The Land Of The Free: An American Political Roleplay (OOC)

[Gordano and Lysandus]

My god, I just realized the vibes Pendergast's logo has been giving me for a while now...

Its Team Rocket. That red P really sells it.

Oh my God, that was TOTALLY unintentional. XD

I have NO idea if his rambling diatribe was an improvement on his CPAC rambling diatribe.

[New Cobastheia]

My god, I just realized the vibes Pendergast's logo has been giving me for a while now...

Its Team Rocket. That red P really sells it.

Oh my God, that was TOTALLY unintentional. XD

I have NO idea if his rambling diatribe was an improvement on his CPAC rambling diatribe.

I'll be honest, I never read the CPAC thing in whole due to various reasons, but this seems much more readable that than so I'd say so

[Dentali]

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Character Information Sheet


NS Nation Name: Principality of Von Markstein
Character Name: Jack Chambers
Character Gender: M
Character Age: 52
Character Height: 6'1"
Character Weight: 183
Character Position/Role/Job: Governor of Nebraska
Appearance: Thin, short sandy haired, with a crooked bright white smile
Character State of Origin: Nebraska
Character State of Residence: Nebraska
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Wealthy, charming, connected, intelligent
Main Weaknesses: Untrustworthy, arrogant, brash and unfiltered
Biography: Jack Chambers was born to the well to do Chamber's dynasty of the plains in 1967. His father was a wealthy stock and commodities broker named Harold who grew the family fortune even further when he developed an innovative brokerage house for the everyday man. Chambers grew up spending time between his father's ranch in middle Nebraska and in a home near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The young boy lacked for nothing and received nothing but the best of private tutelage.

Chambers attended the best private boarding schools in the Midwest where he made connections with other younger sons of wealthy Midwestern scions. Some of these connections he has kept into adulthood as Jack made his own way.

At 18 Jack attended the prestigious University of Chicago studying in its world renowned economics program. The courses and professors were quite conservative and further instilled Jack's silver spoon fed economic ideals, "trickle down" became a mantra of the young man.

After graduating high but not with honors from university, Jack went to work with his father as a economics analyst. Jack spent years in this role helping chart the family companies expansion and major decisions. During this time Jack married the youngest daughter of a wealthy family from Chicago named Vivian and the couple would have three daughters. The business created a brokerage house concentrating on lower and middle class Americans looking to start investing. In the 90's the business took off further by becoming one of the first houses to begin utilizing the internet. By the modern day the company has one of the most modern and user friendly trading platforms in the country

Jack eventually grew tired in his role, clearly seeing that his older siblings would play a larger role in the main family business, and decided to carve out his own niche. Jack therefore convinced his father of the economic value of professional sports and six months later in 1997 the Chambers were proud new owners of a MLB franchise, with Jack as the team president.

Jack manned the new family 'business' for the better part of two decades but stepped down in late 2012 which would be just a few years before the team won its first World Series title since 1985.

Ever since college, Jack had been interested in political economics and wanted to truly implement a trickle down economy with cut taxes and lower spending to grow businesses and jobs. Jack now having felt independently accomplished in business and sports decided the time was right to make a run for public office.

Due to term limits the governorship was vacant and none of the state federal representatives had decided to make a run, so Jack saw his chance. Jack began pumping money into a 2014 Governor run starting at the beginning of 2013 and building up speed from there. His tactics built up quick name value and he voiced conservative social values which rang true in most parts of the red state.

Jack's main competition turned out to be the state's Attorney General but fortunately for Jack the AG's campaign nose dived when reports came out involving wide scale corruption at the state Department of Justice. Jack Chambers went on to win the primary by 15% points due to the scandal and brushed aside a poorly funded democrat in the red state by 20% points in the general election.

Inaugurated in 2014, the new governor quickly began stumping in the unicameral legislature for wide scale tax cuts and he vetoed a repeal of the death penalty to appeal to "law and order" interests. This veto was initially overridden but the Governor gained a massive statewide petition of support that raised a referendum that reinstated the death penalty. The governor had previously funded many of these senators and it came as no surprise to Jack when most of his objectives were past through the legislature by 2015. One extremely vocal and notorious Omaha democrat opposed him at every turn, but man had little pull in the mostly red state.

