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

by **Louisianan** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:15 am

Response from Hubert Broussard in relation to Senator Sharp's Campaign

"I find it quite rich that a man in Mississippi, like Senator Sharp, could dog another man, Senator Turner for being away from his state. We can't forget that Senator Sharp is the same fool who's been hounding ole Louisiana, for the past few months just to spite me. Senator Sharp is a has-been, Senator Sharp brings shame upon the Sons of the Confederacy, and brings shame upon the old south. We cannot continue to let Senator Joshua Sharp tip-toe around the Capitol anymore. He is running a blasphemous presidential campaign that I can only compare to the disaster of Little Big Horn in 1876."

"Senator Sharp makes the country laugh at poor southerners like you and me, friends. Senator Sharp receives a military pension like most veterans, but unlike most veterans, he receives about $22,500 per year from taxpayers like you and me for sitting on his ass. In Congress, he has authored less than 10 bills as far as I am aware, in his close to three decades in the United States legislature. He votes against the Democratic Party, the party of states' rights, and the party of the working man. I'd like to make it known, from this day forward, I have begun to donate money to Senator Sharp's opponent's campaign in the Senatorial Race of Mississippi."

"Senator Sharp has made it abundantly clear that he is no longer fit to serve in the United States Senate. From his constant ignorance of the issues facing America today to his constant outbursts on the campaign trail to his mannerlessness and tactlessness that has left the roughest of men in embarrassment. I vow to do everything in my power as a citizen and as a legislator to keep Senator Sharp in the nursing home, and out of Congress. Mississippi can, and WILL do better come the 1960 Senatorial Election. Thank you, and god bless."

by **Meretica** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:34 am

“Hello, New York!” Robinette called as he waved to the large crowd in front of New York City Hall. “It’s a blessing to be here today!

New York has a long tradition of supporting civil rights, dating back to the very beginning of America! Alexander Hamilton stood against slavery and fought for this nation to be free of economic and political tyranny. Upton Sinclair, Theordore Roosevelt, and Thomas Nast used their skills in writing, public speaking, and artistic style to bring forth change in our great country. The works of Irving Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, and many others are truly American. New York was the first eastern state to give full suffrage to women, and New York has long been a center of political prosperity and consensus. New York was the state that pushed Lincoln over the 152 vote threshold required for a presidential victory. It has been the great state of New York that has paved the way for us to move forward.

New York, I make you three simple promises:
1. We will defeat the Soviet threat, close the missile gap, and establish peace and democracy globally.
2. We will pass civil rights reform and abolish the poll tax nationally.
3. We will defeat the radicals on the left and the right to lead our nation to victory!

New York, we can pay for this. We will cut the pay of our politicians and put those tax dollars towards our schools and our military. America must be strong at heart and strong at mind; otherwise, our strength is useless. We must know how to use that strength. We will desegregate our communities even further, though we will find better ways than busing to do so. New York, I am going to make redlining illegal. We will defeat Turner, Sharp, Ladhe, and the other racists and radicals. Turner and Sharp are Klansmen and openly racist. Ladhe believes in the right to kill an unborn child, to destroy life; he is no better than a communist.

I am a man of the people, elected by the people, that works for the people. I rose from the depths of poverty, built a life for myself, and got a good education. I have become the governor of Michigan and lead my state to prosperity. The Michigan Miracle is something that we can replicate nationally, and I need your help to do it. Together, we can build an America unlike any other. I see a world where there is not a Democratic America and a Republican America, but a United States of America. I do not want to see a black America, or a white America, but I want to see a United States of America. The Soviets don’t care whether we are with them or against them, they hate America. I will close the missile gap and together we shall end the communist threat in Russia, China, Southeastern Asia, and Europe. Democracy will rule the world with capitalism as its footstool.

America, I promise that you, the average worker, will see a cut in taxes. We will find the programs in our nation that are not working and we will end them. That will put money back in your pockets and more food on the table. This will stimulate the economy and reinforce it from the bottom up. America will thrive while the Soviets suffer.

God Bless New York City, and God Bless these United States!”

Ladhe and his campaign change their film into a radio play but officially publish it nonetheless. In the end, Ladhe says, "These are the stakes! To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die." This is the only line he says in the entire play.

by **Newne Carriebean7** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:25 pm

Official Statement from the Office of United States Senator Joshua Sharp (Democratic-Mississippi)

"If Representative Broussard could please get his head out of his ass, then he'd see that I haven't bothered to come around to that swamp-infested, cyclone battered state of Louisiana in quite some time. It's probably one of the few things inna this speech that would garner even a smile from the soulless bastard. I am well aware of my rather lackluster legislative progress in my many, many years not only as a veteran of the two grandest houses within the united states. I will let him and everyone else know that my personal opinion on bill-craftin is that it's not worth it most of the time. You simply add onto bills. That's called bein' a rider to an amendment or some shit. I have been one of the most proficient bill --riders in recent memory, if I do say so myself.

When popular bills are up that have a wide chance of passing, you simply ram down several amendments to the bills that just so happen to do good for Mississippi. Such as allow more out of state money to be retained in Mississippi's coffers instead of being sent to liberal cities with their crime rates. I shall even tell all y'all know that I am in the preliminary stages of drafting a constitutional amendment to defend Lynching and Violence throughout this country as a way to stand up to Uncle Tom and his lot! While I may have not added or even crafted my own legislation throughout most of my political career, that dosen't mean I've sat in committee meetings with a foot up my ass.

I've even worked with Broussard I believe, as hard as it is even for me to say this, on certain bills that ascertain to the issues currently facing poor farmers, poor children and poor sheep breeders. Although I may not write much, I still get my two cents on both the senate and house floor. I have never sat on my ass on the Senate floor. What I have done in pursue a wide-range of smaller bills that unfortunately never saw the light of committee.
As for the Louisianan's attempts at bankrolling my opposition's doomed to failure senate seat. I readily welcome every dollar donation not spent on Huey's personal habits in porking himself silly with coca cola. Hell, maybe Hubert can convince Coca-Cola to bankroll my opponent. Then I would be forced to be a Pepsi-Politician!

As a small note I am getting rid of my Coca-Cola vending machine I have in my office and will be gifting it to Senator Joseph Warszawski of Pennsylvania as a personal gift to commend my friendship with the 'only good politician left in Washington D.C besides myself'.

As a side note, A singular bottle of Coca-Cola will be sent along with a fruit basket to Representative Hubert Broussard.

by **Emazia** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:07 pm

Jonathan Jackosn Interview on the Midwestern Talk

OOC: This is one of the news station that Turner's company owns.

Interviewer: "Welcome, everyone, to the Midwestern Talk. We're here with General Johnathan Jackson. Thank you, General Jackson, for going us tonight. Before we begin, I'd like to ask you: how are you finding the campaign trail?"

Jackson: "Thank you for having me on your show. I have to say that I quite enjoy the campaign trail. Talking with people from all over the country gives you fresh perspectives on things. I especially enjoyed talking with voters who oppose my candidacy: I take their concerns into account, since I want to become a President of all Americans, not simply of those who will vote for me. I believe that politicians need to connect with the people and not be shielded away in an ivory tower. We must remember that we are public servants, meant to promote public good and good governance."

Interviewer: "How do you think your background has influenced your politics?"

Jackson: "I think my military background has influenced my politics and my candidacy a lot. Discipline, patriotism, hard work, making painful sacrifices; they are all part of military life. Whatever disagreements people may have with my policies, I believe almost everyone can agree that I have proven my patriotism and my love for America. I also believe that my career has given me skills which will be useful if I am elected President. As someone who has fought twice in Asia - as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in the Pacific and as Commander-in-Chief of the UN Command in Korea - I understand all too well what is necessary to win the war in Vietnam and bring back home our boys. I have an understanding of the history, geography and culture of the region while my military experience will allow me to cooperate smoothly with our military to achieve the best possible results. In both the Pacific War and the Korean War, I led multinational coalitions against the enemy. This requires, you know, a certain diplomatic competence and the ability to win and maintain the respect of your Allies. So as President I will use this experience as a model of how we can cooperate closely with our allies in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas to form a Block of Freedom to check Soviet expansionism. As Leader of the Allied Occupation of Japan, I in effect governed a nation of seventy-seven million people for almost six years. That is almost half of our population, and certainly more than any American state. As Leader, I had to deal with political, constitutional, economic and social issues. People who claim that I have no civil experience are thus wrong, for my tenure as Leader of Occupied Japan disproves those assertions. That is not to say that occupied Japan and America are the same. Japan was a defeated, humiliated nation with a ruined economy and feudalistic institutions. America is a modernized nation with a growing economy and a world power. But I believe that my tenure in Japan shows that I have dealt with civil issues and proves my competence, considering that Japan now is a democratic, modern state with a growing capitalist economy. Overall, I believe that my military career has been important in shaping my politics."

Interviewer: "There are concerns that you are too hawkish and hotheaded for diplomacy. How do you intend to address these concerns?"

Jackson: "I am not hawkish. I am not dovish either. I am standing up for American and Western interests and I am opposed to a policy of appeasement. The Soviet Union and their Communist Block want to end our very way of life. This is not a competition between two great powers like, say, the competitions of the 19th century between Britain and Russia. This is an ideological struggle; between freedom and slavery, democracy and authoritarianism, God and Atheism, light and darkness. If we fail, then the iron curtain will be extended over the entire world. Those who call for appeasement are actually the ones who risk a hot war. You see, if you do not set certain limits, then there are two possible results; you are either rolled over - which we cannot allow for the reasons I mentioned above - or you stand up but by then it will be too late, for the enemy will have been emboldened and will not take you seriously, thus risking a world war. That is what happened with Hitler. If the democratic nations had set some red lines earlier, Hitler would not have been emboldened and the second Great War may have been avoided; for if the enemy knows you are serious about your red lines and are willing to fight for them, then they won't risk conflict. But if they believe you are a pushover, they will cross the red lines - since they won't believe you will react - and force either a surrender or a war. My policy thus is one that guarantees peace through strength. My policy is one of realism and opposition to communism, but not one of hawkism. I will not start a conflict with the Soviets or Red China. In fact, I will be even willing to talk with them if necessary, but any talks will have to respect our red lines; that communism will not be exported violently to democratic nations and that the subversion of our way of life will not be accepted. I won't accept Red aggression, but I won't go looking for a fight either. I will use military means only when necessary and only when they serve our strategic interests; for example, in Vietnam. But I will not say invade Red China. To summarize, my policy is this: set some clear red lines, get the Soviets and Red Chinese understand that I will not tolerate them crossing those red lines, and ensuring peace through strength. There will be no hot war with the Soviets nor will there be use of nuclear weapons."

Interviewer: "Would you say you follow the foreign policy of peace through strength then?"

Jackson: "Yes. As I've said, my doctrine is securing world peace by making sure our adversaries respect us. If the Soviets and Red Chinese understand we are willing to do what it takes to defend our interests and that we are militarily and economically powerful, then they won't risk starting a global war. They will also not make any risky moves which could endanger peace. I can also assure you that the red lines I will set as President - that is that we will not accept destabilization of democratic nations and the violent exportation of communism - will be reasonable. And I can also assure you that if the Soviets respect our red lines, then we can even begin talks to deescalate tensions. But before we can hold any such talks, we need to make sure that the Reds respect our red lines and respect our prowess. If you go to Moscow begging for mutual understanding, the Soviets will demand concessions. If on the other hand you prove you are no pushover and that you will not budge from your red lines, then in any talks you will have the respect of the enemy and they will not demand concessions."
Interviewer: "What is your opinion on the space race, and specifically on the militarisation of space for national defence?"
Jackson: "We cannot allow the Soviets to gain an edge over use when it comes to the space race. I believe we need to invest more money into NASA in order to remain ahead. It saddens me that we waste dollars on inefficient and wasteful programs instead of pouring more money into ensuring we do not fall behind in space. This is a matter of national security, not simply of prestige or scientific advancement. Space is the new frontier of warfare. I know that this might sound a bit too futuristic, but people said the same thing about planes and the militarization of the sky. Thus if we fall behind the Soviets, it will not simply hurt our prestige and allow the Soviets to claim that communism is the superior system; it will also potentially put us into a military disadvantage. As President, I will spend 4% of our federal budget into NASA. I will also be prioritizing military research and missions, in order to ensure we've got an edge over the Soviets when it comes to national defense. I also pledge to sent the first manned mission into space, hopefully in 1961 or even earlier."

