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by The Orion Islands » Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:47 pm
by Gordano and Lysandus » Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:48 pm
New Cobastheia wrote:Gordano and Lysandus wrote:Well, seeing as this means that Bryan no longer counts towards my character count...
NS Nation Name: Gordano and Lysandus
Character Name: Abigail Jekyll-Jones (6)
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 65
Character Height: 5’6”
Character Weight: 138lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: U.S. Representative for the 2nd District of the State of Oregon (2001-); Mayor of Klamath Falls (1993-2001); Employee, Jekyll and Sons Jewellers (1976-1993).
Character Country/State of Birth: Oregon, United States
Character State of Residence: Oregon
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Reliable Republican with no major personal scandals on her own hands; reasonably well-to-do; respected within the conference and well-positioned to help with negotiations; positioned herself well with the rise of Arnold Wolf.
Main Weaknesses: Husband’s business ties have raised eyebrows on the question of justice for Native Americans (5); Mormon convictions isolate her from statewide or national ambitions; advocacy for (not-Ammon Bundy) and the People’s Rights organization has drawn criticism from Democrats.
Biography:
Born on November 9th, 1955 to John and Miriam Jekyll, a Mormon couple running a family-owned jewellery business in Klamath Falls, Oregon, she was raised a devout Mormon. Homeschooled in her elementary years, she would not go to school until she hit middle school age. Insular and deeply ingrained in the convictions of her faith, she eschewed traditional friendship groups and was generally shy and bookish. A good student, she had a largely uneventful childhood through the ‘50s and ‘60s, and by the early ‘70s, graduated with good grades. Her lonely childhood was compounded by the fact that her family were afflicted with polio, with her two siblings and her mother all claimed by the disease.
Accepted into the Oregon Institute of Technology in her native Klamath Falls, she pursued a BSc in Business (1), being the only one of John Jekyll’s children left to inherit Jekyll and Sons Jewellers (2). She was a good student, though her interest in economics in this period led her to be drawn slightly to the nascently growing libertarian and anti-Keynesian push in economic theory at the time. This would go on to shape her economic views as her life continued. Not inherently interested in politics at this time, upon leaving college in 1976, she began to work at Jekyll and Sons to support her father in the business.
She did, in this time, meet Paul Jones, a fellow Mormon and local whose family had been successful in the east Oregon timber industry, from lands that had been expropriated from the local Klamath and Modoc peoples. With a compatibility of religion, and a reasonably positive start, they soon entered into a relationship, and by 1978 were married. Her continuing work for Jekyll and Sons was on and off as she experienced four pregnancies, one of them difficult, over a period of four years from 1979 to 1983. Over the 1980s, she approved of the large-scale push to slash federal taxation by President Reagan, and between that and her nascent interest in economics from college, she became increasingly jaded at what she saw as state and local taxes that impeded both her husband and her father in success in business.
The opportunity to confront this came in 1992. With her children all at an age requiring less direct supervision, and the blessing of her husband (without which she wouldn’t have acted at all), she stood for election as Mayor of Klamath Falls on an outrightly anti-tax platform, promising to cut waste in the city government and put money back in the hands of locals. With a broadly contested field, she managed to distinguish herself enough to drag herself ahead of her rivals, and managed to win election in the small, eastern Oregonian city.
Despite the nonpartisan nature of the mayoralty in Klamath Falls, she began to build ties with the state Republican Party, who were cultivating her as a potential future candidate. Her Mormon faith, and the firmness to which she held to it, however, impeded her and resulted in her largely being regarded as unfit for statewide office, though the potential remained for her to see congressional office later.
As Mayor, she indeed did cut down on municipal spending and taxes, though at an expense to public services, contracting them out where possible to companies who could provide a slightly less stringent service at a more reasonable cost. Despite the dip in public services, the slashing of municipal taxes did much to cement her popularity, as did her response to the earthquake in 1993, which destroyed numerous buildings in the downtown area. Personally overseeing the response by fire and rescue services alongside state agencies, she functioned on very little sleep as she sought to ensure that everyone in the collapsed buildings could be accounted for. She was integral in seeking the Community Development Block Grant necessary to help cover the millions of dollars in damage in the area, and applied herself forthrightly to the task of negotiating down the price of contracts during the rebuilding. She went on to go to Washington, D.C. personally on a high profile stunt to demand the USGS establish seismographs in Klamath County, which would eventually occur (3).
Despite her Republican leanings, she has been an avid advocate for the geothermal heating and energy systems in the Klamath Falls area, supporting investments and developments in the technology to reduce city expenditures on heating and electricity. A proponent of school choice, she started a campaign and set groundwork for the Klamath Falls City School District establishing its first charter high school in 2006, after she had left office.
When it became apparent that an opening would be present to run for Congress in 2000 in Oregon’s 2nd District, Abigail was interested. Solidified in her alignment towards the Republican Party by her outrage at the Clifford sex scandal, and firmly convicted of the belief that President Clifford should have been impeached for his poor moral character, she ran in the primary and managed to pull out a slim but convincing lead. The safe Republican district fell into her hands in the election of 2000, allowing her to join Congress in 2001. Not long afterwards, her father succumbed to emphysema, and she inherited the family business, which she left in the hands of her now-21 year old son, Joseph.
In the 107th Congress, she was an enthusiastic supporter of the agenda of President Burke, including the military activities of that administration. She was, however, a No vote on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, cutting her teeth on her deregulatory credentials. She also began her pattern of - every Congress - introducing a bill to dilute the authority of the Endangered Species Act after the 2001 ruling that caused irrigation systems in the Klamath Falls area to be shut down to protect species of fish. She was a visible presence in the ‘Bucket Brigades’ in Klamath Falls, and led a delegation of protesting farmers to the Capitol. In 2002, her second son, Paul Jekyll-Jones Jr., joined the US Army. He would go on to be deployed a number of times in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the 108th Congress, she was involved in the drafting of the Check 21 Act to streamline banking processes, and was a supporter of the party line on the CAN-SPAM Act. She first joined the House Committee on Natural Resources in this Congress. She sharpened her credentials on Israel with her support for the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act.
In the 109th Congress, she helped to draft and was a firm supporter of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, as well as the failed Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act. She was outspoken in furthering the censorship technology provisions in the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, deploring the “abundance of filth in present media”.
