America the Beautiful: An American Political RP (OOC)

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name:American Pere Housh
Character Name:Samantha Torres
Character Gender:Female
Character Age:55
Character Height:5'6"
Character Weight:130 Ibs
Character Position/Role/Job:U.S. House of Representatives District 1 of Florida (January 3rd 2013- present)
House Armed Sevices Committee Chairwoman (January 3rd 2021-Present)
Mayor of Pensacola, Florida (2006-2013)
Electrical engineer with Gulf Power (1988-2006)
Character Country/State of Birth:Havana Cuba
Character State of Residence:Pensacola, Florida
Character Party Affiliation:Republican
Main Strengths:Well liked in Her district, Strong support from Pro Second Amendment, anti abortion and veterans groups, strongly opposed to the Communist regimes in Cuba, North Korea and China
Main Weaknesses:Unwilling to Compromise, hated by Progressives due to her stance against their Socialist agenda
Biography:Born on January 5th, 1966 in Havana, Cuba to Juan and Maria Hernandez, Samantha spent the first 7 years of her life living in Cuba's capital of Havana when her parents decided to take herself and her three sisters to the United States becoming 5 of the thousands of Cubans that fled Cuba to the United States. For the first year, the Hernandez family stayed in Miami before finally moving to Pensacola, Florida in May of 1974. In August of 1974, Sam was enrolled at Myrtle Grove Elementary School for 3rd grade. Due to her father's previous visits to the United States, Sam was able to speak fluent English though with a light Cuban accent. Once in her new school, she began to excel in all of her classes. In 6th grade, she went to Beulah Middle School where she chose to play swimming for her school. In high school, Sam went to Pine Forest High School which had only recently open a few year earlier. In addition to swimming, Samantha was also involved in theater. While she didn't have the highest GPA, Sam's GPA was high enough that she was offered scholarships to swim at several schools all across the country. In the end, she chose to go out of state to attend the University of Georgia and be on their swim team. After maintaining a 4.05 GPA over the next 4 years, Sam graduated 3rd in the Class of 1988 with a degree in electrical engineering.

Freshly graduated from college, Sam began looking for herself a job which she found in Gulf Power where she worked as an electrical engineer. While working there, Sam met her future husband Daniel Torres who was a year older than she was. On October 31st, 1989, Daniel proposed to Sam who immediately said yes. Les than one year later on September 11th,1990, the couple got married at the Baptist Church that they both had been attending. Sam had invited several friends that she had made while she was at Georgia including making her best friend Alexandria Williams otherwise known as Alex Williams. 9 months after the wedding on June 14th, 1991, their first born daughter Alexis Samantha Torres was born. On April 25th, 1994 their second daughter Riley Elizabeth Torres was born. Life continued on as normal when in May of 1996 Sam got pregnant again. What was different from her first 2 pregnancies was that she was getting bigger quicker. She went to see her Ob/Gyn doctor who after doing an ultrasound told that she was having twins. On February 10th 1997, Sam had identical twin girls which she named Hannah Danielle Torres and Gabriella Lily Torres.

On December 15th 2005, Sam maid the decision to run for Mayor of Pensacola. Her main focuses if elected mayor would be to reduce crime and expand the local economy. She won the election 58% to 42% beating her Democratic opponent soundly on August 23rd 2006. She won again by a closer margin winning 55% to 45% in 2010. In June of 2011, she declared her canidancy to run for Florida's House District 1 due to the current holder of the seat retiring after his term is up. Over the next several months, Sam campaigned vigorously against an opponent who used a smear campaign to lable her as a right wing extremist. On November 6th 2012, Sam won the seat in a landslide 70% to 30%. She would continue to hold her seat right on though the 2020 election.
Other Info:Married to Daniel Torres since September 11th 1990, 9 months after the wedding on June 14th, 1991, their first born daughter Alexis Samantha Torres was born. On April 25th, 1994 their second daughter Riley Elizabeth Torres was born. Life continued on as normal when in May of 1996 Sam got pregnant again. What was different from her first 2 pregnancies was that she was getting bigger quicker. She went to see her Ob/Gyn doctor who after doing an ultrasound told that she was having twins. On February 10th 1997, Sam had identical twin girls which she named Hannah Danielle Torres and Gabriella Lily Torres.

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay:American Pere Housh (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: DRAFT87421

What has she done in congress?

[Madrinpoor]

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NS Nation Name: Madrinpoor
Character Name: Franklin Uxx
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 52
Character Height: 5'9
Character Weight: 175
Character Position/Role/Job: U.S. Senator-elect for Montana (2020—)
Montana Senator for Legislative District 21 (2010—2020)
Montana Representative for Legislative District 42 (2008—2010)
Crow Tribal Chairman (2000—2008)
ATNI Secretary (1998-2000)
Crow Tribal Senator, Big Horn District (1994—1998)
Founder/Chairman, NWNYA (1991-1994)
AIM member/University of Minnesota (1987-1991)
Character Country/State of Birth: Montana, USA
Character State of Residence: Montana
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths: Grassroots campaigner, respected activist, likeable, moderate enough to be elected in a swing state but progressive enough to have credibility in his campaigns for Native American rights, intelligent
Main Weaknesses: Inflexible, has said some radical stuff in the past which still haunts them, as does being a member of AIM, not great at speeches, can't read the room politically to save his life, "exotic" name, minor criminal record, boisterous and gaffe-prone which gets himself into trouble, focused on activism rather than pragmatism, had an affair with a married secretary who he claims not to know was married.

Biography:

Franklin Ross (Uxx’ chii’ lit ‘itchee) was born in the city of Crow Agency on the Crow Reservation on December 12, 1969. His family, like that of most Crows, were dirt poor and he lived in a three room shack made out of corrugated tin and plywood with his family of six and his grandparents. The time in which he was born was on of great tumult in the Native American world—just one month before he was born, an American Indian student group led an occupation of Alcatraz island, which would last for 19 months.

His father was ran a small drugstore with his brother, but went out of business when Franklin was five. Franklin's father moved to Minneapolis in order to try and find work, as the reservation held no opportunities for him. The money was not often enough however, and began dwindling overtime. Desperate and trying to help her family, Franklin's mother began to work as a prostitute. This allowed for her to put food on the table, but when Franklin was seven his mom got pregnant, and unable to afford an abortion had another child she couldn't support. Around this time, his family found out that the money from his father was dwindling due to drugs, which his father was had become addicted to.

Franklin's childhood was tough, with his family struggling to survive off of menial jobs his mother managed to get. When he became a teenager, Franklin started mixing with the wrong crowd. He started out running errands for gangsters on the reservation, but as he got older he became more involved. He spent short periods of time in jail for petty theft and other misdemeanor charges, but never killed anyone or did drugs; he saw what they did to both his father and his family. When he turned 16, he was arrested for helping destroy a rival gangster's safehouse and sentenced to a few years in jail. However, he managed to work out a plea deal with police — he would get off with a misdemeanor charge, do a certain amount of hours in community service, and provide condemning evidence on the others in his gang. As Franklin turned 17, his father appeared back at the reservation. He had become addicted to drugs and later homeless, but a charity found him and sent him through rehab. He since had gotten sober and become a member of the charity, trying to fight the growing opioid crisis in Native reservations. He wanted to restart his relationship with his estranged family, but Franklin's mother would have no part in it, and told him to go back to Minneapolis.

Franklin started to get into trouble with gangs again, despite being on probation. His mother, terrified that he would break probation and be sent back to jail, reluctantly called his father and asked him if Franklin could go live with him until he was 18. His father agreed, and Franklin packed his bags and moved to Minneapolis. Franklin's father helped him turn his life around, as he had, and Franklin got accepted to the University of Minnesota pursuing a degree in engineering. There, he began to get involved with the Native rights group AIM, or the American Indian Movement, which had occupied Alcatraz after he was born and the much better known occupation of the Pine Ridge Reservation only a few miles from his hometown. He changed his last name, from the European sounding Ross to the beginning of his Crow name, Uxx’ chii’ lit ‘itchee (Good Shepherd). Minneapolis has a large Native diaspora community, especially from western tribes like the Crow, Sioux, and Northern Chippewa, and Franklin led marches and rallies to try and pressure the federal government to grant pensions and other anti-poverty measures to Native Reservations; right now they weren't granting any.

When Franklin was a junior in college he went back to the reservation to visit his family, and they were in a desperate state. His older brother had gone to prison for drug dealing, and his younger brother fled out of the state to escape retaliation by another gang. In return, the other gang destroyed Franklin's mother's car, and her way to get to work. Franklin convinced them to move out of the reservation and to Minneapolis, where there were more opportunities and less crime, and they did.

Franklin graduated from college in 1991, just as an internal rift split AIM into two groups. Politicking and infighting took precedence over activism, and Franklin left the group, taking a job as an engineering technician in Minneapolis. He never felt happy with his cushy salary and stable job, as so many other Crows, and natives of other tribes, were living in squalid conditions in places with little opportunity. Franklin decided to move back to the Crow reservation, and alongside an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation, founded the NWNYA, North-West Native Youth Association. It was a nonprofit that aimed to provide jobs to young Native Americans, and keep them out of gangs, and found early success in the Pine Ridge (Sioux), Crow, and Northern Chippewa reservations. By 1994, they would expand their operations all across Montana and the Dakotas and even setting up a chapter in the Nez Perce-Coeur d'Alene area in Idaho and the Blood reservation in Alberta, Canada.

The NWNYA could only do so much to help the tribes, and in 1994 Franklin decided to run for the Crow tribal senate for the Big Horn district. It wasn't especially competitive, and Franklin won easily. Right away he went to work, trying to improve the quality of life for the Crow. In 1998, he was convinced to run for a position in the ATNI (Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians) by a friend and fellow tribal senator. The ATNI works with other Native American tribes in the northwest to collaborate development projects and foster inter-tribal cooperation, and pass resolutions calling on the government to do certain things. In 2000, Franklin decided to return to the reservation, and ran for Crow tribal chairman. He was elected easily. As chairman, Franklin oversaw development projects, a pipeline between the Northern Chippewa reservation and the Crow reservation, the construction of new casinos in the Crow reservation, and purging corruption in the Crow administration. Many people in the tribal government used the position to embezzle or retain power, and Franklin personally led an internal investigation into all of the senators, exposing an embezzlement scandal in the Pryor district at the end of 2007. However, the senators charged said that he had overstepped his bounds, and brought an impeachment charge against him. It was thrown out, as according to the tribal constitution only a member of the executive branch has the power to impeach another member of the executive branch. The two legislators that embezzled were impeached and removed from office, and Franklin was safe for now.

In 2008, Franklin and the rest of the government was up for election again. Just before the election, the tribal Secretary discovered that Franklin and the tribe's Vice-Chairman were having an affair. Franklin was not married, but the Vice-Chairman was, which caused a political scandal. Franklin denied knowing of this, and the Vice-Chairman resident said that it was her consensual decision—despite that, impeachment charges were once again brought up by the Secretary on the grounds of abuse of power. He claimed that Franklin was using his position as Chairman to coerce the Vice-Chairman into having an affair, but the charges were thrown out by the tribal court as both parties denied that. It turned out that the Secretary had his eye on the Chairmanship, and was trying to discredit his main rival.

Despite that most of the legislators despised Franklin for potentially boundary-overstepping investigations, Franklin was very popular among the residents of the Reservation, as he had brought significantly more revenue to the tribe and fought corruption in the tribe's leadership. Frustrated with the limitations of being the tribal chairman, and by the internal conflicts taking precedent over helping his people, he ran for Montana House of Representatives district 42, which is within the Crow reservation, and beat the unpopular incumbent by a significant margin. While in the Montana House, he voted in support of environmental policy, and sponsored a resolution to give Natives on reservations more control over what they do with their land. He served in the House for two years, and in 2010 ran for Montana State Senate for district 21, which encompasses all of the Crow reservation and then some non-reservation land. As a state senator, he sponsored many of the same bills and motions, and held pretty syncretic political stances.

He ran for the US senate for Montana, garnering support among the Native population and in the large cities and being elected in 2020.

Other Info:

Christian, though I'm considering making him a part of the Native American Church, a syncretic religious movement that combines Christianity and some Native American religious practices such as the use of peyote for spiritual contact with the supernatural.

Also, obviously, he is a member of the Crow Nation.

Political Stances:

Gun Control: For, though he believes common sense gun control laws are a good idea. He disagrees with permitless carry, but does not support bans of certain weapons or overregulation, having a very western libertarian philosophy.
The Environment: In favor of preserving national forests, against drilling in preserved spaces, opposed to Keystone XL, in favor of carbon taxes, nuclear and renewable energy, opposed to coal, oil, and some natural gas, against deforestation, supports commercial fishing regulations, against the TMT though that isn't a very pressing issue for his constituency
Economy: Opposed to government regulation, supports corporate and 1% taxes, supports UBI for Native American tribes as reparations, or at least a pension program, calls himself a "progressive capitalist" economically
LGBTQ+: Moderate on LGBTQ+, says that there is "no reason" for discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals, but has not publically supported nor opposed it.
Abortion: Stated that he is "against unnecessary abortion" but is also pro-choice, saying that "the government has no right to interfere in women's bodies."
Police: Is in favor of increasing police funding, especially in high-crime areas, but also supports using that funding for anti-bias training, as he says that bias and discrimination is a "big problem" in the police force.
Drugs: Is in favor of legalizing Marijuana, but has a unique position among Democrats where he is in support of Reagan's War on Drugs. As someone who was "profoundly affected" by drugs himself, he believes that opioid manufacturers need to be held accountable for their products and that dealers of hard drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine should be severely punished. He is, however, in support of legalizing drugs used for religious purposes, like peyote.

That's all I came up with so far, tell me if I need more.

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

Do Not Remove: DRAFT87421

I saw that there is already a Democratic senator from Montana (I wrote this before I saw that) what other state do you think he would fit?

How the heck could he claim he didn't know the vice chair of the tribe wasn't married? like they worked together, she's a major public figure.

You also need to make obvious changes to the Montana-> Minnesota bits and greatly elaborate on how he went from tribal politics to national politics.

Alright, I'll change the scandal thing. Also, the vice president of a tribe in Montana is most certainly not a public figure, it's nearly impossible to even find photos of anyone in any tribal government.

Minnesota probably makes the most sense, I'll figure something out and make some changes to the transition to national politics.

[Ibadat Jamaeia]

I'm a Russian spy here to steal ur democracy lel

[Gordano and Lysandus]

"Oh Gord, how did you spend your evening?"

Drafting up Twitter frames for all my characters. Y'know. The usual.

[Helliniki Katastasis]

"Oh Gord, how did you spend your evening?"

Drafting up Twitter frames for all my characters. Y'know. The usual.

How do you do Twitter frames?

[Gordano and Lysandus]

"Oh Gord, how did you spend your evening?"

Drafting up Twitter frames for all my characters. Y'know. The usual.

How do you do Twitter frames?

Oh, it's just playing with a box, an image, and a bit of BBCode. I can drop one of them here for you to take a look at in quote.

Gene Obradovic
@SenatorObradovic
obradovic.senate.gov | Chicago, IL

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[Helliniki Katastasis]

How do you do Twitter frames?

Oh, it's just playing with a box, an image, and a bit of BBCode. I can drop one of them here for you to take a look at in quote.

Gene Obradovic
@SenatorObradovic
obradovic.senate.gov | Chicago, IL

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Oh, I see. Thanks! I might have my guy use Facebook.