Interviewer: "Moving onto other matters, what is your opinion on the civil rights movement?"

Jackson: "I can see both sides of the argument. On the one hand, we cannot deny our colored citizens their rightful rights but on the other hand we cannot impose heavy-handed solutions on the people of the South and strip them of their liberties. I believe we need a sort of grand compromise that rejects both the extreme far right and the extreme left. We need a solution that will unite rather than divide the country. If white and colored, Northern and Southerner Americans are at each other's throats, if we got violence, riots and anarchism on our streets, then how can we hope to stand up to the Soviets? If we cannot maintain peace and stability at home, how can we hope to defend the Free World? That's why I will be instituting a Bipartisan Committee made up for Republican and Democratic members of Congress from both North and South to formulate a broadly acceptable solution to all, a plan that will be accepted by both North and South, white and colored folk. We need peace, we need stability, we need unity. A house divided cannot stand."
Interviewer: "What is your view on Senator Lahde's recent attempt to legalise abortion, along with the conservative backlash coming from the 'Morality Amendment'?"
Jackson: "I think that it is a very bad idea. I am opposed to abortions. My personal conviction is that we should defend the rights of the unborn. For the unborn have no voice to defend their rights, we must do it for them. I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. It is hypocritical to hold such a stance then."

Interviewer: "And what about the Morality Amendment, which would have the US constitution outlaw abortion and homosexual relations?"

Jackson: "I would support such an amendment, in order to safeguard the right to life and defend our way of life."

Interviewer: "What would you say to people, especially liberals in your party, who are hesitant to vote for you, including in the general?"

Jackson: "Firstly, that I am uniter and not a divider. While others in the primaries of both parties have spent much of their campaign attacking and criticizing other candidates, I've avoided doing that and instead focused on presenting my own vision for America. As President, I pledge to be a President of all Americans, and this of course includes liberals. Secondly, my long military career speaks both to my experience and my patriotism. I do not think anyone, including those who disagree strongly with me, can question my love for America. As I've also explained before, my experience both as Commander in the Pacific and Korean Wars and as Leader of Occupied Japan means I have both civil and military experience and knowledge of how to build a multinational coalition to defend the Free World. Last but not least, you can rest assured that I will reach out to people who disagree with me as President and I will work towards uniting this nation, as my Bipartisan Committee proposal shows."

Interviewer: "Alright, thank you, General. Is there anything in particular you want to tell our audience tonight?"

Jackson: "I pledge to protect the Free World from the Red menace. I pledge that every American who pays income tax will see their tax rate reduced and that businesses - especially small mom and pop neighborhood stores - will see a reduction of their tax burden. I will put an end to red tape and ensure that the taxpayers' dollars are respected and actually help people instead of ending up into the pockets of bureaucrats. I will crack down on crime and disorder. I will put an end to the drug epidemic and ensure that young people receive patriotic and moral education. I will unite, rather than divide, the nation with my proposed Bipartisan Committee. But in order to do all this, and more, I need your active support. Without you, I am just one man. But with your support, we can be a movement. We can together make American ever greater. May God bless you and may God bless the United States of America!"

Interviewer: "Thank you, General. This has been the Midwestern Talk, and good night."

Jackson: "Good night to you too."

by **Hopal** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:23 pm

Douglas had returned to the place where he grew up, he remembered the streets, shops, and mines of Mountain Iron, Minnesota well. This was where his father worked and where he and his mother moved to during the height of the great depression. Where he ran errands for his father's colleagues and he saw the cruel conditions in which they worked the mines. He returned here today to kick off a tour of sort of Minnesota as he contemplated his political future. He met with residents and heard their concerns and he caught with old friends, classmates, and teachers. He was here and going around Minnesota to campaign against Turner, but he was also trying to lay the groundwork for a potential state wide race. He had been thinking about whether or not to run for reelection out of the 4th District, or whether he should run for a state wide office like Attorney General. Perhaps he could get his Chief of Staff John Maddox to run for one the offices and he would run for the other. He had always thought that Maddox would make for a good politician, he kept Douglas in line, to an extent. But where would he be without Maddox.

As he stood there thinking and preparing to go on stage his Chief of Staff John Maddox came over to check on him, "You ready?" he asked. "As always" Douglas replied with a smile before stepping onto the podium.

Mountain Iron, Minnesota
Representative Douglas Speech
August 6th, 1959
Broadcasted by Radio across the State of Minnesota some parts of the rest of the Midwest

"It's good to be back here. I saw that some of you still recognize me after all this time. I'll try to make time to come back every once in a while, but I come here for a specific reason today. I come to you that I see, that I hear you, that I will work for you, and I'll make sure that those aren't false promises spewed by a politician as some politicians might do, and we'll get to that. I work for the common American struggling to ends meet, I know that struggle as many of you know my parents were barely to make through the great depression. I know what that life is like, and many of you do too, my job is to try to make this life easier, to try to prevent lives from going down this route, and that is what I will do in Congress, that is my aim when I legislate, when I get bills passed, when I support a candidate, when I support a bill. There are still people in Congress looking out for your best interest.

But by contrast there are people in Congress like Senator Frank Turner of Mississippi who were born into wealth and privilege, born and breed into arrogance, and who look down on those poorer than them. He had everything given to him in life, his grandfather a wealthy confederate who betrayed his country, his father a congressmen who pushed segregation. But did you watch the debate the other day, the one between Senator Turner and Governor Wilson-Carter, the results of the debate don't really matter, but did you hear what Senator Turner said. He said he was an outsider, he said he represented the average American. But that couldn't be farther from the truth, he was born into politics, he father was a congressman, he was a senator for over a decade, he was born into wealth, he was born into the elite. He is the elite. He says he represents the average American, but that's a façade for his true agenda, he doesn't represent the average American, he represents the average confederate millionaire. Do we actually know his economic agenda? He said he surrounds himself with the top economists, but those people are just the shadowy millionaires who hope to benefit from him. He doesn't represent the average American, he only represents a sub-section of us. He walked out of the DNC in '48 and ran for President as a racist segregationist. If anyone here thinks Turner will represent him they are mistaken.

He says he represents the average American, but in reality he the class that has oppressed them. He wants to keep the status quo because it will maintain in wealth and power. He wants blacks segregated and oppressed because they challenge his wealth and power, so called 'communism' is just an excuse. Their struggle, the struggle of the blacks in America is our struggle, our struggle against those who have kept us down, who have oppressed us, who have left in mines working in poor conditions. My father is likely dying of because of the years he worked in that wicked mine. Their struggle is our struggle, I ask you what's wrong with them blacks to sit with us? What's wrong with allowing them blacks to work with us? To help us? To support us? To make our country a better place? Is making a better country communism as Turner might suggest? If that's what communism is, call me a communist for all I care.

And while I respect his service and thank him for it, I cannot think of it as a benefit. Great Generals do not necessarily make Great Presidents. Look at the incompetence of Zachary Taylor and Ulysses S. Grant for example. Military prowess does not prove someone is capable of civilian governance, and the fundamental problem with Generals is that they will perpetual want to cause war, to cause death and suffering. Look at Davis for example, look at what he got us into in 'Nam, 1000 of our boys dead in Saigon, and why? Turner and Jackson want to invade Cuba and Vietnam and practically everywhere else on god's green earth. While we must stand on guard against the Soviets, and we cannot allow them to overpower us, to infiltrate, to win against us. We cannot be getting into unnecessary wars.

We need someone who can be a true leader, who can stand up for the Soviets, and who stand up for the Average American struggled to reach ends meet. Somebody who carry on the legacy on Franklin Roosevelt and can support the American people. That is why I am endorsing Earl Boone to President of the United States. He is someone who stands for the principles of the New Deal who can carry out the New Deal and provide even more supports for the American people. Someone who can stand up to the Elite through his Equity Tax. That is the kind of President we need in America today, and that is why I am endorsing him.

We are better than Frank Turner, Joshua Sharp, and Jonathan Jackson, I know we are. I know the true spirit of Minnesota and the Midwest and we need to show Frank Turner that we will not stand with him. We need to show him that he is a radical, racist, and extremist and that he does not represent us. Thank you all who are listening here today and on radio. Thank you and God Bless you, Goodnight."

by **Louisianan** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:34 pm

Davis' Folly III
Groom Lake, Nevada
August 5, 1959

1:34 PM

The few workers at Homey Airport were unaware of the immensity of the job that they were doing, they were committing a cover-up and they had absolutely no idea. The generals in the head office, on the other hand, were very willing to commit crimes if it satisfied the president and ensured them a budget increase. Typewriters could be heard click-clacking throughout the office as three boxes full of pens, and two boxes full of Typewriter ink were trucked in. Another shipment that arrived two hours earlier was filled with documents, documents that Mrs. Claudia Mottlings had signed. A new machine known to the workers as the Xerox was placed in the middle of the office. Any document that was typed in the Typewriters were Xerox'ed, each copy of the documents was taken by a separate worker to begin practice in perfecting the forged signature of Mrs. Claudia Mottlings.

by **Dalmannia** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 4:54 pm

(Note: Some maps of the speaking tour tended to produce misprints leaving stop #21 absent on the map, despite being listed and marketed as a scheduled stop.)

SPEAKING TOUR SCHEDULE:

1. Speech on Freedoms, American Exceptionalism & Country’s History (Independence, VA) — August 9
2. Rally, Speech on Democratic Heritage & American Exceptionalism (Richmond, VA) — August 11
3. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America (Portsmouth, VA) — August 12
4. Speech on Plan For Exceptional America (Edenton, NC) — August 14
5. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America (Raleigh, NC) — August 15
6. Speech on Foreign Policy & Country’s History (Fayetteville, NC) — August 17
7. Rally, Speech on Country’s History & Democratic Heritage (Columbia, SC) — August 20
8. Speech on Country’s History & Democratic Heritage (Augusta, GA) — August 21
9. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America (Atlanta, GA) — August 23
10. Speech on Foreign Policy Agenda (Gainesville, FL) — August 25
11. Rally, Speech on Foreign Policy Agenda & Plan For Exceptional America (Orlando, FL) — August 27
12. Speech on Foreign Policy Agenda (Tallahassee, FL) — September 1
13. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America & Democratic Heritage (Montgomery, AL) — September 4
14. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America (Mobile, AL) — September 6
15. Rally, Event w/ Senator Sharp, Speech on Democratic Heritage (Jackson, MS) — September 8
16. Speech on Country’s History & Democratic Heritage (New Orleans, LA) — September 10
17. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America & Democratic Heritage (Houston, TX) — September 12
18. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America & Democratic Heritage (Austin, TX) — September 13
19. Speech on Plan For Exceptional America (Little Rock, AK) — September 18
20. Rally, Speech on American Exceptionalism & Foreign Policy (Bismarck, MO) — September 21
21. Speech on Plan For Exceptional America & Democratic Heritage (Jefferson, MO) — September 22
22. Speech on Personal Biography & Democratic Heritage (Boonville, MO) — September 23
23. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America (Centralia, IL) — September 25
24. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America (Indianapolis, IN) — September 28
25. Rally, Speech on Plan For Exceptional America & Democratic Heritage (Louisville, KY) — October 2
26. Rally, Speech on Personal Biography, Representing Tennessee in the Senate & Plan For Exceptional America (Rogersville, TN) — October 3
27. Rally, Speech on Personal Biography, Representing Tennessee in the Senate & Plan For Exceptional America (Nashville, TN) — October 5

by **Meretica** » Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:19 pm

Due to rain and cloudy skies, Robinette canceled his outdoor speech (he would instead do a radio speech later in the day) and instead spent the day doing photo ops at Philadelphia businesses, buying items at various shops while taking some time to speak with blue-and-white-collar workers. Robinette dressed in the attire of the average American-- a button-up shirt, thin tie, white pants, and loafers. Pennsylvania was a relatively moderate state all the way around, but Philadelphia was undoubtedly liberal on many stances. It had been voting for Democratic mayors since 1951, but that didn't mean that anyone ought not to make a play for it. For all Robinette knew, Philly would be the deciding factor in Pennsylvania...

Later that day, Robinette sat in front of three microphones and several reporters from (not) ABC, (not) MBS, and (not) NBC. There would be no questions today, just the speech itself.

