Washington (US Political RP; 2016 ; Special Events ; OPEN!)

[Prolieum]

"The question was on education, however, we are nearly out of time. Any candidate may take the question, and we will then conclude."

[Federal States of Xathuecia]

"The question was on education, however, we are nearly out of time. Any candidate may take the question, and we will then conclude."

"Of course. I believe we need to keep the state out of the education system. They should set the bar, not the whole school year. Districts and communities should have control over this. And funding for them should not be a competitive game. It should be there to equalize the chances of every school to succeed. And must work together to do this. If we can achieve this, then we will be well off. Secondly, the growing fields of bio-tech, chemistry, and aerospace are key to our future, not coal as the Sheriff says. And so I will promote STEM jobs and initiates in schools as well as scholarship. Let's train the future of West Virginia!

[Sanabel]

"We must refocus towards training our students to enter the workforce, not necessarily go to college. We need our students to succeed and excel wherever they are best, this means shifting our spending more towards vocational and agroscience training. There are more paths than the college path, and far cheaper ones at that. Our students need to be prepared for real life and a job, especially since not all of our folks can afford college. There are also a lot more trade jobs out there than we like to think."

[Tallahassee News Station]

FOX NEWS, THE MELLEY FILE


"Well this week has been a wild one. We've had false rape allegations, a terrorist attack and a heroic capture, and in the Senate and on Twitter a major fight. I'm Keagan Melley, and welcome to our show, where tonight we are going to be talking about the bill that just passed the Senate after a lot of flame on both sides, the so-called "SNIP." Tonight we have two people with us, first is the junior Senator of New Mexico, Senator María Antonieta Arroyo Villanueva de Peña, and also a regular here, as you'll notice, who created the bill and Senator Alexander Maxwell, the senior Senator from Maryland who was one of its strongest opponents. Thank you both for coming here."

"María, you've really gone to task on the Democrats for their opposition. Why?"

[Tectonix]

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Washington D.C.
Fox News HQ
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Thursday
June 29
2016

Well I'm against it because, and this is the thing that needs to be very clear for everyone is that all of this opposition and this party-line vote is all nothing but a stunt, a huge political stunt. All the opposition to its, that's why, right there, because they didn't want to see a Republican bill passing, because they're worried that women will start to see the truth about who is on their side, and because they want to keep up that sham. You want to know how to know its a giant political stunt? It's really really easy actually. Guess how many amendments were added to this bill. Do you know how many were proposed? Zero. The Democrats all talked about how bad the bill was and all, but did they try to fix it, not even once! They said that it needed changes, but did they propose any changes? Not even once! Do you know what they did? The first things they said, go and look at CSPAN if you don't believe me, is that they wanted to go and write another bill. Do you think that was because they wanted to actually solve the problem? Heck no! They hadn't done a thing about it until this came up. If they wanted to solve the problem, then they would have tried for amendments, or done it earlier, no, they just wanted a bill with a Democrat's name on it, so they could go and celebrate it for political purposes. Do you know actually the only thing they actually tried to do on the floor? They tried to cloture it. That means they wanted to censor it, or censor me, mostly. That's how much they cared. All of this opposition has been one giant political stunt, and one giant middle finger to the people of this country, they look at Congress and they don't trust it, because of all this crap that a party will pull, because their main concern isn't helping the people, or running the country, and they just proved it right here. They care about their party, not the people.

[Tallahassee News Station]

"Do you agree with that assessment Senator Maxwell?"

[Tectonix]

Senator Maxwell chuckles softly.

"Thank you, Keagan, and thank you for having me on. To answer you question no, not at all. Ms. Villanueva de Peña claims that the Democratic opposition to her bill was a 'stunt,' which isn't all the case. Democratic Senators, including myself, tried incredibly hard to extricate some form of cohesive information from 'SNIP' and see if perhaps we could work together with my colleague from New Mexico. All we got was a fanned partisan divide in the chamber, thanks in part to Ms. Villanueva de Peña. I'll have you know that as of this moment, Senator Gianna Carrollton and other Democratic officials are constructing a far more comprehensive and impactful anti-rape bill, so my colleague's statement about who is in women's side is blatantly false. She says how we didn't try to fix it; could we be blamed? Even if we proposed an amendment, it would be struck down like every other attempt of bipartisanship with the New Mexico senator, who said such wonderful phrases as 'Because your party uses fake rape victims as political props!,' '...can hammer the words through your thick skulls...,' and 'I worry for the children, Senator Carrollton, the young girls listening to the Senator from Maryland choose to defend the moral standing of rapists over them,' all without provocation from we Democrats, evidence or even decorum. Also, yes, an amendment was proposed by Hawaiian Senator Green, so again, her point that the bill wasn't attempted to be changed is false.