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Oh, it's just playing with a box, an image, and a bit of BBCode. I can drop one of them here for you to take a look at in quote.

Gene Obradovic
@SenatorObradovic
obradovic.senate.gov | Chicago, IL

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Oh, I see. Thanks! I might have my guy use Facebook.

I decided to go the extra mile for the reboot and actually bother to get all my images in circles with transparency.

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How do you do Twitter frames?

Oh, it's just playing with a box, an image, and a bit of BBCode. I can drop one of them here for you to take a look at in quote.

Gene Obradovic
@SenatorObradovic
obradovic.senate.gov | Chicago, IL

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[New Cobastheia]

How the heck could he claim he didn't know the vice chair of the tribe wasn't married? like they worked together, she's a major public figure.

You also need to make obvious changes to the Montana-> Minnesota bits and greatly elaborate on how he went from tribal politics to national politics.

Alright, I'll change the scandal thing. Also, the vice president of a tribe in Montana is most certainly not a public figure, it's nearly impossible to even find photos of anyone in any tribal government.

Minnesota probably makes the most sense, I'll figure something out and make some changes to the transition to national politics.

Whether or not she'd be a public figure to the general public, she'd most definitely be a public figure to the tribal community and I think that's the point Dent was trying to make

[Madrinpoor]

Alright, I'll change the scandal thing. Also, the vice president of a tribe in Montana is most certainly not a public figure, it's nearly impossible to even find photos of anyone in any tribal government.

Minnesota probably makes the most sense, I'll figure something out and make some changes to the transition to national politics.

Whether or not she'd be a public figure to the general public, she'd most definitely be a public figure to the tribal community and I think that's the point Dent was trying to make

That makes sense, I'll edit it. I might just cut that whole thing altogether cause I think I'll take some of his leadership position within the tribe out of his bio, I'm not sure.

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Madrinpoor
Character Name: Franklin Uxx
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 52
Character Height: 5'9
Character Weight: 175
Character Position/Role/Job: U.S. Senator-elect for Montana (2020—)
Montana Senator for Legislative District 21 (2010—2020)
Montana Representative for Legislative District 42 (2008—2010)
Crow Tribal Chairman (2000—2008)
ATNI Secretary (1998-2000)
Crow Tribal Senator, Big Horn District (1994—1998)
Founder/Chairman, NWNYA (1991-1994)
AIM member/University of Minnesota (1987-1991)
Character Country/State of Birth: Montana, USA
Character State of Residence: Montana
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths: Grassroots campaigner, respected activist, likeable, moderate enough to be elected in a swing state but progressive enough to have credibility in his campaigns for Native American rights, intelligent
Main Weaknesses: Inflexible, has said some radical stuff in the past which still haunts them, as does being a member of AIM, not great at speeches, can't read the room politically to save his life, "exotic" name, minor criminal record, boisterous and gaffe-prone which gets himself into trouble, focused on activism rather than pragmatism, had an affair with a married secretary who he claims not to know was married.

Biography:

Franklin Ross (Uxx’ chii’ lit ‘itchee) was born in the city of Crow Agency on the Crow Reservation on December 12, 1969. His family, like that of most Crows, were dirt poor and he lived in a three room shack made out of corrugated tin and plywood with his family of six and his grandparents. The time in which he was born was on of great tumult in the Native American world—just one month before he was born, an American Indian student group led an occupation of Alcatraz island, which would last for 19 months.

His father was ran a small drugstore with his brother, but went out of business when Franklin was five. Franklin's father moved to Minneapolis in order to try and find work, as the reservation held no opportunities for him. The money was not often enough however, and began dwindling overtime. Desperate and trying to help her family, Franklin's mother began to work as a prostitute. This allowed for her to put food on the table, but when Franklin was seven his mom got pregnant, and unable to afford an abortion had another child she couldn't support. Around this time, his family found out that the money from his father was dwindling due to drugs, which his father was had become addicted to.

Franklin's childhood was tough, with his family struggling to survive off of menial jobs his mother managed to get. When he became a teenager, Franklin started mixing with the wrong crowd. He started out running errands for gangsters on the reservation, but as he got older he became more involved. He spent short periods of time in jail for petty theft and other misdemeanor charges, but never killed anyone or did drugs; he saw what they did to both his father and his family. When he turned 16, he was arrested for helping destroy a rival gangster's safehouse and sentenced to a few years in jail. However, he managed to work out a plea deal with police — he would get off with a misdemeanor charge, do a certain amount of hours in community service, and provide condemning evidence on the others in his gang. As Franklin turned 17, his father appeared back at the reservation. He had become addicted to drugs and later homeless, but a charity found him and sent him through rehab. He since had gotten sober and become a member of the charity, trying to fight the growing opioid crisis in Native reservations. He wanted to restart his relationship with his estranged family, but Franklin's mother would have no part in it, and told him to go back to Minneapolis.

Franklin started to get into trouble with gangs again, despite being on probation. His mother, terrified that he would break probation and be sent back to jail, reluctantly called his father and asked him if Franklin could go live with him until he was 18. His father agreed, and Franklin packed his bags and moved to Minneapolis. Franklin's father helped him turn his life around, as he had, and Franklin got accepted to the University of Minnesota pursuing a degree in engineering. There, he began to get involved with the Native rights group AIM, or the American Indian Movement, which had occupied Alcatraz after he was born and the much better known occupation of the Pine Ridge Reservation only a few miles from his hometown. He changed his last name, from the European sounding Ross to the beginning of his Crow name, Uxx’ chii’ lit ‘itchee (Good Shepherd). Minneapolis has a large Native diaspora community, especially from western tribes like the Crow, Sioux, and Northern Chippewa, and Franklin led marches and rallies to try and pressure the federal government to grant pensions and other anti-poverty measures to Native Reservations; right now they weren't granting any.

When Franklin was a junior in college he went back to the reservation to visit his family, and they were in a desperate state. His older brother had gone to prison for drug dealing, and his younger brother fled out of the state to escape retaliation by another gang. In return, the other gang destroyed Franklin's mother's car, and her way to get to work. Franklin convinced them to move out of the reservation and to Minneapolis, where there were more opportunities and less crime, and they did.

Franklin graduated from college in 1991, just as an internal rift split AIM into two groups. Politicking and infighting took precedence over activism, and Franklin left the group, taking a job as an engineering technician in Minneapolis. He never felt happy with his cushy salary and stable job, as so many other Crows, and natives of other tribes, were living in squalid conditions in places with little opportunity. Franklin decided to move back to the Crow reservation, and alongside an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation, founded the NWNYA, North-West Native Youth Association. It was a nonprofit that aimed to provide jobs to young Native Americans, and keep them out of gangs, and found early success in the Pine Ridge (Sioux), Crow, and Northern Chippewa reservations. By 1994, they would expand their operations all across Montana and the Dakotas and even setting up a chapter in the Nez Perce-Coeur d'Alene area in Idaho and the Blood reservation in Alberta, Canada.

The NWNYA could only do so much to help the tribes, and in 1994 Franklin decided to run for the Crow tribal senate for the Big Horn district. It wasn't especially competitive, and Franklin won easily. Right away he went to work, trying to improve the quality of life for the Crow. In 1998, he was convinced to run for a position in the ATNI (Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians) by a friend and fellow tribal senator. The ATNI works with other Native American tribes in the northwest to collaborate development projects and foster inter-tribal cooperation, and pass resolutions calling on the government to do certain things. In 2000, Franklin decided to return to the reservation, and ran for Crow tribal chairman. He was elected easily. As chairman, Franklin oversaw development projects, a pipeline between the Northern Chippewa reservation and the Crow reservation, the construction of new casinos in the Crow reservation, and purging corruption in the Crow administration. Many people in the tribal government used the position to embezzle or retain power, and Franklin personally led an internal investigation into all of the senators, exposing an embezzlement scandal in the Pryor district at the end of 2007. However, the senators charged said that he had overstepped his bounds, and brought an impeachment charge against him. It was thrown out, as according to the tribal constitution only a member of the executive branch has the power to impeach another member of the executive branch. The two legislators that embezzled were impeached and removed from office, and Franklin was safe for now.

In 2008, Franklin and the rest of the government was up for election again. Just before the election, the tribal Secretary discovered that Franklin and the tribe's Vice-Chairman were having an affair. Franklin was not married, but the Vice-Chairman was, which caused a political scandal. Franklin denied knowing of this, and the Vice-Chairman resident said that it was her consensual decision—despite that, impeachment charges were once again brought up by the Secretary on the grounds of abuse of power. He claimed that Franklin was using his position as Chairman to coerce the Vice-Chairman into having an affair, but the charges were thrown out by the tribal court as both parties denied that. It turned out that the Secretary had his eye on the Chairmanship, and was trying to discredit his main rival.

Despite that most of the legislators despised Franklin for potentially boundary-overstepping investigations, Franklin was very popular among the residents of the Reservation, as he had brought significantly more revenue to the tribe and fought corruption in the tribe's leadership. Frustrated with the limitations of being the tribal chairman, and by the internal conflicts taking precedent over helping his people, he ran for Montana House of Representatives district 42, which is within the Crow reservation, and beat the unpopular incumbent by a significant margin. While in the Montana House, he voted in support of environmental policy, and sponsored a resolution to give Natives on reservations more control over what they do with their land. He served in the House for two years, and in 2010 ran for Montana State Senate for district 21, which encompasses all of the Crow reservation and then some non-reservation land. As a state senator, he sponsored many of the same bills and motions, and held pretty syncretic political stances.

He ran for the US senate for Montana, garnering support among the Native population and in the large cities and being elected in 2020.

Other Info:

Christian, though I'm considering making him a part of the Native American Church, a syncretic religious movement that combines Christianity and some Native American religious practices such as the use of peyote for spiritual contact with the supernatural.

Also, obviously, he is a member of the Crow Nation.

Political Stances:

Gun Control: For, though he believes common sense gun control laws are a good idea. He disagrees with permitless carry, but does not support bans of certain weapons or overregulation, having a very western libertarian philosophy.
The Environment: In favor of preserving national forests, against drilling in preserved spaces, opposed to Keystone XL, in favor of carbon taxes, nuclear and renewable energy, opposed to coal, oil, and some natural gas, against deforestation, supports commercial fishing regulations, against the TMT though that isn't a very pressing issue for his constituency
Economy: Opposed to government regulation, supports corporate and 1% taxes, supports UBI for Native American tribes as reparations, or at least a pension program, calls himself a "progressive capitalist" economically
LGBTQ+: Moderate on LGBTQ+, says that there is "no reason" for discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals, but has not publically supported nor opposed it.
Abortion: Stated that he is "against unnecessary abortion" but is also pro-choice, saying that "the government has no right to interfere in women's bodies."
Police: Is in favor of increasing police funding, especially in high-crime areas, but also supports using that funding for anti-bias training, as he says that bias and discrimination is a "big problem" in the police force.
Drugs: Is in favor of legalizing Marijuana, but has a unique position among Democrats where he is in support of Reagan's War on Drugs. As someone who was "profoundly affected" by drugs himself, he believes that opioid manufacturers need to be held accountable for their products and that dealers of hard drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine should be severely punished. He is, however, in support of legalizing drugs used for religious purposes, like peyote.

That's all I came up with so far, tell me if I need more.

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

Do Not Remove: DRAFT87421

I saw that there is already a Democratic senator from Montana (I wrote this before I saw that) what other state do you think he would fit?

Minnesota is not prone to electing *moderates* there's often a degree of populism expected.

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name:Newne Carriebean7
Character Name: Maxine Caroline Durant
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 58
Character Height: 5'7
Character Weight: 126 pounds
Character Position/Role/Job:
-Member of the U.S House of Representatives for Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District
(since January 3rd, 2015)
-Former member of the Mississippi State Senate for the 31st District
(January 3rd, 2005 - January 3rd, 2014)
-Manager of the Yazoo Star Newspaper
(January 7, 1996 - December 25, 2004)
- Journalist for the Sun-Herald Newspaper
(September 24, 1986 - November 11, 1995)


Character Country/State of Birth: Yazoo City, Mississippi
Character State of Residence: Cedar Grove, Mississippi
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths:

Well-liked in her District:
Stemming from her first election, she has vowed to be a voice for the conservatives against a "left-wing mob in washintin' ". First deriding President Rashid Baharia as a "muslim communist", this type of rhetoric has only enflamed her conservative base within the district. An Elephant that barrels through walls, she is known to be as stubborn as always in defending conservative values.

Enjoys strong support from Gun's Rights and Anti-abortion activist groups;
Owing to her firm positions for the defense of not only the 2nd Amendment but of the right of the unborn, Maxine's house bids are usually accompanied with a slight nod by the NRA and the National Right to Life Committees, often in the form of donations to her house bids. In the sparingly few television adverts she puts out a few months prior to election time, they are usually filled to the brim with an average woman or man in the district explaining why they liked her policies, with a last emphasis being put on Maxine's staunch support for the 2nd Amendment or for the rights of the unborn against "communists".

Main Weaknesses:
History of controversial statements and opinions:
It's no small secret that Maxine has garnered attention from more than the local papers for her off the cuff remarks and statements. Apart from normal whites supporting the Republicans and Blacks flocking towards the Democratic Party, Maxine's mouth tends to raise eyebrows at Mississippi, or her specifically.
Foul mouth;
Maxine is infamous in private for her, in her words: "Spicier dialogue". She is known to lack a real filter when it comes to choosing what to say and how to say it when there is not a script in front of her face when filming a television advert for her house campaigns.

Inability to Compromise:
When given the choice between amnesty for illegal immigrant families in exchange for increased funding for the President Wolf's prized boarder wall, she adamantly was a vocal opponent of the deal from the right wing. This is just one example over her long legislative series of votes where she not only towed the line of the extremist wing of the Republican Party , but refused to look the enemy in the eye at all.

Biography: Born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, on April 12th, 1962 to Garfield Sylvester Durant and Vanessa T. Katherine, Maxine's early childhood would be consumed with visits to the local library, fond memories of festive thanksgivings, Halloweens and Easters with Durant and Katherine's parents and hot summer days when her father would turn on the hose to cool them off. One of her fondest memories however, was when her father would take her up shooting pumpkins and October fruit when she was old enough. The moment she held a firearm in her hands, she knew she loved the smell of gunpowder and the feel of the trigger. This feeling for the Trigger would turn into something of a relationship, with her jokingly admitting years later when running for the house that "If I wasn't married already, Id would've married my gun".

Apart from a love of firearms, she developed intricate hobbies of collecting stamps. She found a weird mixture of meditation and comforting nostalgia in her younger years from the experiences of shooting a line of pumpkins every fall, then to come inside after raking up all the leaves to leave for a trip to the post office for a fresh roll of stamps, courtesy of her mother.

In 1980, after graduating from High School, Maxine tentatively decided to enroll in Ole Miss University. Her plan was to come out with (hopefully) a law degree after a few years, though she decided to pursue a business degree instead. She got her first real whiff of politics during this time too. It was during the 1980 Presidential campaign that she started to think for herself and chart which way of the political aisle she would tack towards. It wasn't a very steady course. She admits in her early years that "I was all over the place". She would learn about a certain subject, then hear upon it on the news, then chat with it at her multiple after-school jobs that ranged from dishwasher at the local greasy spoon to secretary at a child's day-care.

