Home of The Brave: An 1960's Political RP (IC)

[Louisianan]

"Why? The Democratic party was based on slavery and was based in the south for god knows how long, not to mention they waged a war against the rest of civilized society. There have always been problems with the democratic party, it's just that they haven't been shown to the public in a long, long time." Henry said chuckling,

"There are problems with every group sir," Juan chuckled, "And the Democratic party especially. But you do understand the risk I would be taking with an affiliation switch? Very few Republicans agree with my positions on the economy and other matters. And still, there are Democrats that believe in equality and desegregation, like I do. And senator (not-Kennedy), who I admire."

"I believe you mean Senator Oswald. Anyway, look at the Pennsylvania governor, he just swapped his party to run in the Presidential race!"

[Louisianan]

"Well, I agree, if you decide to swap parties, make sure you explain that a Democratic President like Boone or Sharp would be the leaders of the party, and I sincerely doubt that New Mexico plans on voting for either of them, but we'll see." Davis chuckled,

“I hope dang well that they don’t win, but I doubt they have a chance, you know the only way they would ever win... is if African Americans could not vote, so say Henry, you know what you should do? Pass a bill for the colored people, make it illegal for groups like the KKK to intimidate voters, make it a crime. Don’t go too rushed and send troops just yet, unless they get too crazy down south. And we got an entire voter base now, just like that. And hey if it sounds too crazy, your second term is almost finished so no loss there. Passing a Civil rights act would get a loyal base to join the GOP. So take my word Henry, I want to see an executive order very soon.”

Henry sat quietly for a moment, wondering whether the man was insane or not, "You must be joking right? You ought to know that I can't write a bill. An Executive order like that is absolutely insane, it isn't within my jurisdiction to propose legislation or force a law through congress. That is out of the question, talk to your senators and representatives about that. The most I'll do on that front is mention it in my State of the Union address, and hope that a Senator listens."

[Garkland]

“I hope dang well that they don’t win, but I doubt they have a chance, you know the only way they would ever win... is if African Americans could not vote, so say Henry, you know what you should do? Pass a bill for the colored people, make it illegal for groups like the KKK to intimidate voters, make it a crime. Don’t go too rushed and send troops just yet, unless they get too crazy down south. And we got an entire voter base now, just like that. And hey if it sounds too crazy, your second term is almost finished so no loss there. Passing a Civil rights act would get a loyal base to join the GOP. So take my word Henry, I want to see an executive order very soon.”

Henry sat quietly for a moment, wondering whether the man was insane or not, "You must be joking right? You ought to know that I can't write a bill. An Executive order like that is absolutely insane, it isn't within my jurisdiction to propose legislation or force a law through congress. That is out of the question, talk to your senators and representatives about that. The most I'll do on that front is mention it in my State of the Union address, and hope that a Senator listens."

“Well just know you better be quick with it. You don’t want any segregationists in the White House, let alone a Democrat one. I pushed for anti segregation policies in my state, but I can’t do that for the entire country yet.”

[Louisianan]

Henry sat quietly for a moment, wondering whether the man was insane or not, "You must be joking right? You ought to know that I can't write a bill. An Executive order like that is absolutely insane, it isn't within my jurisdiction to propose legislation or force a law through congress. That is out of the question, talk to your senators and representatives about that. The most I'll do on that front is mention it in my State of the Union address, and hope that a Senator listens."

“Well just know you better be quick with it. You don’t want any segregationists in the White House, let alone a Democrat one. I pushed for anti segregation policies in my state, but I can’t do that for the entire country yet.”

"The election is more than a year away." Henry said shaking his head, "I'm the commander and chief of the army, not commander and chief of the congress, my role in legislation is to sign the bills, that is it. I can't do it, and neither can my successor. I take the powers granted to me by the constitution very seriously."

[Garkland]

“Well just know you better be quick with it. You don’t want any segregationists in the White House, let alone a Democrat one. I pushed for anti segregation policies in my state, but I can’t do that for the entire country yet.”

"The election is more than a year away." Henry said shaking his head, "I'm the commander and chief of the army, not commander and chief of the congress, my role in legislation is to sign the bills, that is it. I can't do it, and neither can my successor. I take the powers granted to me by the constitution very seriously."

“Very well then Mr President. Well I hope to see you in person soon, as of now I am busy preparing for the primary next year. Good day.”

