Washington 2017 Political RP [CLOSED] OOC Pt. VII

[Uttland]

Hey, welcome and all.

So, basically we've got a major glut of big, tall, strong, young, super-successful firebrands who don't toe the party line, raised in poverty, but super intelligent and effective anyways, to the point that its kind of a meme.

I'd really suggest tuning all of those things down, a lot.

Prolieum reviewed my original draft and he said that I need to extremely tone down the sudden come up. Which I did, he's part of a city council and a former state department officer. How is that super successful... He's a member of the progressive party, so he's right on the party line. And if you look at the weaknesses you'd see he's a bit mental. I've hardly even held a political office.

That doesn't address any of the concerns Tallahassee noted.

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

I'm like the opposite of these young guys. I'm making a Middle aged, raised in wealth, lawyer by career, texan who wants to change things.

[Tallahassee News Station]

Hey, welcome and all.

So, basically we've got a major glut of big, tall, strong, young, super-successful firebrands who don't toe the party line, raised in poverty, but super intelligent and effective anyways, to the point that its kind of a meme.

I'd really suggest tuning all of those things down, a lot.

Prolieum reviewed my original draft and he said that I need to extremely tone down the sudden come up. Which I did, he's part of a city council and a former state department officer. How is that super successful... He's a member of the progressive party, so he's right on the party line. And if you look at the weaknesses you'd see he's a bit mental. I've hardly even held a political office.

"He was raised in impoverished circumstances..."

"Throughout his high school career he overachieved"

"Elected council President all four years..."

"He won best Senate statesman every year and was easily elected youth governor..."

"Youngest members in the city's legislative history..."

"He was unanimously elected chairman of the council..."

"Spoke at the Democratic National Convention...was deployed around the world..."

"Winning in a landslide vote, and was quickly elected council chairman..."

"He's been praised across his community as being a strong leader..."

"6 ft. 6 in., 230 lbs.", appearance of a model....

"Main Strengths: Driven, Flexibility, Tolerant, Critical Thinker, Analytical, Intelligent, Responsible, Leader, Organized, Responsible, True to his Word..."

"Weaknesses": Three synonyms of the same word


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C'mon. He's a huge, handsome, strong man who came from poverty to succeed at everything, be loved by everybody, be elected to every position by landslides that usually take decades to get, he's great at everything, honest, driven, super-smart, responsible, tolerant, lovable, and his one weakness is that he's manipulative, which just means he's even more better at getting stuff done. He's a perfect character. Epitome of the hotshot.

[United Kolumbia]

I'm like the opposite of these young guys. I'm making a Middle aged, raised in wealth, lawyer by career, texan who wants to change things.

I wanted to stick out with my character as well! Coby Clement is a 54 year old ad-man and upstate NY Jew raised in a modestly wealthy family. Main motives being advancements in career and 'new challenges to face' or something like that.

[Tallahassee News Station]

Here, UC, look at this as an example. It's not perfect, but ita a better idea of what to aim for in a character

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Prolieum
Character Name: Melissa Hotchkiss
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 61
Character Height: 5 ft. 1 in.
Character Weight: 94 lbs.
Character Position/Role/Job: U.S. Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau (1989-1993) Representative of New Jersey (2001-2005) Governor of New Jersey (2006-2008) (2014-Present)
Character State of Origin: New Jersey
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Excellent relationship with police and fireman's unions. Moderately skilled factual debater. Generally politically capable. Moderate, nonpartisan voice-Businesslike.
Main Weaknesses: Poor relationship with teachers' unions. Poor record as Governor. Low approval ratings. No appeal to ideologues. Poor emotional debater. Little charisma. Dislikes, and has little skill at, campaign rallies. Unable to speak at long length due to lung injury. Fairly cardboard. Can be prickly-more rude terms can apply as well. Minor controversy over post-marriage name change, poor standing with minorities.

Biography: Melissa Hotchkiss was born to a schoolteacher mother-a Principle, and a stay-at-home father, out of drunkenness rather than parenting. Still, it was not a harsh upbringing-her mother brought in enough to provide for her and her two brothers, and she lived the middle-class life. She was quite popular-and something of a bully-in her elementary school, and took her Queen Bee attitude into high school as well. She was mostly a B-C student, partially out of lack of care, and ended up attending Rutgers University on a partial scholarship after a particularly well-written entry essay and well-done interview.