She volunteered hard of the state's senior U.S Senator, John Stennis, in what would be his seventh and last term in the 1982 Mississippi Senate election. She knocked on doors all throughout the state, crossed into a third of the state's counties and wore out her voice giving dozens of stump speeches in support of the old man. In the end, Stennis handily beat back (not Haley Baurbor) by almost thirty points, allowing her to sit in smug satisfaction at yet another conservative victory for the Democratic Party. Following the completion of her general studies, she left Ol' Miss with a bachelor's degree in Business in 1984.

In 1986, Maxine talked to her friends from college about pooling their money together in order to open up a newspaper. Many of those friends were unsympathetic to her idea, but suggested that instead of the risk of starting a small business, that she would instead work for an already established Newspaper. Despite her misgivings of the "lyin' press", she went back to her college and tried to convince them to hire her as an editor for the Daily Mississippian. They rejected her as they had little in the way of opportunities for a woman of her experience, but gave her a reference to the Sun-Herald. Taking her degree in Business from Ol' Miss and her friends' advice, she applied for and was hired as a journalist at the Herald.

During this time, she would bemoan the loss of 'traditional values' of the 'old days' and call for a 'return to Stennis's Hour'. Her opinion pieces within the paper were moderately successful, though she did get tons of push-back from the more african-american sections of the state and liberal democrats who derided the paper as 'a return to the plantation'. In her writings she pushed more to the right, though would consistently continue to support and offer endorsements to Democrats in local Mississippi races, so long as they were 'conservative enough' for her. Eventually, this would give way to her begrudgingly backing Republican candidates in local races when there lacked a consistent, in her words "voice for conservative values from the Democrats". Maxine would notice a distinct shift in both parties around the end of the (Not Bush Sr.) and the start of the (Not Bill Clinton) years. The most alarming issues were the left-wards shifts the Democratic Party was taking on Gun-Control and Abortion. In 1988, when John Stennis retired from his senate seat, Maxine decided to endorse the conservative Democrat in the race in an opinion-piece for the Sun-Herald. She would later be disappointed when the conservative-Democrat lost to the Republican (Not Trent-Lott), however, she decided that the Democratic Party had 'abandoned traditional conservatives' in her eyes. With this change of outlook, on August 5th, 1994 she officially changed her party registration from Democrat to the GOP, abandoning the donkey for the elephant.

Shortly after, Maxine decided to leave the journal and start up her own newspaper with a few dis-satisfied employees of the Sun-Herald. Pooling their funds together, they rented out a modest office building for cheap and inaugurated theYazoo Star Newspaper in January of 1996, with Maxine as the manager of the new enterprise.

Maxine became a firebrand for conservatism, railing against the incumbent liberal administration in the White House for years until an avid subscriber wrote to her and wanted her to run for the State Senate. During this time, her son Norton was just going through his driving test, and became worried that the time campaigning would hurt his development and lead to him 'lashing out', so she decided to hold her horses on running for the State Senate, at least until her son was out of the house.

When Norton gave Maxine and Miles a kiss to head out the door to go to Florida State University the home was emptier now. She decided that, without the worry of managing the home, she began to plot the groundwork for a campaign for the State Senate in Mississippi's 31st District. In 2000, she launched her campaign as an insurgency against the well-funded incumbent, trying to attack him from the right-wing. Unfortunately, she was defeated by a margin of 64% for the incumbent to her 35% (1% for another right-wing candidate). Still, the result was notable as the incumbent hadn't had to campaign for the primary in his past five elections, forcing him to blunt Maxine's challenge with tacks to the right.

Maxine came back with a vengeance in 2004, rallying her tight-nit base, learning from her time supporting Stennis throughout the state and using her newspaper to promote her right-wing message to the voters. It would end up being enough... just barely defeating the Republican incumbent in the primary by a margin of 51.4% to 48.6% before cruising to an easy victory in the General election that fall following the conclusion of the 'real election' for the Senate seat.

Now stuck with the other state senators in Jackson, Maxine would carve a name for herself as a 'staunch conservative'. By far her highest moment was when she pushed for the impeachment of the state's Democratic Governor. She would drag (Not-Ronnie Musgrove) through the mud, though her calls for impeachment were never seriously entertained by the State legislature or even by the Republican Party of Mississippi. Her voting record in the state house was typical with traditional republican positions. She was a good old lady and frequently toed the party line when she needed to, though when she did have objections to certain bills that were gifted from the state house she would vote against them. She proved to be uncontroversial enough to warrant multiple re-elections from her constituents, often with little opposition to her state senate seat. She would be re-elected in a landslide in 2008 and by another large margin in 2012 to the 31st District.


2014 was when the thought occurred to her: "'National Politics, now that's somethin'". So, Maxine tentatively held her breath for her home seat that was represented by (Not Gregg-Harper). (Not Gregg-Harper) let the gates fly open when he announced his retirement from Congress. This was Maxine's chance at national politics, so she eagerly announced her candidacy for the seat. Although she personally loathed 'identity politics', she was willing to let Republican staff members on her campaign for her prospective House seat emphasize the 'historic' choice she would be as the 3rd Congressional district's first female representative if elected. She began to court the anti-abortion, evangelical protestants within the Republican Party, often holding rallies and giving speeches outside of churches or near religious institutions. Come the time for the general primary, she managed to elbow out three other contenders for the seat, mostly by subtle undertones that she was a woman and that her "staunchly conservative" record would be a sure-fire way to prevent a "RINO" from handling the seat. The latter remark ended up backfiring so as to mobilize her opponents towards the polls come primary day, but was blessed by a traditionally low turnout which enabled Maxine to narrowly carry off a win by a margin of 34.6% to her other two opponents 32.8% and 32.6%.

With that, she was forced into a run-off election between her conservative opponent, a former fire-fighter. It was around this time that the fire-fighter's campaign began to spread rumors of her racial history. Though these attacks didn't go anywhere, they did force her to blunt a tad in her messaging. She defended herself from the "allegations" by dismissing certain wild-taled stories and sensationalist slander that she knew was fake news. In one instance, she firmly defended herself and her family against a report that her father was a member of the KKK and had participated in a lynching against a local civil rights activist. She howled at her opponent for resulting to such "low blow tactics" and stated that "My family's a simple group like all y'alls. Do we make mistakes, sure. Do we participate inna lynchin's 'gainst good black folks? No, my family didn't do that! They're Christian folks, they ain't that bad of people, the blacks." Eventually, more thorough investigation noted that the story was indeed faked by her opponent's campaign. As her opponent was dealing with the fallout of the faked lynching controversy, the primary just so happened to occur in the midst of all this. This resulted in Maxine winning against the fireman by a 54.3% to 45.7%.

However, more controversy emerged in the general election when a 1998 periodical that she had written was brought forwards by her Democratic rival's campaign, stating that 'Mississippi's heroes were knights'. Maxine defended herself by stating she hadn't specified any one group, insisting that the periodical was taken out of context "by a lying, stinking media that's only now digging this **** up, now that I'm running for Mississippians for the Third District." She also vehemently denied any allegations to the Ku Klux Klan and condemned their 'hateful messages and ideas'.

The controversy may have been small, but it did garner the attention of more local political operatives in alarm, forcing more money to shore up Maxine that might have been spent in other competitive districts. She made sure to make public a phone call that saw the local chapter of the KKK phone in her office to endorse her, only for her to forcibly and vehemently deny the chapter's endorsement. In the end, the money did go to good use, as Maxine won 53% of the vote agaisnt her Democratic opponent's 47%.

2016
The 2016 election was a tumultuous affair. The Democrats decided to go with a "blue dog" style Democrat that was able to appeal to the evangelical Christians of her district. Maxine tried again and again to tie her candidacy to the failed presidential bid of Sam Baginski, deriding him as a "crazy commie". She closely attempted to make the case that 'a vote not for me is a vote for communism', though throughout her House campaign polls saw her ahead of her opposition by at least 14 points. Come election night, those polls had a little bit of an oversampling of Republicans to Democrats within the District, but still granted her a generous win of 60% to 40%.

2018
In contrast to her spirited defense in 2016, the Democratic Party opted wisely to avoid throwing away a whole lot of money at this seat, but still put some-one up for the purpose of not letting her win unopposed. A former elementary school teacher ran against her on a mostly education focused platform, though failed to gain any real traction, leading to a wide 67% to 33% victory for Representative Maxine.

2020
In her 2020 re-election bid, the Democrats nominated a black opponent, to which Maxine made another series of damaging gaffes comparing her opponent as an 'ape' when it came to his proposals to do something about an 'issue that don't exist' (climate change). Still, in spite of promising Democratic internals that might have flipped the seat Blue, Richardson being at the top of the ticket and the increasing rarity of split-ticket voters throughout the country handed the incumbent Representative a resounding victory for a fourth house term with a margin of 65% to her opponent's 35%.

While in the U.S House, Maxine has worked hard for farmers and gun-owners. She readily adopted President Wolf's anti-immigration rhetoric whilst serving in the house, insisting that the "Mexicans were coming for good paying American jobs". In the wake of mass shootings, Maxine would be the first to offer 'thoughts and prayers' while simultaneously blasting Democrats for wanting to 'pass a new constitutional amendment that would strip away the 2nd'. Her voting record so far since her election in 2014 has been seen with an A by the NRA. She has also made it a point to defend Mississippi and her fellow Republicans House members from the heated criticism it's "Heartbeat ban" on abortion stirred up alongside her neighboring state of Alabama. She denies Global Warming is real, insisting it's a "fabrication by first the soviets, then the Russians, now the Chinese". She also refuses to refer to it as 'climate change', vowing that she would not be 'roped on in by the PC mobs".

However, she was also an opponent of the DACA bill, arguing that the ' illegal Mexicans would grow up to ruin American society'. She privately mused in her office about the 'fruitless-ness' of negotiating with Democrats, arguing that 'unless they were conservative like the ones I grew up with, there ain't no point in doin' none of that s**t'.

Other Info: Married to Miles Christiansen in 1981. Has one son named Norton (b. 1984), who currently works as a High School history teacher in Miami, Florida.

Currently assigned to the U.S House committees:
-Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
-Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security
-Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety

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Solid app so far, swap around 2018 and 2016 for her margin of victory just to make sense with party enthusiasm in those years.

Also, I'd like more background from her pre-politics days, just a little bit, to give us a sense of what her convictions are beyond "mexicans bad"

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I swapped the margins around for her house races for those years, but I would like some guidance as to what you mean by 'background'. I did go back and add a little bit of what she was doing in High School. Do you want me to go through her different jobs she did while in College? Unfortunately, I'm a little lost as to what else to add to her background, so suggestions would be helpful.

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name:
Imperial Esplanade

Character Name:
Sen. Marceline "Marcie" Rita Beltz

Character Gender:
Female

Character Age:
53

Character Height:
5'6

Character Weight:
130 lbs.

Character Position/Role/Job:
United States Senate (2017-Present)
United States House of Representatives, CT-2 (2009-2017)
Connecticut State House, 46th District (2005-2009)
Professor of Marine Sciences at University of Connecticut (1999-2004)
High School Sciences Teacher at Norwich Public School System (1989-1999)

Character Country/State of Birth:
Connecticut

Character State of Residence:
Connecticut

Character Party Affiliation:
Democratic Party

Main Strengths:
Marcie is deeply entrenched within the political establishment, with an arsenal of connections and a plethora of experience under her belt across both Washington D.C., and also across the state of Connecticut, that enables her to have an edge in both fundraising and electoral infrastructure, and if need-be, she has no issues going cutthroat in using them. Marcie's experience, political views, and voting record draws a healthy amount of approval from historically moderate Democrats, yet has also recently lurched further in the left in attempts to keep pace with her base. Marcie generally finds herself able to empathize and connect well with those who are suffering, or at least has grown quite talented in projecting such an image, if nothing else. Marcie leans heavily on her educational background, something she uses to help draw appeal from all walks of life, and is also seen as one of the few authorities within Congress on environmental issues as well.

Main Weaknesses:
Marcie's primary weakness is the flip-side of her strength: a politician with a mixed record and the baggage of length of tenure, and with increasingly lukewarm approval ratings with the progressive base of the Democratic Party. Marcie is increasingly seen as opportunistic by the progressive base of the Democratic Party, in spite of all her best efforts to remain relevant as one of Connecticut's senators, and may be vulnerable to a particularly potent primary opponent within an otherwise solidly blue state. Despite her attempts of empathizing with others often, Marcie has never experienced poverty and has been accused of having some sort of a "white savior complex" with a record of voting to (incidentally) increase the income gap between men and women as well as between whites and minorities by more than one hardliner-progressive. Marcie isn't a particularly strong orator, and she has a lackluster foreign policy voting record.

Biography:
Marcie was born and raised as the oldest child into a standard middle class family, one that was fortunate just enough to be able to afford a decent lifestyle for herself and her four other siblings. Marcie's parents, Janice and Thomas Beltz, were both local journalists, employed with different regional newspapers prior to her father's sudden death in early 2002 from a sudden aneurysm, leaving the widowed Janice Beltz to head the rest of the family all on her own. Marcie, by then, was a young professor who was teaching classes about her true love back at her alma mater: the ocean, and all its' complexities and seemingly limitless possible organisms. Yet, seeing how hard it was for her mother to just simply get by on her own, much less doing everything she can to help raise the remaining Beltz children on a newspaper journalist's income, Marcie pitched in however she could, and vowed to get into public service in order to make a genuine difference for the "economic disadvantageous," such as single parents like her mother.

Two years later, Marcie took the leap and ran for office at the state-level, beginning with the State House in 2004, and moving on up to the House of Representatives following the sudden resignation of the then-incumbent who was embroiled in the middle of a publicized campaign finance scandal in 2008, riding a strong Democratic wave and easily sailing into office during President Baharia's successful election bid. While in Congress, she differed often with both the President and the party, who seemed more focused on domestic healthcare, than on her big issue of the looming climate crisis to come. Marcie put together vigorous climate change bills every single year she was in Congress, and each one effectively falling flat. Finding virtually zero success of advancing her "big issue," Marcie decided to pursue the Senate, squeaking out a tough primary challenge in 2016, and holding onto office ever since. Now, with 2022 midterms just around the corner, Marcie knows that she will have to work diligently, and have some receipts to show for her term in the United States Senate.

Other Info:
Marcie is one of the more cash-poor members of Congress, with a net-worth only hovering around 630K in cash assets. Marcie sits upon the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (Class-A), as well as the Small Business Committee (Class-B). Marcie has no children, is openly bisexual, and has two dogs (a golden retriever named Honey and a yorkshire terrier named Deco).

Foreign Policy
NATO: Beltz believes that the modern day role of NATO is two-fold; first to formally provide a united front against the increasingly rouge and hostile Russian state, and secondly to cede greater responsibilities of global intervention and maintenance of the status-quo over toward allies closest to the United States as legitimate partners in maintaining global peace. Beltz has a voting record, spanning back to 2008, that is largely mixed about her views on that the United States has been unnecessarily hawkish. Beltz is on the record about her desire to continue expanding NATO to include additional nations such as Ukraine, Georgia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina; and is open about her wanting for the United States to increasingly partner with other non-NATO allies as well.

Afghanistan: Beltz has agreed with President Wolf in openly calling for the United States to begin withdrawing out of Afghanistan as soon as possible, per his agreement with the Taliban, while citing the longest running war in American history as "costing more in both lives and dollars and geopolitical capital than what we had ever set out to do," and has vaguely called upon the government of Afghanistan to take up greater responsibility for the security of the nation. Her voting record, however, has consisted namely of endorsing continued bipartisan authorizations of force and action within Afghanistan throughout her career, including the 2011 troop surge, a vote that she has since publicly regretted making.