[Louisianan]

"The election is more than a year away." Henry said shaking his head, "I'm the commander and chief of the army, not commander and chief of the congress, my role in legislation is to sign the bills, that is it. I can't do it, and neither can my successor. I take the powers granted to me by the constitution very seriously."

“Very well then Mr President. Well I hope to see you in person soon, as of now I am busy preparing for the primary next year. Good day.”

The president slammed the receiver back onto the base of the rotary phone, pulling his hair, "Why me?" he excalimed.

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

"A governor can only do so much and a vice president could very easily find himself being able to do nothing at all. It's a position without formal powers aside from the breaking ties in the senate and the last time someone did that more than 10 times was in the 1860s and his successor did it once. It's a position who's power is entirely dependent on the loyalty of the president, who would be, in this scenario, would be an individual that switched party's for the purpose of running for president after having just been elected to his first term as governor. That's simply not worth giving up the governorship of New York for, it seems to be an arrangement built around your own ambition and your belief I'd secure New York for you."

Rodger laughs “Ah so you think I’m Jesus and that your that one prince and I’m asking you to give up everything? Ha, far from that. I’m not asking you to give up your position and resign, what I’m saying is if I win, you will be right along side me, If I lose you stay governor. And if your concerned about New York and your powers when you become Vice President, I will work to expand the duties of the Vice Presidential office, and give you more power. Also about loyalty, my supporters know where I stand, center, moderate . Sometimes you have to change your affiliation but not necessarily who you are.”

"Here's a question, just a hypothetical, if you are so sure of my capacity to play a role in the white house, to the point that you'd be willing to off load duties to me and expand the power of the vice presidency, how come you didn't ask me to run for President and for you to be vice president?"

[Garkland]

Rodger laughs “Ah so you think I’m Jesus and that your that one prince and I’m asking you to give up everything? Ha, far from that. I’m not asking you to give up your position and resign, what I’m saying is if I win, you will be right along side me, If I lose you stay governor. And if your concerned about New York and your powers when you become Vice President, I will work to expand the duties of the Vice Presidential office, and give you more power. Also about loyalty, my supporters know where I stand, center, moderate . Sometimes you have to change your affiliation but not necessarily who you are.”

"Here's a question, just a hypothetical, if you are so sure of my capacity to play a role in the white house, to the point that you'd be willing to off load duties to me and expand the power of the vice presidency, how come you didn't ask me to run for President and for you to be vice president?"

Rodger clears his throat and chokes up slightly, he forehead is filled with sweat
“Well Fraser, I didn’t think of that, I mean well, I could put my desires before your own and let you chase the White House, if my chances were low.... I wonder why you ask? Would you give the Vice President more powers and duties as I would?”

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

"Here's a question, just a hypothetical, if you are so sure of my capacity to play a role in the white house, to the point that you'd be willing to off load duties to me and expand the power of the vice presidency, how come you didn't ask me to run for President and for you to be vice president?"

Rodger clears his throat and chokes up slightly, he forehead is filled with sweat
“Well Fraser, I didn’t think of that, I mean well, I could put my desires before your own and let you chase the White House, if my chances were low.... I wonder why you ask? Would you give the Vice President more powers and duties as I would?”

"I would say that role of the Vice President is defined by statute and constitution, therefore getting it's role changed officially would represent quite the investment of political capital simply to pay back a political favor. As much as favor trading is still a staple in politics, we're not exactly in the era of the spoils system any longer so I doubt that'd be tolerated. So therefore, any power a vice president of mine would be purely discretionary on my part, they wouldn't be acting with much autonomy. part from day to day matters, but within the context carrying out the agenda of which I'd in that hypothetical situation, be elected for. See, I believing in serving the nation, above serving individuals, I believe positions should be filled based on the challenges of the political context of that moment. To put it in short, I can imagine a situation in which I picked you as vice president, but I could not in good conscious offer it to you or anyone else a little more than 2 years in advance of the start of the next presidential term, I simply can't know who'd best fit the political context of that moment and my commitment to service prevents me putting that aside in favor of what might help me secure the nomination."

[Madrinpoor]

"There are problems with every group sir," Juan chuckled, "And the Democratic party especially. But you do understand the risk I would be taking with an affiliation switch? Very few Republicans agree with my positions on the economy and other matters. And still, there are Democrats that believe in equality and desegregation, like I do. And senator (not-Kennedy), who I admire."