Originally, America, I was going to speak to you tonight about healthcare, defense, and civil rights. Some would recommend that I do just that. However, I think that we need to take a moment and discuss how we can end communism in the United States and abroad without bloodshed. Instead, we can use a far deadlier weapon, the greatest tool that we can give to the next generation: education. Ladies and gentlemen, I was sent a letter in my capacity as governor by an old political rival of mine, Mr. Joseph Mills.

Number One: Do you believe that the communist organizations around the world are under orders from the Kremlin in Moscow? Certainly.
Number Two: Do you believe that communist organizations are a threat to world peace? Certainly.
Number Three: Do you believe that the communists' main goal is to destroy the liberty of all men?[I] Certainly.
[I]Number Four: Assuming the answer to all three of these questions is 'yes,' should we outlaw the Communist Organization? Absolutely not.

My interest is not in preserving the Communist or his liberties. My interest is in preserving America and its liberties. America has a Constitution and the First Amendment to that Constitution protects free speech, free press, religious freedom, peaceful protest, and the right to petition. If we are to protect Americans and their liberties, we must not become the totalitarians that we seek to destroy. It is better to watch the Communists under the light of day than force them to act under the cover of night. Actions against the Communist Party of America by the United States government would violate the First Amendment and push America down a totalitarian path. We are not dictators. We are small d-democrats. We believe in a small r-republican government. For that government and this nation to last, we must follow the guidelines that the Founders and Framers, in their everlasting wisdom, outlined in the greatest man-made document ever known: the Constitution. It would be a grievous error. Our government has already been infiltrated by the Communists as Mr. Ladhe of Montana has proved with his recent outrageous actions, and to do so he had to be elected. I think that the best way to stop Ladhe and his associates from the Kremlin from being elected in the future is to make sure that all Americans are well-educated. A well-educated American is a patriotic American. A well-educated American is an anti-Soviet American. An uneducated American can be used as a tool, as Mr. Ladhe has proven for us, to infiltrate our government and give power to the Communists. Should Ladhe be removed from the Senate? Absolutely not. Why? Montana will realize its grave error; I believe that Montana shall learn from its mistakes and send an American patriot to Washington. We can see what Communists support through Mr. Ladhe's abominable bill that would legalize the murder of our unborn children. We can see what Communists support through Mr. Ladhe's radio play where he pretended to show what supposedly all other presidential candidates would do to the world. Mr. Ladhe supports the un-American activity of supporting Communist ideals. Instead, we will do what the Communists fear most-- educating Americans on communism, what it is, what it does, and how it affects everyday life. I have proposed cutting the pay of government officials substantially to return some money to the taxpayers and divert the rest towards education and defense. We can use these education funds to establish classes at our schools and colleges that show the grim reality of communism in Russia, China, parts of Europe, and Nothern Vietnam. We will educate the populace, warn them, and give them the ability to choose between America and the Soviets, life and death, God and Satan. Every red-blooded American patriot knows which way to go.

by **Newne Carriebean7** » Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:00 pm

Springfield, Illinois
August 6th, 1959

"Why, a big ol' Missisiippi kiss to all y'all! Mwah, Mwah, Mwah! Consider it straight from ol' Sharp's mouth. Illinois, what a state. I haven't seen such pretty lush countrysides since I took a week of leave to stop off atta Paris durin' the Great War. I was deployed overseas and saw some things that ought t' make every, good, straight shootin' man envious from the amount o' women I saw! Respectable woman 'course, I ain't implying I was a frequent to french bars and places of more 'casual' attire. 'course my more adult instinct had long since quieted down to raise a family inna my mind. I just sparked several fleetin' re-lationships with the wimmen o' French-istania or whatever y'all call 'em.

I fought hard for my country and I'm damn proud of my service, as any good veteran should do. They only way my mind can justify veterans who ain't proud are those who have committed illegal acts and ought to be prosecuted. My personal combat experience was inna Belleau Wood as a machine gunner. Y'know the 'rat-tat-tat' fellers ya see inna the talkies? Those guys. I, uh, manned a big ol' bulckey machine gun. The water-cooled varey-aunts. Y'know the ones y'all see inna the museusm. Now, Y'all can a know that I served my country by killing. I ain't proud of killin, n' the death n' the shit you have to deal with. I should know.

Springfield has also known worldwide and nationwide as a place where firearms are born. A place where jobs are created by the stroke of a wrist and flick of a pen. It is a magical place. It always smells of sulfur and the other ingredient inna-gun powdar. Most of all, it is known for it's hard working Americans. Small town folks, folks that don't want no monstrous uncle Sam, but they do want a lil' spendin' money to stimulate their local industry. These are folks that won't see their jobs flee the state to lower wagin' places like my own native Mississippi or South Carolina. They're folks that don't need large hand outs, just a 'crumb or two'. I have that c-crumb or two that they will git with a new bill I've been a workin' on.

I am pleased to announce that I have a modest proposal to give everyone a small bit o' somethin. All one hunnded an' seventeen million people in the country will receive an economic stimuli's. It is a rather tiny affair, but one that will go towards heppin' out everyone in this country. I firmly, no, I know it will hep out a whole lotta folks. I'm even hopin' my good, good senator Joe Pole from Pennsylvania will be on board with a bill I've been cookin' up. It's called the Tactical Universal Relief from Depression, or TURD for short. I'd like y'all to call it the Depression Relif plan. Before anyone calls me a communist, It's just to hep all y'all pay fer yer groceries or if y'all needs to git a new bike tire or some shit like that. It ain't enough for any o' y'all to g'an out there n' git a new boat or a new toaster oven.

In this bill I'm thinkin' o' caviats. For those making less than 50,000 a year, they will get the full amount, in the mail by virtue of the IRS and the Postal System. If y'all make between fitty and a hunnded fitty, y'all must wait three months 'til the poor fellers git their full amount 'fore gittin' yours. If y'all make more than a hunnded fity dollars, then y'all must wait up to a full year before y'all git the full amount. It is stacked in a way so not to have the relatively tiny $2 trillion dollar price tag be a burden onto the shoulders of American taxpayers and their starvin' families. It's a stimulus designed to hep everyone out with the 'lectriceetee bill n' shit ike that. I told y'all I cans a come up wit new ideas.

It ain't socialism, it's heppin out the dirt poorest slack jawed locals that don't know hows-t' count t'ween their toes n' what have all y'alls!

There are certain candidates in this race which frequently go out of the way to slander each other. It makes politics resemble less like the early 1900s gentlemen's club and more a savage mess that politics was inna ancient rome! I ain't no Ceaser and Dave s-sure as shit ain't not no damned Augustus. Ass gust us? Maybe. Unfortunately, I must first attack a fellow politician. Mista Robinson or Robinette, however the hell y'all say his name.

He attacked Mr. Ladhe. He called him a communist. As much as I disagree with the liberal candidate on traditional issues that are in the realm of national defense and state's rights, I must come to his aid. Senator Ladhe is not a communist. Senator Ladhe is a patriotic American. The man has been my friend since he entered the Senate. He may be one of the more liberal types, but I know damn well that the Montanan has never, in my years, expressed sympathy to the Soviet Union, talked about overthrowing the United States Government or dared speak ill of the American Way of Life. He had one of the closest e-lections that I had ever heard about, and is a man absolutely dedicated to his causes, controversial as they are. That is a man I can respect. That is a man that deserves every single vote in his native Montana. That is a man whom I am endorsing for another Senate term. I hope, no I pray, to see Senator Ladhe's face next August for me, November for him. Come January 3rd, 1961, Both of us will continue the good, good work we've been doing as politicians for our respective states. I pray that he shares the same sentiments!

I doubt the governor of some Meh che gan ate state has a whole lotta room to stand on. Y'all can't just slander my good friend like that. His argument is that idiotic Americans are anti-communist. That is an affront to the poorly educated. Hell, it's an affront to this dumbass. I'm not much smarter than two dunghills on a mountain and even I know that the poor have never been communists. Mr. Robinette, with this singular statement you have lost the vote of every poor person in America! I hope you like the taste of losing, because that is all you are going to be doing from now on! They just want extra help n' handouts. They just need tax cuts. A Sharp administration will give them their tax cuts. The poor are some of the hardest working people I have had the pleasure in knowing. I've known the 'sweat o' their brow' type folks ain't the fat-ass millionaires that Mr. Robinson cradles and coddles for far-left, third rate presidential bids. It's average joes and folks like all y'all! We can send that Wolverine supportin' governor a stern, mean but popular message that 'Mr. Robinson, we ain't likin' the smell o' your bullshit y'all've been pushin! Leave Montana's most precious political resource alone!"

by **Cybernetic Socialist Republics** » Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:46 pm

Tom Fraser's Campaign Schedule

August 10th, 1959

State: Massachusetts
Focus County: Middlesex
Focus Municipality: Cambridge
Main Theme: Speech on the need to delivery education to get the best out of all Americans
Press Conference Location: Meeting held by Harvard Republican Club

August 11th, 1959

State: Connecticut
Focus County: Fairfield
Focus Municipality: Bridgeport
Main Theme: Meetings with leaders in finance and speaking about the importance of the entrepreneur
Press Conference Location: Meeting held by Yale College Republicans.

August 12th, 1959

State: Rhode Island
Focus County: Providence
Focus Municipality: Providence
Main Theme: Importance of investing in Research and Development to build Americas' military and industrial edge.
Press Conference Location: Meeting held by Brown College Republicans

August 13th to 16th, 1959

State: Iowa
Focus County: Polk
Focus Municipality: Des Moines
Main Theme: Retail Politics with prominent Iowa Republicans, business groups and voters
Press Conference Location: Iowa State Fair

by **Free Ward Marchers** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:16 am

Iowa State Fair, August 13th 1959

The day is bright and the weather is fine down her in Des Moines, Iowa where over two-thousand people have come all over the country to see the famous Iowa State Fair. We got food, games, rides, and anything you possibly think of her at the Iowa State Fair and later tonight we hold the annual straw poll to see who Iowan's are feeling this presidential election season, so there will be sure to be speeches by some those candidates all day 'round. So why don't you stop on by to the Iowa state fair! - National Radio Announcer

(OOC: This will be open pretty much all day for presidential candidates and their supporters to do speeches, give out candy to children, and maybe bus some people in who "can't afford to get there themselves" and might "appreciate the assistance". The straw poll will probably be at the end of the day and will depend more on the impression you leave here today than the actual poll number, like all Iowa Straw Polls, they aren't really accurate but can give you an idea of frontrunners and voter enthusiasm)

by **Meretica** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 9:01 am

Robinette Wilson Carter, R-Michigan, Presidential Candidate
The Wilson-Carter campaign had bought and paid for a medium-sized booth in advance for the Iowa State Fair. And, of course, bused in as many people as he possibly could. It hadn't come cheap, but campaigns were never cheap, were they? No, they were typically costly, with or without donations...

Dressed in a plaid button-up shirt that was tucked into his pants, RWC looked, for all intents and purposes, like a farmer. "Alright, folks," Robinette began, "we're going to pass the hat around a few times today to help support the NFO. For those of you that don't know, that's the National Farmers Organization. The farmers around here need help, and we're going to help them. The same goes for any signs, stickers, et cetera that we sell today. All of it is going to the NFO. Questions?" No one raised their hands. "Alright, then I'm off to chit-chat with the locals. Let's get to work!"

While his campaign team finished setting up their campaign booth, Robinette went ahead and placed ten $10 bills in the hat they were using. He straightened his hair just a little and went off towards an area where several older men were sitting or standing, chewing on tobacco. "Ain't no reason we can't just vote fer the Dimmycrits ag'in," one said.

"Maybe, if we wanna put a southerner in power," another retorted. "They're just lookin' out fer themselves, like always. I don't have nothin' 'gainst the Negro, really, I don't, by we got other issues to handle. Let's not put the cart b'fer the mule, we got bigger problems. Can't sell nothin' on the market cause prices aren't worth a damn!"

"It's been that way since Eff-Dee-Arr died, Henry, ain't no reason to 'spect anything'll change just cause we ask nicely."

"That's right, Bob!" said a third. "But at least Mr. Boone understands or at least pretends to understand us. The farmer is still important, they'll remember us before the end!"

"But who's to say that they won't just be pandering to you, saying what you want to hear?" Robinette interrupted. The men looked up from one another, staring at him a bit coldly. "Sorry to interrupt, gentlemen, but I think I know how to fix your problems."

"You ain't from around here, are ya?" the one named Henry asked. "You... yer that feller from Mitch-ee-gin, ain't ya? That Republican."