"If Democrats didn't care about the people, why would myself and Senator Florrick be working hard to introduce comprehensive, bipartisan prison reform? If we didn't care, why would we have fought against those on the other side of the aisle, including Ms. Villanueva de Peña, for LGBTQ equality? And if we didn't care, why would we have fought against a barbaric bill with little text and much guesswork on the part of the New Mexico senator; a bill that throws all people whom committed against ranging from miscommunication between partners to violent rape into one category, where they can be stripped of their entire, and pardon me for the use of this word, sexual lifestyle and at the mercy of a myriad of side effects from nausea to cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis?

"Ms. Villanueva de Peña may argue that it is the judge's final decision on whether to administer chemical castration, though this is entirely guesswork on her part. The bill states that it 'allows for the use of chemical castration on convicted rapists in all federal facilities,' and 'exempts statutory rapists from this punishment.' That's literally it. The entire bill, in two sentences. No definition of judge oversight, the specific chemicals used in the castrative procedure, approval of medical doctors or really anything else.

I truly have a lot of respect for Ms. Villanueva de Peña. I think she is a brilliant young woman, who, like most of us on Capitol Hill, is genuinely trying to better the lives of Americans. However, her shell of a bill is simply not the way to do it, and my clear and articulated opposition to it shouldn't be discarded as a 'stunt.' And just so you know, Ms. Villanueva de Peña, I have no issue with your intentions, just the way you are trying to execute them."

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Washington D.C.
Fox News HQ
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Thursday
June 29
2016

Is that how you want to try to excuse yourself, Senator? You're going to say that you didn't try to add any amendments because they were sure to fail? That's bull and you know it. I called, on the floor, for cooperation, and none of you did a single thing but try to censor the debate. You didn't even try a single amendment, because you didn't want the credit for the bill going to a Republican. It's pathetic the depths you'll try to sink to to cover over your own partisanship.

I mean, look at this. You went through all the trouble to get some notecards and try to memorize every single thing that was said to try to push your own agenda, when the facts are clear-not one amendment was proposed, and the only thing you tried to do was censor it. Senator Green never proposed an amendment, that's an outright lie. Funny that you can try to quote every little word I said, but you can't get that right. You're talking about the same Senator who thought that a discussion about rape was the right time to make a crude joke about women's private parts, by the way. Didn't bat an eyelash then.

So you have a problem with the wording of the bill, Senator Maxwell? Then try amending it. Try adding on to the language that you thought wasn't enough. Try to tweak things or improve things, and make it better. If you actually wanted something that worked, that's what you would have done, but you didn't. Not one amendment, not one try for improvement, because it's just what I said-this was about politics and party rather than people for you.

[Tallahassee News Station]

The Senator raises a fair point, Mr. Maxwell. If you did really care about this issue, why didn't you ever try to propose an amendment?

[Tectonix]

"Saying 'why didn't you stop me!?' is simply not a valid excuse, Madam Senator, and you as a public servant should know this. I stuck to the debate process, unlike you who made a mockery of it with wild accusations of Senators being rapists and having the 'privilege to rape.' Also, I didn't propose an amendment since all the things I wanted to add to it were already being put into the bill that Senator Carrollton is working on, so I saw it as more efficient to stick with that. The SNIP bill is so against my political beliefs that it would require a total overhaul to fit my ways to address the rape epidemic, and I stuck to reasonability and didn't pursue that impossible route. The cloture motion was not under my control, and I would've not have supported it.

"Unlike you, Madam Senator, I'll actually take responsibility for my words: I was incorrect in saying that Senator Green had proposed an amendment. Although, to be fair, he had proposed, instead of SNIP, a death penalty and the abolition of mandatory minimum sentencing for rape be enacted. Not a proper point of amendment, but still a desire for change.

"You make fun of Senator Green's joke, which I admit was out-of-place, but you forget that you, again, accused a sitting governor of having the 'privilege to rape' and that he was a 'rapist,' without evidence. You've accused me of playing politics, while you flaunt around a false narrative of a Democratic conspiracy against women, again, without evidence. I would've preferred you not engage in such abhorrent political mudslinging, which I'm sure you'll accuse me of in your next statement, but it appears not to be."