Jack Chambers began to grow controversy both regionally and nationally for his outspoken opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage in 2015 followed by controversial pro-police remarks after a number of police racially motivated brutality incidents both locally in Omaha and nationally as well. The comments struck well with his rural base but hurt his approval polling overall due to the suburban moderate voters in the Omaha, Lincoln, and surrounding suburban areas. By the end of the year, Governor Chambers saw an increase in polling numbers when he was able to tout that Nebraska had produced one of the few balanced budgets in all the nation.

Governor Chambers started out 2016 laying relatively low, he passed through most laws without veto and saw little controversy in the first couple months of the year but paid close attention to the ongoing Republican presidential primary. Governor Chambers on 'Super Tuesday' made big news by becoming a vocal supporter of future president Wolf with an endorsement. Chambers pushed through a noteworthy constitutional amendment to make Hunting and fishing a state right but mostly began focusing on supporting and campaigning on behalf of Wolf.

Wolf won and Chambers stuck around Nebraska with no promotion in sight. Whether his support was ever appreciated was unknown, but Chambers didn't seem to let on if he minded. Governor Chambers began campaigning in mid 2017 and pushed through another balanced budget and key agricultural subsidies which he pointed to as his platform highlights.

In the 2018 election, Governor Chambers won re-election with 58% of the votes, a lower margin due to the alienation of some suburban voters, but still quite comfortable. The Governor then went back to the balancing of the budget, at the expense to education and infrastructure some complain, and stumped on the campaign trail for a number of local favorites running for federal offices.

In 2019 the Governor is coming to end of his tenure capped by term limits from running in 2020, despite no announcements at this time, the Governor has remained quite vocal, and perhaps controversial, pumping himself up for some race he has not yet let on to.

Political Positions
Guns: NRA A+ rated, passed through state constitutional right to hunt and fish, opposes universal background checks and assault weapons bans

Social Views: Supports christian values and opposed gay marriage legalization, saying it was a state's choice. Supports private business personal service rights. Law and order candidate who brought back the death penalty and opposed body cameras and internal police sensitivity training and investigations. Pro-Life, Catholic

Economics: touts ability to balance budget and 'true' adherence to Reaganomics, tax cuts for wealthy and loopholes for corporations and other entities, eliminated state death tax. Supports fracking and harvesting of oil and natural gas. Opposes tariffs on China because of the harm to agriculture in the state, wants federal subsidies for crops.

Goals:
With his terms capped and the big announcement of President Wolf, Governor Chambers is preparing a major announcement concerning his political future...

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Principality of Von Markstein

Do Not Remove: 84721

Excellent app. ACCEPTED

[Dentali]

Oh my God, that was TOTALLY unintentional. XD

I have NO idea if his rambling diatribe was an improvement on his CPAC rambling diatribe.

I'll be honest, I never read the CPAC thing in whole due to various reasons, but this seems much more readable that than so I'd say so

You/ he has improved

[Gordano and Lysandus]

I'll be honest, I never read the CPAC thing in whole due to various reasons, but this seems much more readable that than so I'd say so

You/ he has improved

Team Jonah is blasting off agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain. *ping*

[Dentali]

CURRENT DATE: March 28, 2019 - April 4, 2019

[Jovuistan]

What should Slater do today?

[Gordano and Lysandus]

What should Slater do today?

Well, there's a slot available for him to give a speech at the Prendergast launch event, or he could follow through with some of the surrogate work, if he's interested in working on that campaign.

Alternatively, he's always free to drop in on Carrie again if he's interested in any more bipartisan foreign/defense policy ideas.

Either way though, it's good to see you back, man.

[Jovuistan]

What should Slater do today?