"I believe you mean Senator Oswald. Anyway, look at the Pennsylvania governor, he just swapped his party to run in the Presidential race!"

"Hmm...I suppose."

[Louisianan]

"I believe you mean Senator Oswald. Anyway, look at the Pennsylvania governor, he just swapped his party to run in the Presidential race!"

"Hmm...I suppose."

"I like you, Mr. Matamoros. I really do, I think you'd have a lot of potential if you were a Republican." Henry said shaking his head,

[Zohiania]

Senator Joseph Gorski Warszawski
Senate Chamber, Washington D.C.
January 9th, 1959

He sends a Senate Page Boy to let Senator Sharp know that he wishes to speak to him about Sharps intention to co-sponsor his bill.

[Newne Carriebean7]

Senator Sharp's Office, Capitol Hill

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Sharp took another lengthy sip of the booze, nodding affirmatively at the Tennessee senator.
"Thank you, Majority Whip Boone. I'll have them handily back you at the convention if you're short. I'm that kind of friend. I'll treat you like I treat my home state, or how you treat your goddamned grandmother. I hope you treated your grandma with kindness and love. If not, then I'd question your dedication to this plan."

He briefly stopped speaking eyes raised momentarily at Boone before returning to a genial, if southernly yokel like mood.

"If y'all just need a few more to carry yourself over the top to cinch the nomination away from a senagambian colored DINO, I can make a few arrangements. But if just me adding more would only mean more 'flies on the pile of cow shit' as they say in Mississippi, then I'd gladly have them give me the historical satisfaction of another senator. Do you know John Sharp Williams? In the 1908 Convention, the man got 8 or 11 delegates as a curtesy, before graciously saying he would not be a candidate for the subsequent ballots. Unfortunately I'm not in the mood to be curteous, so I'll greedily take what I can get in the terms of favorite sonnage. But if the convention goes to a second ballot, I'll happily withdraw and instruct them to throw their full support behind you. Party unity is key, unless we want a god-damned colored supremacist in the white house. It's the white house, not the fuckin' black house!"

"I never knew my grandmother," Earl said slowly, deliberately. "She killed herself the day General Johnston surrendered." He took a measured sip of whiskey, staring at the caricature across from him, secretly glad that he would not be publicly supporting him in the primary.

"Don't worry, Senator, I won't expect your suicide, nor will I surrender the nomination. Not to a communist, not to a colored— not to anyone."

Senator Sharp's Office, Capitol Hill

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Sharp's features changed at the sharp news. It was a gut punch to the southerner. He really hadn't expected such horrific news. His throat became dry, so he vainly grasped at the bottle of whiskey, polishing the bottle off and setting it down on his desk with an audible thwack.
He puts his hands around his head, staring down at the desk for the longest time before speaking in a softer tone, a tone that was new even to the often loud mouthed mississippian.
"I...I-'m so sorry for your loss. I-I mean I never knew. It's unpleasent to bring such things up of course, but.. I'll need a moment. I'll be back in a few minutes, hep yerself to the booze, and if you want to invade my office privacy by rifiling through my damaging collection of books on President Harding or play with the toy battleship USS Mississippi, or fuck about with the two large confederate flags with some senate page, I can't stop you right now, be back in a few Boothe."
With that, he stood up to get some fresh air. While the Mississippian should have known the layout of the senate building, he wasn't thinking straight. His mind was racing a million miles a second, his breathes became more raspy and unconcentrated. He felt like he was going to have a panic attack. Clutching his chest momentarily, he focused only on his lungs. Vacating the mind, his gaze met the floor, sucking in air and expelling it out, calming down with each breath.

After a solid few minutes of just kneeling in the hallway of the Senate Building, he begins to make his way back to talk to Senator Boothe when a voice snags his attention.
"Senator Sharp! Senator Sharp!"
"Hm?" The Misssissippian turned like clockwork abruptly to see the sight of a young boy, a black, young boy, not more than 15, or 16 (at least what he was able to make out from the freckles on his face).
"Senator Warszawski wishes to speak to you about the intention to co-sponser the bill."
Sharp's face beamed at the thought. There was a time and a place for removing senate pages, dumping them without a paddle in the swamp and driving off laughing all the way to the bank.