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Washington D.C.
Fox News HQ
2127
Thursday
June 29
2016

Oh come off it, Maxwell. You'll drag up any and every little thing to try to get away from the cold, hard, facts, and now that's gone down to outright lies and slander. I didn't expect anything better, but I guess I kinda hoped for it. You call this mudslinging? Mudslinging is the lies you just hurled. I'll stick to the cold, hard, facts. You say you care, and you want to get things done-but you didn't do anything before this bill came up, you didn't do a single thing to try to improve the bill, only shut it down, and now you are lying in front of an audience of millions. You can try to dodge, and weasel out, but I'm calling you out on your bull, right here and now.

[Tallahassee News Station]

Senator Maxwell, those are some extremely serious claims. Do you have any proof that Ms. Villanueva de Pena said these things?

[Tectonix]

"Seems you may be lacking in the 'cold, hard facts' department, Madam Senator. Care to make anymore tasteless remarks about me?"

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Washington D.C.
Fox News HQ
2131
Thursday
June 29
2016

María laughs out loud.

"Oh, that's precious, Senator. Not only are you going to ignore that the Governor called me a Saudi Theocrat, but you don't even have anything to back up your nonsensical lies! You said I called Governor Danders a "rapist" and said he had the "privilige to rape"-and you don't just try to prove that with a Twitter account, but it doesn't even say what you say it does! You come here in front of millions of Americans, and try to slander me, with something that I didn't even say, and you can't even back it up. Really, Alex that's pathetic even for a Democrat. The only person falsely calling people rapists are you, with Cal Reed, something you didn't lift a finger in opposition to!"

[Tectonix]

Maxwell just shrugs.

"Really what do you want me to tell you, Madam Senator? Those are your words from your account, and I see nothing but weaseling from you right now. You should know better than to call a sitting governor a 'Saudi Theocrat' and that he has a 'right to rape,' regardless of his previous statements. Privilege and right are synonyms, just so you know.

"The only one whom can't back their claims is you, whom looks right at your own statements and declares them not only invalid, but that I am pathetic for even DARING to bring forth perfectly valid quotes. I don't care how frivolous you perceive Twitter to be; it is a platform that you soberly declared a sitting governor of all the things I just mentioned. Not sure where you got that I falsely called someone a rapist, and as for Cal Reed, I wasn't in the Senate at that time. Can't oppose what I am not present for*."

*OOC: I genuinely wasn't even in the game at that point in time. Still not even 2 weeks into Washington.

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Washington D.C.
Fox News HQ
2131
Thursday
June 29
2016

First, Senator, that's not my Twitter account. You couldn't even get my name right when we were in the Senate, now this, and now such terrible ignorance, that it's pathetic. Not only are you trying to cover up your outright slander that I called Governor Danders a rapist, but, guess what, Maxy boy-he was the one that called me a Saudi theocrat! You can try to dig up every little thing, but it's lie after lie-you lied about Senator Green, you slander me, you lie about what the Democrats did, and now you conveniently ignore anything that proves you dead wrong. I didn't here one cross word about Governor Danders calling ME a theocrat, but it's just like I say-it's all about party. He's a Democrat, he gets away with it, Your party falsely accuses a good man of being a rapist, and you're fine with it, because he's a Republican-and you'll make lies to say I said the same. Someone's a Democrat you give them a free pass for everything I'm a Republican, you'll lie your regressive rear off to try to tear me down-and guess what? I'm calling you out on it.

[Tallahassee News Station]

OK, both of you, lets calm down a little bit. We'll let the facts speak for themselves. Now, Senator Maxwell, a question for you. You refused to work with Republicans on the SNIP bill, just what is in your new bill that makes it so superior, and when should we expect it?

[Tectonix]

"Look María, I understand that you hate Democrats, I really do. I also understand that seeing the horrible thing you said to the governor, you need some way to cover your bull. Now explain to me this, seeing how far your stooping to score political points by referring to me as 'Maxy-boy': If that isn't your Twitter, then why didn't you release a statement denouncing those supposedly false statements? Why didn't you stop this renegade bearing your name that repeatedly attacked a sitting governor of 'defending rapists,' seeing as apparently you feel so strongly for women's rights. You say I 'conveniently ignore anything that proves [me] dead wrong,' which is just petty since you don't provide anything. I never stated I was 'okay' with the governor's words, also.