"I am," Robinette admitted freely. "I'd like to make it so that you can sell your grain, your corn, your crops, your goods to whoever the hell you want to sell it to. I think that you'd like your wares outside of Iowa at the best prices you can get. I think that we can do that if we expand school lunch and milk programs. I want to do whatever the hell I can to raise your prices and get money into your pockets, even if I have to buy half the grain in Iowa all by myself. We've got starving children in our cities and more food than you know what to do with here. I want to get this to those cities, and I want to get you a profit. How does that sound?"

"Well, sir," Bob answered as he twirled a toothpick in his mouth, "I do believe that's some o' yer panderin' and sayin' what we wanna hear."

"Is it pandering if it works?"

"Well... I s'pose not."

"Then what do you think, gentlemen? Do you want a Farmer's New Deal?"

by **Newne Carriebean7** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 9:55 am

Middle of Nowhere, Iowa
August 13th, 1959

"The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round , round and round! Wheels onna t' Bus g'an round n' round n' round all the live-long day!"

If you had been unfortunate enough to be stuck in the swelteringly hot for August Greyhound Bus, it would have been a mismatch of curly, burly and moe of the three stooges. Sharp was still too cheap for any sort of air conditioning unit, so the only airflow on the bus was a tiny crack at the above head cabin where Sharp had been musing through yet another campaign speech.

"Blah blah blah, howdy y'all, blah blah, farmers, blah-"
A sudden jolt made the old man suddenly had his cranium kiss the upper roof of his transportation, yelping in a surprise tirade of curses and elderly joint-pain combining.
"Argh- Fuck, fuck, fuck! What monkey is driving this goddamned piece of shit?!"

"Mista President Candeedate, I is a drivin' the bus. Ain't you prouda me paw-paw?"

Senator Sharp had the hindsight to see the bus driver now looking at him with an idiotic look on his face, which immediatly meant that he had gotten up from his seat while the bus was in motion to talk with the politician. A more alert member of the candidate's campaign staff nearly threw the braincell lacking motorist out right there as the staff member rushed for the controls of the bus.

"Ah shit, hold on everyone!" the unpaid and unloved intern barked out as people hastily did up their seatbelts, all except for Sharp who was stumbling out of the overhead bin to find a seat, being flung to the ground violently with a sharp turn.

"SQUIRREL!"

Suddenly the staffer's control of the steering wheel was thrown into question as the driver sought to reclaim what was illegitimately bequeathed to him thanks to Sharp's poor preparedness.

"You fucking idiot let go of the fucking wheel!"

"No! I sees squirrel. I gon' gits the squirrel!"

"You slack-jawed dumbass, the only thing y'all's a gon' git is a gittin' us killed, LET GO OF THE FUCKING WHEEL!"

"Ah, y' wants t' drive. I sees." With that the former vice grip of the idiotic driver surrendered, leading the bus from it's tight right to to a very hard left turn, smashing into the fence that guarded the rows and rows of corn in Iowa. The intern practically laid cement bricks on the brakes as the elderly transportation finally came to a screeching halt outside of a cornfield, with a few curious onlookers (and probable owners of said cornfield) moving to investigate the unwanted surprise to their lazy day.

What the onlookers would see next was an elderly man in a suit forcibly berating in multiple lounges and kicking in multiple body parts a slew of people that would have counted for just a light beating in Mississippi but differently in Iowa.

"Alright then. Hey-HEY! HEEY!" Sharp frantically waved down an elderly couple, one was a farmer that held a rather menacing looking Shotgun while what was presumed to be his wife tightly squeezed on her husband's arm and hid behind the guardian.

"You have fifteen seconds to explain what in the tarnation you're doin' out here, in my field. Start!" Barked them an, who pumped the shotgun and aimed it square at the Mississippian.

"Shit version's this. I's a Senator from M'Sissippii. Joshua Sharp's the name. I'm runnin' fer prez-dent n' my bus has a case of the stupids hit-its. Y'all think y'all can give us a lift to the Eye-oh-wa Fair?"

The man's expression changed slightly, with a twing on his eyes.

"Joshy-wa? Joshy-wa? Git the hell off my property, Senator or not! I'll hep y'all git back onna the bus n' have my son Baxter tow yer bus on outta here wit the plow. G'an, Git!"

"I take it this is a one ti-"

The Man, growing impatient with the microcosm of dumbassery in front of him, pointed the shotgun way, way up in the air and fired a burst, making the southern party of several from Mississippi get the message and scrambled back onto onto the bus, driving off not a few moments later, with Sharp himself driving the bus, managing to take out the rest of the Farmer's wooden picket fence on his drive-by escapade.

Iowa State Fair

There had been many, many things at the local fairgrounds over the years. Some of them would be time treasured trations as old as cotton candy and watching fireworks. A new one was watching a corn covered greyhound service bus putter to a patheic idle before finaly dying just shy of a parking spot. Not wanting to deal with the fine, Sharp barked out:
"Alright, everyone offa the bus, let's got have ourselves a gran ol' Time atta the Fair! Trevar, Y'all stick wit me y'hear?"

"Aiight y' idjit. Jut t' make sure y'all don't git lost, gran-paw."

"Bullshit. I'm only 73."

"In dog years! He-he-haw-haw-guffaw! Oh, that's funny right there! Go git some food ya old bastard. I'll g'an n' git us a booth set up."

With that, Senator Joshua Sharp was seperated from his campaign manager, and so the elderly grandfather politican gingerly made his way through the campaign grounds, buying himself a rather large coca-cola from a sweet looking vendor with a ridiculous moustache.

"May the good lord protect my sorry ass.. Hey, ain't you that Sey-nay-tor that's ol n' shit?"

Sharp spun around on his heels to see a small collection of elderly looking farmers squinting at him, completein a collection of straw hats and pichforks.

"Which sey-nay-tor's ol again?" Sharp questioned, wondering if his senile brain had been getting to him or if these really were old farmers standing before him. He made sure to pinch one of them right on the cheeks to make sure Sharp wasn't dreaming.

"OUCH! Don't pinch me you old bastard! Say... ain't you that funny man?"

"Funny man?"

"Yeah, the man me n' my wife laugh at onna the ray-dee-o inna Congress. Y'alls is a inna Congress right?"

"Yes, I represent Mississippi inna both chambers durin' my long ass career. I was a inna the House from '34 to '42, and I have been Mississippi' lapdog inna the Senate since the good year of our lord Ninne-teen Fourty Nin!"

"Ooh, so you've pased legislation? That must be hunndeds o' bills."

"Actually, it's only a few-"

Trevor Chamberlain forcibly interjected, not wanting Sharp to fill his feet full of holes another time by opening his mouth.
"A few hundred bills! Yep. The man's been a pumpin' out legislation like you do corn or alcohol poisoning. Sharp fights for the rights of Farmers. He's been chair of the Farming Committee inna the Senate and he's been focused on givin all y'all the subsudies y'all need t' sell yer crops n' git through the winta time."

With that, Sharp was forcibly led away to another part of the Iowa State Fair by his now irate campaign manager, to which the old man only lightly protested in-between long sips of his Coca-Cola product.

by **Emazia** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 3:53 pm

Frank Turner
Iowa State Fair

Turner laid back in his fitted 'campaign bus', lying back on a specifically designed sleeping couch that turned into half his bed sometimes, as he wanted to stay in to do work. Despite being quite wealthy and splurging on gifts whenever he needed to, he had quite plain tastes, at least in terms of where he laid and where he slept. He looked at his papers, making calls on the specially installed car phone, signed whatever he needed to, then slipped into an almost waking coma of contemplation.

He was a man of intense thought, as his eyes glared from side to side, narrowing at his drug-like state, similar to the feeling one gets just before one wakes up. He stared at his own right hand, scarred from the war. How his mortal flesh melted away from him even as his mind became ever sharper and more focused at what he needed to do. The fragility of human life was something he knew well. While he rarely did any of the killing himself - progressing through the military in a time where men had believed that the savages of war had ended in their most brutal conclusion of the Great War - he took to great contemplation of the front, inspecting where his troops had marched. Across the fields of Italy, he saw a war that no man did see until that point, as it was more gruesome than the first.

While unlike his men, he did not feel a malaise, a trauma, from the war, it did make him think. It made him think about what needed to be done, both at home and abroad. When many men see war, they call for peace. This was not the case for the general. War had only hardened his resolve.

But while he was not now at war riding in with a tank, fighting with the shocks of artillery and thunder of bombs, he knew he was still at war. It was not a conventional war, but rather a spiritual one. A war for the soul of America. But then he turned to his other hand, to his sinister side.

The thrill of killing, or rather commanding other men to kill for him, almost got to him. Unlike again many of those who came home from the war he had no conscience, no remorse for what he did. He thought about the grip of power, about the thought of destroying this who stood against him. James Brown, Sofia Fraser, even Earl Boone. To crush them all beneath his iron grip, to stand like an emperor upon his iron throne, and to take the crown of gold, and standing like Caesar with a falcon upon his left and a sword upon his right.

But in the modern age, there were no more emperors. There were only hegemons, presiding over republics that grew increasingly tyrannic and hateful, while simultaneously growing ever more powerful. Machines of might against those who stood against them, standing before the cheers of millions as a demagogue unifying his people. He was not an uneducated man...He knew exactly what he was doing, and thought it was right. And he would destroy anyone who stands in the way of it...But did he really believe what he said? He thought about this question. And thought about it...And thought about it some more. But, shaking himself out of his haze, he simply said to himself:

"Yes. Yes I do."

And then he got back to his schedule:

"Iowa...State...Fair..." he muttered to himself. "Very well."

He stood up, and got out of the mobile office section, and approached one of his staffers.

"Have you got the convoy ready yet?"

"The convoy of all the WRR people?"

"Yes. Did you make sure to tell them to fly the bonnie blue, and NOT the battle flag?"

"Of course, Senator."

"Good. Tell them to rendezvous with us at the pre-arranged point. Are all the regional directors there?"

"Of course, Senator."

"Tell them to have a nice little holiday here in Iowa."

"Is that all, Senator?"

"Yes, thank you. Now let's hang up the bonnie blue, and get to the fair."

After a few more minutes of relatively placid driving, they arrived at the rendezvous point, as he stood on a visible platform on the top of the bus to wave at his supporters.

"Gentlemen, let's give Iowa a good show! Deo Vindice!"

The crowd in the buses, listening with their windows open, cheered:

"Deo Vindice!"

He went back down to the bus, as the convoy arrived at the fair. As they neared, he gave a sign, and they began to sign the Bonnie Blue Flag, as hundreds of his supporters waved the bonnie blue flag.

Turner himself came back up on the platform, waving at the crowds, holding a large American flag.

"Mississippi sends her love to Iowa today, ladies and gentlemen!"

by **Sao Nova Europa** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 4:09 pm

Iowa Fair
August 13th, 1959

Jackson and his campaign team had arrived to the Iowa Fair. While his campaign staff was setting up their campaign booth, Jackson was walking around, greeting and chatting with people. As he was strolling around, someone shouted loudly "General!". Jackson turned around and saw a man in his thirties saluting him in a military manner. Jackson smiled politely. 'Must be a veteran who fought under my command,' he thought.

"7th Infantry Division," the man said. "Served in Korea. Fought at Inchon."

"Ah yes!" Jackson reminisced loudly. "Inchon!" Jackson considered this battle to have been his masterpiece. Indeed, many military scholars agreed that it was one of the most decisive military operations in modern warfare. It was his crowning jewel, which cemented his reputation as a military genius and a brilliant strategist. "How have you been faring Mr..."

"Adam Johnson," the man replied. "Been doing alright. I'm a father now."

"You've become a family man? Good to hear that. You know, when I become President, helping families will be one of my top priorities. You and every other hard-working American will get a generous tax cut."

Adam nodded. "I trust you, General. I also know you've got what it takes to defend our country from the damn Reds!"

"That I will. I will not allow the Reds to threaten America."

After they exchanged some further pleasantries, Jackson continued his walk. He gave candies to some kids playing around and then walked towards four middle-aged farmers who were chatting. "Greetings," he said with a wide smile on his face.

"Ain't you the General?" one of the men asked.

"Yup," another confirmed. "He's General Jackson. The war hero. The one who beat the Japs and led our boys in Korea."

"Indeed, I am," Jackson replied.

"You are running for President now, eh?" a third farmer inquired. "Read it in the papers."