There, she discovered that her high school status as the untouchable queen of the class didn't much apply in college-a rude awakening. She struggled through her first year, and became somewhat more reclusive, out of bitterness rather than introversion. She graduated with a 3.1 GPA and a degree in Business, and immediately joined the United States Army.

Melissa would serve for eight years of utterly undistinguished service. Working in logistics, she spent her time filing forms and checking boxes for the duration, forward-deployed, but never having a shot fired at her in anger. This was well before the allowance of female soldiers into combat-regardless, she never experienced it even from a distance. She was competent, but little more than that, her only real notable moment being turning in the popular base gambling nights to the commander-something that bought her no approval from her peers. She was honorably discharged with the rank of Captain without note.

Melissa spent the next three years after her discharge trying to get into the world of business. She saw the potential growing in the personal computer boom, but a startup failed badly. She danced about looking for work, and ended up as a marketing consultant for a hand-wipe company. Sick of all of it, she decided to reconnect herself with the military, and ended up founding a moderately successful startup producing stickers for military labeling, cutting in as the lowest bidder.

With her job finally stabilized, working within the military process, she began to take an interest in politics. She started making connections on the lower-levels, trying her hand at a few campaign donations, trying to get "in" on the process. It didn't get her very far-but when her old commanding officer got appointed to a high position in the incoming Shrub administration, she leveraged her one good connection, and succeeding, being tapped as the Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau.

She didn't do a very good job as Ambassador-not that anyone noticed-but it wasn't a disaster. She continued in the role until Pallot's election, then returned to New Jersey, with the intention of making a name for herself, selling off her last shares in the company, which she had basically turned over years prior. She joined the New Jersey Republican Party, ran for State Senate-and lost. She gunned for State Representative in the next cycle, and lost again, having to make do with odd jobs in the party in the interim years. Frustrated, she turned to the other side, and signed on as a campaign manager, successfully having her patron elected to the House. Bolstered by this, she made a bid for the 11th District, and, finally, won.


Melissa toed the party line on abortion, but tacked slightly left on same-sex marriage, advocating for civil unions rather early in the game, an odd tactic that worked surprisingly well at drawing off votes from her opponent, though getting her some criticism in her own party. Her time in the House was unremarkable. As did most Republicans, she voted in favor of both the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, and had enough of a head to listen to the party leadership on how she should vote on just about everything. She passed two bills in her tenure, one creating an unimportant historical landmark in her district-the second, which she would be immensely proud of-being an actual accomplishment, a 2003 law authorizing law enforcement and retired law enforcement to concealed-carry a handgun in any jurisdiction regardless of local laws.

Melissa resigned in 2004, preparing for a larger step forward-a play at Governor. Her yes-woman status in Congress afforded her some decent support from Republican organizations, seeing her as a perfectly pliable candidate-which she was. Her campaign was surprisingly successful. She promised a restoration of law enforcement and safer streets, clean, accountable, government, and civil unions for same-sex couples, a position which continued to catch her opponent on the back foot. Running a nonpartisan campaign, she was enough of a breath of fresh air to pull off a victory with a 1.2% margin, buoyed by an Independent campaign, and set foot into the Governor's Mansion.

Her first term started off quite well. The budget was reviewed carefully, and tactical cuts made. She didn’t eliminate the deficit-she knew there was little chance of that and did not intend to, but did a fairly solid job of reducing it. Civil Service reforms, after a pay-to-play scandal, boosted her credibility, and her landmark Civil Unions bill passed in 2006, preempting the Court decision. The economy was growing steadily, her popularity was high, and it looked like she had a strong future ahead, until 2007.

Near the middle of the year, giving public remarks at a library opening, a would-be assassin fired several shots at Melissa, one cutting through her left lung, collapsing it. The gunman was mentally disturbed, of no political affiliation, but had still done his damage. Rushed to the emergency room, Melissa survived, but, unable to carry out the duties and likely to be months in the hospital, reluctantly resigned as Governor.
Healing in the interim, she saw a Democrat take her place, while she languished. By 2013 she was ready again, and threw her hat in the ring for another term. This election ran far better than the last. Her term was fondly-remembered, she was still quite popular, and she won the election in a landslide. This term, however, was not to mimic the first.