In the 110th Congress, in the minority, she nonetheless joined the congressional majorities that overturned President Burke’s veto of the 2007 Farm Bill, and she voted against the Saxbe fix for Diane Clifford near the end of the Congress, giving a long floor speech stating her belief that the “specter of misconduct in the White House should not be allowed to return”, referencing the Secretary of State-designate’s husband’s scandals.
In the 111th Congress, the first of President Baharia’s presidency, she refused to attend his joint address to Congress calling for healthcare reform, and would go on to become a founding member of the Tea Party Caucus in 2009. Though she made an exception for the Lilly Ledbetter Act, she otherwise opposed the large share of President Baharia’s policies. She exceeded the time allotted for her floor speech on the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act and had to be removed from the House chamber when she refused to end her speech.
In the 112th Congress, she was delighted by the restoration of the Republican majority in the House, and eagerly supported Speaker (not-Boehner’s) brinkmanship with President Baharia over the debt ceiling and government spending. Opposed to the STOCK Act and supportive of the JOBS Act, she remained a relatively solid Republican vote on the vast majority of issues. She was disappointed by the Sebelius ruling, claiming that the Court had “failed in its fundamental duties to restrain an overzealous government” by failing to strike down Bahariacare. An early supporter of (not-Mitt Romney), she threw her weight behind the campaign of the fellow Mormon through to his defeat in the election of 2012.
By the 113th Congress, she supported the Veteran’s Choice Act, and was a No vote on the proposed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, on the basis of its incorporation of protections for LGBT persons, and immigrants.
In the 114th Congress, she supported (not-Paul Ryan’s) ascendancy to the Speakership, and was rewarded with the chairmanship of the Natural Resources committee. A supporter of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, and an opponent of USA FREEDOM Act, criticizing the Baharia Administration as being “criminally weak on the national defense”. An early supporter of former Representative and FOX pundit Arnold Wolf, having recognized early his potential to disrupt the field and more radicalized by her time in the Tea Party, she was a key speaker for his campaign across the west coast of the United States, driving up numbers of blue state Republicans for his campaign. She caused a stir in 2016 by being an open and vocal support of the occupiers during the Malheur siege, stating that any aggressive action by the Baharia Administration would “constitute a declaration of war by the federal government against the citizens, and invite a righteous revolution in return”.
In the 115th Congress, she was a vocal and loud supporter of the attempt to overturn Bahariacare, and was excoriating regarding Senate Republicans who voted down the reconciliation measure. A supporter of the vast majority of the Republican agenda, she did not give her backing to the FIRST STEP Act.
In the 116th Congress, she remained a persistent opponent and obstructionist of the Democratic agenda in the House, in line with Republican colleagues. Though she supported IRS reform in the Taxpayer First Act, she otherwise did not support bipartisan initiatives, preferring to cast the Democratic House as uncooperative and hyperpartisan. Sitting out of the early stages of the Republican primaries following the shock announcement of President Wolf’s illness and his successor Tawney’s desire not to run again, she eventually endorsed Governor Richardson of Florida as the field narrowed, and supported him actively in the Washington, Oregon and California primaries.
(4)
Other Info: Practicing Mormon; married to Paul Jekyll-Jones (m. 1978). Has 4 children: Joseph (b. 1979), Paul Jr. (b. 1980), Bethany (b. 1981), and Rachael (b. 1983).
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Gordano and Lysandus
Do Not Remove: DRAFT87421
1) I'd be fine just calling it a BS by the way, I don't think I've ever seen an American call it a BSc
2) I'm curious, but what might she have studied if not for the family business?
3) How high profile are we talking? I only ask given that she's a mayor of a small town in the middle of nowhere, you can really only get so high profile at that point.
4) What with the GOP coming back into power in the House, has she taken back the Chair of the Natural Resources committee, and follow up to that question, did she hold the Ranking Membership from 2019-2021? If yes, I'd also suggest just adding them to the list of her character jobs just so we can having something more visible stating that she holds the Chair and whatnot.
5) Given what's written in the app I feel that this weakness might be a little weak compared to the other two, I'd suggest perhaps adding in a record of generally opposing pro-Native stuff on Abigail's side just to strengthen it and give it more bite
6) As much as I love the name, I'm curious, with her being such a find Mormom woman, why did she hyphenate rather than fully taking her Husband's last name?
by Gordano and Lysandus » Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:53 pm
Gordano and Lysandus wrote:Well, seeing as this means that Bryan no longer counts towards my character count...
NS Nation Name: Gordano and Lysandus
Character Name: Abigail Jekyll-Jones
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 65
Character Height: 5’6”
Character Weight: 138lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: U.S. Representative for the 2nd District of the State of Oregon (2001-); Chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources (2021-); Ranking Member of the House Commitee on Natural Resources (2019-2021); Mayor of Klamath Falls (1993-2001); Employee, Jekyll and Sons Jewellers (1976-1993).
Character Country/State of Birth: Oregon, United States
Character State of Residence: Oregon
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Reliable Republican with no major personal scandals on her own hands; reasonably well-to-do; respected within the conference and well-positioned to help with negotiations; positioned herself well with the rise of Arnold Wolf.
Main Weaknesses: Husband’s business ties have raised eyebrows on the question of justice for Native Americans; Mormon convictions isolate her from statewide or national ambitions; advocacy for (not-Ammon Bundy) and the People’s Rights organization has drawn criticism from Democrats.
Biography:
Born on November 9th, 1955 to John and Miriam Jekyll, a Mormon couple running a family-owned jewellery business in Klamath Falls, Oregon, she was raised a devout Mormon. Homeschooled in her elementary years, she would not go to school until she hit middle school age. Insular and deeply ingrained in the convictions of her faith, she eschewed traditional friendship groups and was generally shy and bookish. A good student, she had a largely uneventful childhood through the ‘50s and ‘60s, and by the early ‘70s, graduated with good grades. Her lonely childhood was compounded by the fact that her family were afflicted with polio, with her two siblings and her mother all claimed by the disease.