Unfortunately, this was neither the time nor the place to make such a joke.
"Warsawchowski? Warzawaski? Pilsudski? The Polish Cyclops? Sure, I'll meet with the Polish Cyclops! lead me to him ya colored bastard! Mush!" After some rather embarrassing looks at the racist Mississippian being led down the hallway, sighted by some of the more segregationist senators from Georgia and South Carolina, with him being mocked, called a "colored-old boy". Indeed, his normally pale white face had pigmentation, though this was pink from the rank embarrassment the supposed "Defender of the White Race" had with the chagrin of a colored leading him to Warszawski's Pennsylvanian Senate offices, where the man was busy writing on some paper. A light knock on the door led the face of Mississippian Sharp to meet the Pennsylvanian Joseph for the first time.

"Howdy Joe Pole. Can't pronounce yer goddamned last name. You've heard correct that I intend to co-sponser yer bill. From what I've skimmed through anyways, I've been busy chatin' with old friends lately. Pole, this bill holds plenty of water, so I hope it'll pass without a hitch in the Senate. Though I'm not sure about my other friends within the Senate, but I'm prayin' fer them."

[Zohiania]

Senator Joseph Gorski Warszawski
Senate Offices, Washington D.C.
January 9th, 1959

"Good afternoon Senator Sharp, don't worry I won't hold it against you that you can't pronounce my last name. Few can. I hope you didn't give that good young lad any problems, I immediately regretted asking the poor boy to go fetch you, but by the time I realized the poor lad had already run off to go fetch you. I will be quite frank with you Senator, I may be a godly man who doesn't allow himself to succumb to hate, but I can damn sure say I don't like you. I pray to God every day that people like you will leave God's green Earth. However, despite all of my reservations about you, I am open to allowing you to co-sponsor this bill despite my strong feelings against you and everything you stand for. Despite all of our differences, at least I can say your not a goddamn communist, even though your goddamn everything else wrong in this country. Forgive my rudeness, allow me to show you some northern hospitality, would you like some coffee or tea before we begin? I even got some nice homemade sweet tea from Georgia from some veteran pals of mine."

[Deblar]

James laughed as well, then continued his ranting from earlier. "I realized after the Emmett Till incident that I couldn't watch from the dugout anymore. I knew change starts with standing up, and that's what I did. I decided to run for office so I can bring change from the top and have it trickle on down. Change needs to come, and by God, I'm gonna bring it."

"Well, I wish you luck in that, and I'll be a phone call away if any help is needed."

"Why, thank you, Mr. President."

[Newne Carriebean7]

Offices of Pennsylvanian Senator Joseph Gorski Warszawski

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Senator Sharp's face curled into a smile, shaking the man's hand firmly.

"Oh, no, I didn't touch the boy. I'm just shocked you'd send a colored boy. Just me and my old ways, eh? Can't say the same for the gauntlet of dixiecrats, damn shame the boy was-" he caught himself mid sentence "n't just fine in finding me. He mighta saved my life, the colored boy! I must say I don't rather care for your politics, but at the end of the day, we're all people through and through, can't senators from the south and north meet along the Mason-Dixon line for a cup of northern joe and smoke some southern Virginian tabacco? Speakin' of some of that northern joe, I hear Pennsylvania makes taffeey damn good. Now, in spite of my health problems, the doctor didn't say nothin' bout sweets. If y'all could give me a bag or make some arrangements for Pennsylvanian Taaffe, I'd be right obliged to pay yer weight in Mississippian onions. Best damn onions you've ever seen in yer life!

Me, I'm going to turn 71, and from what I read up on one of my predecessors, I might well be interested in baying at the moon like a dog rather than stayin' in the senate for another six years. Coffee would be just fine and fuckin' dandy, Joe Pole. Now, about this here bill. I'm rather thankful at you lettin' me be a co-sponser on the legislation. Who in the hell says bipartisanship is dead? You and me might as well be from different planets, so this meetin' might need a few intergalactic translateers to translate my mississippian mumblings into yer pennsylvanian paragraphs.

Now, I like the title of 'Peace Corps'. I feel like we do need to distinguish between the guys holding guns giving you out hot soup in some war-torn shithole in the Congo and the guys not holding guns giving you out hot soup in dumps of the world. It might be one of the best humanitarian endeavors since the Red Cross or the Jews of biblical times. I rather enjoy how it gives the President and Executive Branch a rather broad brush to paint with whenever he damn well wants.