"If I lie so much, Madam Senator, then why is it that you cannot wrap your 'thick skull,' as you referred to me and my fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill, around the fact that no matter how many times you cry 'lie,' you can't back it up? All you're doing is negating my perfectly valid reasonings with words like 'slander,' which is just laughable, and just being obstructionist. Like calling people out? Think you should be your number-one priority."

OOC: This was a response to the original post. I'll make a new post that responds to your query.

[Tallahassee News Station]

[Maxwell is cut off after "I also understand that]

All right, it seems that the Senator from Maryland isn't actually caring about getting back to a civil discussion or answering the question we gave him. We'll give him a minute to calm himself down.

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Washington D.C.
Fox News HQ
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Thursday
June 29
2016

I probably microaggressed him, didn't I? María smirks

[Tectonix]

Maxwell makes a comically-large show of breathing before continuing.

"Okay then Meagan, although I wouldn't define this new bill as 'superior,' it is certainly better than, well, two sentences. From my knowledge of speaking to the Senators involved in the ongoing process, it will involve increased funding towards a 'consent education' curriculum in American schools, so as children are taught at an early age of what consent means and don't be accused of rape due to miscommunication between partners in the future. Now obviously, as I'm sure the New Mexico Senator will point out, that doesn't include all of those whom violate women. Quick sidenote here to those watching at home: the discussion is not whether convicted rapists that do not fall into the previous category (as that is slightly more debatable) are scum, but what to do about that fact. This consent education curriculum also includes abstinence education and other forms of preventive education to decrease sexual activity, which I'm sure will rouse some Republicans out there. Referring back to my point that it doesn't include all rapists, I am aware that it is becoming increasingly likely that Senator Eberhardt's criminal code bill will be in some way incorporated into the bill; his criminal code bill involves harsher mandatory minimum sentencing and more stringent laws as deterrents. Also, the bill includes increased federal funding for proven-to-work inmate rehabilitation programs and mental health therapy, which, unlike SNIP which combats the medium in which the rapist's internal, illegal expression is demonstrated, combats the actual sources of the expression and diffuses it to make the once violent offender a functioning member of society.

"As I've established, the bill is not just a far-right cleaver like SNIP, nor a far-left daisy if it were just a rehab bill. Instead, we've bipartisanly worked to create a bill that fights the action (sentencing) strongly, a Republican standpoint, and the source (mental therapy and rehab), a Democratic standpoint."

[Tallahassee News Station]

"Come now Senator Maxwell. SNIP is a far more moderate bill than what they have in California. Is California really "far right?" I don't think this kind of language really helps anything do you?

[Tectonix]

"California's chemical castration law is for repeat offenders, which although I am not for it, I still see its reasoning due to the event that spurred it; SNIP is not at all a 'moderate' bill. It, in one sentence, affects the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in American prisons and offender registries. Although its language may be soft, especially on details, the ramifications on people's lives is far from moderate.

"In one clean stroke, it allows for the variably-regulated usage of a life-altering procedure, which can be used on anyone from violent rapists and repeat offenders to, again, miscommunication between partners.

"As a question to Ms. Villanueva de Peña, I ask why did you exclude statutory rapists from SNIP? Seems uncharacteristic from such a feminist advocate like you."

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Washington D.C.
Fox News HQ
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Thursday
June 29
2016

María Antonieta snorts with derision.

Senator Eberhardt is pushing that bill, with harsher mandatory minimums and all that? Yeah, right. I'll bet you a hundred bucks thats another falsehood right now. Heck I'd take out a loan to make a bigger bet on that, I'm so sure that's hooey!

And more and more. Somehow SNIP is far-right now? Another lie. California's not just for repeat offenders, it's mandatory for repeat offenders, and they have it for first-timers too! And now all your talk about regulation-right now SNIP operates under the same safeguards as life in prison. Alex's little complaints here would make you think that we give you life in prison for jaywalking, or petty theft. Guess what? We're not. And now we're back to the life-altering falsehood. It's a three-month shot not some permanent thing like you try to make it sound like. I never thought we could find another politician who lies as much as Senator Carrollton but boy are you giving her a run for her money. I mean I may have well have made a far-right bill since apparently you'll throw that mud at anything. It's an extremely moderate bill, but I don't expect honesty.

But I guess we're talking about your bill now and so we'll put your falsehoods to the side, since you asked me a question. So why exclude statutory rapists? Because getting someone's age wrong isn't the same as violently and aggressively tormenting a woman who is not consenting. Boy was that hard!