Accepted into the Oregon Institute of Technology in her native Klamath Falls, she pursued a BSc in Business, being the only one of John Jekyll’s children left to inherit Jekyll and Sons Jewellers. She was a good student, though her interest in economics in this period led her to be drawn slightly to the nascently growing libertarian and anti-Keynesian push in economic theory at the time. This would go on to shape her economic views as her life continued. Not inherently interested in politics at this time, upon leaving college in 1976, she began to work at Jekyll and Sons to support her father in the business.
She did, in this time, meet Paul Jones, a fellow Mormon and local whose family had been successful in the east Oregon timber industry, from lands that had been expropriated from the local Klamath and Modoc peoples. With a compatibility of religion, and a reasonably positive start, they soon entered into a relationship, and by 1978 were married. Her continuing work for Jekyll and Sons was on and off as she experienced four pregnancies, one of them difficult, over a period of four years from 1979 to 1983. Over the 1980s, she approved of the large-scale push to slash federal taxation by President Reagan, and between that and her nascent interest in economics from college, she became increasingly jaded at what she saw as state and local taxes that impeded both her husband and her father in success in business.
The opportunity to confront this came in 1992. With her children all at an age requiring less direct supervision, and the blessing of her husband (without which she wouldn’t have acted at all), she stood for election as Mayor of Klamath Falls on an outrightly anti-tax platform, promising to cut waste in the city government and put money back in the hands of locals. With a broadly contested field, she managed to distinguish herself enough to drag herself ahead of her rivals, and managed to win election in the small, eastern Oregonian city.
Despite the nonpartisan nature of the mayoralty in Klamath Falls, she began to build ties with the state Republican Party, who were cultivating her as a potential future candidate. Her Mormon faith, and the firmness to which she held to it, however, impeded her and resulted in her largely being regarded as unfit for statewide office, though the potential remained for her to see congressional office later.
As Mayor, she indeed did cut down on municipal spending and taxes, though at an expense to public services, contracting them out where possible to companies who could provide a slightly less stringent service at a more reasonable cost. Despite the dip in public services, the slashing of municipal taxes did much to cement her popularity, as did her response to the earthquake in 1993, which destroyed numerous buildings in the downtown area. Personally overseeing the response by fire and rescue services alongside state agencies, she functioned on very little sleep as she sought to ensure that everyone in the collapsed buildings could be accounted for. She was integral in seeking the Community Development Block Grant necessary to help cover the millions of dollars in damage in the area, and applied herself forthrightly to the task of negotiating down the price of contracts during the rebuilding. She went on to go to Washington, D.C. personally on a political stunt to demand the USGS establish seismographs in Klamath County, which would eventually occur, and earned her some attention across the state, particularly in the east.
Despite her Republican leanings, she has been an avid advocate for the geothermal heating and energy systems in the Klamath Falls area, supporting investments and developments in the technology to reduce city expenditures on heating and electricity. A proponent of school choice, she started a campaign and set groundwork for the Klamath Falls City School District establishing its first charter high school in 2006, after she had left office.
When it became apparent that an opening would be present to run for Congress in 2000 in Oregon’s 2nd District, Abigail was interested. Solidified in her alignment towards the Republican Party by her outrage at the Clifford sex scandal, and firmly convicted of the belief that President Clifford should have been impeached for his poor moral character, she ran in the primary and managed to pull out a slim but convincing lead. The safe Republican district fell into her hands in the election of 2000, allowing her to join Congress in 2001. Not long afterwards, her father succumbed to emphysema, and she inherited the family business, which she left in the hands of her now-21 year old son, Joseph.
In the 107th Congress, she was an enthusiastic supporter of the agenda of President Burke, including the military activities of that administration. She was, however, a No vote on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, cutting her teeth on her deregulatory credentials. She also began her pattern of - every Congress - introducing a bill to dilute the authority of the Endangered Species Act after the 2001 ruling that caused irrigation systems in the Klamath Falls area to be shut down to protect species of fish. She was a visible presence in the ‘Bucket Brigades’ in Klamath Falls, and led a delegation of protesting farmers to the Capitol. In 2002, her second son, Paul Jekyll-Jones Jr., joined the US Army. He would go on to be deployed a number of times in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the 108th Congress, she was involved in the drafting of the Check 21 Act to streamline banking processes, and was a supporter of the party line on the CAN-SPAM Act. She first joined the House Committee on Natural Resources in this Congress. She sharpened her credentials on Israel with her support for the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act.
In the 109th Congress, she helped to draft and was a firm supporter of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, as well as the failed Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act. She was outspoken in furthering the censorship technology provisions in the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, deploring the “abundance of filth in present media”.
In the 110th Congress, in the minority, she nonetheless joined the congressional majorities that overturned President Burke’s veto of the 2007 Farm Bill, and she voted against the Saxbe fix for Diane Clifford near the end of the Congress, giving a long floor speech stating her belief that the “specter of misconduct in the White House should not be allowed to return”, referencing the Secretary of State-designate’s husband’s scandals.
In the 111th Congress, the first of President Baharia’s presidency, she refused to attend his joint address to Congress calling for healthcare reform, and would go on to become a founding member of the Tea Party Caucus in 2009. Though she made an exception for the Lilly Ledbetter Act, she otherwise opposed the large share of President Baharia’s policies. She exceeded the time allotted for her floor speech on the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act and had to be removed from the House chamber when she refused to end her speech.
In the 112th Congress, she was delighted by the restoration of the Republican majority in the House, and eagerly supported Speaker (not-Boehner’s) brinkmanship with President Baharia over the debt ceiling and government spending. Opposed to the STOCK Act and supportive of the JOBS Act, she remained a relatively solid Republican vote on the vast majority of issues. She was disappointed by the Sebelius ruling, claiming that the Court had “failed in its fundamental duties to restrain an overzealous government” by failing to strike down Bahariacare. An early supporter of (not-Mitt Romney), she threw her weight behind the campaign of the fellow Mormon through to his defeat in the election of 2012.
By the 113th Congress, she supported the Veteran’s Choice Act, and was a No vote on the proposed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, on the basis of its incorporation of protections for LGBT persons, and immigrants.