Melissa faced a much more intransigent legislature, and a worse situation. The easy cuts within the budget had already been made those years back-faced with high deficits, cutting back on her predecessors’ spending became necessary-at least to her, if not the legislature. The budget fights became high-profile in the state, a long-running and frustrating fight, ending with health and environmental spending facing the axe, which did little for her popularity. The next years’ budget didn’t get any better-the legislature’s spending wasn’t getting any better, and the hole was still gaping, the Governor finally biting the bullet and passing an across-the-board income tax hike, with, despite her efforts, the raise being elevated on the highest brackets. The budget finally stabilized, but especially after the previous year’s cuts, the taxes did nothing good for her popularity.

The economy remained sluggish, a situation Melissa would invariably blame on her predecessor, though not always with success. The heightened taxes did nothing for the situation, and a legislature fully out of Melissa’s control was a constant hindrance on her own efforts to rectify the situation, with nearly every address of hers containing the term “obstructionism” in her frustration. Economic growth continued to be slow, lagging behind neighboring states, but the Governors slowly managed to make her mark, with indicators getting better bit-by-bit, signs of resurgence-until the recession hit the state, and threw all of that back down the drain.

Problems would continue coming to a head as teachers’ union negotiations, previously going quite well, soured with new firebrand leadership among the educators, taking a no-compromise attitude. The young woman and Melissa were put at odds, and the situation, previously managed, rapidly devolved into a mass strike. The Governor, uncharacteristically losing her cool, called her opponent “That floozy bimbo leading the brainless brigade”-and saw her approval rating drop five points almost overnight.



In her personal life, Melissa's marriage turned ugly. Her husband wanted children, she didn't, but had them forced on her regardless after constant pressure from him. She would eventually have three boys despite her age before drawing a line in the sand-they would sleep on separate beds from that point forward, with menopause eventually saving her. Her martial life was unhappy-she would constantly bicker with her husband, and accused him on infidelity after discovering compromising pictures on her phone-rather than berating him for them, she encouraged him to get out, and move in with her. Eventually, in 2015, he was killed in a multi-car pileup on the Brooklyn Bridge, much to her relief. She made only the minimal public show of mourning, and brought some controversy on herself after legally changing her name and that of her children to Hotchkiss, her maiden name. When pressed, she would simply say that it was "A new chapter in my life." "I can't dwell on the past." and "I'm moving on."


The one area of her Governorship that Hotchkiss was rather proud of was her police work. Working closely with both the officers' unions and various chiefs and sheriffs, she worked to extend police presence, update protocols, and would often put forward increased funding for the force in her various concessions on budgets and other points of policy. After her falling-out with the teachers' unions, Hotckiss managed to pull a gambit redirecting pension priority and funds from teachers to police and fire unions. This hardly helped her popularity-but earned her the loyalty and approval of those unions. Crime began to fall, particularly violent crime, with safety ratings and trust of police on the increase. It was her one significant accomplishment.

That changed in early February, 2016. A young black man, Taylor Morgan, was shot thirteen times by Newark police after refusal to comply after a report had been called in on the man. Later reports indicated the man had a knife-but witnesses indicated that he was walking away from the officer when shot-bullet wounds were found striking the body from both front and back. The officer was eventually released on bail, with a settlement reached with the family in late October, but that did nothing at the moment.

Hotchkiss's public response was to maintain "innocent until proven guilty". and urged the citizenry to remain calm until a trial. Predictably, the words did little, and when protests began to turn into what Hotchkiss called "riots", police and National Guard were sent in to restore order, and did so-aggressively. Eighty-seven officers and Guardsmen were injured, with hundreds of arrests, and two protesters shot in the chaos. While applauded by conservatives, the violence of the crackdown turned public opinion against Hotchkiss. She pressed for the continuation of her reforms via her union and leadership contact, but with anger against the police skyrocketing back upwards she was powerless to stop "depolicing" efforts, and saw crime on the rise once again in her final year-which she came to be blamed for as well.