Iraq: Beltz joined both Republicans and Democrats in cross-aisle calls for action against the Islamic State terrorist organization, and joining her party in endorsing President Baharia's plan in combating the terrorist group. Like Beltz had with Afghanistan, her voting record includes routine authorizations of continued use of force within Iraq up until the modern day, and had endorsed the idea of the troop surge in early 2007, since commenting that it was a successful strategy in Iraq.

North Korea: While generally supportive of the idea of increased diplomatic talks with the North Koreans and their dictator, Kim Jong-Un, Beltz has voiced concerned that President Wolf's meeting with him led to an unprecedented normalization and legitimization with the President standing side-by-side next to the Supreme Leader. Beltz has called upon the Republicans to join Democrats in completely and thoroughly denouncing Wolf's North Korean rhetoric, and has called for partnership with the Chinese and the Russians in curtailing North Korea's worst impulses, suggesting they are the only parties with true reigns over the North Korean regime, and partners with shared concerns over the fragile ceasefire that has existed within the Korean Peninsula.

Russia: Beltz has openly called Vladimir Putin a "thug," joining her fellow members of Congress in a general bipartisan rebuke of the Russian President, and has suggested that the Russians are only acting so belligerently recently due to the "complete and utter incompetence of President Wolf, and of the Republican Party," when pressed upon that point and asked about much of that very same behavior by the Russian President during President Baharia's administration, Beltz expressed "a sense of regret that the Russian government did not take such an opportunity," adding that "it wasn't the fault of President Baharia for giving them the olive branch they needed, rather it's the fault of ex-KGB agents still living in the cold war that seek to humiliate the victors of the cold war." Beltz blames much of the current divisive political environment on coordinated Russian disinformation campaigns, and has suggested that the United States needs to reciprocate, to "give Putin a taste of his own medicine."

Ukraine: Beltz has encouraged Ukraine's admission into NATO, say "putting it in the same sphere of influence, and placing an obligation to defend them from the Russian government will force the thugs in Moscow to rethink their belligerence," and has decried Russia's alleged attempts in subversion within Eastern Ukraine as an act that "cannot be forgotten, or forgiven, by the international community of nations." Beltz shares concerns that oligarchs in Ukraine hold too much sway and authority on the internal affairs of the state, and suggests she will only endorse Ukraine's inclusion into NATO with assurances that existing systemic corruption will be addressed.

China: Beltz shares a similar view on the Chinese government as she does on the Russian government, calling President Xi Jinping a "thug" as well; yet despite her strong rhetoric in calling the Chinese government an "unofficial mob state," Beltz cites the overwhelming exchange in trade and commerce between the United States and the People's Republic of China as a net-benefit for both parties, and for the world at-large. Beltz has called out the Chinese for election meddling, similarly as she had regarding Russia, and Beltz repeatedly voiced concern before about "Chinese expansionism," particularly regarding within the South China Sea, and has stated "China does not, and cannot, ever hold monopoly over those international waters, period."

Israel/Palestine: Beltz has previously supported the notion of a two-state solution, and has suggested that the United States should and does support the right of both nations to co-exist, as she continues to do so despite recent comments that drew mild criticism after she analytically questioned the possibility of it's plausibility, given Israel's extensive developments of settlements into Palestinian territory. Beltz has accused the Israeli government as "acting in a criminal behavior" toward the Palestinians, and has called for Benjamin Netanyahu to resign entirely after being indicted on a litany of criminal charges. Beltz is skeptical over the new Prime Minister, Naftali Bennet, and in his ability to "usher the change that Israelis and Palestinians together both require."

Iran: Beltz believes that the strike against Iranian General Qasem Soleimani were justified, but yet her public statements fell in line with the party rhetoric of questioning the strategy of his assassination, and has suggested President Wolf threatened the stability of the region, had no thought-out policy and just "half-baked ideas," and publicly called on the President to explain his reasoning for "risking war" to the American people. Beltz similarly continues to strongly behold the party line regarding interventionism, yet privately suspects some form of interventionism will likely be necessary to contain the greater Saudi-Iranian conflict within the region.

Saudi Arabia: Beltz joins many Democrats in making publicly calls on the President to revisit the "special relationship" that the United States has with Saudi Arabia, suggesting that at least part of the instability across the Middle East is rooted in the fact that the United States has so consistently and heavily favored the Saudi Arabian monarchy. Privately, however, she believes that the Saudis are one of the only practical partners that the United States even has within the Middle East, and that not much should actually ever change, given the instability of the region and the constant back-and-forth rhetoric the United States shares with the Iranians.

Libya: Beltz had spoken openly in favor of President Baharia's use of force within Libya as well as the implementation of the No Fly Zone across the country during its' first civil war, yet has since maintained a position of non-interventionism in Libya, particularly after President Wolf succeeded Baharia, openly questioning the motives of any intervention as well as suggesting the likelihood that any action may force the United States into yet another Iraq/Afghanistan/Syria/Vietnam War.

Latin America: Beltz's rhetoric has, in the past, strongly encouraged a re-orientation of American foreign policy to focus less on the events in the Middle East, and more toward those occurring within the same hemisphere, citing the drug trade and humanitarian crisis occurring at the American-Mexican border as justification for her scorch-Earth rhetoric on both the Wolf and Tawney administrations, and has not relented on the incoming President Richardson with the constant issues stemming from neglecting Latin American countries, allowing the situation to fester, and not denouncing the perceived apathy for the plight of Latinos.

Cuba: Beltz heavily applauded President Baharia's lifting of the Cuban embargo, as well as the ensuing normalization of the relationship between the United States and Cuba once more, yet called it only the first step in what will definitely be a long road of reconciliation ahead for both the American and Cuban governments. Beltz has suggested pushing for trade deals with Cuba, even going insofar as to suggest including Cuba in with future multi-national deals involving the entire American hemisphere.

Domestic Policy
Healthcare: Beltz was initially opposed to the notion of any Medicare-For-All healthcare policy, citing the cost as a primary reason of concern, yet has since warmed up to the idea under the premonition that she will support it "if the price tag isn't too outlandish" for the country to bare; Beltz is also strongly in favor of the introduction for a public option regarding healthcare options, has suggested the country needs to take a more firm and direct approach in combating the rise of prescription drug costs regardless, yet has been careful not to directly speak too strongly against the pharmaceutical industry.

Social Security: Beltz supports raising the payroll tax for everyone, and especially for those earning $400,000 per year, while also once suggesting an openness to listening to those wishing on moderately raising the retirement age, yet has since flipped on that view in doubling-down on a more progressive payroll tax model and absolutely refusing to consider raising the retirement age following a brief public outcry.

Climate Change: Beltz has publicly accused the members of the Republican Party for "selling their souls for profits," when it comes to their hesitancy in accepting scientific views of the influences humans have on the changing climate, and has annually proposed a bill that introduces a carbon tax as well as subsidies for the continued development of solar and wind energy across the country, recently including offshore wind and current turbines in her bill. Beltz routinely suggests climate change is "the existential threat of our generation, of our society, and of our own species, if it continues to accelerate unabated." Beltz has touted additional bills that include subsides for electric-powered vehicles, recycling of batteries and other precious mineral products, and sustainable water usage in calling for "a true twenty first century economy."

Pollution: Beltz has co-sponsored proposed legislation that would ban the use of single-use plastics, and has been in favor of the carbon tax through much of her entire political career, while also favoring a modest increase of the gas tax to twenty two cents per gallon. Beltz has also spoken of broadening the scope of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, to include liability toward not just parties directly responsibility for future spills, but toward those who had any involvement in, and had profited, either in the past or present, from the drilling of oil at the site of spills, and has suggested all parties must be held equally responsible and accountable for containment of said spills

Infrastructure: Beltz has grown strongly in favor of a complete overhaul of the infrastructure across the nation in recent years, suggesting even that she would vote against any bills that are "too modest," given the overwhelming number of crumbling and outdated and delayed infrastructure projects. Beltz is in favor of linking together the entire energy grid, was opposed to accepting the East/Texas/West interconnection grids that exist today, as well as subsidies for electric car charging stations and expanding the size of ports across the country. Beltz considers "human infrastructure," things like free childcare and paid maternity leave and free community college, to be just as integral to the future of the nation as the progress of physical infrastructure.

Abortion: Beltz is strongly Pro-Choice, as she has remained such throughout her career, and has voiced concerns with recent Supreme Court pickings that abortion rights are currently at-play, and has thus called on Congress to pass legislation that will protect the rights for women's bodily autonomy. Beltz has once supported the Hyde Amendment, though has since reversed her position in now opposing it.

Taxes: Beltz has been vocally opposed to the Wolf tax cuts in 2017, shortly after his inauguration, and has suggested that "conservanomics," as she has phrased it, was to blame for the current economic recession, of which "the fallacy of trickle down" has a considerable role to blame. Beltz supports the idea of a wealth tax for electioneering purposes, yet privately suggests such a proposal is impossible to implement without violating the Constitution. Beltz is also a public supporter of increasing the gas tax, substantially increasing luxury taxes, creating another tax bracket for the highest earning of Americans, decreasing taxes for the 1st and 2nd tax brackets, and decreasing loopholes. Beltz is also on public record in saying that her priority is in closing tax loopholes for the wealthiest of Americans and corporations more so than adding additional rates and excise taxes.

Federal Budget: Beltz has voiced generic concern about the national debt, yet has generally ignored criticisms about her partisan voting patterns that contributed to the continuously bloating national debt. Beltz suggests that this is inherently a long-term problem regardless, one that cannot be resolved within two/four/six year terms for politicians, but rather only a long-term strategy. Privately, Beltz is uncertain the debt will ever actually be paid off, and that worrying about it may just prove fruitless and worthless.

Trade: Beltz has previously strongly supported NAFTA, throughout the Baharia administration, yet has since distanced herself from her previous remarks about the bipartisan trade deal in recent years. Beltz has expressed concern about the USMCA trade deal that succeeded NAFTA, and was once considered to have been a flip-vote on the deal, yet then eventually went on to vote in favor of the overwhelmingly bipartisan deal, citing it as an "improvement of the current deal, even if it isn't a perfect one that many of us had wanted."

Gun Control: Beltz was once generally lukewarm, and easily flippable, for a vote on gun issues during her tenure in the Connecticut state legislature, earning a C-minus grade from the National Rifle Association, yet has since taken upon a hard swing to the left in generally voting against gun rights, especially in recent years, starting as soon as her election to the House of Representatives in 2008, with the Baharia wave. Today, she blames the gun violence and gang violence on the inability of the gun lobby to take on the issue of gun access, combined with economic inequality and the "inequality of opportunity" that minorities have relative to whites.

Education: Beltz is a firm believer in government paid four year college, yet has spoken about a willingness to compromise in endorsing the notion of government paid two years worth of college, applicable to both community college and to a standard four-year university. Beltz is strongly opposed to the idea of charter schools, and especially so to the idea of school voucher programs, calling the reforms as "segregation by a different name, education with little accountability, and policies that will leave under-performing kids and under-performing schools behind completely."

LGBTQ+ Rights: Beltz had followed the party line in being opposed to the acceptance of gay marriage, denouncing the notion altogether often, yet in 2006 seemingly had a change in heart (or electioneering strategy) in voting along with her party in favor of allowing civil unions in the state of Connecticut. After President Baharia came out in support of gay marriage, becoming the first sitting President to support gay marriage, then-Representative Beltz would follow suit, and has since stated that her support for the LGBT community was, always, her true belief on the issue, and that politics made it previously impossible for most politicians to endorse same sex marriages.

Labor: Beltz is publicly strongly in favor of empowering unions, and of driving up unionization numbers, openly stating that "unions are the backbones upon which this country's success is built," and that "it is shameful for politicians in both parties to dismantle part of what truly made America great in the first place." Beltz has been hesitant to support the Right to Organize, initially, yet has recently come around starting in 2018 in endorsing the movement wholly.

Minimum Wage: Beltz has generally supported the wave of calls for moderately increasing the minimum wage, calling for her colleagues in the Connecticut state legislature to consider establishing a higher minimum wage, yet failing in doing so. Today, Beltz is vocal in calling for a $15 minimum wage, and indexed to inflation.

Housing: Beltz has remained generally vague on the issue of housing, until the Chinese housing market collapsed, sparking a greater economic recession that had triggered an entire ripple effect across the globe. Since the collapse of the Chinese housing market, Beltz has publicly endorsed the notion of increasing low-income and establishing middle-income housing credits, to make housing more cheaper for Americans, as well as establishing an additional first-time buyer housing credit, specifically aimed toward younger Americans, while additionally touting the need for renter support and for eviction moratoriums until the global housing market stabilizes once more.

Criminal Justice Reform: Beltz has been rather distant and disregarding on any issue of criminal justice reform, making vague comments about "the need to support our police officers," while being open to reforms to their departments; yet following the massive wave of Black Lives Matter protesters, Beltz has since come out and stated that she is wholly supportive of ending the practice of private prisons, and a refocusing of priority from punishment of criminals toward rehabilitation. Beltz, once heavily opposed to the decriminalization and legalization of any previously banned drugs, is now openly supportive of legalizing marijuana across the country for both medicinal and recreational use.

Banking Industry: While Beltz is hesitant to the notion of breaking up the big banks, unlike many of her more progressive hardliners within the Democratic Party, Beltz does throw occasional bones in support for additional banking regulations, and has gone of the record with saying "we have seemed to have truly learned absolutely nothing from the 2007 economic recession," citing that banks and lenders are making many of the exact same mistakes that led to the previous recession, which is now partly responsible for triggering the current one. Beltz recently suggested that Dodd-Frank was a remarkable success, and needs additional strengthening, to protect American consumers from an even worse economic recession that has yet to come.

Energy: Beltz is strongly in favor of subsidies to develop, build, and research green energy projects, particularly those of solar, wind, and hydroelectric. Beltz has touted the history of oil and gas as being "one of the greatest economic success stories in American history," yet has added "oil and gas is currently one of the most profitable and corrupt industries in the world," and is "directly responsible for the current ecological crisis that is unfolding, and confounding, before our very eyes." When asked about nuclear power, Beltz was initially lukewarm, yet has grow increasingly opposed to the idea as a matter of public safety, despite suggesting "we may have to compromise and face realities, that nuclear power may be one of the only pragmatic options our nation has."

Electoral Reform: Following the 2016 election, Beltz has withheld the urge to join in cries for demands to dismantle the electoral college, yet after the 2020 election, has joined in recent cries to end the current method of electing Presidents, suggesting the President is elected solely by popular vote. Similarly, Beltz has joined in with many of her Democratic colleagues in demanding the right for any voter to request mail-in ballots, for expanding voting hours, for expanded early voting days, and to end the practice of gerrymandering altogether. Beltz also supports the idea of publicly-funded elections for local and state-level elections, and has that "overturning the Citizens United ruling is the only way to truly save this country."

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name:
Imperial Esplanade

Character Name:
Emily S. Davenport

Character Gender:
Female

Character Age:
62

Character Height:
5'5

Character Weight:
124 lbs.

