the game… “this is a football.” Do you know what Lombardi did after he described the ball? He reaffirmed “I am the coach. You are the players.” He would then take the team out of the locker room and show them the field. He pointed out the out-of-bounds lines and the end zones. He would remind the players that the point of the game is to get the ball across the end zone line. It almost seems absurd! But you can’t argue with the results.

Thursday, July 20th NAIOP Southern Nevada’s breakfast program featured the Nevada Legislative Review: A Discussion of the 2017 Legislative Session. The room was absolutely packed. The moderator was Mitch Fox with the Porter Group. The program sponsor was SR Construction. Thank you Scott Loughridge!! You are the man. And my kids enjoyed the little hammer tchotchke.

The panelists…

Senator Scott Hammond, Co-Minority Whip, Republican Senator Joyce Woodhouse, Co-Majority Whip, Democrat Assemblyman Paul Anderson, Minority Floor Leader, Republican Jon Leleu, Greenberg Traurig, NAIOP’s Government Affairs Representative

First of all, check out those names! There aren’t very many organizations in town that can summon this many, and this caliber of elected officials for a breakfast program. Kudos to NAIOP. On to the Moderator. Fox is a class act. The dude is super versed in legislative affairs. He has a natural presence and presentation airiness about him, similar to an Ambassador to the UN. That’s clearly because he has been in the legislative game for 30 years and is an Emmy-nominated television news reporter. As smooth as Fox was that morning, Assemblyman Anderson stole the show. I say that because every time he addressed the audience he reduced his commentary to plain English. You’ve heard of “legalese”… After this program I am coining a new term… “legislativese”.

Legislativese

Slang; technical jargon used by lawmakers that is often beyond the comprehension of the nonlawmakers.

If you’re a legislative affairs pro like my friend Amber Stidham this program was probably as casual as watercooler chit chat. If you’re an average Joe or Jane when it comes to legislative affairs (which BTW, I am in this category) … this program was largely “legislativese”.

Moderator Fox did his job. In fact, he did a great job. He asked terrific questions and facilitated a probing discussion among the panelists. A lot of it was over my head though. It was over my head in the same way that a random episode of Game of Thrones would be over someone’s head if they weren’t totally current. If you’re a fan you know what I mean. Monday at the office there are a handful of folks, either at the coffee maker in the morning or at the table during lunch, that have this discussion: “Did you watch Game of Thrones last night? OMG – what did you think about the reunion between Arya Stark and Nymeria her direwolf? What the heck was that even about? Why didn’t Nymeria want to go with her to Winterfell? Oh man, don’t you remember, Nymeria moved on when Arya shooed her away in the second episode of season one so she wouldn’t be killed by Cersei for biting Joffrey. And when Arya said, “no, that’s not you”… well that was like what she said to her dad when he told her she would grow up to be a princess and live in a castle and all that.” And next to this group is Johnny from Accounting who has no idea what they’re even talking about!

Like the Game of Thrones example, it seemed like each question to the NAIOP panel required a background from the panelist who was answering. And if you’re not totally up to date on each of the issues and all of the characters then it was over your head. For example, the first question Fox posed was “When you think back to the 2017 Session, what would you say it was known for?” Jon Leleu gave the most elaborate answer. But in order to do that he went back to season one episode two… err I mean he went back to the 2013, and 2015 legislative sessions to give us perspective.

• The 2013 Session was about Economic Development; • The 2015 Session was about Revenue; • The 2017 Session was about Education, Infrastructure

That’s how most of the answers went. And if the panelists didn’t give the background… legislativese. The next bit of exchanges were like a blur. And I even took notes. They got into a discussion of how the media portrayed the session with a lot of dissent vs. the realities that they perceived behind the scenes. So many acronyms got thrown around – ESA – SJR – SB this – SB that – GoT – JK – WTH?! They talked about the UNLV Medical School, property tax caps, and at some point a need to change energy policy.

So, “This is a football” is what came to mind about ¼ of the way through this “discussion”. To be clear, its wasn’t the panelists fault that this program was over my head. It’s my fault. It’s my responsibility to be up to snuff on the legislative process and up to date on the issues. Just like if Johnny from Accounting wants to participate in the Monday Game of Thrones discussion at the office, it’s his responsibility to be current on the show. So the rest of this post is going to be a “This is the Iron Throne a football” type read about the Nevada legislature.

If you were at the NAIOP program with a blank look on your face like me… then spend a few minutes to get up to snuff. There is a really good article at the end that covers the specific legislation from the 2017 session, one heckuva Lombardi quote to check out, and a prediction about Bulletproof coffee.

If you are one of my readers that lives outside of Nevada, you can probably skip most of this. I’ll have something more interesting for you in my next post. So…

•  How many members and what is the structure of the Nevada Legislature?

•  What is a bicameral body, what is biennial, why should I care?

•  Who were the winners and losers of the 2017 Session?