"I am running for President so I can restore national unity and defend our country from the Red Menace. As someone who fought against Japan and the Reds in Korea, trust me, I know what I am saying when I'm talking about the danger our country faces. The Reds are challenging us on every front, and their end goal is the destruction of our very way of life. If we do not have a President with strategic experience, America itself will be in danger."

"You are a patriot and are talking good about the damn Reds," one of the farmers said, "but what 'bout the economy?"

"I believe that hard-working Americans like you should pay less in taxes. Right now, we have a tax system that punishes those who work hard and rewards bureaucrats in DC. I want a tax system that will allow you to keep your hard-earned money."

The men nodded.

"With tax cuts," Jackson continued, "we can unleash the productive energies of America and grow our economy. We can create jobs and finance better social programs. Only capitalism can bring that prosperity, and I am the only candidate here who will defend capitalism from encroaching socialism."

Jackson spent the next hour chatting with people, politely hearing them and laying out his case as to why they should support his candidacy. At the end of the hour, he was notified by his staff that his campaign booth had been set up and that it was attracting people. It was time for his speech. He returned to his campaign booth, drunk a glass of water and prepared to address the crowd.

"My fellow Americans!" he shouted. "Our country faces an existential danger. The Communists are challenging us on every front. What is at stake is our very way of life. Liberty, democracy, faith in God, individualism; all will be lost if the Reds come out on top of us. That's why we need strong leadership that will defend America and the Free World! I was Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in the Pacific War and fought against Japan. I led our boys in Korea against the Reds and held the South against hordes of Red Chinese. I know first-hand the danger we face; I also know how to cooperate with our allies and our military to defend American interests and maintain peace through strength. For if we are weak, if we are not respected, if we roll back and allow the Reds to overtake free nations like the Vietnamese, we will only embolden the Reds and invite aggression against us."

"Tell me, bullies pick on someone who is weak and afraid or someone who is strong and tough?"

"They pick on the weak!" a man in the crowd said. Others in the crowd said the same while some other attendees nodded.

"Exactly," the General continued. "If we are weak and submissive, we won't earn peace; we will invite war and aggression because the Russians will think we are too weak to face them. But if the Reds know we are tough, ready to back up our words with action and willing to fight to defend the Free World, they won't dare to make a move against us because they will know that they will have to pay a terrible price if they do so. Those politicians who want appeasement are the ones who will end up causing war with the Reds while those of us who want a strong America standing up for freedom are the ones who can keep peace; peace through strength."

"In order for America to be strong, we need to grow our economy. An army marches on its stomach, Napoleon said. To put it simply, if people don't have jobs that earn them a good, steady income then our system will have failed. If we do not have a growing economy, the Soviets will overtake us and have more money than us to expand their armies and threaten our sovereignty. While - thanks to the current administration - we've seen growth, we cannot be satisfied with it. We need even more growth, even more jobs, even more money in peoples' pockets. How will this happen? By cutting taxes and red tape."

"By cutting taxes, we will boost consumption. If people have more money to spend, then they will buy more things from businesses. In turn, those businesses will have more money to invest into expanding their operations and hiring more people. Those newly-employed folk will then have money, which they will spend and so on. It will be a virtuous cycle of growth and production. A growing economy also means more money in state coffers to pay for services that help citizens."

"Despite what some of my political opponents say, I do not reject social programs, but I believe we should first grow our economy and then with that wealth we've produced to help people. What is better? Taxing sky-high hard-working Americans, paying for an ever expansive bureaucracy and then handing over meagre handouts or lessening the tax burden of Americans, creating wealth through economic growth and then using that newly-produced wealth to bolster social services that actually help people instead of bureaucrats?"

Many in the crowd nodded and murmured in agreement.

"But cutting taxes is not simply the efficient thing to do; it is also the moral thing to do. It is social injustice to steal the labor of hard-working Americans and send it off to DC to pay an ever-expansive bureaucracy. This is money you earned though your hard work, your sweat, your tears. It belongs to you who worked hours and hours for it, not to some ultrarich politicians in DC to use it to score political points. Who do you believe knows better how to handle your hard-earned money? Bureaucrats in DC who know nothing about life out here and who don't give a damn about you and your family or you?"

"Me!" a man in the crowd replied.

"Exactly! Every American is unique, different. Every American has his or her own desires and dreams. You are individuals, not numbers, not statistics. Some politicians believe you are too stupid to make your own decisions. They believe that if they allow you to keep your money, you won't invest it wisely. They believe they know what is best for you and that you are children who need to be guided by government. I, on the other hand, believe that it is you who knows better how to spend your money. I believe that each one of you is mature enough to make his own life and decide for himself how he wants to live it. I believe in liberty and I believe in you!"

"That's why I want to cut taxes for every American. Because you deserve choice and you deserve to keep your hard-earned money! I will also put an end to red tape and useless regulations. Government should exist to serve the people, not the other way around. I don't want a state which spends more time stamping papers instead of actually helping folk! I want a lean, efficient government. I also want a government that upholds law and order. A government that does not allow riots, violence and murder in the streets. That does not allow the drug epidemic to continue unrestricted. That will defend the rights of the law-abiding citizens instead of the rights of criminals!"

"I want our schools to once more propagate traditional moral values and instill patriotism to our children, so they are not corrupted by immorality and drugs. I want our flag to be respected and revered! But for this to happen, I need your help. I am an outsider. I am not part of the political establishment and the corrupt elites. I am here to serve you. But without you, I am but one man. With your support, though, we are a movement! And a movement cannot be stopped."

"God bless you and and God bless the United States of America!!!"

by **Cybernetic Socialist Republics** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:57 pm

Kate Shelly's Daughters' Iowa Chapter Arrives at Iowa State Fair:

Having been founded in Iowa in Early February of 1959, the Progressive/Liberal Republican Women's Organization, Kate Shelly's Daughters (who's name sake was a local Iowa folk hero) have done extensive work building canvassing neighborhoods across Iowa. Originally built around a solid core of prominent politically aligned women of Sofia Fraser's generation and older, they'd also grow a solid contingent younger assertively anti-communist and anti-dixecrat 'Ellies', college women known for often canvasing while on roller skates. Together, these contingents of the KSD have not only been successful in organize Progressive/Liberal Republican Women within the party, but have worked to convince liberal/progressive democrats and independents to join their cause in the Republican Party frequently using moments of clear illiberalism on the part of the democratic party to do so. While they've had successes on that front, their greatest successes lay in building a formidable record of which parts of Iowa they found to be most supportive of their cause. So when when the Iowa State Fair Came around, the KSD could organize busses to bring masses favorable to the liberal republican cause to the state fair. With it obvious that a strong liberal presence at the fair would be beneficial to Tom Fraser's cause, it didn't take any coordination for his political donors to know to direct money towards the KSD's efforts.

But apart from the busloads brought in to bolster support for Tom Fraser, there'd be KSD members themselves at the fair. KSD, always being sure to avoid any campaign finance troubles, made sure to avoid explicitly promoting to Fraser in their activities, instead focusing on general liberal republicanism, As such, it wasn't particularly surprising that a group of young 'Ellies" would find their way to the Wilson-Carter Campaign booth, the most vocal among then being the entering-fourth year, student of the University of Iowa, Helen Bennett, a clever and opinionated young women with passion for the political and large degree of courage, who, with her fellow Ellies on their roller skates lisnted as they watched the candidate speak.

Meretica wrote:Robinette Wilson Carter, R-Michigan, Presidential Candidate
The Wilson-Carter campaign had bought and paid for a medium-sized booth in advance for the Iowa State Fair. And, of course, bused in as many people as he possibly could. It hadn't come cheap, but campaigns were never cheap, were they? No, they were typically costly, with or without donations...

Dressed in a plaid button-up shirt that was tucked into his pants, RWC looked, for all intents and purposes, like a farmer. "Alright, folks," Robinette began, "we're going to pass the hat around a few times today to help support the NFO. For those of you that don't know, that's the National Farmers Organization. The farmers around here need help, and we're going to help them. The same goes for any signs, stickers, et cetera that we sell today. All of it is going to the NFO. Questions?" No one raised their hands. "Alright, then I'm off to chit-chat with the locals. Let's get to work!"

While his campaign team finished setting up their campaign booth, Robinette went ahead and placed ten $10 bills in the hat they were using. He straightened his hair just a little and went off towards an area where several older men were sitting or standing, chewing on tobacco. "Ain't no reason we can't just vote fer the Dimmycrits ag'in," one said.

"Maybe, if we wanna put a southerner in power," another retorted. "They're just lookin' out fer themselves, like always. I don't have nothin' 'gainst the Negro, really, I don't, by we got other issues to handle. Let's not put the cart b'fer the mule, we got bigger problems. Can't sell nothin' on the market cause prices aren't worth a damn!"

"It's been that way since Eff-Dee-Arr died, Henry, ain't no reason to 'spect anything'll change just cause we ask nicely."

"That's right, Bob!" said a third. "But at least Mr. Boone understands or at least pretends to understand us. The farmer is still important, they'll remember us before the end!"

"But who's to say that they won't just be pandering to you, saying what you want to hear?" Robinette interrupted. The men looked up from one another, staring at him a bit coldly. "Sorry to interrupt, gentlemen, but I think I know how to fix your problems."

"You ain't from around here, are ya?" the one named Henry asked. "You... yer that feller from Mitch-ee-gin, ain't ya? That Republican."

"I am," Robinette admitted freely. "I'd like to make it so that you can sell your grain, your corn, your crops, your goods to whoever the hell you want to sell it to. I think that you'd like your wares outside of Iowa at the best prices you can get. I think that we can do that if we expand school lunch and milk programs. I want to do whatever the hell I can to raise your prices and get money into your pockets, even if I have to buy half the grain in Iowa all by myself. We've got starving children in our cities and more food than you know what to do with here. I want to get this to those cities, and I want to get you a profit. How does that sound?"

"Well, sir," Bob answered as he twirled a toothpick in his mouth, "I do believe that's some o' yer panderin' and sayin' what we wanna hear."

"Is it pandering if it works?"

"Well... I s'pose not."

"Then what do you think, gentlemen? Do you want a Farmer's New Deal?"

"So, your solution to our agricultural problems are, causing inflation in the price of food and coming here to tell us to donate money to the NFO?"

Began Helen, first to the surprise, then interest of her group.

"But Governor Wilson-Carter, didn't you promise to fight inflation and pass a national right-to-work amendment? You understand that it's difficult for us Iowans to think you're doing anything but pandering to us when you make promises like you just have, right? Why should we trust that you'll give us inflation for food, but fight it elsewhere? How can we trust that you'll ban employers and unions from agreeing to not hire people outside of a union, but you'll support our producers unions in refusing to sell our products, even destroying them if we want to, in order to limit supply and increase inflation?" Helen was familiar with the history of agriculture in her state, as her father, before he married her upper middle class mother, was a farmer and participant in the Cow War.

"Even if you do increase demand and give us inflation, which I doubt, given that, If I remember the state of the union address correctly, the federal government already has billions in surplus farm products, how do you make sure that our small farms are the ones benefiting from the increased demand, rather than the big farms that have all the connections and can produce for cheaper? How do you make sure we get the benefit from that inflation rather than have it all soaked up big guys, even potentially leaving Iowans worse off because food is made more expensive for us without our benefiting enough, along with the inflation it might cause other things we import into our state, seeing as everyone outside also has to pay for food inflation?" Helen asked, her fellow Ellies agreeing and hoping for a response from the presidential candidate.

by **Meretica** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:03 pm

"You almost sound like my wife," Robinette chuckled. "Y'see, ma'am, I can balance all of that and still get it done. By exporting produce from Iowa to-- let's say, New York, we can create more jobs in the trucking, marketing, and sales industries while protecting small-time farmers like the locals around here. I also support selling the wares of small farms abroad, especially in communist countries, because it is a win-win situation for us: citizens in commie countries see that we do not hold anything against the people themselves and they see that capitalism works. In Michigan, I have previously fought for legislation that supported the competition and stopped larger businesses from becoming too big to fail. I grew up as the grandson of farmers. My parents worked on farms when they were younger, but then my mother took a job as a secretary and my father became a pastor. I understand the plight of America's farmers better than just about any other candidate running for president. As you have stated, I support a right-to-work amendment, but not in the manner that many others support it. I believe that all Americans are entitled to have a job if they want one and that they ought not to be denied a job for political, racial, religious, or a few other reasons. I also support greater funding for America's farmers, funding that will come alongside the budget changes I intend to put in place. In addition to cutting the salaries of our politicians, I want to cut the salaries of our bureaucrats. I'd like to see if I can get the states on board to do the same thing on a local level so that we can put money back in the pockets of Americans and send the rest to programs that work. I do, in fact, support the NFO; I believe that their intentions are noble and that they are working to help the people of Iowa."

by **Newne Carriebean7** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 9:34 pm

IOWA STATE FAIR
August 13th, 1959

In between all the sights, sounds and general whimsy that was a state fair, the only thing that had been at Campaign Manager Trevor Chamberlain's immediate attention was the incessant sipping of an empty glass bottle. A rather continuous noise. A noise that resembled the wrathful sound of a V-2 rocket taking off, high, high into the skies, reaching towards the heavens. A noise that forced a hand on Senator Joshua Sharp's lips to get the old bastard to stop sipping.