Character Position/Role/Job:
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives (2021-Present)
Majority Leader of the House of Representatives (2019-2021)
Minority Whip of the House of Representatives (2013-2019)
Democratic Caucus Chair (2011-2013)
United States House of Representatives, CA-33 (2013-Present)
United States House of Representatives, CA-30 (2003-2013)
United States House of Representatives, CA-29 (1995-2003)
Political Office Staffer (1977-1981, 1990-1993)

Character Appearance: Emily Davenport

Character State of Origin: California

Character State of Residence: California

Character Party Affiliation: Democrat

Main Strengths: Emily is a strong orator and an equally gregarious person, thus she has always had found little-to-no issues with her ability to communicate with constituents or with fellow members of Congress. This has, incidentally, led to her enhanced ability to fund-raise and to maintain a decent approval rating with her constituents, upon conducting events such as town halls or other meet-and-greets on a somewhat regularly-recurring basis, as well as earning her a spot in party leadership. Her tenure, connections, and amassed personal wealth have all combined to give her powerful incumbency advantages, and ability to dish out favors as necessary.

Main Weaknesses: Emily is an extremely partisan individual, to the point of fault, and has been involved in politics for much of her life such that she has become synonymous with the perception of a true "career politician," as well as having the occasional regrettable choice in her publicly-disclosed voting history as any tenured politician would have. Emily began her career as just far enough left-of-center, yet has found herself increasingly pushed by her party's base to shift even further leftwards.

Biography: Born an raised in the small town San Clemente, situated just south of the city of Los Angeles, to a social conservative pastor father and an equally-so stay-at-home mother, Emily has credited her frequent run-ins with them, and acts of rebellion as a child and a teenager (albeit jokingly), as one of her initial "signs" that she was stubborn enough to ought to run for political office one day in her future -- a dream she never considered until her collegiate years. Emily, along with her five other siblings, grew up in a middle class home, only moving out of San Clemente once she was admitted to Stanford University up north in Santa Clara County, going with her longtime boyfriend from high school, Hal Davenport.

Originally attending Stanford with the intention of becoming a psychologist, Emily switched her major to study political science in her sophomore year of college. Upon graduating as part of the class of '77, Emily moved to Washington D.C. to intern with her Congressional representative's office from back home for a year, citing the experience as "integral to her growth," and saying it had "laid the foundation of her desire to seek running for office one day" as well. Emily stayed in Washington, working for her representative, for an additional two years before volunteering to be a part of the Carter Presidential campaign during the 1980 Presidential Election. Emily described her time with the Carter campaign, assisting across the state of California -- but especially focusing in the L.A. metropolitan area, saying it was "equally challenging and heartbreaking, as it was rewarding," citing the Reagan Revolution as a particularly demoralizing moment for her, and that she then openly considered moving to Washington, D.C. to work full-time in any capacity for any Democratic politician who would be willing to hire her quickly thereafter.

Yet, as fate would have it, Emily was unable to find employment and eventually returned home upon making the determination to run for Congress in the next cycle herself, two years later, in 1988, at just 29 years old. Her first attempt to run for office was an utter, abysmal failure (to put it lightly) however; and Emily hardly captured 1% of her district's vote -- falling in last place for the election. In 1990, Emily tried again, and failed once more with only getting 3% of the vote following an intensive effort in grassroots campaigning. Feeling deflated, exhausted, and defeated, Emily and her then-now-husband, Hal, moved to Los Angeles once he earned a promotion with an engineering firm based out of the city, and Emily found work with the City of Los Angeles shortly thereafter, serving as an assistant to the mayor for three years -- a job that, as she has stated, "gave her that spark back." Emily left her job with the mayor's office in 1993, focusing heavily on local activism ahead of the 1994 election, and decided to attempt running for Congress once more in spite of the previous two attempts back in her hometown. With the incumbent Democrat retiring, leaving an open seat for the election, Emily fought through a highly tumultuous primary bout and managed to squeak by the thinnest of margins to earn a primary win, and then went on to victory through the general election, riding the coattails of the Clifford Presidential victory against a surprisingly strong Republican challenger who closed the gab considerably from years prior. As a Congresswoman, beginning in 1995, Davenport's record has largely followed the Democratic whip -- and continues to do so to this day, continually earning her the ire of anti-establishment activists, and those generally discontent with the Democratic party in her district. Davenport has held a mostly-firm grip on her district, easily winning re-election time and again, ever since -- especially as the Democratic Party's current Minority Leader for the House of Representatives, and the Democratic favorite to potentially recapture the Speakership in the upcoming midterm elections.

Foreign Policy
NATO: Davenport believes that the Wolf administration, and by default the Republican Party as a whole by association via their silence on the matter, has been intentionally neglecting the most important alliance in America's repertoire and that repairing the relationship America has with NATO countries is of utmost priority as it relates to the foreign policy agenda of the United States. She believes the recent treatment on NATO is a dangerous precedent, and that America must truly treat friends as friends and foes as foes, with zero room for ambiguity.

Afghanistan: September 11th, 2001 will be twenty years ago, and the United States has soldiers on the front lines to fight an enemy in "America's Longest War," who have no recollection of the events that transpired on that fateful day, nor are able to recall life prior, some even not being born yet. Emily believes it is past time to withdraw our forces, and to entrust and support the Afghanistan government in maintaining its' stability as it continues to combat terrorist threats from within.

Iraq: Davenport has a somewhat conflictive voting record: initially opposed, yet turned mildly-supportive of the Iraqi Troop Surge in 2007; citing it as tactically critical to the mission, but yet shortly after has been sharply critical and dismissive of American involvement henceforth in the years that followed, something she has continued adhering to as of this day. As ISIS arose, Davenport staunchly opposed sending American ground forces to even help Iraq combat against the terrorist organization, saying she believed an international coalition that involved limited American forces was the only acceptable option, and even then she desired minimal American involvement.

North Korea: Davenport has been cautiously optimistic as to the Wolf administration's attempts at brokering a diplomatic solution with the North Koreans at the time of negotiation, endorsing the idea of meeting, but has since called it "nothing better than a photo op for the two men," and has cited North Korea's continued nuclear ambitions as evidence to the Wolf administration's complete and total incompetence. Prior to the Wolf administration, however, Davenport has been supportive of diplomatic pressures and sanctions applied on the North Korean state and has generally opposed options of force against them.

Russia: Davenport believes that President Wolf has been too friendly and warm to geopolitical foes, such as Russia, and has strongly rebuked his cordiality with President Putin in juxtaposition with President Wolf's public contempt and frustrations expressed against American allies. Davenport has strongly condemned the Russian government as a "cesspool of corruption," and has called on the United States to be more bold and forceful and direct in its' rebuke against "acts that undermine the integrity and stability of the modern world," especially so in Ukraine, and has frequently called the Republican Party "disgusting hypocrites" for not being as vocal in opposition to President Wolf's dealings with the Russian government as they were against President Baharia.

China: Davenport has called China "the next great unknown," as in she wasn't certain in China was a existential threat to American supremacy or our greatest business partner in the modern world, and she has a mixed voting record between votes to strengthening trade relations with the burgeoning superpower and votes to support measures defending American interests from Chinese exploitation. Davenport has since, however, stated that China is "weaponizing its' economy," and that the United States must work with other business partners to strengthen alternatives to China's economy and markets. Standard mild political rhetoric.

Israel/Palestine: Davenport supports Israel's right to exist, as a state, and has since evolved to also call for Palestine's recognition as a co-equal state to that of Israel, favoring a two-state solution between them. Davenport did not support the Wolf administration's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel, calling the move "dangerously divisive" and "problematic in the movement to seek a two-state permanent solution."

Iran: Davenport has always been critical of the Republican Party's hawkish views on Iran, calling them "warmongers seeking to create a new Iraq," and was supportive of President Baharia's Nuclear Deal to quell its' nuclear program. Not surprisingly, Davenport scolded President Wolf and the Republicans, both, for pulling out of the deal entirely and has since publicly questioned their collective competence on handling the issue of Iran.

Saudi Arabia: Davenport is hesitatingly supportive of the relationship the United States has with Saudi Arabia; in public, she openly enthusiastically touts the partnership as "instrumental to the foreign policy agenda and interests of the United States," yet has been far less clamoring in private and has never endorsed any bills in support of the regime beyond an "aye" vote. However, following the alleged assassination of a high-profile Saudi journalist, Davenport has led the party line in calling for accountability regarding Saudi Arabia.

Libya: Initially, Davenport was supportive of the Baharia Administration, and its' implementation of the "no-fly zone," agreeing with the President (as nearly all Congressional Democrats had) on the grounds of a looming massacre and a political/societal crisis within the country. Yet, in response to the Wolf Administration's actions within the country, Davenport has been more muted, even suggested the United States ought to consider ceasing operations in Libya altogether, to avoid being heavily-embroiled in yet another Iraq War.

Syria: Unlike in Libya or Saudi Arabia, however, Davenport was highly, publicly supportive of the United States policy regarding the fight against ISIS/ISIL, and more muted in response to the Wolf Administration's actions in Syria. Her rhetoric, while toned, has been to suggest a standard, repeated cautionary tale she tells against becoming meddled and over-committed in any foreign war, akin to Afghanistan or Iraq, even though she has also said that "defeating terrorism, wholly and completely" is required.

Latin America: Davenport has expressed a desire to expand trade relations with Latin American countries, and American ties with each country, so as to combat against increasing Chinese influence in the region, and to keep the western hemisphere under U.S. geopolitical hegemony, and doing more to help combat domestic corruption and the prevalence of drug cartels south of the U.S. border, going insofar as to declare that "in the 21st century, we must ensure our own backyard is secure, above all else, and that our neighbors know we stand with them. Their fight is our fight." A notable break from the standard non-interventionist rhetoric she has with other parts of the world, likely as a nod to the Latino vote.

Cuba: Davenport has expressed considerable support to the Baharia Administration's decision to open ties with the Cuban government, calling it "a step in the right direction, with many more to go," and has heavily slammed the Wolf Administration for "turning back the clock, and damaging the reputation of the United States, by deciding on a whim to put into place sanctions against our Cuban neighbors, for no other clear reason than to reserve progress under President Baharia."

Venezuela: Davenport joins alongside many of her Democratic colleagues, calling the country a "dictatorship" under President Maduro, saying it is "unacceptable for us to remain silent against the face of such an extreme humanitarian crisis." Yet, has criticized calls or suggestions for war against Venezuela, calling them "warmongers who offer little actual solutions, only a bigger problem." Davenport agreed with the Baharia Administration's labeling of Venezuela as a national security threat, with their sanctioning of the economic interests of the nations, and has called for more against what she says is "a rogue nation."

Domestic Policy
Healthcare: Davenport proudly touted the Affordable Care Act as "the fix our healthcare needs," and as "the first big step," and has continued to stand by her support of the bill; yet, Davenport has also gone on to suggest it requires "the next big step, a workable embrace of Medicare-For-All," simultaneously suggesting an openness for negotiating down to a public option as she was not "comfortable with current plans for medicare-for-all, particularly its' price tag. Davenport made some headlines when, early in the GOP majority of late-2017, she called her Republican counterparts in both chambers of Congress "senseless cowards" for their support of "Wolfcare."

Social Security: Davenport has mostly stayed quiet about the issue and challenges facing Social Security; yet has been on record suggesting that social security is in need of an overhaul, and that she supports the increasing, or even the elimination of, the payroll tax cap, while opposing the Republican view of raising the retirement age, saying that "some people cannot wait that long to retire," and that "it is another example of Republican obsessive efforts to kick the problem further down the line onto the next few generations."

Climate Change: Davenport has continued to scorch Republicans for their positions on environmental issues, as a whole, and especially so on climate change. Davenport has cited her background in Christianity once, saying "as a daughter of a pastor, I know the Bible, and I remember God commissioning us to be stewards of the Earth since the Old Testament. The Republican Party proudly touts religion on one hand, as the basis for its' beliefs when it is convenient, but runs the other way and ignores the rest when it isn't. They are hypocrites. To ignore the obvious long-term detrimental harm we are committing on the environment isn't just negligent, it should be seen as blatantly sinful for those who aren't complete religious hypocrites." Davenport has publicly expressed her support to House Democrats who call for a "New Green Deal," yet has remained vague as to her personal endorsement for it. Davenport has called for the Richardson Administration to reverse-course, and re-enter into the Paris Climate Agreement, and has once openly suggested that she wished "the Baharia administration would have made climate change a more pressing issue from the start."

Pollution: Davenport has expressed support to the idea of a ban on single-use plastics, as well as calling for urgent action to clean up the world's oceans, saying "it isn't enough to fight against the climate challenges we face tomorrow because of our actions of today, we must save our oceans, and the fate of our existence on this planet, from ourselves today, right now."

Abortion: Davenport is completely, and wholly, supportive of abortion rights, even though she has said that she would "never considered it an option" for herself, she added "but I will be the strongest advocate for our gender, and for our bodily autonomy. This is our choice, not the choice of men in Washington."

Taxes: Davenport supported the Baharia tax bill of 2010, as part of her support of the stimulus bill, though has since expressed some semblance of regret on the matter while opposing the Wolf-led Republican tax cuts of 2017, saying "if tax relief doesn't help the people who need it most, and if economic growth doesn't happen for the stagnant middle and lower classes of America, what even is the point of what we're doing here?" Davenport has accused "trickle-down economics" as being a fraud, and a guise to "help the rich get richer." Supports a Wall Street "speculation" tax, a top-tier "marginal" tax hike, and the increase of tax rates on the wealthiest of Americans.

Federal Budget: Davenport supported the Baharia Administration's spending and tax policies, ignoring criticisms of the effects it would have on the budget, and largely has done the same regarding the Wolf administration, yet has said "long-term, of course our debt has to be paid-off;" and has since regarding Republicans are "disgusting hypocrites" for actively criticizing President Baharia's administration, on the grounds of the national debt, while "not lifting a finger against Wolf, despite doing far worse."

Trade: Davenport has expressed support for NAFTA, as well as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, originally; yet, has taken a balanced-approach to the issue of trade, citing "environment and labor" as chief concerns she has moving forward in future trade negotiations, or re-negotiations, while saying she is open to revisiting the United States and its' involvement in any current trade deals, despite saying she isn't inherently opposed to NAFTA, or any other equivalent deal, and has publicly supported the USMCA trade deal, calling it a "massive improvement over NAFTA."

Gun Control: Davenport has called for greater action, and activism, on the question of gun control, going insofar as to suggest an assault weapons ban, and to support a universal background check. "There is no need for a weapon of war, meant to be in the hands of our military, to be in the hands of ordinary people on the streets of America. This is the United States there is no need for this, and we have to act for the safety of our children." Davenport, however, also equally stressed the need for investments into mental healthcare as it relates to quelling future gun violence perpetrators.

Education: Davenport supports the state's shouldering more fiduciary responsibility, on behalf of the students attending public universities and colleges, going insofar as to seek making them tuition-free for four-year students, while also doing the same for those seeking two-year associate degree educations at community colleges. Davenport supports Common Core standards.

LGBTQ+ Rights: Davenport initially began her legislative career adopting a position as against same-sex marriage; yet, she supported the notion of a "civil union," only to reverse her stance in 2010 to openly supporting same-sex marriage and endorsing bills to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act in 2011. Fast-forward to today, Davenport calls for greater protections for LGBTQ+ Americans, suggesting a "new civil rights act may be necessary" to protect them against discrimination, and has called for Congress to act on banning conversion therapy for minors across the United States.