The main reason why I'm backin yer efferts, It's Section 3. It's good old fashioned colonial goodwillism. We barge into some African or South American war torn country, yell at it's gubment for a few months while paperwork's signed, then our companies can break apart government industries and monopolies. Competition lowers prices. I am one of the largest opponents on Monopoly. You might agree with me on this note, that Monopolies breed corruption and instability. Just look at our own guilded age for christ's sakes! We need to bust the African trusts, westerners be damned! They can be damned to hell if the almighty creator deems it necessary! Private Industry is what builds the world, not government socialism and regulations."

With that, he eyes the piping hot cup of coffee and happily takes a rather long sip of it.

"Best damn coffee I had all mornin'."

[Zohiania]

Senator Joseph Gorski Warszawski
Senate Offices, Washington D.C.
January 9th, 1959

"I have to remind myself to say sorry to that poor lad and give him some compensation. I've lost my taste for the most part ever since the war, and I can't smoke anymore because every time I do it reminds me of the war. But I'll see if I can get my sweet wife to pick up some taaffey for you, and maybe you'd enjoy some good ole polish Kielbasa, it would go good with those Mississippi onions. Unless you have any reservations about Pole food. Don't worry about needin a translator, I spent most of my adult life down in Georgia surrounded by you Southern boys when I wasn't fighting overseas.

I will say that I have no problem with bipartisanship, every single one of my bills have had a Democrat co-sponsor, but surely you understand a black loving Catholic with a Jewish daughter like me having a Dixie like you co-sponsor a bill will raise plenty of eyebrows across the board even if the bill is mainly focused on foreign affairs. My own wife would surely be quite surprised that I am afraid I might give her a heart attack once she hears the news. And my cousin who lost his father to the KKK in Alabama will probably not talk to me for a while. Are you prepared for any backlash for your decision to support this even if you plan on leaving the Senate sooner than later? Don't get me wrong, whether its political suicide for you or not isn't much a concern of mine. But as you know we Catholics like our confession and full disclosure.

I don't like giving the executive much power in most regards but when it comes to our fight against communism and affairs abroad, the president needs to be able to take decisive and strategic actions to effectively build the wall between us and the communists. And I am glad you agree with encouraging private enterprise, which I know will be hard to get all the Democrats to sign up on. But hopefully enough can see the necessity in this bill in the fight against communism.

The Peace Corps purpose is to both encourage civic values as well as showing the world that we are better than the damned communists and will do what we can to make the world a better place.

I'm glad you like the coffee, my daughter grinded the beans herself."

He began drinking some of the best damned coffee himself.

[Louisianan]

"Well, I wish you luck in that, and I'll be a phone call away if any help is needed."

"Why, thank you, Mr. President."

"Ok then, I'll let you get out of here, go see some sights! The monuments are pretty neat, you could probably go tour the capital, as well." Hnery said, rising from his seat.

[Deblar]

"Why, thank you, Mr. President."

"Ok then, I'll let you get out of here, go see some sights! The monuments are pretty neat, you could probably go tour the capital, as well." Hnery said, rising from his seat.

"As much as I want to, I shouldn't without my kids, and they're back in Boston.", James said as he stood.

[Newne Carriebean7]

Offices of Pennsylvanian Senator Joseph Gorski Warszawski

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Joshua Sharp took another large swig of the coffee and nodded at the joe pole.

"Polish Kielbasa, ain't that that sausage? That would be the perfect, cotton pickin' breakfast I might have. That would be swell if you'd give me some of that and some taffy on the side. Unfortunately, this is going to rifle feathers in the south once more detail about whom the man I'm co-operatin' with leaks out. If and when the dixiecrats and their boys mention your Jewish little girl and anti-KKK cousin, boy it's gonna be one reaal shit show for me. But, I'd like to let you in on a little secret.

I loathe the Klan. When I was young, before I signed up for the Grand old war, or Great War, I was approached by a man in the Klan, they led me through the initiation and even helped me pay my legal fees for when I was thrown in the military clink for insubordination. I thought I owed them, so I openly waved the banner of the KKK, proudly wore the cap to their meetins. Then, I began to realize somethin'. They were beginin' to shift to the left to me. They even let women have their own separate organization.

