Character Information Sheet
NS Nation Name: The World Capitalist Confederation
Character Name: Boris Edylmann
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 64
Character Height: 175cm
Character Weight: 88kg
Character Position/Role/Job: Treasurer of the UAW (1980-1987), Chairman of the UAW (1987-1994), Treasurer of the AFL-CIO (1994-1998), Senator of New York (1998-), became Senior Senator in 2009.
Appearance: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tot ... 1224175214
Character State of Origin: New York
Character State of Residence: New York
Character Party Affiliation: Democrat
Main Strengths: Strong blue-collar and union appeal, charismatic and good at backdoor schmoozing, able to project a more moderate image despite his democratic socialist views
Main Weaknesses: No corporate backing, weak popularity amongst white-collar "Portland" Democrats compared to other progressive democrats, needs to build up grassroots support more.
Biography: Born to a senior union organiser and a seamstress, Boris mostly suffered a lower-middle class existence, attending a local public school as opposed to a private one.
His father instilled in him his union ideals, expecting his only child to carry on his legacy as one of the top-ranking secretaries of the UAW, which, whilst it gave him a lot of power, gave him little money, a position that Boris would find himself in later.
After succeeding in school and armed with his father's political views (but more socially liberal, of course, due to the changing times), he went to [low-level Ivy League university, maybe Cornell or Dartmouth?], taking a master's degree in economics and completing the course fully.
He then used his father's connections to leap on as the Treasurer of the UAW, after a few contested backdoor meetings, serving his job well and with purpose. But he wanted more. He slowly positioned himself for Chairman, making meetings and even being endorsed by his future predecessor once he had resigned for health reasons.
He then took on his job as chairman, eyeing the AFL-CIO next, attending many meetings in person in order to build significant rapport with the other unions, again slowly sliding himself in as a future chairman. This time, however, he fell just short of the mark, receiving a handwritten "apology" from one of his allies and being appointed treasurer instead.
He did his job, muttering slightly but still cherishing the promotion, making several public appearances in order to pre-empt his 1996 run for the [insert safe, progressive-leaning NY district here]'s democratic nomination against a resigning incumbent.
His bid for the nomination failed, however, but received strong local coverage due to some string-pulling and a strong campaign, allowing him to begin plotting a much bigger victory next time in the same district. The problem? One of the New York Senators just resigned due to a diagnosis of prostate cancer, allowing Edylmann to sweep in if he so picked. The problem was, however, that it was generally frowned upon to run for both the House and the Senate, so Edylmann simply chose to pick for the Senate run, seeing the weak field of Democratic candidates in that particular election. He clutched the nomination, by only about 2,000 votes, making it an extremely close race, as his service to his nation had just begun.
His terms saw intensive action on his side, with his time under the Clinton Presidency making him look like a DINO on one side and a "country over party" Democrat on the other. His time in the Bush Presidency was mostly defined by the Iraq War, with his staunch opposition over it leading to a 10% swing in his favour when it came to the general, mostly from left-leaning independents that begun to oppose the war in 2004.
However, after making several hundred public appearances over that last decade from 1998 to 2008, he decided to throw his hat in the ring, using his decent name recognition to attempt to win the nomination from [not-Obama] and [not-Mrs. Clinton], losing out in a close 3rd place. He decided to work with [not-Obama's] half-progressivism, helping draft the ACA as a "compromise solution". He later had some tension with the [not-Obama] intervention with his interventions in Syria, leading to him being seen as a non-establishment figure.
He decided not to run for President in 2016, as he tried to build up his base for 2020 instead, seeing as progressivism would most likely not win but finally come to the spotlight. And so he did, releasing his memoirs in September 2018 and beginning to organise #EdylmannforPresident2020, hoping to get an exploratory committee up soon.
Other Info: Strongly economically liberal, "working-class" "blue-collar" socialist. Notable for his strong pro-worker stances, his support of cooperatives, increased worker management of companies and policies which amounted to "eloquent class war" according to Republicans. He is able to present himself as moderate due to generally careful language, but is still able to inspire progressives.
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