Well, there's a slot available for him to give a speech at the Prendergast launch event, or he could follow through with some of the surrogate work, if he's interested in working on that campaign.

Alternatively, he's always free to drop in on Carrie again if he's interested in any more bipartisan foreign/defense policy ideas.

Either way though, it's good to see you back, man.

Oh, I didn't realize I could give a speech there. I think I'll get on that.

[Von Markstein]

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Character Information Sheet


NS Nation Name: Principality of Von Markstein
Character Name: Jack Chambers
Character Gender: M
Character Age: 52
Character Height: 6'1"
Character Weight: 183
Character Position/Role/Job: Governor of Nebraska
Appearance: Thin, short sandy haired, with a crooked bright white smile
Character State of Origin: Nebraska
Character State of Residence: Nebraska
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Wealthy, charming, connected, intelligent
Main Weaknesses: Untrustworthy, arrogant, brash and unfiltered
Biography: Jack Chambers was born to the well to do Chamber's dynasty of the plains in 1967. His father was a wealthy stock and commodities broker named Harold who grew the family fortune even further when he developed an innovative brokerage house for the everyday man. Chambers grew up spending time between his father's ranch in middle Nebraska and in a home near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The young boy lacked for nothing and received nothing but the best of private tutelage.

Chambers attended the best private boarding schools in the Midwest where he made connections with other younger sons of wealthy Midwestern scions. Some of these connections he has kept into adulthood as Jack made his own way.

At 18 Jack attended the prestigious University of Chicago studying in its world renowned economics program. The courses and professors were quite conservative and further instilled Jack's silver spoon fed economic ideals, "trickle down" became a mantra of the young man.

After graduating high but not with honors from university, Jack went to work with his father as a economics analyst. Jack spent years in this role helping chart the family companies expansion and major decisions. During this time Jack married the youngest daughter of a wealthy family from Chicago named Vivian and the couple would have three daughters. The business created a brokerage house concentrating on lower and middle class Americans looking to start investing. In the 90's the business took off further by becoming one of the first houses to begin utilizing the internet. By the modern day the company has one of the most modern and user friendly trading platforms in the country

Jack eventually grew tired in his role, clearly seeing that his older siblings would play a larger role in the main family business, and decided to carve out his own niche. Jack therefore convinced his father of the economic value of professional sports and six months later in 1997 the Chambers were proud new owners of a MLB franchise, with Jack as the team president.

Jack manned the new family 'business' for the better part of two decades but stepped down in late 2012 which would be just a few years before the team won its first World Series title since 1985.

Ever since college, Jack had been interested in political economics and wanted to truly implement a trickle down economy with cut taxes and lower spending to grow businesses and jobs. Jack now having felt independently accomplished in business and sports decided the time was right to make a run for public office.

Due to term limits the governorship was vacant and none of the state federal representatives had decided to make a run, so Jack saw his chance. Jack began pumping money into a 2014 Governor run starting at the beginning of 2013 and building up speed from there. His tactics built up quick name value and he voiced conservative social values which rang true in most parts of the red state.

Jack's main competition turned out to be the state's Attorney General but fortunately for Jack the AG's campaign nose dived when reports came out involving wide scale corruption at the state Department of Justice. Jack Chambers went on to win the primary by 15% points due to the scandal and brushed aside a poorly funded democrat in the red state by 20% points in the general election.

Inaugurated in 2014, the new governor quickly began stumping in the unicameral legislature for wide scale tax cuts and he vetoed a repeal of the death penalty to appeal to "law and order" interests. This veto was initially overridden but the Governor gained a massive statewide petition of support that raised a referendum that reinstated the death penalty. The governor had previously funded many of these senators and it came as no surprise to Jack when most of his objectives were past through the legislature by 2015. One extremely vocal and notorious Omaha democrat opposed him at every turn, but man had little pull in the mostly red state.