Women!

That's too liberal and This is comin' from a man whose daddy didn't like women votin'! I broke with the KKK because they were too left-leanin' in my case. The Klan did not help out the average poor white, he harrassed him, beat him up and whipped him good. That's not the right way to treat a proper white boy! They are nothin' more than a bunch of violent thugs, no good sons of bitches that just terrorize the good people of the south! As far as I am concerned the KKK is a communist women's rights organization that ought to be classified a terrorist group!

Seein' this as a political mistake? I know I've got a senate race comin' up, but the thing about politics is the glory of the attention span. If this bill doesn't make too big a splash, raise too much of a fuss in Mississippi, then I won't have to worry as badly about some challenger on my right chewin' my ass out for votin' alongside a northerner! I'm sure you already know this, but you know how up there in the north you have actual elections, in the south, it's the Democratic primary. If I loose the goddamned primary, I'm out of a job, lookin' for the unemployment line in '61! I know I'm takin one hell of a risk co-sponsering yer legislation, but if it stands up for the little man, if it stands up against the mass corporations and cotton plantations that are bankrolling my potential Senate opponents then so be it. I've made my sword, if I die on it in the primary, then so be it.

If we can whip the shit out of the reds, stand up to them, unlike the goddamned President in some instances. However, with Davis, I must admit my begrudging admiration for his political career, two terms as President. I'm slightly envious of that, but I'm gettin' sidetracked with my potential presidential ambitions. I know this move may not be seen as the smartest, but I'm gambling it'll pay off with jobs for Mississippians. It'll pay for it's weight in the kindness of your fellow man. I may not read the bible as much as I admittedly should, and there are things in life which I sure as hell wish I could take back from sayin', but If you just go through life apologizing for every little thing, your not livin' yer best goddamned life."

[Louisianan]

"Ok then, I'll let you get out of here, go see some sights! The monuments are pretty neat, you could probably go tour the capital, as well." Hnery said, rising from his seat.

"As much as I want to, I shouldn't without my kids, and they're back in Boston.", James said as he stood.

"Oh, I see... well, anytime y'all want to come down, give me a holler, and I'll make it happen, alright?" Henry said as he put his hand out for the man to shake,

[Deblar]

"As much as I want to, I shouldn't without my kids, and they're back in Boston.", James said as he stood.

"Oh, I see... well, anytime y'all want to come down, give me a holler, and I'll make it happen, alright?" Henry said as he put his hand out for the man to shake,

"Of course. Thanks again, Mr. President.", James said as he shook his hand tight.

[Zohiania]

Senator Joseph Gorski Warszawski
Senate Offices, Washington D.C.
January 9th, 1959

"My cousin's father, the uncle I never knew was a Catholic doctor down in Alabama, he decided patch up people who were commonly roughed up by Klan members in Birmingham, but eventually they found out about him and murdered him along around the same time as his parishes Father James Coyle was murdered back in '21. I was only an infant then, but my cousin moved back up north and lived with us for a while. The hatred in his heart burns heavily for the the Klan, no amount of godly sermons or time spent at Church has healed the wounds he has.

Well anyway I am glad that we can agree that the Klan and communists are both threats to our free society. Even if we don't agree on the issue of women's rights or that of the blacks rights, I am still glad we had this discussion, and short conversations like these can give perspective to people no matter where they come from or what they hold close to their heart. Although I can't find myself liking you even after our discussion, I am at the very least glad to better understand you. I pray to God you change your ways for the better and that you spend the rest of your life atoning for the wrongs you have done. No matter what you have said or done in your life, your still a child of God. God always has room in his heart for all of us even if no one else does. I appreciate your support with this upcoming bill. I'll make sure to get that taaffey and Kielbasa to you.

I wouldn't want to keep you any longer from any work you need to get done. Thank you for your time. Oh and since you liked the coffee, you can take the whole tin with you if you want, my daughter enjoys grinding the beans, so I have plenty of extra tins back at home."

He gets up, grabs a coffee tin, moves over to Senator Sharp with one hand seeking to shake, and the other to give the tin.