In the 114th Congress, she supported (not-Paul Ryan’s) ascendancy to the Speakership, and was rewarded with the chairmanship of the Natural Resources committee. A supporter of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, and an opponent of USA FREEDOM Act, criticizing the Baharia Administration as being “criminally weak on the national defense”. An early supporter of former Representative and FOX pundit Arnold Wolf, having recognized early his potential to disrupt the field and more radicalized by her time in the Tea Party, she was a key speaker for his campaign across the west coast of the United States, driving up numbers of blue state Republicans for his campaign. She caused a stir in 2016 by being an open and vocal support of the occupiers during the Malheur siege, stating that any aggressive action by the Baharia Administration would “constitute a declaration of war by the federal government against the citizens, and invite a righteous revolution in return”.
In the 115th Congress, she was a vocal and loud supporter of the attempt to overturn Bahariacare, and was excoriating regarding Senate Republicans who voted down the reconciliation measure. A supporter of the vast majority of the Republican agenda, she did not give her backing to the FIRST STEP Act.
In the 116th Congress, she remained a persistent opponent and obstructionist of the Democratic agenda in the House, in line with Republican colleagues. Though she supported IRS reform in the Taxpayer First Act, she otherwise did not support bipartisan initiatives, preferring to cast the Democratic House as uncooperative and hyperpartisan. Sitting out of the early stages of the Republican primaries following the shock announcement of President Wolf’s illness and his successor Tawney’s desire not to run again, she eventually endorsed Governor Richardson of Florida as the field narrowed, and supported him actively in the Washington, Oregon and California primaries. During this Congress, she was the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee.
In the 117th Congress, she has taken the Chair of the Natural Resources Committee in the House.
Other Info: Practicing Mormon; married to Paul Jekyll-Jones (m. 1978). Has 4 children: Joseph (b. 1979), Paul Jr. (b. 1980), Bethany (b. 1981), and Rachael (b. 1983).
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Gordano and Lysandus
Do Not Remove: DRAFT87421
by New Cobastheia » Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:58 pm
Gordano and Lysandus wrote:New Cobastheia wrote:
1) I'd be fine just calling it a BS by the way, I don't think I've ever seen an American call it a BSc
2) I'm curious, but what might she have studied if not for the family business?
3) How high profile are we talking? I only ask given that she's a mayor of a small town in the middle of nowhere, you can really only get so high profile at that point.
4) What with the GOP coming back into power in the House, has she taken back the Chair of the Natural Resources committee, and follow up to that question, did she hold the Ranking Membership from 2019-2021? If yes, I'd also suggest just adding them to the list of her character jobs just so we can having something more visible stating that she holds the Chair and whatnot.
5) Given what's written in the app I feel that this weakness might be a little weak compared to the other two, I'd suggest perhaps adding in a record of generally opposing pro-Native stuff on Abigail's side just to strengthen it and give it more bite
6) As much as I love the name, I'm curious, with her being such a find Mormom woman, why did she hyphenate rather than fully taking her Husband's last name?
1) Do you call it a BS in the US? I swear I've seen it as BSc over there.
2) To sate your curiosity, I don't think she would have gone to college at all had it not been essentially pre-determined that she'd inherit the jewellery store.
3) Probably high profile on a state level, nowhere near a national figure.
4) Yes, and I'll rectify that.
5) That makes sense, I'll factor that in.
6) It's probably because the family name is in the name of the business and she's the sole surviving member of that family, so the name'd die out if it wasn't sustained.
by Louisianan » Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:00 pm
The Orion Islands wrote:Did Tenson just call Colbert dumb?
by Sarenium » Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:00 am
...I'd like to do you slowly...
Just another Australian.
by Alozia » Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:58 am
Equality Act of 2021
A BILL
To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Abrahms, Noam Joseph [NJ-12, Democratic]
Senate Sponsors: Hertzog, Benjamin Ryan [Michigan, Democratic]
House Sponsors: Miller, Oliver [KS-03, Democratic]; Boyd, Everson [WI-03, Democratic]; Ziegler, Daniel Aharon [CO-01, Democratic];
Lazare, Linda D. [TX-07, Democratic]; Crawford, Philip [KY-03, Democratic]; Fitzgerald, Hugo [TX-29, Democratic]
SECTION 1: SHORT TITLEThis Act may be cited as the "Equality Act of 2021".
SECTION 2: Public Accommodations
- Amends Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in public accommodations, in addition to the categories of self and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
- Expands the definition of public accommodations, as previously outlined in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to exhibitions, goods and services, and transportation.
SECTION 3: Public FacilitiesAmends Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in public facilities, in addition to the categories of self- and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
SECTION 4: Public EducationAmends Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in public education, in addition to the categories of self- and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
SECTION 5: Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted ProgramsAmends Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in federally assisted programs, in addition to the categories of self- and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
SECTION 6: Employment
- Amends Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, in addition to the categories of self- and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
- Amends Title VI to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of an individual's association with another individual of a particular sex, sexual orientation and gender identity.
SECTION 7: Title IX AmendmentAmends Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in any school or other education program that receives federal money.
SECTION 8: Boyd v. Clayton County Supreme Court Decision CodificationDefines sex discrimination in employment as
treating someone (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because of that person's sex, including the person's sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition of an individual, as well as because of sex-based stereotypes.in accordance with the Boyd v. Clayton County Supreme Court of the United States Decision.
by Alozia » Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:58 am
by Meelducan » Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:27 am
Alozia wrote:
NS Nation Name: Alozia
Character Name: Noam Joseph "Joe" Abrahms
Character Gender: boy
Character Age: 65
Character Height: 6'' 1'
Character Weight: 176 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 12th congressional district (since 2019)[1]
Character Country/State of Birth: New Jersey, Amerikkka
Character State of Residence: New Jersey
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Character Traits:
Biography:
U.S. House of Representatives [1][2]
The end of Abrahms' second term in 2018 coincided with the retirement of the incumbent U.S. Representative from the Trenton-based 12th congressional district. Winning the open primary with 60% of the vote, Abrahms sailed to victory in the heavily Democratic district winning 65% of the vote in the general election. During his campaign he promised to champion "Little America" - or in other words, local government - by fighting for additional programs for local schools and healthcare facilities from the federal government. In addition, Abrahms promised to stand progressive causes such as a higher minimum wage, environmentalism, labor protections, tuition free college and minority rights.