Labor: Davenport has gravitated from a position of third-way economics, starting in 2006, and into a quasi-social democrat (at least on the issue of labor) as of today. Davenport is supportive of mandating paid family and sick leave, and has taken positions of strong support in regards to labor and trade unions.

Minimum Wage: Davenport, in 2013, supported efforts to raise the minimum wage to $10.10, and again supported efforts to raise the minimum wage in 2015 to $12.00, and now supports a $15.00 minimum wage as-of 2016 with an additional claim that it must be "indexed to a living wage."

Criminal Justice Reform: Davenport is supportive of banning private prisons, declaring them to be a "modern institution of slavery," and calling them "cesspools of systemic racism." Davenport also supports mandating police officers wearing body cameras at all times, and the total abolishing of the death penalty.

Banking Industry: Davenport was supportive of Dodd-Frank, and now as-of her 2018 election, has taken to the position that "no institution should become too big to fail," and that "banks ought to be forced to be broken up" should they reach such levels of financial unsustainability. Also, as-of 2018, Davenport vows she will act to ensure that interest rates on loans are to be capped at a reasonable rate so as to protect consumers from financial exploitation or from other predatory practices against them.

Energy: Davenport has clamored for incentives for the production of energy from solar, wind, and geothermal sources; although, Davenport has also drawn a contrast from many of the others in that she has also vocally supported nuclear energy, touting it as a viable "bridge" between fossil fuels and the "energy of tomorrow," while also being hesitant for embracing the Green New Deal and speaking too hardly against the oil and gas industries.

Homeland Security: Davenport sided with President Baharia in support of the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 and the USA Freedom Act of 2015, having initially refrained from commentary on the NSA spying scandal or sharing her opinion regarding the actions of Edward Snowden, saying on the matter "Mr. Snowden broke the law, but he brought to light a lot of concerns that many of us knew nothing about previously." Since then, Davenport has remained quiet on her opinion of him, and has kept to pivoting onto the point on seeking reforms within the homeland security apparatus while balancing between the national security interests of the United States and the civil rights and privacy of citizens and others alike.

Agriculture: Davenport has stated that "even though I represent a big city, and come from a small city, I have just as much concern for rural America as any other." Davenport supports aggressive trust-busting and comprehensive rural-development and revitalization proposals, stating "rural America oftentimes experiences the brunt of hardship, economically and ecologically; and lower-income rural Americans deserve to see their dreams become as attainable as those anywhere else in America."

Internet: Davenport endorses Net Neutrality, and suggests it ought to be codified into, and mandated by, federal law.

National Park System: Davenport Supports extensive expansion of land claimed under the National Park Service across the United States, and the restricting of "ecologically-threatening activities" and the "expansion of the human footprint" within land claimed by the National Park Service.

Other Info: Emily's middle name is Stephanie, and her maiden name is Shaw. Emily was also a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority during her years at Stanford. Emily's husband, Hal Davenport, owns his own engineering firm. Combined, the Davenport household has about $120 million in net worth.

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name:
Imperial Esplanade

Character Name:
Emily S. Davenport

Character Gender:
Female

Character Age:
62

Character Height:
5'5

Character Weight:
124 lbs.

Character Position/Role/Job:
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives (2021-Present)
Majority Leader of the House of Representatives (2019-2021)
Minority Whip of the House of Representatives (2013-2019)
Democratic Caucus Chair (2011-2013)
United States House of Representatives, CA-34 (1995-Present)
Political Office Staffer (1977-1981, 1990-1993)

Character Appearance: Emily Davenport

Character State of Origin: California

Character State of Residence: California

Character Party Affiliation: Democrat

Main Strengths: Emily is a strong orator and an equally gregarious person, thus she has always had found little-to-no issues with her ability to communicate with constituents or with fellow members of Congress. This has, incidentally, led to her enhanced ability to fund-raise and to maintain a decent approval rating with her constituents, upon conducting events such as town halls or other meet-and-greets on a somewhat regularly-recurring basis, as well as earning her a spot in party leadership. Her tenure, connections, and amassed personal wealth have all combined to give her powerful incumbency advantages, and ability to dish out favors as necessary.

Main Weaknesses: Emily is an extremely partisan individual, to the point of fault, and has been involved in politics for much of her life such that she has become synonymous with the perception of a true "career politician," as well as having the occasional regrettable choice in her publicly-disclosed voting history as any tenured politician would have. Emily began her career as just far enough left-of-center, yet has found herself increasingly pushed by her party's base to shift even further leftwards.

Biography: Born an raised in the small town San Clemente, situated just south of the city of Los Angeles, to a social conservative pastor father and an equally-so stay-at-home mother, Emily has credited her frequent run-ins with them, and acts of rebellion as a child and a teenager (albeit jokingly), as one of her initial "signs" that she was stubborn enough to ought to run for political office one day in her future -- a dream she never considered until her collegiate years. Emily, along with her five other siblings, grew up in a middle class home, only moving out of San Clemente once she was admitted to Stanford University up north in Santa Clara County, going with her longtime boyfriend from high school, Hal Davenport.

Originally attending Stanford with the intention of becoming a psychologist, Emily switched her major to study political science in her sophomore year of college. Upon graduating as part of the class of '77, Emily moved to Washington D.C. to intern with her Congressional representative's office from back home for a year, citing the experience as "integral to her growth," and saying it had "laid the foundation of her desire to seek running for office one day" as well. Emily stayed in Washington, working for her representative, for an additional two years before volunteering to be a part of the Carter Presidential campaign during the 1980 Presidential Election. Emily described her time with the Carter campaign, assisting across the state of California -- but especially focusing in the L.A. metropolitan area, saying it was "equally challenging and heartbreaking, as it was rewarding," citing the Reagan Revolution as a particularly demoralizing moment for her, and that she then openly considered moving to Washington, D.C. to work full-time in any capacity for any Democratic politician who would be willing to hire her quickly thereafter.

Yet, as fate would have it, Emily was unable to find employment and eventually returned home upon making the determination to run for Congress in the next cycle herself, two years later, in 1988, at just 29 years old. Her first attempt to run for office was an utter, abysmal failure (to put it lightly) however; and Emily hardly captured 1% of her district's vote -- falling in last place for the election. In 1990, Emily tried again, and failed once more with only getting 3% of the vote following an intensive effort in grassroots campaigning. Feeling deflated, exhausted, and defeated, Emily and her then-now-husband, Hal, moved to Los Angeles once he earned a promotion with an engineering firm based out of the city, and Emily found work with the City of Los Angeles shortly thereafter, serving as an assistant to the mayor for three years -- a job that, as she has stated, "gave her that spark back." Emily left her job with the mayor's office in 1993, focusing heavily on local activism ahead of the 1994 election, and decided to attempt running for Congress once more in spite of the previous two attempts back in her hometown. With the incumbent Democrat retiring, leaving an open seat for the election, Emily fought through a highly tumultuous primary bout and managed to squeak by the thinnest of margins to earn a primary win, and then went on to victory through the general election, riding the coattails of the Clifford Presidential victory against a surprisingly strong Republican challenger who closed the gab considerably from years prior. As a Congresswoman, beginning in 1995, Davenport's record has largely followed the Democratic whip -- and continues to do so to this day, continually earning her the ire of anti-establishment activists, and those generally discontent with the Democratic party in her district. Davenport has held a mostly-firm grip on her district, easily winning re-election time and again, ever since -- especially as the Democratic Party's current Minority Leader for the House of Representatives, and the Democratic favorite to potentially recapture the Speakership in the upcoming midterm elections.

Foreign Policy
NATO: Davenport believes that the Wolf administration, and by default the Republican Party as a whole by association via their silence on the matter, has been intentionally neglecting the most important alliance in America's repertoire and that repairing the relationship America has with NATO countries is of utmost priority as it relates to the foreign policy agenda of the United States. She believes the recent treatment on NATO is a dangerous precedent, and that America must truly treat friends as friends and foes as foes, with zero room for ambiguity.

Afghanistan: September 11th, 2001 will be twenty years ago, and the United States has soldiers on the front lines to fight an enemy in "America's Longest War," who have no recollection of the events that transpired on that fateful day, nor are able to recall life prior, some even not being born yet. Emily believes it is past time to withdraw our forces, and to entrust and support the Afghanistan government in maintaining its' stability as it continues to combat terrorist threats from within.

Iraq: Davenport has a somewhat conflictive voting record: initially opposed, yet turned mildly-supportive of the Iraqi Troop Surge in 2007; citing it as tactically critical to the mission, but yet shortly after has been sharply critical and dismissive of American involvement henceforth in the years that followed, something she has continued adhering to as of this day. As ISIS arose, Davenport staunchly opposed sending American ground forces to even help Iraq combat against the terrorist organization, saying she believed an international coalition that involved limited American forces was the only acceptable option, and even then she desired minimal American involvement.

North Korea: Davenport has been cautiously optimistic as to the Wolf administration's attempts at brokering a diplomatic solution with the North Koreans at the time of negotiation, endorsing the idea of meeting, but has since called it "nothing better than a photo op for the two men," and has cited North Korea's continued nuclear ambitions as evidence to the Wolf administration's complete and total incompetence. Prior to the Wolf administration, however, Davenport has been supportive of diplomatic pressures and sanctions applied on the North Korean state and has generally opposed options of force against them.

Russia: Davenport believes that President Wolf has been too friendly and warm to geopolitical foes, such as Russia, and has strongly rebuked his cordiality with President Putin in juxtaposition with President Wolf's public contempt and frustrations expressed against American allies. Davenport has strongly condemned the Russian government as a "cesspool of corruption," and has called on the United States to be more bold and forceful and direct in its' rebuke against "acts that undermine the integrity and stability of the modern world," especially so in Ukraine, and has frequently called the Republican Party "disgusting hypocrites" for not being as vocal in opposition to President Wolf's dealings with the Russian government as they were against President Baharia.

China: Davenport has called China "the next great unknown," as in she wasn't certain in China was a existential threat to American supremacy or our greatest business partner in the modern world, and she has a mixed voting record between votes to strengthening trade relations with the burgeoning superpower and votes to support measures defending American interests from Chinese exploitation. Davenport has since, however, stated that China is "weaponizing its' economy," and that the United States must work with other business partners to strengthen alternatives to China's economy and markets. Standard mild political rhetoric.

Israel/Palestine: Davenport supports Israel's right to exist, as a state, and has since evolved to also call for Palestine's recognition as a co-equal state to that of Israel, favoring a two-state solution between them. Davenport did not support the Wolf administration's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel, calling the move "dangerously divisive" and "problematic in the movement to seek a two-state permanent solution."

Iran: Davenport has always been critical of the Republican Party's hawkish views on Iran, calling them "warmongers seeking to create a new Iraq," and was supportive of President Baharia's Nuclear Deal to quell its' nuclear program. Not surprisingly, Davenport scolded President Wolf and the Republicans, both, for pulling out of the deal entirely and has since publicly questioned their collective competence on handling the issue of Iran.

Saudi Arabia: Davenport is hesitatingly supportive of the relationship the United States has with Saudi Arabia; in public, she openly enthusiastically touts the partnership as "instrumental to the foreign policy agenda and interests of the United States," yet has been far less clamoring in private and has never endorsed any bills in support of the regime beyond an "aye" vote. However, following the alleged assassination of a high-profile Saudi journalist, Davenport has led the party line in calling for accountability regarding Saudi Arabia.

Libya: Initially, Davenport was supportive of the Baharia Administration, and its' implementation of the "no-fly zone," agreeing with the President (as nearly all Congressional Democrats had) on the grounds of a looming massacre and a political/societal crisis within the country. Yet, in response to the Wolf Administration's actions within the country, Davenport has been more muted, even suggested the United States ought to consider ceasing operations in Libya altogether, to avoid being heavily-embroiled in yet another Iraq War.

Syria: Unlike in Libya or Saudi Arabia, however, Davenport was highly, publicly supportive of the United States policy regarding the fight against ISIS/ISIL, and more muted in response to the Wolf Administration's actions in Syria. Her rhetoric, while toned, has been to suggest a standard, repeated cautionary tale she tells against becoming meddled and over-committed in any foreign war, akin to Afghanistan or Iraq, even though she has also said that "defeating terrorism, wholly and completely" is required.

Latin America: Davenport has expressed a desire to expand trade relations with Latin American countries, and American ties with each country, so as to combat against increasing Chinese influence in the region, and to keep the western hemisphere under U.S. geopolitical hegemony, and doing more to help combat domestic corruption and the prevalence of drug cartels south of the U.S. border, going insofar as to declare that "in the 21st century, we must ensure our own backyard is secure, above all else, and that our neighbors know we stand with them. Their fight is our fight." A notable break from the standard non-interventionist rhetoric she has with other parts of the world, likely as a nod to the Latino vote.

Cuba: Davenport has expressed considerable support to the Baharia Administration's decision to open ties with the Cuban government, calling it "a step in the right direction, with many more to go," and has heavily slammed the Wolf Administration for "turning back the clock, and damaging the reputation of the United States, by deciding on a whim to put into place sanctions against our Cuban neighbors, for no other clear reason than to reserve progress under President Baharia."

Venezuela: Davenport joins alongside many of her Democratic colleagues, calling the country a "dictatorship" under President Maduro, saying it is "unacceptable for us to remain silent against the face of such an extreme humanitarian crisis." Yet, has criticized calls or suggestions for war against Venezuela, calling them "warmongers who offer little actual solutions, only a bigger problem." Davenport agreed with the Baharia Administration's labeling of Venezuela as a national security threat, with their sanctioning of the economic interests of the nations, and has called for more against what she says is "a rogue nation."

Domestic Policy
Healthcare: Davenport proudly touted the Affordable Care Act as "the fix our healthcare needs," and as "the first big step," and has continued to stand by her support of the bill; yet, Davenport has also gone on to suggest it requires "the next big step, a workable embrace of Medicare-For-All," simultaneously suggesting an openness for negotiating down to a public option as she was not "comfortable with current plans for medicare-for-all, particularly its' price tag. Davenport made some headlines when, early in the GOP majority of late-2017, she called her Republican counterparts in both chambers of Congress "senseless cowards" for their support of "Wolfcare."

Social Security: Davenport has mostly stayed quiet about the issue and challenges facing Social Security; yet has been on record suggesting that social security is in need of an overhaul, and that she supports the increasing, or even the elimination of, the payroll tax cap, while opposing the Republican view of raising the retirement age, saying that "some people cannot wait that long to retire," and that "it is another example of Republican obsessive efforts to kick the problem further down the line onto the next few generations."

Climate Change: Davenport has continued to scorch Republicans for their positions on environmental issues, as a whole, and especially so on climate change. Davenport has cited her background in Christianity once, saying "as a daughter of a pastor, I know the Bible, and I remember God commissioning us to be stewards of the Earth since the Old Testament. The Republican Party proudly touts religion on one hand, as the basis for its' beliefs when it is convenient, but runs the other way and ignores the rest when it isn't. They are hypocrites. To ignore the obvious long-term detrimental harm we are committing on the environment isn't just negligent, it should be seen as blatantly sinful for those who aren't complete religious hypocrites." Davenport has publicly expressed her support to House Democrats who call for a "New Green Deal," yet has remained vague as to her personal endorsement for it. Davenport has called for the Richardson Administration to reverse-course, and re-enter into the Paris Climate Agreement, and has once openly suggested that she wished "the Baharia administration would have made climate change a more pressing issue from the start."