Jack Chambers began to grow controversy both regionally and nationally for his outspoken opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage in 2015 followed by controversial pro-police remarks after a number of police racially motivated brutality incidents both locally in Omaha and nationally as well. The comments struck well with his rural base but hurt his approval polling overall due to the suburban moderate voters in the Omaha, Lincoln, and surrounding suburban areas. By the end of the year, Governor Chambers saw an increase in polling numbers when he was able to tout that Nebraska had produced one of the few balanced budgets in all the nation.

Governor Chambers started out 2016 laying relatively low, he passed through most laws without veto and saw little controversy in the first couple months of the year but paid close attention to the ongoing Republican presidential primary. Governor Chambers on 'Super Tuesday' made big news by becoming a vocal supporter of future president Wolf with an endorsement. Chambers pushed through a noteworthy constitutional amendment to make Hunting and fishing a state right but mostly began focusing on supporting and campaigning on behalf of Wolf.

Wolf won and Chambers stuck around Nebraska with no promotion in sight. Whether his support was ever appreciated was unknown, but Chambers didn't seem to let on if he minded. Governor Chambers began campaigning in mid 2017 and pushed through another balanced budget and key agricultural subsidies which he pointed to as his platform highlights.

In the 2018 election, Governor Chambers won re-election with 58% of the votes, a lower margin due to the alienation of some suburban voters, but still quite comfortable. The Governor then went back to the balancing of the budget, at the expense to education and infrastructure some complain, and stumped on the campaign trail for a number of local favorites running for federal offices.

In 2019 the Governor is coming to end of his tenure capped by term limits from running in 2020, despite no announcements at this time, the Governor has remained quite vocal, and perhaps controversial, pumping himself up for some race he has not yet let on to.

Political Positions
Guns: NRA A+ rated, passed through state constitutional right to hunt and fish, opposes universal background checks and assault weapons bans

Social Views: Supports christian values and opposed gay marriage legalization, saying it was a state's choice. Supports private business personal service rights. Law and order candidate who brought back the death penalty and opposed body cameras and internal police sensitivity training and investigations. Pro-Life, Catholic

Economics: touts ability to balance budget and 'true' adherence to Reaganomics, tax cuts for wealthy and loopholes for corporations and other entities, eliminated state death tax. Supports fracking and harvesting of oil and natural gas. Opposes tariffs on China because of the harm to agriculture in the state, wants federal subsidies for crops.

Goals:
With his terms capped and the big announcement of President Wolf, Governor Chambers is preparing a major announcement concerning his political future...

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Principality of Von Markstein

Do Not Remove: 84721

Excellent app. ACCEPTED

Thank you! Excited to start campaigning

[Jovuistan]

I did a thing!

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Huge kudos to Senator Richard Slater for being able to actually pronounce Jonah's name.

[Gordano and Lysandus]

And incidentally, in case anyone missed it, there is a press conference at the end of the Prendergast launch if anyone wants to play a journalist and ask questions.

[Von Markstein]

How do you put an image into a post?

[Gordano and Lysandus]

How do you put an image into a post?

There is a button above the text box labelled 'Img' that puts down two tags, like so:

Code: Select all

[img]EXAMPLE[/img]

You take the url for an image, and place it between those tags to insert the image.

If your image isn't hosted online, you can use a hosting site to host it and procure a url for it (I use Imgur).

[Jovuistan]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jovuistan
Character Name: Howland Reed's Corpse
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: Dead
Character Height: IDFK
Character Weight: IDFK
Character Position/Role/Job: Dead, beat Dad
Appearance: [Removed for graphic content]
Character State of Origin: Some random ass place in Montana
Character State of Residence: 6 feet under
Character Party Affiliation: Hell
Main Strengths: Turned the whole country against a woman.
Main Weaknesses: He dead
Biography: He done got shot bro
Other Info: Plz accept this is my first app it took hours to make

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Jovuistan

Do Not Remove: 84721

[Dentali]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jovuistan
Character Name: Howland Reed's Corpse
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: Dead
Character Height: IDFK
Character Weight: IDFK
Character Position/Role/Job: Dead, beat Dad
Appearance: [Removed for graphic content]
Character State of Origin: Some random ass place in Montana
Character State of Residence: 6 feet under
Character Party Affiliation: Hell
Main Strengths: Turned the whole country against a woman.
Main Weaknesses: He dead
Biography: He done got shot bro
Other Info: Plz accept this is my first app it took hours to make