Ever since taking office, Abrahms was highly critical of President Wolf and, although to a much smaller degree, his successor Richard Tawney. He made an effort to maintain communications with his constituents, holding a townhall at least once a month, personally responding to the most important calls and letters and even once using his immunity from prosecution to physically block the eviction of a poor family from housing affected by drastic rent hikes. Joseph Abrahms sponsored a number of bills in the 116th Congress, including bills to provide and increase funding for municipal hydraulics systems, increase the minimum wage, protect the natural environment and to provide protections to minorities. He was one of the co-sponsors of the Equality Act of 2019 and has promised to re-introduce the bill in the 117th Congress.
Committee assignments
- Committee on Appropriations
- Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies
- Committee on Financial Services
- Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance
Caucus Membership
- Congressional Freethought Caucus
- Congressional Progressive Caucus
- Congressional Public Housing Caucus
- Congressional Public Transportation Caucus
- House Congressional Freedom of the Press Caucus
- House Congressional Local and City Government Caucus
- Medicare For All Caucus, Founding Member
Other Info:
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Alozia
Do Not Remove: DRAFT87421
Made some cosmetic changes to Abrahms
[1] - Abrahms entered office in 2019, having run shortly after wrapping up his second mayoral term. The "character role" section had been amended to properly reflect that.
[2] - Expanded the U.S. House of Representatives section to include congressional caucusmembership and committee assignments. Expanded Congressional activity.
by Dentali » Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:49 am
Gordano and Lysandus wrote:Well, seeing as this means that Bryan no longer counts towards my character count...
NS Nation Name: Gordano and Lysandus
Character Name: Abigail Jekyll-Jones
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 65
Character Height: 5’6”
Character Weight: 138lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: U.S. Representative for the 2nd District of the State of Oregon (2001-); Chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources (2021-); Ranking Member of the House Commitee on Natural Resources (2019-2021); Mayor of Klamath Falls (1993-2001); Employee, Jekyll and Sons Jewellers (1976-1993).
Character Country/State of Birth: Oregon, United States
Character State of Residence: Oregon
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Reliable Republican with no major personal scandals on her own hands; reasonably well-to-do; respected within the conference and well-positioned to help with negotiations; positioned herself well with the rise of Arnold Wolf.
Main Weaknesses: Husband’s business ties have raised eyebrows on the question of justice for Native Americans, particularly with Abigail's persistent opposition to reform in favor of Native communities in Congress; Mormon convictions isolate her from statewide or national ambitions; advocacy for (not-Ammon Bundy) and the People’s Rights organization has drawn criticism from Democrats.
Biography:
Born on November 9th, 1955 to John and Miriam Jekyll, a Mormon couple running a family-owned jewellery business in Klamath Falls, Oregon, she was raised a devout Mormon. Homeschooled in her elementary years, she would not go to school until she hit middle school age. Insular and deeply ingrained in the convictions of her faith, she eschewed traditional friendship groups and was generally shy and bookish. A good student, she had a largely uneventful childhood through the ‘50s and ‘60s, and by the early ‘70s, graduated with good grades. Her lonely childhood was compounded by the fact that her family were afflicted with polio, with her two siblings and her mother all claimed by the disease.
Accepted into the Oregon Institute of Technology in her native Klamath Falls, she pursued a BSc in Business, being the only one of John Jekyll’s children left to inherit Jekyll and Sons Jewellers. She was a good student, though her interest in economics in this period led her to be drawn slightly to the nascently growing libertarian and anti-Keynesian push in economic theory at the time. This would go on to shape her economic views as her life continued. Not inherently interested in politics at this time, upon leaving college in 1976, she began to work at Jekyll and Sons to support her father in the business.
She did, in this time, meet Paul Jones, a fellow Mormon and local whose family had been successful in the east Oregon timber industry, from lands that had been expropriated from the local Klamath and Modoc peoples. With a compatibility of religion, and a reasonably positive start, they soon entered into a relationship, and by 1978 were married. Her continuing work for Jekyll and Sons was on and off as she experienced four pregnancies, one of them difficult, over a period of four years from 1979 to 1983. Over the 1980s, she approved of the large-scale push to slash federal taxation by President Reagan, and between that and her nascent interest in economics from college, she became increasingly jaded at what she saw as state and local taxes that impeded both her husband and her father in success in business.
The opportunity to confront this came in 1992. With her children all at an age requiring less direct supervision, and the blessing of her husband (without which she wouldn’t have acted at all), she stood for election as Mayor of Klamath Falls on an outrightly anti-tax platform, promising to cut waste in the city government and put money back in the hands of locals. With a broadly contested field, she managed to distinguish herself enough to drag herself ahead of her rivals, and managed to win election in the small, eastern Oregonian city.
Despite the nonpartisan nature of the mayoralty in Klamath Falls, she began to build ties with the state Republican Party, who were cultivating her as a potential future candidate. Her Mormon faith, and the firmness to which she held to it, however, impeded her and resulted in her largely being regarded as unfit for statewide office, though the potential remained for her to see congressional office later.
As Mayor, she indeed did cut down on municipal spending and taxes, though at an expense to public services, contracting them out where possible to companies who could provide a slightly less stringent service at a more reasonable cost. Despite the dip in public services, the slashing of municipal taxes did much to cement her popularity, as did her response to the earthquake in 1993, which destroyed numerous buildings in the downtown area. Personally overseeing the response by fire and rescue services alongside state agencies, she functioned on very little sleep as she sought to ensure that everyone in the collapsed buildings could be accounted for. She was integral in seeking the Community Development Block Grant necessary to help cover the millions of dollars in damage in the area, and applied herself forthrightly to the task of negotiating down the price of contracts during the rebuilding. She went on to go to Washington, D.C. personally on a political stunt to demand the USGS establish seismographs in Klamath County, which would eventually occur, and earned her some attention across the state, particularly in the east.
Despite her Republican leanings, she has been an avid advocate for the geothermal heating and energy systems in the Klamath Falls area, supporting investments and developments in the technology to reduce city expenditures on heating and electricity. A proponent of school choice, she started a campaign and set groundwork for the Klamath Falls City School District establishing its first charter high school in 2006, after she had left office.