OK – you made it this far. Keep going and I promise you will be more interesting at the next cocktail party when Nevada Legislature trivia comes up! Or even better, you’ll make a better and more informed citizen. 😊 😊 I learned a lot putting this together. It actually felt like I was preparing for a high school exam. Don’t worry this won’t be on any tests. And to make it super-fast to get thru I put everything into bullet points. Before we start… a word from Vince Lombardi!

“After all the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written, and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and after the pomp and fanfare have faded, the enduring thing that is left is the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.”

•  The Nevada Legislature is a bicameral body – meaning it consists of two separate chambers or houses •  The lower house is the Nevada Assembly – with 42 members. If you care currently 25 are male; 17 female; 27 Democrats; 15 Republicans •  The upper house is the Nevada Senate – with 21 members. Currently 13 are male; 8 female; 11 Democrats; 9 Republicans; 1 nonpartisan •  For those of you who don’t do math in your head at this hour – there are 63 total elected members

•  Assemblymen and Assemblywomen are elected for two-year terms with term limits of six terms (up to 12 years) •  Senators are elected for four-year terms with term limits of three terms (up to 12 years) •  The qualifications for election into the Assembly and Senate require a person must be a U. S. Citizen, at least 21 years old, a Nevada resident for 1 year, and to be a qualified voter in the residing district •  To run for Governor by the way, a person must be at least 25 and a citizen of Nevada at least 2 years

•  The Nevada Legislature meets biennially – meaning every other year – and on odd numbered years •  They convene on the first Monday of February following the election and conclude 120 days after •  The 2017 session was the 79th session, it adjourned June 6th at 12:19 AM

•  Phew – negotiating all those bills in 120 days and ending at 12:19 AM… makes me wonder (Bulletproof coffee anyone?) If you haven’t heard about Bulletproof coffee its worth checking out. Pretty soon you will see Bulletproof coffee shops popping up competing with Starbucks. And don’t forget… you heard it heard first.

Now that we have a base of knowledge let’s get into the session. Who won and who lost? What were the issues?

Here is a very well written article that I promised you. It goes into all of that. I say well written because it lays out each issue in an outline with a concise description or background.

Shazam – Now we are all better and more informed citizens!! So let’s ‘do with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.’

RSS Feed provided by theBrokerList Blog - Are you on theBrokerList for commercial real estate (cre)? and Takeaways – This is a Football was written by Hayim Mizrachi CCIM, MDL Group.

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Takeaways – This is a Football

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One of the things I am committed to this year is capturing my Takeaways from the various events that I attend throughout the year and sharing them. Click here for Previous Takeaways.

“Gentlemen, this is a football” is how the greatest NFL coach that ever lived, Vince Lombardi, started out every season with his team. Rookies and veterans alike would hear the same speech starting with the most fundamental part of the game… “this is a football.” Do you know what Lombardi did after he described the ball? He reaffirmed “I am the coach. You are the players.” He would then take the team out of the locker room and show them the field. He pointed out the out-of-bounds lines and the end zones. He would remind the players that the point of the game is to get the ball across the end zone line. It almost seems absurd! But you can’t argue with the results.

Thursday, July 20th NAIOP Southern Nevada’s breakfast program featured the Nevada Legislative Review: A Discussion of the 2017 Legislative Session. The room was absolutely packed. The moderator was Mitch Fox with the Porter Group. The program sponsor was SR Construction. Thank you Scott Loughridge!! You are the man. And my kids enjoyed the little hammer tchotchke.

The panelists…

Senator Scott Hammond, Co-Minority Whip, Republican Senator Joyce Woodhouse, Co-Majority Whip, Democrat Assemblyman Paul Anderson, Minority Floor Leader, Republican Jon Leleu, Greenberg Traurig, NAIOP’s Government Affairs Representative

First of all, check out those names! There aren’t very many organizations in town that can summon this many, and this caliber of elected officials for a breakfast program. Kudos to NAIOP. On to the Moderator. Fox is a class act. The dude is super versed in legislative affairs. He has a natural presence and presentation airiness about him, similar to an Ambassador to the UN. That’s clearly because he has been in the legislative game for 30 years and is an Emmy-nominated television news reporter. As smooth as Fox was that morning, Assemblyman Anderson stole the show. I say that because every time he addressed the audience he reduced his commentary to plain English. You’ve heard of “legalese”… After this program I am coining a new term… “legislativese”.

Legislativese

Slang; technical jargon used by lawmakers that is often beyond the comprehension of the nonlawmakers.

If you’re a legislative affairs pro like my friend Amber Stidham this program was probably as casual as watercooler chit chat. If you’re an average Joe or Jane when it comes to legislative affairs (which BTW, I am in this category) … this program was largely “legislativese”.