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Jovuistan

Do Not Remove: 84721

ACCEPTED

[Jovuistan]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jovuistan
Character Name: Howland Reed's Corpse
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: Dead
Character Height: IDFK
Character Weight: IDFK
Character Position/Role/Job: Dead, beat Dad
Appearance: [Removed for graphic content]
Character State of Origin: Some random ass place in Montana
Character State of Residence: 6 feet under
Character Party Affiliation: Hell
Main Strengths: Turned the whole country against a woman.
Main Weaknesses: He dead
Biography: He done got shot bro
Other Info: Plz accept this is my first app it took hours to make

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Jovuistan

Do Not Remove: 84721

ACCEPTED

Thank you

I feel like doing an interview rn. Anyone wanna interview Slater?

[Dentali]

ACCEPTED

Thank you

I feel like doing an interview rn. Anyone wanna interview Slater?

if you interview richardson ill interview slater

[Jovuistan]

Thank you

I feel like doing an interview rn. Anyone wanna interview Slater?

if you interview richardson ill interview slater

I''ve never conducted an interview before and I haven't really seen the events of the RP for like a month but I'll try I guess.

[Dentali]

ANNOUNCEMENT


Fundraising for March is officially closed... I will get everyone their totals in the next 24 hours (or so i hope)

[Gordano and Lysandus]

ANNOUNCEMENT


Fundraising for March is officially closed... I will get everyone their totals in the next 24 hours (or so i hope)

[Von Markstein]

ANNOUNCEMENT


Fundraising for March is officially closed... I will get everyone their totals in the next 24 hours (or so i hope)

Going forward for Governor Chambers how does fundraising work IC?

Also what restrictions are there on campaign events and trips

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Going to continue keeping a running record of the House Docket:

• Proposing an Amendment... - Rep. Davenport (AT VOTE)
• A Bill To Establish Election Day as a Federal Holiday (Passed Senate)- Sen. Kost
• Fair House Apportionments Act - Rep. Simone
• Restoring Integrity to our Judicial Detainment System Act - Rep. Davenport
• Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2019 - Rep. Nez
• Protection of Children (Antivaccine Abuse) Act - Rep. Atang
• Democracy and Openness for Venezuela Act - Rep. Simone
• Murder Sentencing Act (Passed Senate) - Sen. Anderson
• Insulating the Data of Everyday Americans Act - Rep. Simone
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Rep. Thomas

[Dentali]

ANNOUNCEMENT


Fundraising for March is officially closed... I will get everyone their totals in the next 24 hours (or so i hope)

Going forward for Governor Chambers how does fundraising work IC?

Also what restrictions are there on campaign events and trips

So fundraising has a basic formula based on the posts you make

Exploratory Announcement: $200,000
Formal Announcement: $500,000
Senate Transfer: $1,000,000
Major Group Endorsement: $1,000,000
Minor Group Endorsement: $500,000
Fundraiser: $250,000
Rally: $100,000
Interview: $100,000
Retail/ Local interview: $50,000
White Paper: $50,000
Governor Endorsement: $100,000
Senator Endorsement: $75,000
Celebrity, Rep or mayor endorsement: $50,000

At the end of every month I tally up posts you've made and then modify it based on factors like scandals or a good debate performance or some event. For example Prendergast had a bad interview a little while ago where he said something that wasn't exactly pro life, that hurt his fundraising total. We are not dealing with spending too heavily but fundraising is a good way to see who is winning at a given time, and having the most money in a quarter is a big PR win, while lackluster fundraising makes you seem weak.


No real restrictions, don't say anyone specific endorsed you or did an event with you, like Katy Perry or the mayor of whatever local town you're in. Quality is important too, if a visit to a state consists of one sentence its not going to count.