When it became apparent that an opening would be present to run for Congress in 2000 in Oregon’s 2nd District, Abigail was interested. Solidified in her alignment towards the Republican Party by her outrage at the Clifford sex scandal, and firmly convicted of the belief that President Clifford should have been impeached for his poor moral character, she ran in the primary and managed to pull out a slim but convincing lead. The safe Republican district fell into her hands in the election of 2000, allowing her to join Congress in 2001. Not long afterwards, her father succumbed to emphysema, and she inherited the family business, which she left in the hands of her now-21 year old son, Joseph.
In the 107th Congress, she was an enthusiastic supporter of the agenda of President Burke, including the military activities of that administration. She was, however, a No vote on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, cutting her teeth on her deregulatory credentials. She also began her pattern of - every Congress - introducing a bill to dilute the authority of the Endangered Species Act after the 2001 ruling that caused irrigation systems in the Klamath Falls area to be shut down to protect species of fish. She was a visible presence in the ‘Bucket Brigades’ in Klamath Falls, and led a delegation of protesting farmers to the Capitol. In 2002, her second son, Paul Jekyll-Jones Jr., joined the US Army. He would go on to be deployed a number of times in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the 108th Congress, she was involved in the drafting of the Check 21 Act to streamline banking processes, and was a supporter of the party line on the CAN-SPAM Act. She first joined the House Committee on Natural Resources in this Congress. She sharpened her credentials on Israel with her support for the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act.
In the 109th Congress, she helped to draft and was a firm supporter of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, as well as the failed Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act. She was outspoken in furthering the censorship technology provisions in the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, deploring the “abundance of filth in present media”.
In the 110th Congress, in the minority, she nonetheless joined the congressional majorities that overturned President Burke’s veto of the 2007 Farm Bill, and she voted against the Saxbe fix for Diane Clifford near the end of the Congress, giving a long floor speech stating her belief that the “specter of misconduct in the White House should not be allowed to return”, referencing the Secretary of State-designate’s husband’s scandals.
In the 111th Congress, the first of President Baharia’s presidency, she refused to attend his joint address to Congress calling for healthcare reform, and would go on to become a founding member of the Tea Party Caucus in 2009. Though she made an exception for the Lilly Ledbetter Act, she otherwise opposed the large share of President Baharia’s policies. She exceeded the time allotted for her floor speech on the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act and had to be removed from the House chamber when she refused to end her speech.
In the 112th Congress, she was delighted by the restoration of the Republican majority in the House, and eagerly supported Speaker (not-Boehner’s) brinkmanship with President Baharia over the debt ceiling and government spending. Opposed to the STOCK Act and supportive of the JOBS Act, she remained a relatively solid Republican vote on the vast majority of issues. She was disappointed by the Sebelius ruling, claiming that the Court had “failed in its fundamental duties to restrain an overzealous government” by failing to strike down Bahariacare. An early supporter of (not-Mitt Romney), she threw her weight behind the campaign of the fellow Mormon through to his defeat in the election of 2012.
By the 113th Congress, she supported the Veteran’s Choice Act, and was a No vote on the proposed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, on the basis of its incorporation of protections for LGBT persons, and immigrants.
In the 114th Congress, she supported (not-Paul Ryan’s) ascendancy to the Speakership, and was rewarded with the chairmanship of the Natural Resources committee. A supporter of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, and an opponent of USA FREEDOM Act, criticizing the Baharia Administration as being “criminally weak on the national defense”. An early supporter of former Representative and FOX pundit Arnold Wolf, having recognized early his potential to disrupt the field and more radicalized by her time in the Tea Party, she was a key speaker for his campaign across the west coast of the United States, driving up numbers of blue state Republicans for his campaign. She caused a stir in 2016 by being an open and vocal support of the occupiers during the Malheur siege, stating that any aggressive action by the Baharia Administration would “constitute a declaration of war by the federal government against the citizens, and invite a righteous revolution in return”.
In the 115th Congress, she was a vocal and loud supporter of the attempt to overturn Bahariacare, and was excoriating regarding Senate Republicans who voted down the reconciliation measure. A supporter of the vast majority of the Republican agenda, she did not give her backing to the FIRST STEP Act.
In the 116th Congress, she remained a persistent opponent and obstructionist of the Democratic agenda in the House, in line with Republican colleagues. Though she supported IRS reform in the Taxpayer First Act, she otherwise did not support bipartisan initiatives, preferring to cast the Democratic House as uncooperative and hyperpartisan. Sitting out of the early stages of the Republican primaries following the shock announcement of President Wolf’s illness and his successor Tawney’s desire not to run again, she eventually endorsed Governor Richardson of Florida as the field narrowed, and supported him actively in the Washington, Oregon and California primaries. During this Congress, she was the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee.
In the 117th Congress, she has taken the Chair of the Natural Resources Committee in the House.
Other Info: Practicing Mormon; married to Paul Jekyll-Jones (m. 1978). Has 4 children: Joseph (b. 1979), Paul Jr. (b. 1980), Bethany (b. 1981), and Rachael (b. 1983).
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by Gordano and Lysandus » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:55 am
Dentali wrote:Gordano and Lysandus wrote:Well, seeing as this means that Bryan no longer counts towards my character count...
NS Nation Name: Gordano and Lysandus
Character Name: Abigail Jekyll-Jones
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 65
Character Height: 5’6”
Character Weight: 138lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: U.S. Representative for the 2nd District of the State of Oregon (2001-); Chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources (2021-); Ranking Member of the House Commitee on Natural Resources (2019-2021); Mayor of Klamath Falls (1993-2001); Employee, Jekyll and Sons Jewellers (1976-1993).
Character Country/State of Birth: Oregon, United States
Character State of Residence: Oregon
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Reliable Republican with no major personal scandals on her own hands; reasonably well-to-do; respected within the conference and well-positioned to help with negotiations; positioned herself well with the rise of Arnold Wolf.
Main Weaknesses: Husband’s business ties have raised eyebrows on the question of justice for Native Americans, particularly with Abigail's persistent opposition to reform in favor of Native communities in Congress; Mormon convictions isolate her from statewide or national ambitions; advocacy for (not-Ammon Bundy) and the People’s Rights organization has drawn criticism from Democrats.