She was not active in the 2016 Presidential race-she made no endorsement in the primaries, and made a perfunctory one of Reed after his nomination. Aside from taking a few easy political cheap shots at the unpopular Danders, she stayed detached from the general election, some work with Representatives in New Jersey marking her only real involvement. Her approval rating currently hovers about the low forties.

Other Info: Noted for wearing high-spiked heels to seem taller. Has maintained her position on civil unions even after the shift in public opinion, opposing same-sex marriage, and undoing much of the favor her early advocacy granted her.

Do Not Remove: 84721

[Tallahassee News Station]

Hehe. I always love Conti's impotent rage at being outflanked on the left

[Dentali]

Want to make a wealthy industrialist named Andrew Ryan...

[Argentarino]

Hehe. I always love Conti's impotent rage at being outflanked on the left

The problem of being a "pragmatic progressive" is that you're subject to being outflanked on the left a lot

[United Christian]

Prolieum reviewed my original draft and he said that I need to extremely tone down the sudden come up. Which I did, he's part of a city council and a former state department officer. How is that super successful... He's a member of the progressive party, so he's right on the party line. And if you look at the weaknesses you'd see he's a bit mental. I've hardly even held a political office.

"He was raised in impoverished circumstances..."

"Throughout his high school career he overachieved"

"Elected council President all four years..."

"He won best Senate statesman every year and was easily elected youth governor..."

"Youngest members in the city's legislative history..."

"He was unanimously elected chairman of the council..."

"Spoke at the Democratic National Convention...was deployed around the world..."

"Winning in a landslide vote, and was quickly elected council chairman..."

"He's been praised across his community as being a strong leader..."

"6 ft. 6 in., 230 lbs.", appearance of a model....

"Main Strengths: Driven, Flexibility, Tolerant, Critical Thinker, Analytical, Intelligent, Responsible, Leader, Organized, Responsible, True to his Word..."

"Weaknesses": Three synonyms of the same word


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C'mon. He's a huge, handsome, strong man who came from poverty to succeed at everything, be loved by everybody, be elected to every position by landslides that usually take decades to get, he's great at everything, honest, driven, super-smart, responsible, tolerant, lovable, and his one weakness is that he's manipulative, which just means he's even more better at getting stuff done. He's a perfect character. Epitome of the hotshot.

Is that better for you.... and Brooklyn City Council is not hard to win at all since nobody runs for it.

[Tallahassee News Station]

Hehe. I always love Conti's impotent rage at being outflanked on the left

The problem of being a "pragmatic progressive" is that you're subject to being outflanked on the left a lot

Just on the sexuality issue is where it's fun

[Uttland]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Waztaskio
Character Name: Jason Gordon
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 43
Character Height: 5"9"
Character Weight: 145lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Appearance: (Image)
Character State of Origin: Arkansas
Character State of Residence: Arkansas
Character Party Affiliation: Democrat
Main Strengths:

• Good Organizer - Able to organize whatever he is in charge in with relative ease.
• Good Leader - Despite some flaws, he is regarded as a good leader by those around him.
• Respectable Personality - Although flawed, he never loses his temper. Always tries to keep a clear head, and rarely shows signs of stress or disappointment when dealing with anything.

Main Weaknesses:

• Mediocre Speaker - He is not very charismatic, but his messages come directly from the heart. Making a mediocre effect on those who listen.
• Political Outsider - He is not a skilled politician, and doesn't have a lot of connections or experience in the political field. This leads him vulnerable to political traps in some regards, that he attempts to deal with as humbly as possible. He is not a politician.
• Cautious - Although not really a weakness, Gordon places a high-value on the smallest of details and will rarely authorize anything without a full briefing on how it will run down. This can lead to programs being slowed down greatly, but does give desirable outcomes when they are complete.

