Character Information Sheet
NS Nation Name: Tallahassee News Station
Character Name: Norris Vilseck
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 65
Character Role: Governor of Pennsylvania
Appearance:
Character State of Origin: Hawaii
Character Affiliation: Democrat
Main Strengths: Politically astute, loyal core of supporters, nationwide popularity on the far left.
Main Weaknesses: Stubborn, extremely unpopular in-state.
Short Bio:
Vilseck was born in 1953 to a ornery sailor and a overeager girl. The sailor left, and soon so did the girl dropping him off at an orphanage. He ended up being adopted by a native Hawaiian couple of moderate means and lived a fairly easy middle-class life on the beaches. He attended the University of Hawaii and was a star football player for them. His draft number was called though, unlucky lottery, and he dodged the draft, fleeing all the way to Pennsylvania.
In Pennsylvania he was a schoolteacher, marrying five times, never quite getting it to work out. He got tenure and worked his way up the power chain as a Union man, graduating from a union representative to become an advocate for them in Washington.
In the 2000s after tying the knot with wife number six, he decided to try his hand at politics. After winning election in 2004 as a Representative, he served three terms before gunning for Governor.
He was elected in 2010 by a close margin and immediately set to work on fixing Pennsylvania. He was a determined fighter, constantly bashing his head against the Republican legislature. Their fights became legendary, and they went-back and forth, with their constantly blocking his bills, and his vetoing theirs, eventually culminating in a standoff in 2014 that had the state go without a budget for nearly a year, triggering a partial government shutdown before public opinion rose up so vehemently that the Republicans caved, and Vilseck’s budget was passed.
The government shutdown angered the voters greatly and Vilseck was re-elected on a wave of opposition to the Republican opposition that finally gave him a workable legislative branch. He kicked himself into high gear and finally had the chance to start passing legislation which soon had the populace less happy, as he tightened government industry controls, pushed through a tax increase to aid his almost across-the-board spending increases, and waged a one-man war against fracking and the fossil fuel industry.
Soon the legislature started tiring of his proposals, and rejected a budget plan spiking income taxes over twenty percent by an almost unanimous vote. The stubborn Governor kept fighting, however, taking his dubbing by political analysis groups as the most liberal sitting Governor in the United States in stride as he continued to fight, until Republicans and moderate Democrats joined to override his veto, and pass their own budget.
He continued his fiscal efforts while also attempting to make sweeping changes to the state education system and block attempts at expanding dirty energy as his approval rating plummeted, but as he developed a strong base among more fringe Democrats in Pennsylvania and to some extent nationwide, becoming a darling of the hard left.
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