Biography:
Born on November 9th, 1955 to John and Miriam Jekyll, a Mormon couple running a family-owned jewellery business in Klamath Falls, Oregon, she was raised a devout Mormon. Homeschooled in her elementary years, she would not go to school until she hit middle school age. Insular and deeply ingrained in the convictions of her faith, she eschewed traditional friendship groups and was generally shy and bookish. A good student, she had a largely uneventful childhood through the ‘50s and ‘60s, and by the early ‘70s, graduated with good grades. Her lonely childhood was compounded by the fact that her family were afflicted with polio, with her two siblings and her mother all claimed by the disease.
Accepted into the Oregon Institute of Technology in her native Klamath Falls, she pursued a BSc in Business, being the only one of John Jekyll’s children left to inherit Jekyll and Sons Jewellers. She was a good student, though her interest in economics in this period led her to be drawn slightly to the nascently growing libertarian and anti-Keynesian push in economic theory at the time. This would go on to shape her economic views as her life continued. Not inherently interested in politics at this time, upon leaving college in 1976, she began to work at Jekyll and Sons to support her father in the business.
She did, in this time, meet Paul Jones, a fellow Mormon and local whose family had been successful in the east Oregon timber industry, from lands that had been expropriated from the local Klamath and Modoc peoples. With a compatibility of religion, and a reasonably positive start, they soon entered into a relationship, and by 1978 were married. Her continuing work for Jekyll and Sons was on and off as she experienced four pregnancies, one of them difficult, over a period of four years from 1979 to 1983. Over the 1980s, she approved of the large-scale push to slash federal taxation by President Reagan, and between that and her nascent interest in economics from college, she became increasingly jaded at what she saw as state and local taxes that impeded both her husband and her father in success in business.
The opportunity to confront this came in 1992. With her children all at an age requiring less direct supervision, and the blessing of her husband (without which she wouldn’t have acted at all), she stood for election as Mayor of Klamath Falls on an outrightly anti-tax platform, promising to cut waste in the city government and put money back in the hands of locals. With a broadly contested field, she managed to distinguish herself enough to drag herself ahead of her rivals, and managed to win election in the small, eastern Oregonian city.
Despite the nonpartisan nature of the mayoralty in Klamath Falls, she began to build ties with the state Republican Party, who were cultivating her as a potential future candidate. Her Mormon faith, and the firmness to which she held to it, however, impeded her and resulted in her largely being regarded as unfit for statewide office, though the potential remained for her to see congressional office later.
As Mayor, she indeed did cut down on municipal spending and taxes, though at an expense to public services, contracting them out where possible to companies who could provide a slightly less stringent service at a more reasonable cost. Despite the dip in public services, the slashing of municipal taxes did much to cement her popularity, as did her response to the earthquake in 1993, which destroyed numerous buildings in the downtown area. Personally overseeing the response by fire and rescue services alongside state agencies, she functioned on very little sleep as she sought to ensure that everyone in the collapsed buildings could be accounted for. She was integral in seeking the Community Development Block Grant necessary to help cover the millions of dollars in damage in the area, and applied herself forthrightly to the task of negotiating down the price of contracts during the rebuilding. She went on to go to Washington, D.C. personally on a political stunt to demand the USGS establish seismographs in Klamath County, which would eventually occur, and earned her some attention across the state, particularly in the east.
Despite her Republican leanings, she has been an avid advocate for the geothermal heating and energy systems in the Klamath Falls area, supporting investments and developments in the technology to reduce city expenditures on heating and electricity. A proponent of school choice, she started a campaign and set groundwork for the Klamath Falls City School District establishing its first charter high school in 2006, after she had left office.
When it became apparent that an opening would be present to run for Congress in 2000 in Oregon’s 2nd District, Abigail was interested. Solidified in her alignment towards the Republican Party by her outrage at the Clifford sex scandal, and firmly convicted of the belief that President Clifford should have been impeached for his poor moral character, she ran in the primary and managed to pull out a slim but convincing lead. The safe Republican district fell into her hands in the election of 2000, allowing her to join Congress in 2001. Not long afterwards, her father succumbed to emphysema, and she inherited the family business, which she left in the hands of her now-21 year old son, Joseph.
In the 107th Congress, she was an enthusiastic supporter of the agenda of President Burke, including the military activities of that administration. She was, however, a No vote on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, cutting her teeth on her deregulatory credentials. She also began her pattern of - every Congress - introducing a bill to dilute the authority of the Endangered Species Act after the 2001 ruling that caused irrigation systems in the Klamath Falls area to be shut down to protect species of fish. She was a visible presence in the ‘Bucket Brigades’ in Klamath Falls, and led a delegation of protesting farmers to the Capitol. In 2002, her second son, Paul Jekyll-Jones Jr., joined the US Army. He would go on to be deployed a number of times in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the 108th Congress, she was involved in the drafting of the Check 21 Act to streamline banking processes, and was a supporter of the party line on the CAN-SPAM Act. She first joined the House Committee on Natural Resources in this Congress. She sharpened her credentials on Israel with her support for the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act.
In the 109th Congress, she helped to draft and was a firm supporter of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, as well as the failed Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act. She was outspoken in furthering the censorship technology provisions in the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, deploring the “abundance of filth in present media”.
In the 110th Congress, in the minority, she nonetheless joined the congressional majorities that overturned President Burke’s veto of the 2007 Farm Bill, and she voted against the Saxbe fix for Diane Clifford near the end of the Congress, giving a long floor speech stating her belief that the “specter of misconduct in the White House should not be allowed to return”, referencing the Secretary of State-designate’s husband’s scandals.
In the 111th Congress, the first of President Baharia’s presidency, she refused to attend his joint address to Congress calling for healthcare reform, and would go on to become a founding member of the Tea Party Caucus in 2009. Though she made an exception for the Lilly Ledbetter Act, she otherwise opposed the large share of President Baharia’s policies. She exceeded the time allotted for her floor speech on the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act and had to be removed from the House chamber when she refused to end her speech.
In the 112th Congress, she was delighted by the restoration of the Republican majority in the House, and eagerly supported Speaker (not-Boehner’s) brinkmanship with President Baharia over the debt ceiling and government spending. Opposed to the STOCK Act and supportive of the JOBS Act, she remained a relatively solid Republican vote on the vast majority of issues. She was disappointed by the Sebelius ruling, claiming that the Court had “failed in its fundamental duties to restrain an overzealous government” by failing to strike down Bahariacare. An early supporter of (not-Mitt Romney), she threw her weight behind the campaign of the fellow Mormon through to his defeat in the election of 2012.