Biography: Jason Gordon was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 22nd, 1974 at St. Vincent Hospital to his mother Tasha Gordon who was twenty at the time. During Jason's youth, he never really had any male father figure due to his biological father having died in a car crash a week after his birth. Jason took a lot from his mother, including her ability to task manage, order, and carry out whatever she needed done which helped confine Gordon into his work ethic in which he still uses today. As he grew up he had a few close friends he stayed closed to, and a lot of acquaintances to associate with in order to introduce him to the various backgrounds in which people grew up in and allowed him to forge some close friendships that still last to this day. During his time in school, he was a pretty average student. He didn't earn many A's, but kept a B or C average in most of his classes up to high-school due to him being relatively bored with the courses presented rather then his ability to do it, leaving him with around a 3.0 GPA when he finished. It was when Jason turned eighteen, that he decided to attempt enlistment in the United States Army as a 92Y Supply Specialist, but was turned down due to some medical issues he experienced in his youth.

After being denied from the United States Army, he attempted to go into the Marine Corp, and United States Navy which resorted in denials as well until he was finally given a chance in the United States Air Force as a 3P0X1 - Security Forces at age nineteen. After completing his initial training, his first assignment was in Somalia during under United Nations mandate for the first three years, with the other three years being served in Saudi Arabia during Operation Southern Watch. In 1999 Gordon left the Air Force and later acquired a job in the Central Intelligence Agency from 1999-2004 as a Security Professional. During his time in the Central Intelligence Agency, he heavily took note of world events and how one event could lead to a domino effect for other events later down the line. This lead him to be cautious in the decisions he makes, a trait in which he still lives with today. Once he resigned from the Central Intelligence Agency, he used the money from his GI Bill, Central Intelligence Agency paychecks, and other sources to attend Saint Louis University in Missouri, beginning to major in history. It was during his time in St. Louis, that his true calling began to come.

Saint Louis a highly metropolitan city, had some of the highest crime rates in the nation, and most of it's side districts were slums where homeless people would be a common sight. It appeared to Gordon that the highway had also been a contributing factor in dividing various poor, middle-class, and rich neighborhoods that appeared to be segregated to a high-extent. Gordon, having grown up in Little Rock was very unnerved by the sight of people suffering in his own country, and believed that all human life regardless of social class should have a decent living, and should not have to be segregated by class or neighborhood, and that it was embarrassing for the United States, the most powerful nation in the world to even think about allowing this to happen. It was during this, he made one of the biggest changes of his lifestyle after numerous interviews, research, and personal experiences that he declared his new major to be Economics, with a minor in Political Science. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in 2009, and later acquired his Juris Doctorate in 2012. After graduating from law school, he later took a job with the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Office of Community Planning and Development, becoming one of the leading voices of that department from 2012-2014, until he resigned in order to run as Mayor of Little Rock, an election he won by a landslide. This will be his third year in which he is mayor of Little Rock, giving him very little political experience except on a local level. However, in 2017 he is setting his sights a bit higher in order to begin to affect real change. With high approval ratings in Little Rock, maybe he can see to it that he gets higher positions?

Other Info: Has a wife named Shelly Gordon, who works as a doctor at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Married for seven years, no children as of yet. Was also approached to become a Foreign Service Officer by the Department of State, which he turned down.

Do Not Remove: 84721

I like this guy.

[Tallahassee News Station]

"He was raised in impoverished circumstances..."

"Throughout his high school career he overachieved"

"Elected council President all four years..."

"He won best Senate statesman every year and was easily elected youth governor..."

"Youngest members in the city's legislative history..."

"He was unanimously elected chairman of the council..."

"Spoke at the Democratic National Convention...was deployed around the world..."

"Winning in a landslide vote, and was quickly elected council chairman..."

"He's been praised across his community as being a strong leader..."

"6 ft. 6 in., 230 lbs.", appearance of a model....

"Main Strengths: Driven, Flexibility, Tolerant, Critical Thinker, Analytical, Intelligent, Responsible, Leader, Organized, Responsible, True to his Word..."

"Weaknesses": Three synonyms of the same word


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C'mon. He's a huge, handsome, strong man who came from poverty to succeed at everything, be loved by everybody, be elected to every position by landslides that usually take decades to get, he's great at everything, honest, driven, super-smart, responsible, tolerant, lovable, and his one weakness is that he's manipulative, which just means he's even more better at getting stuff done. He's a perfect character. Epitome of the hotshot.

Is that better for you.... and Brooklyn City Council is not hard to win at all since nobody runs for it.