"Will you cut that shit out you senile cotton haired dinosaur?! Jesus, mary and Joseph, Sharp!"

"What about my booth. Oh, will Earl be there? Earl Booth. I thought that's what he is a name is. My 'pponnent."

"Sharp? Have you been drinking? What the hell's in your coca-cola, is it the original formuleer or did y'all spike it even worse? Christ..."

Sharp looked surprised at Trevor's statement, clutching his large soda fountain drink protectively in his hands.

"I don't add none of the cocaine. I don't need the kick at my age anyways. I just drink it straight with a lil' o' my pappie's drinkin' juice. Heh, heh, heh-hee!"

Trevor let out a large sigh before yanking the cup from Sharp's frail old hands and dumping the contents of it out into the grass, much to his chagrin.

"Hey! That's my goddamned Coca-Cola you son of a bitch!"

"It rots yer tooth ya dumbass." Chamberlain then eyed an inattentive couple and a pair of lemonades, quietly swiping them off the flimsy stand without them even batting an eye at the ninja like movement of the Mississippian manager.

"Have a lemonade ya ol' geezer."

Sharp huffed in protest like a child before reluctantly aqueseing to the lemonade, taking a large gulp from it and burping rather unprofessionally from the left-over carbonation from his Coke.

"Hey mister saggy face. You're an asshole."

Sharp immediate turned with such precision that it was almost on a dime, eye's filled with hatred at the sudden outburst that had erupted. His flame filled pupils scanned the fair to take notice of a... little girl? He couldn't beat up a little girl, so he opted to play nice.

"Mister saggy face? That's a new one. Call me grandpa, dearie." Senator Sharp reached into his pocket and pulled out some of the finest Mississippian cotton. Or what wassupposed to be the finest Mississippian cotton. It was a brown mess, as Sharp had also left one of Pennsylvania's finest chocolate bars, stolen right from Joe-Pole's desk when he wasn't looking, and sat on it accidentally.

"What's that?"

Sharp sighed at the little one, trying to maintain an illusion of oozing politness at the small child.

"It's..Cotton. Or it used to be white, white cotton. Like snow. Y'all know what it does?"

The little girl's eyes beamed slightly.

"Yeah, my daddy grows a buncha wheaty-thingies inna the house. Why's it brown?"

Sharp's eyes blinked for a moment before the chocolate bar made it's way into the empty abyss that was almost always the old mississippian's mind, with fleeting moments of furious exercise.

"Uh..I sat onna Chocolate bar. Here lil' girl, y'all take the rest o' this, run along n' you tell yer daddy if he votes for Mister Sharp next February, he'll have larger Cotton thingies like this, see? Git."

"O-Okay Misses Sharp!"

With that, the little girl gave the old Senator a big old bear hug, earning an adoration by a tiny crowd which had convalesced to hear the sweet conversation.

Senator Sharp waved to the little girly good-bye before something felt off... he began to pat down his pockets in a mad frenzy before cursing to himself.

"That bitch stole my watch!" Sharp exclaimed out-loud, much to the shock of passers-by before Sharp quickly ducked behind the toilets to deal with the embarrassment.

It took a solid few minutes before a pounding on the door startled the old man, almost having him fall in the days worth pile of excrement that had been building up.

"Joshua! Joshua!" A very, very angry voice boomed from the outside. Could it be Earl coming back to stab him?

"Don't kill me! It's unlawful to murder a half-naked man in a public settin in this state y'know!"

"Oh, hell, I ain't gonna hurt ya. But I just wanted t' let y'all know that uh...Turner's here."

Senator Sharp froze. This was the absolute last thing he needed to deal with right now. Considering the last reaction was Sharp putting a solid 320 miles between his toasty Cedar Grove antebellum style plantation home and the hell that constituted the Georgian city of Atlanta, (or more specifically the assholedness of Frank Turner), he would sooner be caught dead then in public with Turner. But, a biting sense of politeness bubbled over and he responded with an unsettling cheery tone in his voice. It was a cheerfulness that easily un-nerved even Chamberlain, who was used to Sharp's antics by now.

"That's wonderful news! Lynching or Pleasure?"

"He just on got here. He's gotta buncha buses with tons o' supporters."

"Who the hell do we have, my sheep fuckers?"

"Y'all've got at least two car fulls o' Mississippians that support y'all. Err... make that one car full o' 'ssippians that back ya. The other one's parking next to where Turner's boat is."

"Damn it... A'ight then, I suppose w'all can a git a show on. Is the blue-grass band ready? Do we have a shack to stand in, or me to stand on?"

"Yeah, I got the paperwork right here, it's... down here." Senator Sharp and his small entourage of old farmers from Mississippi stormed the small shoddily built structure, hammering a few decorations, two flags of his native state along with a pair of treason-smelling Confederate Stars and Bars on either side in flagpoles. A small Senate portrait of the Mississippian hung above a door to the rear of the stage, where Sharp was behind it.

"Hello fellers o' M'ssippii n' Eye-oh-wa! If none o' y'alls a knows my names, I'll give y'all a hearty in-tro-duck-tion. I am Senator Joshua Sharp. I have served the state o' Mississippi off and on for a political career spanin' nearly 30 years. I am damned proud o' that fact. The people of my state love me, and I love most of them. I am a Farmer. Not only that, but I am a rather high-rankin gub'ment farmer if I do say so myself, hee hee hee!

My first love has been the people of my state, the second my love o' politiks, the third, and don't tell er this, but it's my wife!" Sharp briefly paused to the affable guffaws of the local crowd gathered to hear him speak before continuing, laughing himself at the joke.

"My daddy was a postal worker. His grandaddy owned uh, fellers. It was that time, y'know inna the South with the uh...peculiar institution. I was a farmer through some of the hardest times o' my life. Like when I lost my mother at sixteen. It's hard onna boy to lose someone y'all love a whole lot , now ain't it? It's hard.. But. The 'mm portant thing is t' kep on a movin' forward. That's what I did. I tried colleges inna the State, they didn't want me, so my alma mater was Kentucky Military Institute. It's what made me think I love this country. I thank the whippin' my instructors a gave me t' instill love for red white n' blue! Y'all might be a sayin' he said what made 'em think'. That would be right y'all luv-a-bullshit filled idjits.

What, unequivocally solidified my trust, love and admiration of the United States of America was my time during World War I. Y'all don't git taught this much no more, that's somethin w'all've needs t' a change inna few months. At nearly thirty years old I forfeited much of a promisin' law career to go fight for my country. While I am damn, damn grateful I wasn't the poor bastard that died on some field in Flanders, I still feel regretful some nights inna Cedar Grove. I sit up inna my bed n' wonder, why not me? Why'd god save my life n' not Joe Pole, a buddy n' feller I served with durin' the war. He...he tripped over barbed wire and screamed. He moved and moved in such a panic til' he stopped movin'. I only wish I could've buried 'em... I only wish...I could've said to his fellers I'm sorry, but yer boy died for his country."

Senator Sharp audibly sobs and blankets his water soaked eyes with wet real-estate known as tears before nabbing a napkin from one of the people moved by his story so far. Taking in some deep breaths, he continued on.

"It's what I worry over in 'nam. It's what I've worried ever since this damn war started. I had to do one of the worst jobs I think is on the planet. It's showin' on up t' yer neighbors home with a soldier n' marine nearby n' sayin' the words: you're boy's gone. I cannot tell y'all how many shoulders I had to console, how many tears trickled down my back as I cried too. I cried for the loss the War took on my local communities. I cried for the many more that had to die. However, I was also grateful that I had to lessen my crying-no, stop my crying when the President authorized the usage of a most horrible weapon. It was to prevent that scene from being carried out in even greater numbers. It's why I am an Isolationist. I'm damn proud of sayin' it too, right here, right in Iowa! I'm all fer material support n' lend-lease. When I was inna the House o' Representatives, I backed FDR's war measures that he undertook. But I didn't want a single poor boy to suffer the way I did. I didn't want no poor family to lose a son, and I sure as hell didn't want no poor country to sacrifice too much blood for the sake of military conquest.

Durin' the twenties n' early thirties, my efforts were concentrated onna finish' up my law degree. I 'member tryin' t' study wit some idiot frens o' mine. We'd set a dumpster on fire right 'fore winter kicks in so we'd a say-stay warm, n' who says casual vandalism ain't a crime? They haven't found my ass out yet anyhow, Professa Thatch! But my law degree did me a helluva lotta good. I opened up my own law firm called Sharp n' Socciates. It' where I know Trevor from. He was my understudy tryin' t' pass the bar. He's remained my political ally with a loyal streak to match his big ol' softy heart for the jewish race. In 1934 I ran my first House campaign..and won with seven-teen thousand votes to my 'pponent's fifteen thousand six-hunnded.

My political ally on the hill came from a member o' the Senate. An Ellison Durant Smith 'course! I even stumped for my political friend when the cripple in chief dared to try and remove him from office via a primary challenger. Y'all can't just meddle inna election down south. Y'all best remember that. I will remind all y'all that my next house race inna '42 was a rigged 'ffair. I'm sure someone was payin' the county clerks to git my ass outta here. How else do y'all go from a 68 percent vote in 1940 to just 44 percent two years later? It's a conspiracy I know it!

But, I enjoyed my brief retirement. At this point inna my live, I thought of doin' two things, lookin' back at my life, admirin' my many, many accomplishments for my native Mississippi and the country for my war-time service, or I could jump back inna politics. When it was a gittin' interestin'. So I made a big ol' gamble inna '47 when I announced my campaign for Senate. Wait, It was '48 not '47. I keep forgittin' I'm the junior senator from Mississippi, though my age would say otherwise!"

Sharp kept his chuckles contained to a few mild outbursts of the giggles before continuing on with his story.

"Although, it is true that I have authored in my combined thirty years of service to Mississippi and her people, a record of less than a hunnded pieces o' legislation. I will let y'all know that with Mississippi, I paid attention to her. Whatever my state needed, I made damn sure I added it onto omnibus spendin' bills or as riders to vastly more popular bills. No-one, and I mean no-one is prohibted from botherin' me inna my Senate office, unless I'm out fer lunch or somethin'. That was my political mark for eleven years inn the Senate, and I'm hopin it'll be another seven more inna the Senate next August inna M'ssippii when they send this good old boy back t' Washin'tin!

Aiight, I've talked 'nough bout my life-story. Proally should'll've given y'all thems 'abridged' versions, but the next crowd will have that, aiight? Y'all sat yer ass through my story and thought 'gee whiz mister grandpa, y'all is an ol' fart, but what in the hell have you been doin' inna the Senate for US farmers?' I'm damn glad y'all asked that mister figment o' my imagin-nay-tion. Since the dawn o' Democratic control inna the '58 midterms, I have served on the committee of Agriculture in the Senate. Hell, I'm the chairman of the Committee of Agriculture in the U.S Senate. I'm still a farmer inna my off time.

I tried to work with some representative from Louisiana onna gittin' a moo moo yummy bill passed through both the Senate n' the House. However, I raised some concerns with the bill and eventually had to break with the sponsor of the legislation. I wanted subsidies for farmers. Dairy farmers in particular. Y'all give us good milk and you're shit on. No-one's giving too much of a damn 'bout you. That's going to change in a Sharp presidency. The Farmers will take precedent o'er thems city-slickers or suburban-nights. I'll say this, a Sharp administration will be a victory for poor Farmers not just in Eye-oh-wa, but all throughout this massive country of ours!

