Washington (CLOSED) US Political RP 2016; OOC Pt. II

[Imperial Esplanade]

Ugg, gotta write speeches

You think that you have it bad?

I am going have carpal tunnel syndrome for weeks. I would say to expect short speeches, but I am essentially obligated to make long ones.

I did offer to help with the speech load after all.

Submitting an app of a character sometime today.

[Tallahassee News Station]

You think that you have it bad?

I am going have carpal tunnel syndrome for weeks. I would say to expect short speeches, but I am essentially obligated to make long ones.

I did offer to help with the speech load after all.

Submitting an app of a character sometime today.

Were you going to propose that amendment? If not I'll call for a vote.

[Tectonix]

So, I'm guessing the DNC will start sometime in the afternoon? Still have a big chunk of Kiyoko's speech to write, and I'm pretty sure that not everyone else has finished their speeches, so I think that would be best.

[Sanabel]

So, I'm guessing the DNC will start sometime in the afternoon? Still have a big chunk of Kiyoko's speech to write, and I'm pretty sure that not everyone else has finished their speeches, so I think that would be best.

Probably, since most of us have work/class/etc.

[Acumenian Empire]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: The Acumenian Empire
Character Name: Tom Johnson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 40
Character Role: (Senator, Representative etc) Representative of Missouri, 2nd Congressional District.
Appearance: 6'1" Red hair, glasses
Character State of Origin: Missouri
Character Affiliation (Democrat, Republican or Non-Aligned): Republican

Main Strengths: Impeccable public speaker, cabable debater, knowledge of technology, popular with youth, very active, business background, good foreign relations knowledge from international deals. He has a commanding presence when he is where he works best, taking the floor of a major speech or debate. Powerful orator, combining facts with passion. Seen as a knowledgeable person.

Main Weaknesses: Has enemies, bad with short speeches, bad at talking without debating, seen as snobby, bad at working in group settings. He always thinks that he is in the right, even if he does compromise. Naive, and an idealist in many cases, he has no political experience or expertise. His simultaneously traditional and unorthodox policies are great at making lots of people disagree with him at once. Business background is easily made a target, by potential mudslingers - during his election attempt, many calls were made on his ethicality in business, and conflict of interests.

Short Bio: Tom grew up in St Louis, Mo. He attended the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology for undergrad, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate, before founding a technology corporation, with multiple subsidiaries accomplishing his visions for the world - or at least, that's what he thinks. The only subsidiary of any significant success is a ferry program for immigrantion across the Atlantic, which also trains the immigrants in work skills and ethic during the trip. Viewing the world around him grow progressively worse, he decided to make a stand in politics. He supports lower taxes, less government, wants a large military, wants private individuals to have a larger part in space, but also aims for a revamped space program, and wishes for a large restructuring of the education system

Policies: Smaller government (i.e. cut programs, lay off employees, the like), lower taxes, flat tax rate, no raise in minimum wage, lowered corporate tax, less subsidies, more military, less governmental loans for college, marijuana remaining illegal, gay marriage regulated by states, now judicial supremacy, and the requested-more-information-on education platform; the name of the game here is experimentation. The most immediate effect of that goal is the removal of federal curriculum in favor of granting the power to the states and districts. Federally maintained standardized tests would remain as-is for the moment, until a better system would replace it, for the purpose of showing states which system works best for each unique state. Beyond that and the fact that a schooling system of some sort is required, nothing else is certain. If a particular school wanted to abolish the different classes and let students learn what they want how they wanted, for example, they could even do that. The purpose with this platform is to systematically un-systemize, humanize, and diversify American education, under state jurisdiction.

Other Info: The education part of his platform is the most popular among youth and the most controversial among older generations. This is due to the unorthodoxy of it. Many teenagers, for example, idealists rearing for change in any shape in every area, convinced both in the inherent evilness of previous generations and the infallibility of their own, look to change for the sake of it, while previous generations, believing to be fact both that newer generations are inherently naive, immoral, and lazy, as well as that theirs is infallible, believe that changing the methods they grew up with and or enacted would always end in disaster and the collapse of society, oppose the change of the current policies in place.

Do Not Remove: 84721

[Imperial Esplanade]

I did offer to help with the speech load after all.

Submitting an app of a character sometime today.

Were you going to propose that amendment? If not I'll call for a vote.

Meh. Now that I think about it, the legislation as-is prohibiting the slaughter of horses by private actors just about has the same exact effect, rendering the amendment as a whole unnecessary, to be honest.

Since I'm on my phone right now, and will probably be so for the rest of the day, I say go ahead and call for the vote. Don't want to hold things up longer than necessary - especially over a seemingly redundant amendment.

[Tallahassee News Station]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: The Acumenian Empire
Character Name: Tom Johnson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 40
Character Role: (Senator, Representative etc) Representative of Missouri
Appearance: 6'1" Red hair, glasses
Character State of Origin: Missouri
Character Affiliation (Democrat, Republican or Non-Aligned): Republican
Main Strengths: Impeccable public speaker, cabable debater, knowledge of technology, popular with youth, very active, business background, good foreign relations knowledge from international deals. He has a commanding presence when he is where he works best, taking the floor of a major speech or debate. Powerful orator, combining facts with passion. Seen as a knowledgeable person.