That's a little better, trimming back a little on the superman bit, but it's still essentially the same thing-he's got four times as many strengths as weaknesses, and his weaknesses are all the same thing, which is practically a strength anyway. He's still the giant, sexy, poverty-busting, super-intelligent, uber-young ultrapolitician. This is really just trimming at the edges.

[United Christian]

Is that better for you.... and Brooklyn City Council is not hard to win at all since nobody runs for it.

That's a little better, trimming back a little on the superman bit, but it's still essentially the same thing-he's got four times as many strengths as weaknesses, and his weaknesses are all the same thing, which is practically a strength anyway. He's still the giant, sexy, poverty-busting, super-intelligent, uber-young ultrapolitician. This is really just trimming at the edges.

How does being the chairman of the Brooklyn City Council make him an ultra-politician? Weaknesses I can expand on. But seriously Brooklyn City Council, that the bottom of the political food chain.

[Tallahassee News Station]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Waztaskio
Character Name: Jason Gordon
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 43
Character Height: 5"9"
Character Weight: 145lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Appearance: (Image)
Character State of Origin: Arkansas
Character State of Residence: Arkansas
Character Party Affiliation: Democrat
Main Strengths:

• Good Organizer - Able to organize whatever he is in charge in with relative ease.
• Good Leader - Despite some flaws, he is regarded as a good leader by those around him.
• Respectable Personality - Although flawed, he never loses his temper. Always tries to keep a clear head, and rarely shows signs of stress or disappointment when dealing with anything.

Main Weaknesses:

• Mediocre Speaker - He is not very charismatic, but his messages come directly from the heart. Making a mediocre effect on those who listen.
• Political Outsider - He is not a skilled politician, and doesn't have a lot of connections or experience in the political field. This leads him vulnerable to political traps in some regards, that he attempts to deal with as humbly as possible. He is not a politician.
• Cautious - Although not really a weakness, Gordon places a high-value on the smallest of details and will rarely authorize anything without a full briefing on how it will run down. This can lead to programs being slowed down greatly, but does give desirable outcomes when they are complete.

Biography: Jason Gordon was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 22nd, 1974 at St. Vincent Hospital to his mother Tasha Gordon who was twenty at the time. During Jason's youth, he never really had any male father figure due to his biological father having died in a car crash a week after his birth. Jason took a lot from his mother, including her ability to task manage, order, and carry out whatever she needed done which helped confine Gordon into his work ethic in which he still uses today. As he grew up he had a few close friends he stayed closed to, and a lot of acquaintances to associate with in order to introduce him to the various backgrounds in which people grew up in and allowed him to forge some close friendships that still last to this day. During his time in school, he was a pretty average student. He didn't earn many A's, but kept a B or C average in most of his classes up to high-school due to him being relatively bored with the courses presented rather then his ability to do it, leaving him with around a 3.0 GPA when he finished. It was when Jason turned eighteen, that he decided to attempt enlistment in the United States Army as a 92Y Supply Specialist, but was turned down due to some medical issues he experienced in his youth.

After being denied from the United States Army, he attempted to go into the Marine Corp, and United States Navy which resorted in denials as well until he was finally given a chance in the United States Air Force as a 3P0X1 - Security Forces at age nineteen. After completing his initial training, his first assignment was in Somalia during under United Nations mandate for the first three years, with the other three years being served in Saudi Arabia during Operation Southern Watch. In 1999 Gordon left the Air Force and later acquired a job in the Central Intelligence Agency from 1999-2004 as a Security Professional. During his time in the Central Intelligence Agency, he heavily took note of world events and how one event could lead to a domino effect for other events later down the line. This lead him to be cautious in the decisions he makes, a trait in which he still lives with today. Once he resigned from the Central Intelligence Agency, he used the money from his GI Bill, Central Intelligence Agency paychecks, and other sources to attend Saint Louis University in Missouri, beginning to major in history. It was during his time in St. Louis, that his true calling began to come.