By the 113th Congress, she supported the Veteran’s Choice Act, and was a No vote on the proposed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, on the basis of its incorporation of protections for LGBT persons, and immigrants.
In the 114th Congress, she supported (not-Paul Ryan’s) ascendancy to the Speakership, and was rewarded with the chairmanship of the Natural Resources committee. A supporter of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, and an opponent of USA FREEDOM Act, criticizing the Baharia Administration as being “criminally weak on the national defense”. An early supporter of former Representative and FOX pundit Arnold Wolf, having recognized early his potential to disrupt the field and more radicalized by her time in the Tea Party, she was a key speaker for his campaign across the west coast of the United States, driving up numbers of blue state Republicans for his campaign. She caused a stir in 2016 by being an open and vocal support of the occupiers during the Malheur siege, stating that any aggressive action by the Baharia Administration would “constitute a declaration of war by the federal government against the citizens, and invite a righteous revolution in return”.
In the 115th Congress, she was a vocal and loud supporter of the attempt to overturn Bahariacare, and was excoriating regarding Senate Republicans who voted down the reconciliation measure. A supporter of the vast majority of the Republican agenda, she did not give her backing to the FIRST STEP Act.
In the 116th Congress, she remained a persistent opponent and obstructionist of the Democratic agenda in the House, in line with Republican colleagues. Though she supported IRS reform in the Taxpayer First Act, she otherwise did not support bipartisan initiatives, preferring to cast the Democratic House as uncooperative and hyperpartisan. Sitting out of the early stages of the Republican primaries following the shock announcement of President Wolf’s illness and his successor Tawney’s desire not to run again, she eventually endorsed Governor Richardson of Florida as the field narrowed, and supported him actively in the Washington, Oregon and California primaries. During this Congress, she was the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee.
In the 117th Congress, she has taken the Chair of the Natural Resources Committee in the House.
Other Info: Practicing Mormon; married to Paul Jekyll-Jones (m. 1978). Has 4 children: Joseph (b. 1979), Paul Jr. (b. 1980), Bethany (b. 1981), and Rachael (b. 1983).
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This is a great app, i'm happy to accept it IF you cut the support for the Malheur siege because thats insane.
by The Sarangtus Lands » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:38 am
Alozia wrote:(Image)
Equality Act of 2021
A BILL
To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Abrahms, Noam Joseph [NJ-12, Democratic]
Senate Sponsors:
House Sponsors:
SECTION 1: SHORT TITLEThis Act may be cited as the "Equality Act of 2021".
SECTION 2: Public Accommodations
- Amends Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in public accommodations, in addition to the categories of self and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
- Expands the definition of public accommodations, as previously outlined in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to exhibitions, goods and services, and transportation.
SECTION 3: Public FacilitiesAmends Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in public facilities, in addition to the categories of self- and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
SECTION 4: Public EducationAmends Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in public education, in addition to the categories of self- and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
SECTION 5: Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted ProgramsAmends Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in federally assisted programs, in addition to the categories of self- and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
SECTION 6: Employment
- Amends Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, in addition to the categories of self- and perceived forms of identification already included in the amended legislation.
- Amends Title VI to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of an individual's association with another individual of a particular sex, sexual orientation and gender identity.
SECTION 7: Title IX AmendmentAmends Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in any school or other education program that receives federal money.
SECTION 8: Boyd v. Clayton County Supreme Court Decision CodificationDefines sex discrimination in employment as
treating someone (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because of that person's sex, including the person's sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition of an individual, as well as because of sex-based stereotypes.in accordance with the Boyd v. Clayton County Supreme Court of the United States Decision.
by Cybernetic Socialist Republics » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:41 am
by Gordano and Lysandus » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:44 am
by Dentali » Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:36 am
Gordano and Lysandus wrote:Dentali wrote:
This is a great app, i'm happy to accept it IF you cut the support for the Malheur siege because thats insane.
There's a lot of supporters for (not-)Ammon Bundy in her district, and they weren't without those who advocated for their policy goals in Congress (Jason Chaffetz pushed a bill to strip back the powers of federal law enforcement agencies in accordance to one of the movement's goals). Nothing there should be construed as material support - she didn't go to the nature reserve or point guns at federal officials - but I don't think it's beyond the pale for her to have held the position that forceful action against them would have been (in her eyes) wrong, which is a very common position I've found whenever I've discussed Malheur with Americans, and for her to have just been a step or two up with how outspoken and firm she is about that. It's not like she gave them guns or supplies or anything. If I strip that out, it'll deprive her of a characterful weakness and I'm not sure I could come up with a better weakness that is as germane to the area she represents.
by Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:27 am
Dentali wrote:Gordano and Lysandus wrote:
There's a lot of supporters for (not-)Ammon Bundy in her district, and they weren't without those who advocated for their policy goals in Congress (Jason Chaffetz pushed a bill to strip back the powers of federal law enforcement agencies in accordance to one of the movement's goals). Nothing there should be construed as material support - she didn't go to the nature reserve or point guns at federal officials - but I don't think it's beyond the pale for her to have held the position that forceful action against them would have been (in her eyes) wrong, which is a very common position I've found whenever I've discussed Malheur with Americans, and for her to have just been a step or two up with how outspoken and firm she is about that. It's not like she gave them guns or supplies or anything. If I strip that out, it'll deprive her of a characterful weakness and I'm not sure I could come up with a better weakness that is as germane to the area she represents.
Chaffetz didnt support the armed occupation of federal property or threaten the consequences for the government for holding them accountable. He never said they weren't criminals or what they did wasnt wrong. You can have her agree with their position politically regarding federal land but you can't have her openly supporting a violent militia movement.
by Main Nation Ministry » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:34 am
by Gordano and Lysandus » Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:26 pm
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by Yaruqo » Tue Oct 05, 2021 1:48 pm
by Gordano and Lysandus » Tue Oct 05, 2021 1:51 pm
Yaruqo wrote:Oh God now I’m second guessing myself, did I just second a motion to proceed with a vote on everything in the docket, or did I second a motion to continue with the next item on the agenda? Really hoping it’s the latter for my sake lol
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