Moderator Fox did his job. In fact, he did a great job. He asked terrific questions and facilitated a probing discussion among the panelists. A lot of it was over my head though. It was over my head in the same way that a random episode of Game of Thrones would be over someone’s head if they weren’t totally current. If you’re a fan you know what I mean. Monday at the office there are a handful of folks, either at the coffee maker in the morning or at the table during lunch, that have this discussion: “Did you watch Game of Thrones last night? OMG – what did you think about the reunion between Arya Stark and Nymeria her direwolf? What the heck was that even about? Why didn’t Nymeria want to go with her to Winterfell? Oh man, don’t you remember, Nymeria moved on when Arya shooed her away in the second episode of season one so she wouldn’t be killed by Cersei for biting Joffrey. And when Arya said, “no, that’s not you”… well that was like what she said to her dad when he told her she would grow up to be a princess and live in a castle and all that.” And next to this group is Johnny from Accounting who has no idea what they’re even talking about!

Like the Game of Thrones example, it seemed like each question to the NAIOP panel required a background from the panelist who was answering. And if you’re not totally up to date on each of the issues and all of the characters then it was over your head. For example, the first question Fox posed was “When you think back to the 2017 Session, what would you say it was known for?” Jon Leleu gave the most elaborate answer. But in order to do that he went back to season one episode two… err I mean he went back to the 2013, and 2015 legislative sessions to give us perspective.

• The 2013 Session was about Economic Development; • The 2015 Session was about Revenue; • The 2017 Session was about Education, Infrastructure

That’s how most of the answers went. And if the panelists didn’t give the background… legislativese. The next bit of exchanges were like a blur. And I even took notes. They got into a discussion of how the media portrayed the session with a lot of dissent vs. the realities that they perceived behind the scenes. So many acronyms got thrown around – ESA – SJR – SB this – SB that – GoT – JK – WTH?! They talked about the UNLV Medical School, property tax caps, and at some point a need to change energy policy.

So, “This is a football” is what came to mind about ¼ of the way through this “discussion”. To be clear, its wasn’t the panelists fault that this program was over my head. It’s my fault. It’s my responsibility to be up to snuff on the legislative process and up to date on the issues. Just like if Johnny from Accounting wants to participate in the Monday Game of Thrones discussion at the office, it’s his responsibility to be current on the show. So the rest of this post is going to be a “This is the Iron Throne a football” type read about the Nevada legislature.

If you were at the NAIOP program with a blank look on your face like me… then spend a few minutes to get up to snuff. There is a really good article at the end that covers the specific legislation from the 2017 session, one heckuva Lombardi quote to check out, and a prediction about Bulletproof coffee.

If you are one of my readers that lives outside of Nevada, you can probably skip most of this. I’ll have something more interesting for you in my next post. So…

•  How many members and what is the structure of the Nevada Legislature?

•  What is a bicameral body, what is biennial, why should I care?

•  Who were the winners and losers of the 2017 Session?

OK – you made it this far. Keep going and I promise you will be more interesting at the next cocktail party when Nevada Legislature trivia comes up! Or even better, you’ll make a better and more informed citizen. 😊 😊 I learned a lot putting this together. It actually felt like I was preparing for a high school exam. Don’t worry this won’t be on any tests. And to make it super-fast to get thru I put everything into bullet points. Before we start… a word from Vince Lombardi!

“After all the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written, and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and after the pomp and fanfare have faded, the enduring thing that is left is the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.”

•  The Nevada Legislature is a bicameral body – meaning it consists of two separate chambers or houses •  The lower house is the Nevada Assembly – with 42 members. If you care currently 25 are male; 17 female; 27 Democrats; 15 Republicans •  The upper house is the Nevada Senate – with 21 members. Currently 13 are male; 8 female; 11 Democrats; 9 Republicans; 1 nonpartisan •  For those of you who don’t do math in your head at this hour – there are 63 total elected members

•  Assemblymen and Assemblywomen are elected for two-year terms with term limits of six terms (up to 12 years) •  Senators are elected for four-year terms with term limits of three terms (up to 12 years) •  The qualifications for election into the Assembly and Senate require a person must be a U. S. Citizen, at least 21 years old, a Nevada resident for 1 year, and to be a qualified voter in the residing district •  To run for Governor by the way, a person must be at least 25 and a citizen of Nevada at least 2 years

•  The Nevada Legislature meets biennially – meaning every other year – and on odd numbered years •  They convene on the first Monday of February following the election and conclude 120 days after •  The 2017 session was the 79th session, it adjourned June 6th at 12:19 AM

•  Phew – negotiating all those bills in 120 days and ending at 12:19 AM… makes me wonder (Bulletproof coffee anyone?) If you haven’t heard about Bulletproof coffee its worth checking out. Pretty soon you will see Bulletproof coffee shops popping up competing with Starbucks. And don’t forget… you heard it heard first.

Now that we have a base of knowledge let’s get into the session. Who won and who lost? What were the issues?

Here is a very well written article that I promised you. It goes into all of that. I say well written because it lays out each issue in an outline with a concise description or background.

Shazam – Now we are all better and more informed citizens!! So let’s ‘do with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.’

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