Saint Louis a highly metropolitan city, had some of the highest crime rates in the nation, and most of it's side districts were slums where homeless people would be a common sight. It appeared to Gordon that the highway had also been a contributing factor in dividing various poor, middle-class, and rich neighborhoods that appeared to be segregated to a high-extent. Gordon, having grown up in Little Rock was very unnerved by the sight of people suffering in his own country, and believed that all human life regardless of social class should have a decent living, and should not have to be segregated by class or neighborhood, and that it was embarrassing for the United States, the most powerful nation in the world to even think about allowing this to happen. It was during this, he made one of the biggest changes of his lifestyle after numerous interviews, research, and personal experiences that he declared his new major to be Economics, with a minor in Political Science. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in 2009, and later acquired his Juris Doctorate in 2012. After graduating from law school, he later took a job with the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Office of Community Planning and Development, becoming one of the leading voices of that department from 2012-2014, until he resigned in order to run as Mayor of Little Rock, an election he won by a landslide. This will be his third year in which he is mayor of Little Rock, giving him very little political experience except on a local level. However, in 2017 he is setting his sights a bit higher in order to begin to affect real change. With high approval ratings in Little Rock, maybe he can see to it that he gets higher positions?

Other Info: Has a wife named Shelly Gordon, who works as a doctor at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Married for seven years, no children as of yet. Was also approached to become a Foreign Service Officer by the Department of State, which he turned down.

Do Not Remove: 84721

I like this guy.

Same, it's a better example of a pretty good app.

My main question would be how he won the election in a landslide?. He is rather young, not a great deal of political experience or acumen, and seems to have spent quite a while away from the city

[Uttland]

I like this guy.

Same, it's a better example of a pretty good app.

My main question would be how he won the election in a landslide?. He is rather young, not a great deal of political experience or acumen, and seems to have spent quite a while away from the city

I think that if the victory margin was decreased to something more tighter (like 1.1% or something), then the app is perfectly acceptable.

[Dentali]

Same, it's a better example of a pretty good app.

My main question would be how he won the election in a landslide?. He is rather young, not a great deal of political experience or acumen, and seems to have spent quite a while away from the city

I think that if the victory margin was decreased to something more tighter (like 1.1% or something), then the app is perfectly acceptable.

I assumed it was because all the other candidates died when the capital building was bombed

[United Christian]

That's a little better, trimming back a little on the superman bit, but it's still essentially the same thing-he's got four times as many strengths as weaknesses, and his weaknesses are all the same thing, which is practically a strength anyway. He's still the giant, sexy, poverty-busting, super-intelligent, uber-young ultrapolitician. This is really just trimming at the edges.

How does being the chairman of the Brooklyn City Council make him an ultra-politician? Weaknesses I can expand on. But seriously Brooklyn City Council, that the bottom of the political food chain.

Expanded.

[Uttland]

I think that if the victory margin was decreased to something more tighter (like 1.1% or something), then the app is perfectly acceptable.

I assumed it was because all the other candidates died when the capital building was bombed

Cheeky

[Meelducan]

I think that if the victory margin was decreased to something more tighter (like 1.1% or something), then the app is perfectly acceptable.

I assumed it was because all the other candidates died when the capital building was bombed

Hehehe

[Meelducan]

[Main Nation Ministry]

TNS, I think we should have the Cox and Scotty interview end. I really want to get through some things with Cox before the year ends in IC for 2016. Seeing how the RP is going to head to 2017, later.

[Dentali]

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But the orgasms were not

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune
Character Name: Jackson Reginald Durman
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 54
Character Height: 5'10''
Character Weight: 210 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Mayor of Dallas
Appearance: Sorry for Shutterstock,
Character State of Origin: Texas
Character State of Residence: Texas
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic leaning Independent
Main Strengths: Well Spoken/Charismatic, Respected, Kind
Main Weaknesses: Short Temper, Stubborn, Egotistical

Biography: Jackson Durman was born into a wealthy Texas family living in Dallas. His mother came from a family of wealthy landowners who had been farming and running a ranch since the first days of Texas, with connections to politics dating back to the Lone Star Republic. His father came from newer money as far as wealth went, with his grandfather becoming rich off of oil he found on his smaller farm around the turn of the century and his father becoming wealthy off of the telecommunications boom in the city following the Second World War. His father and mother met in their early thirties on a sunny day in Dealy Plaza. They were married three years later and their first child, a daughter named Alexandria, was born a year after that. 4 years later, on August 2nd, 1963, Jackson was born into the world. 3 months later Jackson would bare witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, though he wouldn't remember it. His early life was cushioned and easy, growing up in a mansion in the suburbs of Dallas. He watched the Vietnam war unfold and often joined his mother and sister at anti-war protests. Despite his families relative wealth and his location growing up, Jackson was raised as a liberal, though not necessarily as a Democrat. He would graduate as valedictorian of his private high school and move on to college at Harvard. Though his grades weren't the best in class, David eventually graduated and moved on to law school at Duke University. He earned his law degree, got a job in his hometown representing various companies headquartered in Dallas.