Main Weaknesses: Has enemies, bad with short speeches, bad at talking without debating, seen as snobby, bad at working in group settings. He always thinks that he is in the right, even if he does compromise. Naive, and an idealist in many cases, he has no political experience or expertise. His simultaneously traditional and unorthodox policies are great at making lots of people disagree with him at once. Business background is easily made a target

Short Bio: Tom grew up in St Louis, Mo. He attended the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology for undergrad, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate, before founding a technology corporation, with multiple subsidiaries accomplishing his visions for the world - or at least, that's what he thinks. The only subsidiary of any significant success is a ferry program for immigrantion across the Atlantic, which also trains the immigrants in work skills and ethic during the trip. Viewing the world around him grow progressively worse, he decided to make a stand in politics. He supports lower taxes, less government, wants a large military, wants private individuals to have a larger part in space, but also aims for a revamped space program, and wishes for a large restructuring of the education system

Other Info: The education part of his platform is the most popular among youth and the most controversial among older generations.

Do Not Remove: 84721

You are going to want to put what district he 's from.

[Tectonix]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Tectonix
Character Name: Jefferson "Jeff" Maximilian Beauregard III
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 41
Character Role: Senator of Alabama
Appearance:
Character State of Origin: Alabama
Character Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Wide support in Alabama, well-connected, friendly personality
Main Weaknesses: Ill-tempered, unwilling to compromise, ferocious Tea Party advocate, alleged connections to the KKK

Short Bio:

Jefferson M. Beauregard III was born on May 2nd, 1975, to a white farm-owning family in Birmingham, Alabama. The Beauregard family was not wealthy by any interpretation of the word, but were fortunate enough to be able to provide Jefferson with a proper education. Jefferson left school aged 16, in 1991. He returned home to help his family working on their farm, and spent much of his spare time volunteering in political rallies.

In 1998 he settled in Mobile. He continued taking part in political rallies, including assisting in organizing phonebanks and grassroots fundraising for local candidates, all Republican. In 2003, Jefferson met his wife, and by 2005 they were married. Their first son, Charles, was born on August 12th, 2008. Reginald, their second son, was born on September 18th, 2010.

Deciding to run for office, Jefferson became a city councilman for the Mobile City Council, and was re-elected twice before he was elected Senator is 2014, running on a platform of sweeping government cuts, scaled-back healthcare and opposition to any and all Democratic policies.

Other Info:

Do Not Remove: 84721

[Tallahassee News Station]

Oh, yay, another racist southern Republican.

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Oh, yay, another racist southern Republican.

Williams 2.0.

[Tallahassee News Station]

Oh, yay, another racist southern Republican.

Williams 2.0.

Really tired of it.

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Williams 2.0.

Really tired of it.

Williams was a novel idea when he was new.

[Tectonix]

Oh, yay, another racist southern Republican.

Thought it would be an interesting route, seeing how I already have two staunch Democrats.

[Tallahassee News Station]

Oh, yay, another racist southern Republican.

Thought it would be an interesting route, seeing how I already have two staunch Democrats.

Then why not go with a big business-type Republican or something. Everyone has been making southern stereotypes.

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Thought it would be an interesting route, seeing how I already have two staunch Democrats.

Then why not go with a big business-type Republican or something. Everyone has been making southern stereotypes.

Williams was the first, and he made it cool to make the stereotypical southerner.

[Tectonix]

Thought it would be an interesting route, seeing how I already have two staunch Democrats.

Then why not go with a big business-type Republican or something. Everyone has been making southern stereotypes.

I'll do that perhaps when his character arc is complete.

[Imperial Esplanade]

Then why not go with a big business-type Republican or something. Everyone has been making southern stereotypes.

Williams was the first, and he made it cool to make the stereotypical southerner.

I'm going to make a true southern gentleman as a sign of protest to all of you for this trend.

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Williams was the first, and he made it cool to make the stereotypical southerner.

I'm going to make a true southern gentleman as a sign of protest to all of you for this trend.

Kiser was the one who made it cool to have characters dumb as bricks.

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Williams was the first, and he made it cool to make the stereotypical southerner.

I'm going to make a true southern gentleman as a sign of protest to all of you for this trend.

Williams is not meant to be a southern gentleman, he is basically the radical right in Mississippi taking over the party.

[Argentarino]

Oh, yay, another racist southern Republican.

I mean...a certain Senator from Alabama *cough* Jeff Sessions *cough* is pretty racist, so it isn't that much of a departure from reality...

[Tallahassee News Station]

Oh, yay, another racist southern Republican.

I mean...a certain Senator from Alabama *cough* Jeff Sessions *cough* is pretty racist, so it isn't that much of a departure from reality...

Everyone who is trying to make a southerner is making racist caricatures. Bellefontaine is the one exception.

We have plenty of normal-ish establishment-y Democrats, but whenever anyone makes a southern Repub its a crazy. It's not like people are making socialist stereotypes all over (Danders is the only one and even he's an exception)

Even Sessions doesn't have KKK connections. And Williams is just ridiculous

[Tectonix]

Oh, yay, another racist southern Republican.

I mean...a certain Senator from Alabama *cough* Jeff Sessions *cough* is pretty racist, so it isn't that much of a departure from reality...

Hey...don't spoil where I got the idea from. Also, that's Attorney-General-nominee Sessions, so...yeah.

[Argentarino]

I mean...a certain Senator from Alabama *cough* Jeff Sessions *cough* is pretty racist, so it isn't that much of a departure from reality...

Hey...don't spoil where I got the idea from. Also, that's Attorney-General-nominee Sessions, so...yeah.

Don't remind me.

[Tectonix]

Hey...don't spoil where I got the idea from. Also, that's Attorney-General-nominee Sessions, so...yeah.

Don't remind me.

*groans* Yeah, no one wants to.

[Prolieum]

Oh, yay, another racist southern Republican.

I mean...a certain Senator from Alabama *cough* Jeff Sessions *cough* is pretty racist, so it isn't that much of a departure from reality...

Sessions personally sought, and got, the only execution of a KKK member for a lynching in the 20th century, and forced a seven-million dollar lawsuit down their throats.

He is not a saint, and I am not a fan of his, but that is a flawed comparison.