[Newne Carriebean7]

Offices of Pennsylvanian Senator Joseph Gorski Warszawski

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Joshua Sharp's face curls into a stout smile.
"I'm thankful of this chit-chat. If I had stood my ground on this issue, stood my ground and refused to even so much as meet with you, would I have been slightly stronger politicaly, possibly. However, that's not what life is about. It's about meeting other people, meeting with people and taking risks. This visit to your office was a risk, supporting you on this bill is a risk to my career.

They are risks I'm more than willin' to take, consequences to my constituents be damned. I'm strippin' away the political plays and theater for just two moments. It seems every senator here is hyper partisan. Politics get nasty, politics gets ugly. In the upcoming campaign, if we were to both run on the opposite sides, I just want you to know that I respect your opinions and your right to say them. I may not agree all the time with you, but I'll eagerly work with you where I can. Maybe we can make the KKK a potential terrorist organization or condemn them openly in future legislation.

Now, I'm no saint, I say all sorts of off-handed remarks and generally statements that you'd find reprehensible both in my private and public life. But, I'm damn glad I met you, Joe Pole. It opens my eyes to another world, a world outside of the cotton fields of Mississippi, a world outside the support of the south. Honestly, the simplest things in life may very well be the best." Sharp says, reaching over to shake Joseph Warszawski's hand and grinning from ear to ear at the large tin of coffee.

"Oh, and see to that you do get that sausage to me. Whenever I get up for a Mississippian breakfast of Onions and Polish sausage, I'll think of this pleasant conversation. Thank you for your time Senator." With that, Joshua Sharp turns the corner and returns to his Senate offices. He sits in his office for a while, mulling possible political actions.

[Louisianan]

The Advocate

Happenings

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REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKS ON RECENT LYNCHING IN ACADIA PARISH
REPRESENTATIVE BROUSSARD LECTURES THE PEOPLE OF ACADIA PARISH

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By Tensas Badeaux
January 10, 1959
Acadia- Recently in Acadia Parish, locals happened upon the deceased body of local civil rights activist Gary D. Guidry, who went missing two weeks earlier, after having a row with a white man at the Vermillion Parish nightclub, the Rock-A-Bye. The body seemed to have had lacerations around the wrists and ankles, as well as three bullet holes through the temple, the throat, and the left eye, sources say the body was unrecognizable and treated in the same way as Emmet Till of Money, MS back in '55.

Locals accuse the Ku Klux Klan of this attack and assault and the police arrested three suspects, Jonathan Desourmeaux, Henry O'Malley, and Dudley Willis. A Forked Island resident was a witness to the bar fight, young Hypolite Gaspard saw the fight and had this to say,

"I saw the fight alright, I was right up on the levee over that way fishing for catfish when i heard some whooping and hollering from down by the Rock-A-Bye, I went over yonder to check out the goings-on and alls I could see was a black man getting stuffed in the backseat of a Blue '34 Coupe. I ran home to tell my daddy, and he said that it was probably just a criminal getting arrested by cops, undercover. Here we are, few weeks later, and I'm in the newspaper."

Two of the suspects live in Crowley, and one lives in Maurice, all of them belong to the Ku Klux Klan. The body was found day before yesterday in Bayou Blanc, Representative Hubert Broussard released a statement regarding the incident earlier this morning.

"Louisianans, do not fret. The dead body that was found, was one of a local criminal, a local hoodlum from the slums of Kaplan. The Ku Klux Klan is the real victim here, any time a colored man goes missing or gets himself killed over drug money, the Klan gets the blame. Mr. Desourmeaux, O'Malley, and Willis are good hardworking farmers, who live miles away from Bayou Blanc. I think what we need to do is not arrest innocent men, and instead find the killer, find Mr. Guidry's drug dealer, and put him in jail, not these three law-abiding citizens. I'll be working on a bill that would force police to look into criminals of the victim's own race before they look into the opposite race if the victim is a negro. This is simply to help the police understand and prove that the colored population is not only more violent but more genocidal than the caucasian race."

What the Representative did not tell us, but what the police chief did, was that two of the suspects, Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Willis have former charges for domestic abuse, and Mr. O'Malley has former charges on attempted murder, as he was once caught attempting to strangle a black waitress at the Rock-A-Bye after hours. That charge was dropped, we will continue to dig into this devastating tragedy. The Guidry family requests that in lieu of gifts and flowers, donations be made to the Lafayette Chapter of the NAACP.