kipper, "not outside TB" referring to no campaigning
Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
At least last year, TB avoided having votes during the lame duck period, just before new TB members were seated. However, I don't remember any hot issues where having new TB members vote rather than those who were retiring from TB would seem to have given us a different result.
point is TB after the election - not everyone retires, and there are multiple candidates.