Now, if there's any questions that ain't stupid, I'd love to hear some of 'em, my farmer frens, so lemme git Trevor t' organize thems hands o' yers n' I'll answer 'em quickly!"

by **Cybernetic Socialist Republics** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:54 pm

Meretica wrote:"You almost sound like my wife," Robinette chuckled. "Y'see, ma'am, I can balance all of that and still get it done. By exporting produce from Iowa to-- let's say, New York, we can create more jobs in the trucking, marketing, and sales industries while protecting small-time farmers like the locals around here. I also support selling the wares of small farms abroad, especially in communist countries, because it is a win-win situation for us: citizens in commie countries see that we do not hold anything against the people themselves and they see that capitalism works. In Michigan, I have previously fought for legislation that supported the competition and stopped larger businesses from becoming too big to fail. I grew up as the grandson of farmers. My parents worked on farms when they were younger, but then my mother took a job as a secretary and my father became a pastor. I understand the plight of America's farmers better than just about any other candidate running for president. As you have stated, I support a right-to-work amendment, but not in the manner that many others support it. I believe that all Americans are entitled to have a job if they want one and that they ought not to be denied a job for political, racial, religious, or a few other reasons. I also support greater funding for America's farmers, funding that will come alongside the budget changes I intend to put in place. In addition to cutting the salaries of our politicians, I want to cut the salaries of our bureaucrats. I'd like to see if I can get the states on board to do the same thing on a local level so that we can put money back in the pockets of Americans and send the rest to programs that work. I do, in fact, support the NFO; I believe that their intentions are noble and that they are working to help the people of Iowa."

"Thank you Governor, but we're aware of the benefits of trade, we're not subsistence farmers. Our issue is that when our goods to market, the pay Iowans get for helping meet America's needs isn't enough for what many Iowans have to put in. I also don't see what 'too big to fail' has to do with anything, though, we're not worried about big farms failing, we're worried about them succeeding so much the swallow all the small farms whole, potentially leaving the rest of us worse off."

Helen, being politically active, was used to talking to politicians who threw around empty jargon that was only tangentially related to the topic at hand, but she'd never see anyone as bad at it in person as Wilson-Carter. It was as if he heard the term 'too big to fail' once in reference to anti-trust action and came to the conclusion it was the correct phrase to use for every issue that anti anything to do with conflict between businesses large and small.

"As for cutting the salaries of civil servants, does that means you think that President Davis has been systemically agreeing, even under Republican congresses, to overpay them? Also aren't you concerned that talent will just leave to the private sector for better pay and be replaced by inferior bureaucrats or worse yet, use their position to get undo favor from the private sector? Usually I find that cutting bureaucracy refers to cutting regulations and programs, but it seems between you intend to increase the amount of money going agriculture subsides and social programs while making the people who manage them less competent. Seems a bit incoherent, much like promising to fight inflation on one hand and on the other saying we don't have enough of it in our staple goods."

by **Meretica** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:35 am

RWC half-smirked. "Ma'am, I know Iowa isn't full of subsistence farmers. 'Too big to fail' was interference to some of these larger farmers that have been buying up land across the nation with a focus on profit while the small-time farmers across the nation suffer. I take it that you're familiar with Foster Farms? By forcing the biggest farms to fail, we're able to save the smaller farms, empower them, and force businesses to buy their crops. I'd also think that if you knew your history, young lady, Congress is the only place where you can decide your own salary and that's how it'd been since the very beginning. It is not incompetent, though your study of my plans certainly seems to be. By cutting the pay of Congress, bureaucrats, workers in the executive branch, members of the Supreme Court, we can cut some spending and send the rest to where it needs to be. This does not mean that anyone will become less competent. In fact, with the way things are going for Senator Sharp, it looks like the Senate is about to be the most competent it's ever been. I take it that you're a support of Mr. Fraser, so you'll excuse me if I return to talking to people that aren't blinded by the fact that he's using his wife in an attempt to force his agenda through before he attempts to snatch the nomination away from people that grew up struggling. Mr. Fraser, just like Mr. Turner, Mr. Ladhe, and Mr. Sharp, grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. He does not understand the issues of the average American, and I notice that he did not come out here today nor has he spent any time in Iowa that I am aware of. He certainly hasn't taken the time to talk to the people of Des Moines or Sioux Falls or Waterloo."

by **Cybernetic Socialist Republics** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:19 am

Republican Presidential candidate, New York Governor Tom, gives a speech at the Iowa State Fair.

Fellow Iowa State Fair goers, I come here to say something of which I myself have found surprising. Of the three Republican Candidates for you are likely to see speak before you today, I alone will not be trying to sell you I as the solution to your economic woes. We can and should improve the conditions of entrepeuntuers and workers in this country, but that is not done by intentionally debasing the currency through profligate spending on the demand side, but through the specific cutting of costs and inefficiencies on the supply side, controlling inflation and shifting the tax burden away from low and middle income aemricans. That is something I can promise to you here and provide you with the complete assurance that my commitment to that coure of action I oresent won't disappear the moment I cross state lines, only for it to magically reappear in January before your caucuses. As man of business, I can say quite simply that squeeze felt by Iowan Farmers feel is a three way squeeze, between the price one's goods can fetch, against cost of producing said goods, and what one pays in expenses outside of farming. Iowan Farmers can in the absolute short-term, be aided along any of these angles, but the solution most frequently presented by politicians is the one most likely to dissolve upon cross the border of this state, or, if implemented, actually serves to exacerbate in the squeeze in the other two. To decrease expenses outside of farming is relief, to decrease the cost for farmers producing goods is efficiency, to increase prices, is inflation.

The primary solution presented by the likes of both Jackson and Wilson-Carter and, it should be said, the democratic party as a whole, rather than relief or efficiency, is inflation. I, alone, present relief and efficiency, by means specific rather than vague. When Jackson or Wilson-Carter talk about increasing demand to increase business, they're talking about inflation. Inflation that, unfortunately, would not stop at the agricultural, but reverberate through the economy, including increasing the costs of the goods and services needed for production and for consumption. A feedback loop, which would only serve to worsen the squeeze felt by Iowan farmers and particularly to small farms being increasingly eaten whole by larger farm. For you know what happens when a government faces an inflationary crisis? It moves, inevitably, to increasing interest rates. You know who are most effected negatively by higher interest rates? Of course, those on mortgages for their farms. Who is on those mortgages for the farms? Small farmers. Who isn't? Large farm. So who in then end wins from the type of inflationary spiral that both Jackson and Wilson-Carter's policies would visit upon these companies? Those same large farms and for reasons not of fair competition, but of reckless government policy and it's consequences. For Wilson-Carter's part, his solution to such policies exacerbating the decline of the small farm would be having bureaucrats decide what the ideal size for a farm is and how they should be owned.
Which I suppose is superior to the Jackson model, which remains, to this day, through his 'Corporate Employment Tax Benefit' paying large employers tax dollars for poaching workers from smaller businesses, to such a degree the poached workers needn't even be producing anything to be worth the corporations while, which it's self would fuel inflation. Both solutions, of course, being emblematic of the incoherence, instability and inexactitude in the minds of the Jackson and Wilson-Carter Campaigns alike.

Now with their solutions criticized, I ought now outline what I propose ought to be done to reform agriculture and provide aid to farmers. Focus on efficiency and focus on relief.

First we begin with some thing that is a catch all solution, outside of agriculture, even. The FREE act would provide a direct subsidy farmers and farm habds to ensure that regardless of what price their produce fetches or what wage they're paid, as long as they have full time employment, they receive an income subsidy from the federal government sufficient to prevent poverty. This would allow small farms to be competitive with larger farms that are used to hiring high powered executives, while also allowing Farmers more flexibility with what they pay farm hands without having concerns about if what they receive is sufficient to live off.

This decreases the squeeze brought about by prices, lowers production costs and provides relief in living costs to all that receive it. This is far superior to minimum wages as proposed by democrats, as the cost of the FREE would spread across the board, rather than an arbitrary minimum wage, which disproportionately hits small businesses, prices for low and middle income consumers and rural areas, while also killing jobs that'd otherwise exist.

More on the specific relief end, A Fraser Administration would work with state and local governments to phase out sales taxes on goods and services with inelastic demand, that is to say, things that people almost always buy regardless of price, as such costs fall nearly entirely on consumers, either making up the budget shortfall in costs saved from redundant programs or shifting the tax burden on the wealthy.

The shifting of spending on our existing agricultural subsidy program to front facing subsidies rather than back facing subsidies, which is to say, rather than rewarding farms who know how to best navigate Washington bureaucracy to receive subsidies, let's make thee means of support consumer directed, ensuring those that know their neighbors more than Washington are those that win out. Key to this under a Fraser Administration would be the creation of a Universal Transferable Food Stamp program. Rather than have the government deem who is and isn't worthy of food stamps, which ways the government down in administrative costs and mistakes, rely instead on the knowledge of local charities and churches to direct these food stamps, by giving everyone transferable stamps they can choose to reroute in whole in part to the institutions of their choice.

For the last major policy on the relief end, a Fraser Administration would seek to engage in sweeping tax relief to aid small and medium businesses. A passage of an equity tax amendment would see the abolition of both corporate and capital gains taxes, in favor of a general levy on shares of publicly traded corporations, which would reroute into a Federal Permanent Fund that'd provide a backing to social security directly tied to, rather than imposed on, the success of the economy, though Social Security payments would be at minimum locked in at current levels plus inflation.

On the efficiency end, let's cut down on the bureaucracy standing between farmers decision making and access to responsible loans, no longer should the government attempt to be controll the payroll and practices of farms through acts such as the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, except when it pertains the soil quality concerns. A Fraser Administration would merge organizations such as the Farmers Home Administration and Federal Crop Insurance Corporation into a singular organization that provides Farmers general purpose loans as you know is within your capacity to pay.

In the cases where there lies the risk of insolvency, hopeless losses of the ability to control ones own farming would become a thing if the past, as a Fraser Administration would work to bring struggling farmers together into larger farms and farmer organizations that can pool resources, instead of being left to fend alone in the face of larger, corporate farms that end up picking them off, one by one.

In conclusion a Fraser Administration would not be providing more of the safe combined with commands on the farming industry by federal fiat as proposed by Wilson-Carter. It will not be promising reckless increases in the money supply that claims to provide a solution by inflating our way to economic growth, that would benefit big business not out of the efficiency not their production but as a result of policy, such as providing federal tax federal bounties against the work force of small business as proposed by Jackson. Nor would it we plunge into the depth of a national socialism in this country as is proposed by the authoritarian racialist two headed dragon of Turner and Boone.

A Fraser Administration will instead trust that farmers know how to run their farms and deregulate as such. Trust that business success should come from how one relates to their fellow private citizens rather than how one relates to government bureaucracy. Ensure that nobody that's fully employed finds them selves in poverty, by means that doesn't kill jobs more disadvantages the already discussed advantaged.

This is what. Fraser Administration would fight to deliver and unlike pledges of inflation in the price of food, you can rest assured I'd be just as willing to outline what I've said here outside of Iowa as I am to say it here.

Thank you for listening this speech and I ask you for your support for the Tom Fraser Presidential campaign in the republican primary, starting, of course in this state fair's Straw poll!

by **Sao Nova Europa** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:44 am

Iowa Fair
August 13th, 1959

After giving his speech, Jackson wandered around to speak with the people, hearing their concerns and answering questions.

"What are you going to do to help farmers specifically?" a farmer asked.

"I have pledged to cut income tax for all Americans, which will bring relief to all hard-working Americans, including farmers. I have also pledged to cut red tape and streamline government bureaucracy, to make interactions with the government easier to navigate and less wasteful in both time and money."

Another man asked, "are you going to help out small businesses or only big corporations?" A number of people who were sitting nearby approached to hear the answer.

"The reduction in income and corporate taxation benefits all Americans, including small business owners. My opponents mention - as if it is a bad thing - that I have pledged to allow corporations to keep more of their money, in exchange for creating jobs. Firstly, they present this as some kind of payment when in reality all that happens is that federal government will take less of their money; for the money that you earn, small business owners earn, big corporations earn, are theirs. Politicians who pretend otherwise - like a certain New York Governor - believe that you are slaves of the government, that the government owns the wealth you produce, and that they are doing you some kind of favor by allowing you to keep some of your hard-earned money. I, on the other hand, believe people should pay only the minimum necessary for our society to function. To return back to the original topic, those people would prefer to have people unemployed and living out of handouts - paid by your taxes, including the harsh taxation of small business owners - rather than allow corporations to hire workers, giving them a decent salary and boosting consumption. Think about it; if more people are employed and have a decent salary, they will buy more goods, including agricultural products. So that policy actually boosts the income of farmers."