Jackson's personal life was a mess following college. He drank and did drugs, partied late into the night on weekends and slogged through the week trying to get to the next Friday. His life changed however, in 1992, when his father had an unforeseen and sudden complication with cancer. It was discovered that he had stage IV and terminal lung disease, coming from his father's years of smoking. If scared straight is real, then that is what happened to Jackson. He took initiative, went into rehab, and controlled his drinking, becoming a model citizen. When asked about his sudden motivation, Jackson would say "It's my way of making it up to him."

Jackson soon became involved in a series of highly covered trials, in which he successfully defended all but a few of a group of friends of his when they were mostly falsely accused of committing hate-motivated murder. It was his main group from his drug years, which included 3 neo-nazis. They were drawn together as the entire group were rich, white and highly egotistical. After Jackson stopped hanging out with them, the three neons split off from the group one night while they were all hanging out in one house and murdered a black man behind the building. They then hid the body in the dumpster while saying they found his clothes on the street in an attempt to frame some of the more liberal members of the group. They were seen dumping the body and the cops were called, resulting in 8 people being arrested besides the neo-nazis. One of them asked Jackson to stand for them, and he took it, proving the innocence of the framed ones while also making an insanity case for 2 of the actual killers. When asked why he defended people accused of such heinous crimes, Jackson answered plainly "Everyone deserves equality in law, no matter who they ar, what they've done, or why they did it. They are all people, and they all get a fair trial." Despite this verdict, many among the more Democratic community believe that the innocent 5 were, in fact, guilty and should be in prison. Jackson often had to battle these people during his mayoral campaign.

It was also around this time, in 1994, that Jackson married his girlfriend of 5 years, Maria McRory. The next decade or so, was mostly status quo for Jackson, raising his family while becoming a partner and then sole owner of his law firm. In 2012, Jackson's eldest son, Michael, became enrolled in West Point, which was followed by his second oldest, Richard, following his father's footsteps and enrolling in Harvard in 2014.

In 2015, Jackson ran a successful mayoral campaign for the city of Dallas, aligning with but not joining the Democratic party. His inclusion in what would become the most heated election in recent memory within the Dallas city limits became legend. Many Dallas career politicians thought that he had no place amongst them and the party he had chosen to align with as an independent, the Democrats, were still reeling with anger over the Neo-nazi case, which had hurt their current agenda significantly after they had publicly and vocally condemned all 8, including the ones, found not guilty, as murderers, racists and Nazis. The Democratic candidate, Helen Lopez, however, was not popular amongst the people of Dallas, and with the Democratic support suddenly split, many predicted a sure victory for the Republicans. However, Jackson's community activism, non-partisan politics and devotion to the city and it's people rather than his own political career secured him enough of the vote to win a hotly contested election with 39% of the vote.

During Jackson's time as mayor, his policies have marked him as a champion for the people, regardless of who they are. His reforms of the educational and electrical system. In a decision that angered many coporate leaders within the city, Jackson moved away from oil, overseeing the construction of two new solar plants and commisioning a special commity to set about the construction of a Nuclear plant to benefit the entire system and clean the energy for the entirity of it. With the open support of both private and public education, Jackson pulled the city's education away from Common Core, instead working to support open teaching and student-centered education. His community outreach program has been widely praised and his openess to work with business has won him support with corporate voters as well. To fund his extensive programs, tax raises on the upper class and upper middle class have generated some dislike of him amongst those populations, especially the 1% whom he was particularly harsh on. Though he said that he does not intend to become a politician, many Dallas voter have said they would rather vote for him or a party he creates rather than a republican or a democrat. He currently has a 55% approval rating.


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