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Informing the Inns of Court and all Gunnishmen since 1665.
BOWERMAN, MacLEISH CLOSE DEAL TO RE-SEAT LIBERAL ABSTENTIONISTS
Leader Agrees to Reopen The Ayr Post, Vows Return to "Business As Usual"
WINDHAVEN. Leader Bowerman (MT-Oa/West Isles) quickly closed a deal with Douglas MacLeish (MT-Dalmyre) to bring the five Liberal MTs boycotting the Thing back into the legislature. The Leader offered Mr. MacLeish a one-time offer to reopen The Ayr Post, denying that he had authority to overrule the heresy procedures against controversial Liberal thingwoman Cathy Birmingham (MT-Ayr).Informing the Inns of Court and all Gunnishmen since 1665.
BOWERMAN, MacLEISH CLOSE DEAL TO RE-SEAT LIBERAL ABSTENTIONISTS
Leader Agrees to Reopen The Ayr Post, Vows Return to "Business As Usual"
Political observers said the deal fits with Mr. Bowerman's reputation as a pragmatic and irenic statesman, widely respected by lawmakers of all parties and factions. "Billy Bowerman certainly lacks the swaggering posture of Leader Blackthorn," said Dr. Ralph Rhyderch, professor of political science at the Marian University, "nor does he have the combative style or siege-mentality of other Integrity politicians of his generation."
Criticism of the deal was quickly muted in both Liberal and Integrity hardliner circles after Queen Julian released a statement praising the return of a "spirit of coöperation" and "mature statesmanship" to the Thing after months of deadlock.
The Leader gave a brief set of remarks blaming the "opacity of the law," including the constitutional Book of Gunni, for recent legislative deadlock and partisan maneuvering. "Gunnish jurists are rabbinical hermeneuts," Mr. Bowerman said, "scouring over ancient documents and producing very different readings. Modern societies need clarity and consistency in statutory interpretation." He appointed a legal advisory committee of six attorneys that includes three MTs: the enquêteur, Padraig B. Smith, the justiciar, Philippe Demai, and queen's counsel Dionysius G. MacHugh (MT-Highlands), former MTs Quint C. Muir and Geoffrey mA. Kennedy, as well as his wife, Mora MacMorgan Bowerman. The committee will produce summary reports of the laws as they apply to various contested domains: press freedoms, the rights and privileges of the Church, emergency executive powers, the separation of powers between 'King and Thing,' and other issues.
Before the first meeting of the committee, Mr. Bowerman announced a sit-down meeting with Stephen K. Lynn, editor of The Ayr Post, Joel C. MacPhail, MT and editor of The Advocate, and Coemgein Gallagher, the censor to discuss parameters for media printed for dissemination in the Kingdom of Gunnland.