Pollution: Davenport has expressed support to the idea of a ban on single-use plastics, as well as calling for urgent action to clean up the world's oceans, saying "it isn't enough to fight against the climate challenges we face tomorrow because of our actions of today, we must save our oceans, and the fate of our existence on this planet, from ourselves today, right now."

Abortion: Davenport is completely, and wholly, supportive of abortion rights, even though she has said that she would "never considered it an option" for herself, she added "but I will be the strongest advocate for our gender, and for our bodily autonomy. This is our choice, not the choice of men in Washington."

Taxes: Davenport supported the Baharia tax bill of 2010, as part of her support of the stimulus bill, though has since expressed some semblance of regret on the matter while opposing the Wolf-led Republican tax cuts of 2017, saying "if tax relief doesn't help the people who need it most, and if economic growth doesn't happen for the stagnant middle and lower classes of America, what even is the point of what we're doing here?" Davenport has accused "trickle-down economics" as being a fraud, and a guise to "help the rich get richer." Supports a Wall Street "speculation" tax, a top-tier "marginal" tax hike, and the increase of tax rates on the wealthiest of Americans.

Federal Budget: Davenport supported the Baharia Administration's spending and tax policies, ignoring criticisms of the effects it would have on the budget, and largely has done the same regarding the Wolf administration, yet has said "long-term, of course our debt has to be paid-off;" and has since regarding Republicans are "disgusting hypocrites" for actively criticizing President Baharia's administration, on the grounds of the national debt, while "not lifting a finger against Wolf, despite doing far worse."

Trade: Davenport has expressed support for NAFTA, as well as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, originally; yet, has taken a balanced-approach to the issue of trade, citing "environment and labor" as chief concerns she has moving forward in future trade negotiations, or re-negotiations, while saying she is open to revisiting the United States and its' involvement in any current trade deals, despite saying she isn't inherently opposed to NAFTA, or any other equivalent deal, and has publicly supported the USMCA trade deal, calling it a "massive improvement over NAFTA."

Gun Control: Davenport has called for greater action, and activism, on the question of gun control, going insofar as to suggest an assault weapons ban, and to support a universal background check. "There is no need for a weapon of war, meant to be in the hands of our military, to be in the hands of ordinary people on the streets of America. This is the United States there is no need for this, and we have to act for the safety of our children." Davenport, however, also equally stressed the need for investments into mental healthcare as it relates to quelling future gun violence perpetrators.

Education: Davenport supports the state's shouldering more fiduciary responsibility, on behalf of the students attending public universities and colleges, going insofar as to seek making them tuition-free for four-year students, while also doing the same for those seeking two-year associate degree educations at community colleges. Davenport supports Common Core standards.

LGBTQ+ Rights: Davenport initially began her legislative career adopting a position as against same-sex marriage; yet, she supported the notion of a "civil union," only to reverse her stance in 2010 to openly supporting same-sex marriage and endorsing bills to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act in 2011. Fast-forward to today, Davenport calls for greater protections for LGBTQ+ Americans, suggesting a "new civil rights act may be necessary" to protect them against discrimination, and has called for Congress to act on banning conversion therapy for minors across the United States.

Labor: Davenport has gravitated from a position of third-way economics, starting in 2006, and into a quasi-social democrat (at least on the issue of labor) as of today. Davenport is supportive of mandating paid family and sick leave, and has taken positions of strong support in regards to labor and trade unions.

Minimum Wage: Davenport, in 2013, supported efforts to raise the minimum wage to $10.10, and again supported efforts to raise the minimum wage in 2015 to $12.00, and now supports a $15.00 minimum wage as-of 2016 with an additional claim that it must be "indexed to a living wage."

Criminal Justice Reform: Davenport is supportive of banning private prisons, declaring them to be a "modern institution of slavery," and calling them "cesspools of systemic racism." Davenport also supports mandating police officers wearing body cameras at all times, and the total abolishing of the death penalty.

Banking Industry: Davenport was supportive of Dodd-Frank, and now as-of her 2018 election, has taken to the position that "no institution should become too big to fail," and that "banks ought to be forced to be broken up" should they reach such levels of financial unsustainability. Also, as-of 2018, Davenport vows she will act to ensure that interest rates on loans are to be capped at a reasonable rate so as to protect consumers from financial exploitation or from other predatory practices against them.

Energy: Davenport has clamored for incentives for the production of energy from solar, wind, and geothermal sources; although, Davenport has also drawn a contrast from many of the others in that she has also vocally supported nuclear energy, touting it as a viable "bridge" between fossil fuels and the "energy of tomorrow," while also being hesitant for embracing the Green New Deal and speaking too hardly against the oil and gas industries.

Homeland Security: Davenport sided with President Baharia in support of the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 and the USA Freedom Act of 2015, having initially refrained from commentary on the NSA spying scandal or sharing her opinion regarding the actions of Edward Snowden, saying on the matter "Mr. Snowden broke the law, but he brought to light a lot of concerns that many of us knew nothing about previously." Since then, Davenport has remained quiet on her opinion of him, and has kept to pivoting onto the point on seeking reforms within the homeland security apparatus while balancing between the national security interests of the United States and the civil rights and privacy of citizens and others alike.

Agriculture: Davenport has stated that "even though I represent a big city, and come from a small city, I have just as much concern for rural America as any other." Davenport supports aggressive trust-busting and comprehensive rural-development and revitalization proposals, stating "rural America oftentimes experiences the brunt of hardship, economically and ecologically; and lower-income rural Americans deserve to see their dreams become as attainable as those anywhere else in America."

Internet: Davenport endorses Net Neutrality, and suggests it ought to be codified into, and mandated by, federal law.

National Park System: Davenport Supports extensive expansion of land claimed under the National Park Service across the United States, and the restricting of "ecologically-threatening activities" and the "expansion of the human footprint" within land claimed by the National Park Service.

Other Info: Emily's middle name is Stephanie, and her maiden name is Shaw. Emily was also a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority during her years at Stanford. Emily's husband, Hal Davenport, owns his own engineering firm. Combined, the Davenport household has about $120 million in net worth.

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How did/does Emily win/keep winning a majority-minority seat, I know her char model is Latina but I can't tell if you're making Davenport Latina too?

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NS Nation Name:
Imperial Esplanade

Character Name:
Sen. Marceline "Marcie" Rita Beltz

Character Gender:
Female

Character Age:
53

Character Height:
5'6

Character Weight:
130 lbs.

Character Position/Role/Job:
United States Senate (2017-Present)
United States House of Representatives, CT-2 (2009-2017)
Connecticut State House, 46th District (2005-2009)
Professor of Marine Sciences at University of Connecticut (1999-2004)
High School Sciences Teacher at Norwich Public School System (1989-1999)

Character Country/State of Birth:
Connecticut

Character State of Residence:
Connecticut

Character Party Affiliation:
Democratic Party

Main Strengths:
Marcie is deeply entrenched within the political establishment, with an arsenal of connections and a plethora of experience under her belt across both Washington D.C., and also across the state of Connecticut, that enables her to have an edge in both fundraising and electoral infrastructure, and if need-be, she has no issues going cutthroat in using them. Marcie's experience, political views, and voting record draws a healthy amount of approval from historically moderate Democrats, yet has also recently lurched further in the left in attempts to keep pace with her base. Marcie generally finds herself able to empathize and connect well with those who are suffering, or at least has grown quite talented in projecting such an image, if nothing else. Marcie leans heavily on her educational background, something she uses to help draw appeal from all walks of life, and is also seen as one of the few authorities within Congress on environmental issues as well.

Main Weaknesses:
Marcie's primary weakness is the flip-side of her strength: a politician with a mixed record and the baggage of length of tenure, and with increasingly lukewarm approval ratings with the progressive base of the Democratic Party. Marcie is increasingly seen as opportunistic by the progressive base of the Democratic Party, in spite of all her best efforts to remain relevant as one of Connecticut's senators, and may be vulnerable to a particularly potent primary opponent within an otherwise solidly blue state. Despite her attempts of empathizing with others often, Marcie has never experienced poverty and has been accused of having some sort of a "white savior complex" with a record of voting to (incidentally) increase the income gap between men and women as well as between whites and minorities by more than one hardliner-progressive. Marcie isn't a particularly strong orator, and she has a lackluster foreign policy voting record.

Biography:
Marcie was born and raised as the oldest child into a standard middle class family, one that was fortunate just enough to be able to afford a decent lifestyle for herself and her four other siblings. Marcie's parents, Janice and Thomas Beltz, were both local journalists, employed with different regional newspapers prior to her father's sudden death in early 2002 from a sudden aneurysm, leaving the widowed Janice Beltz to head the rest of the family all on her own. Marcie, by then, was a young professor who was teaching classes about her true love back at her alma mater: the ocean, and all its' complexities and seemingly limitless possible organisms. Yet, seeing how hard it was for her mother to just simply get by on her own, much less doing everything she can to help raise the remaining Beltz children on a newspaper journalist's income, Marcie pitched in however she could, and vowed to get into public service in order to make a genuine difference for the "economic disadvantageous," such as single parents like her mother.

Two years later, Marcie took the leap and ran for office at the state-level, beginning with the State House in 2004, and moving on up to the House of Representatives following the sudden resignation of the then-incumbent who was embroiled in the middle of a publicized campaign finance scandal in 2008, riding a strong Democratic wave and easily sailing into office during President Baharia's successful election bid. While in Congress, she differed often with both the President and the party, who seemed more focused on domestic healthcare, than on her big issue of the looming climate crisis to come. Marcie put together vigorous climate change bills every single year she was in Congress, and each one effectively falling flat. Finding virtually zero success of advancing her "big issue," Marcie decided to pursue the Senate, squeaking out a tough primary challenge in 2016, and holding onto office ever since. Now, with 2022 midterms just around the corner, Marcie knows that she will have to work diligently, and have some receipts to show for her term in the United States Senate.

Other Info:
Marcie is one of the more cash-poor members of Congress, with a net-worth only hovering around 630K in cash assets. Marcie sits upon the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (Class-A), as well as the Small Business Committee (Class-B). Marcie has no children, is openly bisexual, and has two dogs (a golden retriever named Honey and a yorkshire terrier named Deco).

Foreign Policy
NATO: Beltz believes that the modern day role of NATO is two-fold; first to formally provide a united front against the increasingly rouge and hostile Russian state, and secondly to cede greater responsibilities of global intervention and maintenance of the status-quo over toward allies closest to the United States as legitimate partners in maintaining global peace. Beltz has a voting record, spanning back to 2008, that is largely mixed about her views on that the United States has been unnecessarily hawkish. Beltz is on the record about her desire to continue expanding NATO to include additional nations such as Ukraine, Georgia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina; and is open about her wanting for the United States to increasingly partner with other non-NATO allies as well.

Afghanistan: Beltz has agreed with President Wolf in openly calling for the United States to begin withdrawing out of Afghanistan as soon as possible, per his agreement with the Taliban, while citing the longest running war in American history as "costing more in both lives and dollars and geopolitical capital than what we had ever set out to do," and has vaguely called upon the government of Afghanistan to take up greater responsibility for the security of the nation. Her voting record, however, has consisted namely of endorsing continued bipartisan authorizations of force and action within Afghanistan throughout her career, including the 2011 troop surge, a vote that she has since publicly regretted making.

Iraq: Beltz joined both Republicans and Democrats in cross-aisle calls for action against the Islamic State terrorist organization, and joining her party in endorsing President Baharia's plan in combating the terrorist group. Like Beltz had with Afghanistan, her voting record includes routine authorizations of continued use of force within Iraq up until the modern day, and had endorsed the idea of the troop surge in early 2007, since commenting that it was a successful strategy in Iraq.

North Korea: While generally supportive of the idea of increased diplomatic talks with the North Koreans and their dictator, Kim Jong-Un, Beltz has voiced concerned that President Wolf's meeting with him led to an unprecedented normalization and legitimization with the President standing side-by-side next to the Supreme Leader. Beltz has called upon the Republicans to join Democrats in completely and thoroughly denouncing Wolf's North Korean rhetoric, and has called for partnership with the Chinese and the Russians in curtailing North Korea's worst impulses, suggesting they are the only parties with true reigns over the North Korean regime, and partners with shared concerns over the fragile ceasefire that has existed within the Korean Peninsula.

Russia: Beltz has openly called Vladimir Putin a "thug," joining her fellow members of Congress in a general bipartisan rebuke of the Russian President, and has suggested that the Russians are only acting so belligerently recently due to the "complete and utter incompetence of President Wolf, and of the Republican Party," when pressed upon that point and asked about much of that very same behavior by the Russian President during President Baharia's administration, Beltz expressed "a sense of regret that the Russian government did not take such an opportunity," adding that "it wasn't the fault of President Baharia for giving them the olive branch they needed, rather it's the fault of ex-KGB agents still living in the cold war that seek to humiliate the victors of the cold war." Beltz blames much of the current divisive political environment on coordinated Russian disinformation campaigns, and has suggested that the United States needs to reciprocate, to "give Putin a taste of his own medicine."

Ukraine: Beltz has encouraged Ukraine's admission into NATO, say "putting it in the same sphere of influence, and placing an obligation to defend them from the Russian government will force the thugs in Moscow to rethink their belligerence," and has decried Russia's alleged attempts in subversion within Eastern Ukraine as an act that "cannot be forgotten, or forgiven, by the international community of nations." Beltz shares concerns that oligarchs in Ukraine hold too much sway and authority on the internal affairs of the state, and suggests she will only endorse Ukraine's inclusion into NATO with assurances that existing systemic corruption will be addressed.

China: Beltz shares a similar view on the Chinese government as she does on the Russian government, calling President Xi Jinping a "thug" as well; yet despite her strong rhetoric in calling the Chinese government an "unofficial mob state," Beltz cites the overwhelming exchange in trade and commerce between the United States and the People's Republic of China as a net-benefit for both parties, and for the world at-large. Beltz has called out the Chinese for election meddling, similarly as she had regarding Russia, and Beltz repeatedly voiced concern before about "Chinese expansionism," particularly regarding within the South China Sea, and has stated "China does not, and cannot, ever hold monopoly over those international waters, period."

Israel/Palestine: Beltz has previously supported the notion of a two-state solution, and has suggested that the United States should and does support the right of both nations to co-exist, as she continues to do so despite recent comments that drew mild criticism after she analytically questioned the possibility of it's plausibility, given Israel's extensive developments of settlements into Palestinian territory. Beltz has accused the Israeli government as "acting in a criminal behavior" toward the Palestinians, and has called for Benjamin Netanyahu to resign entirely after being indicted on a litany of criminal charges. Beltz is skeptical over the new Prime Minister, Naftali Bennet, and in his ability to "usher the change that Israelis and Palestinians together both require."

Iran: Beltz believes that the strike against Iranian General Qasem Soleimani were justified, but yet her public statements fell in line with the party rhetoric of questioning the strategy of his assassination, and has suggested President Wolf threatened the stability of the region, had no thought-out policy and just "half-baked ideas," and publicly called on the President to explain his reasoning for "risking war" to the American people. Beltz similarly continues to strongly behold the party line regarding interventionism, yet privately suspects some form of interventionism will likely be necessary to contain the greater Saudi-Iranian conflict within the region.

