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NS Nation Name: Free Ward Marchers
Character Name: Albertine Broussard
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 54
Character Height: 6ft
Character Weight: 247 lbs.
Character Position/Role/Job: Louisiana Senator (1991- 2003), Republican candidate for Louisiana Gubernatorial election (2003), Louisiana Lieutenant Governor (2010-2016), US Senator (2016-Present)
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Character State of Origin: Louisiana
Character State of Residence: Louisiana
Character Party Affiliation: Republican (1983-2008) Tea Party (2008-Present)
Main Strengths: Passionate speaker, Very well versed, Liked by the wolfists/populists
Main Weaknesses: Has a history of racist comments, has been known to make up facts, bashes moderate "cookie cutter republicans"
Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs): Albertine Joy Broussard was born on April 26th, 1965 to a lower middle class family on the outskirts of Schriever, Louisiana. Her father (Geraud Broussard) was a fisherman, catching catfish in the local bayou, and her mother (Maria Kritz) was a stay at home mother who took care of her, and her three other sisters. As a child Broussard was very intelligent, often being the top of the class in all of her subjects and aceing all of her exams, she was also raised very conservatively by her mother, who was always fusing about her acting “like a lady” and being “prim and proper”. Her father and mother were both Cajun and made it a habit to preserve her cultural identity, by making her and her sisters speak french when they were in the house, and wearing traditional Cajun clothing.
In her highschool years, Broussard got into politics, taking debate classes and writing politically motivating essays. She would constantly bash then president Jimmy Carter on being weak on crime and foreign policy. Broussard would channel her frustration with the democratic establishment by excelling at her school work getting a 4.0 grade average by the time she graduated in 1983. After her graduation Broussard was given a scholarship to Princeton University where she got a Masters in Political Science in 1990. In 1991 Broussard ran for the open state senate seat in district 20 unopposed as the only other challenger to the seat forfeited months before the election. In her first 6 years in the senate Broussard became infamous in the senate for being a bulldog against the policies of current governor (not-Edwin Edwards), especially against his pushing for casino gambing in Louisiana, which she stated “Would cause an influx of organized crime in the local cities while the fat cats in the governor’s circle get rich off the backs of the taxpayers that have to keep this immoral practice of embezzlement afloat”.
In 1995 Broussard ran for Governor and got fifth in the jungle primaries with 3% of the vote and was even considered a major candidate, thanks to televised interviews she did with local louisiana networks during her hate campaign against (not-Edwin Edwards). After she went back to her work as a state senator and would be directly responsible for directing the creation of many bills implemented by governor (Not-Mike Foster), her most famous ones being fostering bills that ended state affirmative action and set-aside programs, tort reform bills, and helping create the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, and expanded the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS).
In 2003 Broussard ran again for Louisiana governor, this time with great success, beating out three republicans including presumptive nominee, state Secretary of Health and Hospitals, (Not-Bobby Jindal). In the General election Broussard was against Lieutenant Governor (Not-Kathleen Blanco), which Broussard saw as an easy opponent. Having never been challenged for political office ever in her life, Broussard became overly confident about her winning the election, often bashed by the media for exuding an overwhelming amount of chauvinism in her speeches. In Broussard’s speeches she spoke in great detail about her achievements in the Louisiana senate, and how she always fought against the “immoral democratic establishment” to better help the Louisiana people. Despite her absolute confidence in winning the election, she lost to (Not-Kathleen Blanco) winning 48% of the vote to Blanco’s 52%.
Because the Louisiana constitution states that a state senator can only serve 12 consecutive years Broussard was unable to keep her seat and decided to take a step back from politics and start focusing on her social life, getting married to a doctor named Michael Laundry in 2006. During her stint of not being in public office, Broussard would become a recurring guest political commentator on local Louisiana television stations, complaining about Blanco’s handling of Hurricane Katrina and Rita, and later praising Governor (Not-Bobby Jindal) on his pragmatic conservative agenda.
During this cooldown period in her career, Broussard was becoming a household name in Louisiana homes and she decided to use this to her advantage in the 2010 Lieutenant Governor special election. In the election Broussard uplayed her life story to make her seem like an anti-elitist rags to riches candidate, a tactic that worked beautifully winning the general election by 57% of the vote. As Lieutenant Governor Broussard was seen as the enforcer of (not-Jindal’s) policies, being his yes woman, and giving her and (not-Jindal) the nickname of Dynamic-Duo.
In the 2015 Louisiana Gubernatorial election Broussard decided not to run, as she wanted to run for the US senate in 2016, however she was vocal about her overall disgust with the democratic nominee; Russell Long, stating he is “A blatant example of a man with no ambition trying to squeeze his way into a position of power by saying pretty words, while at the same time limiting the people's freedom in the name of socialism”.
In her last year of being a Lieutenant Governor, Broussard used all the power invested in her to be a thorn in Governor Long’s side, being the most vocal proponent against him by far, and constantly trying to bring him down a peg in popularity. In 2016 Broussard ran for US senator again running on an anti-elitist platform, as well as criticizing the other republican candidates for being too soft and money hungry. Early on in her campaign Broussard publically supported Wolf in his 2016 bid to be president, stating him as a “Exemplary example of true conservative in both attitude and conviction, with a honesty to just tell it like it is”. Her anti-elitist rhetoric matched with her endorsement of Wolf, was just enough to bolster her to the top in the jungle primary, where she easily beat her democratic opponent with 60% of the vote.
In her 3 years in the Senate, Broussard has been an avid supporter of President Wolf and his policies while criticizing more mainstream republican agendas and proponents, such as being an early criticizer of both Paulson and Richardson in the republican primaries. In November of 2019, Broussard officially endorsed Bernie Porter for president, stating that “Porter is the strong heavy handed conservative we need at the helm of the republican party, to help us steer back to the direction of morality, which our party has seemed to have forgotten over the years”.
Other Info: Has a slight Cajun accent
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Let me have a look, Louisiana is a good place to put a right-wing populist being the State with perhaps the strongest history of populism
1. A high school girl is so angry at the Democratic establishment that she would study hard and get a 4.0 GPA. I don't quite think that is quite accurate
2. She graduates from University and immediately runs for Senate without any prior community involvement. I suggest inserting a few years during of her doing some sort of community service
3. Praising Bobby Jindal, and potential strong ties to his admin is a VERY big weakness in Louisiana. Jindal left office so unpopular that even in 2019 his name was getting cursed.
4. How close was the jungle primary in 2016
5. What did she do in the Senate?
Overall I think it is a very good app