"Secondly, my critics fail to mention that small businesses, defined as those with thirty employees and below, will pay a reduced corporate tax of 18%. Small businesses in rural areas, in fact, will pay an even lower tax of 15%. That is in comparison with the 34% corporate tax a corporation will pay if it hires more than a thousand employees. So, in fact, small businesses will pay less than half of what big corporations will pay in the best scenario, for the standard corporate taxation for corporations that do not create new jobs will be 48%, thus making the tax difference between small businesses and big corporations even more staggering."

Someone else asked, "you are a patriot and a war hero, I truly respect you General, but do you know about politics? About how to run a country? Running a country is different than waging war."

"Thank you for asking this question. I do have experience in civilian affairs. For almost six years, I was Leader of the Allied Occupation of Japan. Japan had a population of seventy-seven million people. For comparison, New York state has a population of almost seventeen million people and Iowa has a population of two million seven hundred thousand people. When I became Leader of the Occupation, Japan was a devastated country. Almost two million Japs had perished, they had suffered atomic bombing, the economy was in ruins, the country was humiliated and defeated. Even worse, they had backward, feudalistic social and economic structures that held them back. As Leader, I oversaw sweeping political, economic and social reforms which put Japan back on the road of prosperity and modernization. Japan is now a democratic country with modern social institutions and a growing economy. So yes, I have experience when it comes to civilian affairs. And if I could turn around a devastated, feudalistic country like Japan, imagine what I can do about America that is already a great country with a growing economy."

An elderly man approached Jackson. "I lost my youngest son in the war in Europe. If you get elected, will we continue losing our boys in conflicts?" A number of men and women approached, eager to hear this question and the General's answer to it.

"As someone with a long military career, I understand what measures need to be taken to minimize casualties. I also know how to cooperate with our allies and our military leadership to bring quick results and end conflicts. In Vietnam, I plan to end the war with an overwhelming assault on the North. That way, instead of fighting for years in the jungles of Vietnam a never-ending conflict, we can end the war and bring back home our boys victorious. I also plan on countering the Reds not through reckless militarism - though I aim to make sure that they understand that I will not tolerate them crossing our red lines - but rather through cooperation with our allies to build what I call a 'Block of Freedom'. As Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in the Pacific and as Commander-in-Chief of the UN Command in Korea, I had to lead multinational forces against the enemy. That takes a certain finesse and mastery of diplomacy. I will use this kind of negotiating skills to coordinate with our allies. I will increase both military and financial aid to them. Financial aid will be tied to economic and anti-corruption reforms to ensure that your money are spent wisely and do not end up in the pockets of corrupt foreign politicians or generals. In the long term, this aid will reduce the cost you will shoulder, as our allies - by having a larger economy - will be able to shoulder a larger part of their defense. Military aid will take the form of military equipment manufactured here in the States. This will create thousands of new, well-paying jobs and revitalize many rural communities while also boosting our overall economy. I plan to ensure that both us and our allies will have a sizeable economic and military gap - to our advantage - that will discourage any thoughts of aggression by the Reds. If the Reds know we are tough, serious and well beyond their capabilities, they won't dare to challenge us. If on the other hand we have simple parity - or even fall behind - and we cower, then they will challenge us because they will think 'those Americans are weak and pushovers, they won't dare to stand up to us'. In that case, two scenarios are likely; surrender or another Great War, both of which would be disastrous. So by being tough we maintain peace and keep our boys safe at home while by choosing appeasement we invite aggression and increase the possibility of another deadly war that will see our boys dying by the thousands. Peace can only be maintained through strength. As President, I aim to do just that and to both uphold peace and our freedoms."

Jackson spent the next hours just like that, chatting with people and answering in great detail their questions while also hearing out their concerns. Always with a wide smile on his face.

by **Newne Carriebean7** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:57 am

IOWA STATE FAIR
August 13th, 1959

Following Senator Sharp's speech at the booth, disappointingly noteworthy for the general lack of people that dotted around it, the old man decided that some exercise would be great for the mind. Going by another vendor, he struck up small, witty banter with the young gal that was the guardian of the carbonation of Barq's Root beer that was served up on tap at the soda fountain.

"Alright, that'll be seventeen cents for a Barq's.." She paused, staring at the man for the longest time as a tiny crowd of fellows and individuals gathered around with mild curiosity, the madam hostess's gaze fixed on Joshua's features and wrinkled, sagging face lines.

"Say..." she began, fingers shaped like pistols while she rummaged her brain for the equveilant of two spark plugs to rub together.

"Ain't you the Senator from Mississippi? The sagging old idiot on the Senate floor?"

Sharp quickly flashed a toothy grin at her as he dug in his pocket for three nickels and two pennies for the soda substance that was so readily desired by the sugar-craving grandpa of the south.

"I'm not sure what y'all mean by a saggin ol' idjit. I've seen so many saggin' ol' idjits on the floor o' the Senate, I've lost count." Sharp laughed affably at his own joke before continuing. "What's it to ya, m'am? Y'all wanna an aw toe girrafe?"

"Actually Senator, when I listened to y'all, y'all seemed really selfish. You went on and on about your military service n' yer faithfulness to yer state, but ya sorta, inna my 'pinion, rushed the part 'bout us poor farmers. Do ya actually give damn about us? Are we nothin' butta prop fer yeer own bullshit? Sorry for cussin' you outta hearth n' home, but I'm as angry as a bull! I went on o'er to a mista Jackson after you talked, n' he said he'd cut taxes for everyone. Oh, and Jackson mentioned cuttin' out red tape n' bureaucracy that kneecaps small farmers like us inna tryin' just to raise cattle. I wanna here from you, just you, n' ONLY you! None o' that walkin' circus act y'all do behind us, neither!"

Senator Sharp sighed before he gripped the wood of the soda stand tightly. His eyes soon darted at the considerable commotion the soda jerk had stirred up, with a good dozen or two people now locking their pairs of eyes akin to the steely gaze of battleship turrets Sharp had seen whilst he was on vacation somewhere. He was in for a shit-storm, talking to his people..

"M'am. I did go over some o' my policies I would take. What Jackass Jackson is proposin' is just cuttin' the taxes for all Americans. I do mean ALL of them. He's a vehicle to give tax breaks to our richest, richest fellers. While I'm a dirt poor dumbass that's risen to be one of the most 'ffective 'legislatoors this side o' the 'ssippii river, I believe moderation in the pursuit of progress is one of the courses which we can plot, at least in terms of high rankin' tax policies. If y'all just pandered to the 1%, that's what y'alled end up at, 1% inna the polls!

It won't scare away the rich billionaires that invest inna america when it's atta lower rate. But I also wanna make sure that there ain't no blank cheques for millionaires that I don't care for. Jackass Johnathan's cozyin' up with wall street fat cats to FUND his campaign. He'll be beholden to them and only them. In stark contrast, I will be a representative by the American fellers, for American fellers and of American fellers... well the white ones anyways, I need to have some way t' shoehorn inna my hatred for those damned Senegambian Africans! Hell, I'm not one for eatin' the rich, so why not nibble onna the middle class? They ain't so, so rich, but they ain't in the sticks or inna some commie shack out inna Knee Braska or some shit. But, I do propose an increase on one of the best taxes this side of the Mississippi. Wait, we're both on the same side? Shit! Anyways, I'mma chattin' bout the Estate tax. It strips away those idiots that only care 'bout their granny when she goes up to meet her maker n' wanna now rifle through her jewelry or undee-wear drawers! It' already high, but it can go even higher! That's my fight with the upper class. It's the cheaters that didn't earn a damned dime. If you wanna work hard in this country, y'all needs t' do it's through sweat n' blood. It's what I like about Johnathan. He has been one of the hardest workin' fighters in his beliefs, that's for damn sure!

I have decided to propose a simple system based on employees that a business has, the number of stores and if it is turning a profit year after year. That's called the V protocol for Sharp's taxation of business. It's a new poliee-cee I thought up myself. I'm rather proud o' its anyhows. If it has more than 700 employees, at least 14 locations and makes at least 3 percent in annual revenues as a profit year 'fter year, then that company will pay a 20 percent Tax rate as a business. It's a simple flat fee y' here?

Concrete Tax plans for my campaign break up into a whole slew o' graphs n' charts n' g'narly shit like that. It's counted inna tens. If you're a dirt poor farmer that's gittin' screwed by unfair and overwhelmin' taxation, Sharp will ensure those that make less than 14,706 dollars a year will be granted monthly payments of 144 dollars on top of what else they were already makin. If y'all make a buck less and therefore fall inna that category, y'all are lookin' at recivin' an additional $1,728 each year to supplement yer income or just to be nice spendin' money. And even if y'all passed the Minimum Tax Bracket of 10%, that just means an over-all loss of just 164 dollars in Taxes. My tax policies are designed not to lift fellers outta poverty like... the Frasers, but to make y'all lives happier with more spendin' money. It also stimulates the economy with a lil' business meet n' greet if y'all know what I'm sayin! Heh, heh... ok I don't know what I'm sayin. Not onna my 'conomic message, but the joke I did. I forgot the punchline. Oh, ya know Jackass Johnathan's new campaign logo? I came up with one fer free: In your Spleen you Know he's mean! He is MEAN! Don't vote for that asshole, vote for this racist asshole instead. I may be a racist, but I've got a semblance of sense when itta comes t' 'conomic 'ssues! I fight for State's Rights, 'member to vote your pretty head for my 73 year old ass. Thank all y'all!"

by **Emazia** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 3:42 pm

Turner Speech at Iowa State Fair

"We must come to understand, as a country, that law and order are the primary tenets of any civilised nation. There are those of us who understand it, and there are those of us who do not. There are those of us who love our nation, and there are those of us who hate it, who burn our flag, who call it racist, sexist, xenophobic and all the other epithets they throw at our flag. Yet we will not bow down to them. America stands unbroken, unbowed and undefeated from those who wish to undermine our values on God's green earth.

From the Mississippi to the Great Lakes, patriotic men of the heartland must stand up, a silent majority undefeated by a vocal, uppity and tyrannic minority who seek to indoctrinate our children in their falsehoods of self-hatred and disgust, who believe that this nation was born racist and must pay repentance for its sins on the altar of blood, set there by socialist intellectuals who seek to refashion this country in the image of Red Russia, who have more sympathy with those who have killed our own, who have put men who I served with in their graves.

I believe there was a civil rights man, perhaps a sports personality or other, who said that "The North Vietnamese are my brothers, they ain't lynch me, they ain't take away my money. I got no quarrel with the Vietcong." These liberals, socialists, communists, whatever you want to call these men - they are radicals hellbent on the destruction of America. They are ungrateful for the privilege of living in the greatest nation on this earth, plain and simple. They are ungrateful...for the freedom that I helped give them, for the freedom that hundreds of thousands died for. Law and order, that is my cry, and that is the cry of every man, woman and child on this Earth who yearns for safety, for refuge, from those who have conspired to destroy this country.

And when I speak of those who wish to destroy this country, I speak not just of the socialist radicals in the so-called 'civil rights' movement, I speak of those Vietcong as well. As Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, I will work to punish them to the fullest extent that international law will allow us. We will bomb them back into the stone age, folks. Right now, the Davis administration has shown tepidness and cowardice in fighting against the Vietcong, and we need someone of courage, someone who can properly strike back.

And let me tell you folks, I will strike back. I will strike back hard. Because right now, if we pull out or even retreat an inch and let those defeatists within our nation like Senator Sharp or the socialists win, then all those who have died will have died in vain."

He paused solemnly, then stepped off to speak to the crowd and perhaps even other candidates.

by **Free Ward Marchers** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 4:21 pm

The Associated Press

Politics

August 17th, 1959

Alaskan Senate Polls

official Poll Size: 500

1st Position (1959-1964) Polls

Official Poll

(Generic-Socially Moderate Dem) Darren Hart 46%
Michael Jackson 37%
Write-Ins 4%
Undecided 13%

2nd Position (1959-1966) Polls

Official Poll

(Generic-Fiscally Moderate Dem) Silver Newton 40%
Ellison Smith 36%
Write-Ins 6%
Undecided 18%

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

Earl Boone’s Tour of The South (Aug.-Oct.)

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