Saudi Arabia: Beltz joins many Democrats in making publicly calls on the President to revisit the "special relationship" that the United States has with Saudi Arabia, suggesting that at least part of the instability across the Middle East is rooted in the fact that the United States has so consistently and heavily favored the Saudi Arabian monarchy. Privately, however, she believes that the Saudis are one of the only practical partners that the United States even has within the Middle East, and that not much should actually ever change, given the instability of the region and the constant back-and-forth rhetoric the United States shares with the Iranians.

Libya: Beltz had spoken openly in favor of President Baharia's use of force within Libya as well as the implementation of the No Fly Zone across the country during its' first civil war, yet has since maintained a position of non-interventionism in Libya, particularly after President Wolf succeeded Baharia, openly questioning the motives of any intervention as well as suggesting the likelihood that any action may force the United States into yet another Iraq/Afghanistan/Syria/Vietnam War.

Latin America: Beltz's rhetoric has, in the past, strongly encouraged a re-orientation of American foreign policy to focus less on the events in the Middle East, and more toward those occurring within the same hemisphere, citing the drug trade and humanitarian crisis occurring at the American-Mexican border as justification for her scorch-Earth rhetoric on both the Wolf and Tawney administrations, and has not relented on the incoming President Richardson with the constant issues stemming from neglecting Latin American countries, allowing the situation to fester, and not denouncing the perceived apathy for the plight of Latinos.

Cuba: Beltz heavily applauded President Baharia's lifting of the Cuban embargo, as well as the ensuing normalization of the relationship between the United States and Cuba once more, yet called it only the first step in what will definitely be a long road of reconciliation ahead for both the American and Cuban governments. Beltz has suggested pushing for trade deals with Cuba, even going insofar as to suggest including Cuba in with future multi-national deals involving the entire American hemisphere.

Domestic Policy
Healthcare: Beltz was initially opposed to the notion of any Medicare-For-All healthcare policy, citing the cost as a primary reason of concern, yet has since warmed up to the idea under the premonition that she will support it "if the price tag isn't too outlandish" for the country to bare; Beltz is also strongly in favor of the introduction for a public option regarding healthcare options, has suggested the country needs to take a more firm and direct approach in combating the rise of prescription drug costs regardless, yet has been careful not to directly speak too strongly against the pharmaceutical industry.

Social Security: Beltz supports raising the payroll tax for everyone, and especially for those earning $400,000 per year, while also once suggesting an openness to listening to those wishing on moderately raising the retirement age, yet has since flipped on that view in doubling-down on a more progressive payroll tax model and absolutely refusing to consider raising the retirement age following a brief public outcry.

Climate Change: Beltz has publicly accused the members of the Republican Party for "selling their souls for profits," when it comes to their hesitancy in accepting scientific views of the influences humans have on the changing climate, and has annually proposed a bill that introduces a carbon tax as well as subsidies for the continued development of solar and wind energy across the country, recently including offshore wind and current turbines in her bill. Beltz routinely suggests climate change is "the existential threat of our generation, of our society, and of our own species, if it continues to accelerate unabated." Beltz has touted additional bills that include subsides for electric-powered vehicles, recycling of batteries and other precious mineral products, and sustainable water usage in calling for "a true twenty first century economy."

Pollution: Beltz has co-sponsored proposed legislation that would ban the use of single-use plastics, and has been in favor of the carbon tax through much of her entire political career, while also favoring a modest increase of the gas tax to twenty two cents per gallon. Beltz has also spoken of broadening the scope of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, to include liability toward not just parties directly responsibility for future spills, but toward those who had any involvement in, and had profited, either in the past or present, from the drilling of oil at the site of spills, and has suggested all parties must be held equally responsible and accountable for containment of said spills

Infrastructure: Beltz has grown strongly in favor of a complete overhaul of the infrastructure across the nation in recent years, suggesting even that she would vote against any bills that are "too modest," given the overwhelming number of crumbling and outdated and delayed infrastructure projects. Beltz is in favor of linking together the entire energy grid, was opposed to accepting the East/Texas/West interconnection grids that exist today, as well as subsidies for electric car charging stations and expanding the size of ports across the country. Beltz considers "human infrastructure," things like free childcare and paid maternity leave and free community college, to be just as integral to the future of the nation as the progress of physical infrastructure.

Abortion: Beltz is strongly Pro-Choice, as she has remained such throughout her career, and has voiced concerns with recent Supreme Court pickings that abortion rights are currently at-play, and has thus called on Congress to pass legislation that will protect the rights for women's bodily autonomy. Beltz has once supported the Hyde Amendment, though has since reversed her position in now opposing it.

Taxes: Beltz has been vocally opposed to the Wolf tax cuts in 2017, shortly after his inauguration, and has suggested that "conservanomics," as she has phrased it, was to blame for the current economic recession, of which "the fallacy of trickle down" has a considerable role to blame. Beltz supports the idea of a wealth tax for electioneering purposes, yet privately suggests such a proposal is impossible to implement without violating the Constitution. Beltz is also a public supporter of increasing the gas tax, substantially increasing luxury taxes, creating another tax bracket for the highest earning of Americans, decreasing taxes for the 1st and 2nd tax brackets, and decreasing loopholes. Beltz is also on public record in saying that her priority is in closing tax loopholes for the wealthiest of Americans and corporations more so than adding additional rates and excise taxes.

Federal Budget: Beltz has voiced generic concern about the national debt, yet has generally ignored criticisms about her partisan voting patterns that contributed to the continuously bloating national debt. Beltz suggests that this is inherently a long-term problem regardless, one that cannot be resolved within two/four/six year terms for politicians, but rather only a long-term strategy. Privately, Beltz is uncertain the debt will ever actually be paid off, and that worrying about it may just prove fruitless and worthless.

Trade: Beltz has previously strongly supported NAFTA, throughout the Baharia administration, yet has since distanced herself from her previous remarks about the bipartisan trade deal in recent years. Beltz has expressed concern about the USMCA trade deal that succeeded NAFTA, and was once considered to have been a flip-vote on the deal, yet then eventually went on to vote in favor of the overwhelmingly bipartisan deal, citing it as an "improvement of the current deal, even if it isn't a perfect one that many of us had wanted."

Gun Control: Beltz was once generally lukewarm, and easily flippable, for a vote on gun issues during her tenure in the Connecticut state legislature, earning a C-minus grade from the National Rifle Association, yet has since taken upon a hard swing to the left in generally voting against gun rights, especially in recent years, starting as soon as her election to the House of Representatives in 2008, with the Baharia wave. Today, she blames the gun violence and gang violence on the inability of the gun lobby to take on the issue of gun access, combined with economic inequality and the "inequality of opportunity" that minorities have relative to whites.

Education: Beltz is a firm believer in government paid four year college, yet has spoken about a willingness to compromise in endorsing the notion of government paid two years worth of college, applicable to both community college and to a standard four-year university. Beltz is strongly opposed to the idea of charter schools, and especially so to the idea of school voucher programs, calling the reforms as "segregation by a different name, education with little accountability, and policies that will leave under-performing kids and under-performing schools behind completely."

LGBTQ+ Rights: Beltz had followed the party line in being opposed to the acceptance of gay marriage, denouncing the notion altogether often, yet in 2006 seemingly had a change in heart (or electioneering strategy) in voting along with her party in favor of allowing civil unions in the state of Connecticut. After President Baharia came out in support of gay marriage, becoming the first sitting President to support gay marriage, then-Representative Beltz would follow suit, and has since stated that her support for the LGBT community was, always, her true belief on the issue, and that politics made it previously impossible for most politicians to endorse same sex marriages.

Labor: Beltz is publicly strongly in favor of empowering unions, and of driving up unionization numbers, openly stating that "unions are the backbones upon which this country's success is built," and that "it is shameful for politicians in both parties to dismantle part of what truly made America great in the first place." Beltz has been hesitant to support the Right to Organize, initially, yet has recently come around starting in 2018 in endorsing the movement wholly.

Minimum Wage: Beltz has generally supported the wave of calls for moderately increasing the minimum wage, calling for her colleagues in the Connecticut state legislature to consider establishing a higher minimum wage, yet failing in doing so. Today, Beltz is vocal in calling for a $15 minimum wage, and indexed to inflation.

Housing: Beltz has remained generally vague on the issue of housing, until the Chinese housing market collapsed, sparking a greater economic recession that had triggered an entire ripple effect across the globe. Since the collapse of the Chinese housing market, Beltz has publicly endorsed the notion of increasing low-income and establishing middle-income housing credits, to make housing more cheaper for Americans, as well as establishing an additional first-time buyer housing credit, specifically aimed toward younger Americans, while additionally touting the need for renter support and for eviction moratoriums until the global housing market stabilizes once more.

Criminal Justice Reform: Beltz has been rather distant and disregarding on any issue of criminal justice reform, making vague comments about "the need to support our police officers," while being open to reforms to their departments; yet following the massive wave of Black Lives Matter protesters, Beltz has since come out and stated that she is wholly supportive of ending the practice of private prisons, and a refocusing of priority from punishment of criminals toward rehabilitation. Beltz, once heavily opposed to the decriminalization and legalization of any previously banned drugs, is now openly supportive of legalizing marijuana across the country for both medicinal and recreational use.

Banking Industry: While Beltz is hesitant to the notion of breaking up the big banks, unlike many of her more progressive hardliners within the Democratic Party, Beltz does throw occasional bones in support for additional banking regulations, and has gone of the record with saying "we have seemed to have truly learned absolutely nothing from the 2007 economic recession," citing that banks and lenders are making many of the exact same mistakes that led to the previous recession, which is now partly responsible for triggering the current one. Beltz recently suggested that Dodd-Frank was a remarkable success, and needs additional strengthening, to protect American consumers from an even worse economic recession that has yet to come.

Energy: Beltz is strongly in favor of subsidies to develop, build, and research green energy projects, particularly those of solar, wind, and hydroelectric. Beltz has touted the history of oil and gas as being "one of the greatest economic success stories in American history," yet has added "oil and gas is currently one of the most profitable and corrupt industries in the world," and is "directly responsible for the current ecological crisis that is unfolding, and confounding, before our very eyes." When asked about nuclear power, Beltz was initially lukewarm, yet has grow increasingly opposed to the idea as a matter of public safety, despite suggesting "we may have to compromise and face realities, that nuclear power may be one of the only pragmatic options our nation has."

Electoral Reform: Following the 2016 election, Beltz has withheld the urge to join in cries for demands to dismantle the electoral college, yet after the 2020 election, has joined in recent cries to end the current method of electing Presidents, suggesting the President is elected solely by popular vote. Similarly, Beltz has joined in with many of her Democratic colleagues in demanding the right for any voter to request mail-in ballots, for expanding voting hours, for expanded early voting days, and to end the practice of gerrymandering altogether. Beltz also supports the idea of publicly-funded elections for local and state-level elections, and has that "overturning the Citizens United ruling is the only way to truly save this country."

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name:
Imperial Esplanade

Character Name:
Emily S. Davenport

Character Gender:
Female

Character Age:
62

Character Height:
5'5

Character Weight:
124 lbs.

Character Position/Role/Job:
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives (2021-Present)
Majority Leader of the House of Representatives (2019-2021)
Minority Whip of the House of Representatives (2013-2019)
Democratic Caucus Chair (2011-2013)
United States House of Representatives, CA-34 (1995-Present)
Political Office Staffer (1977-1981, 1990-1993)

Character Appearance: Emily Davenport

Character State of Origin: California

Character State of Residence: California

Character Party Affiliation: Democrat

Main Strengths: Emily is a strong orator and an equally gregarious person, thus she has always had found little-to-no issues with her ability to communicate with constituents or with fellow members of Congress. This has, incidentally, led to her enhanced ability to fund-raise and to maintain a decent approval rating with her constituents, upon conducting events such as town halls or other meet-and-greets on a somewhat regularly-recurring basis, as well as earning her a spot in party leadership. Her tenure, connections, and amassed personal wealth have all combined to give her powerful incumbency advantages, and ability to dish out favors as necessary.

Main Weaknesses: Emily is an extremely partisan individual, to the point of fault, and has been involved in politics for much of her life such that she has become synonymous with the perception of a true "career politician," as well as having the occasional regrettable choice in her publicly-disclosed voting history as any tenured politician would have. Emily began her career as just far enough left-of-center, yet has found herself increasingly pushed by her party's base to shift even further leftwards.

Biography: Born an raised in the small town San Clemente, situated just south of the city of Los Angeles, to a social conservative pastor father and an equally-so stay-at-home mother, Emily has credited her frequent run-ins with them, and acts of rebellion as a child and a teenager (albeit jokingly), as one of her initial "signs" that she was stubborn enough to ought to run for political office one day in her future -- a dream she never considered until her collegiate years. Emily, along with her five other siblings, grew up in a middle class home, only moving out of San Clemente once she was admitted to Stanford University up north in Santa Clara County, going with her longtime boyfriend from high school, Hal Davenport.

Originally attending Stanford with the intention of becoming a psychologist, Emily switched her major to study political science in her sophomore year of college. Upon graduating as part of the class of '77, Emily moved to Washington D.C. to intern with her Congressional representative's office from back home for a year, citing the experience as "integral to her growth," and saying it had "laid the foundation of her desire to seek running for office one day" as well. Emily stayed in Washington, working for her representative, for an additional two years before volunteering to be a part of the Carter Presidential campaign during the 1980 Presidential Election. Emily described her time with the Carter campaign, assisting across the state of California -- but especially focusing in the L.A. metropolitan area, saying it was "equally challenging and heartbreaking, as it was rewarding," citing the Reagan Revolution as a particularly demoralizing moment for her, and that she then openly considered moving to Washington, D.C. to work full-time in any capacity for any Democratic politician who would be willing to hire her quickly thereafter.

Yet, as fate would have it, Emily was unable to find employment and eventually returned home upon making the determination to run for Congress in the next cycle herself, two years later, in 1988, at just 29 years old. Her first attempt to run for office was an utter, abysmal failure (to put it lightly) however; and Emily hardly captured 1% of her district's vote -- falling in last place for the election. In 1990, Emily tried again, and failed once more with only getting 3% of the vote following an intensive effort in grassroots campaigning. Feeling deflated, exhausted, and defeated, Emily and her then-now-husband, Hal, moved to Los Angeles once he earned a promotion with an engineering firm based out of the city, and Emily found work with the City of Los Angeles shortly thereafter, serving as an assistant to the mayor for three years -- a job that, as she has stated, "gave her that spark back." Emily left her job with the mayor's office in 1993, focusing heavily on local activism ahead of the 1994 election, and decided to attempt running for Congress once more in spite of the previous two attempts back in her hometown. With the incumbent Democrat retiring, leaving an open seat for the election, Emily fought through a highly tumultuous primary bout and managed to squeak by the thinnest of margins to earn a primary win, and then went on to victory through the general election, riding the coattails of the Clifford Presidential victory against a surprisingly strong Republican challenger who closed the gab considerably from years prior. As a Congresswoman, beginning in 1995, Davenport's record has largely followed the Democratic whip -- and continues to do so to this day, continually earning her the ire of anti-establishment activists, and those generally discontent with the Democratic party in her district. Davenport has held a mostly-firm grip on her district, easily winning re-election time and again, ever since -- especially as the Democratic Party's current Minority Leader for the House of Representatives, and the Democratic favorite to potentially recapture the Speakership in the upcoming midterm elections.

Foreign Policy
NATO: Davenport believes that the Wolf administration, and by default the Republican Party as a whole by association via their silence on the matter, has been intentionally neglecting the most important alliance in America's repertoire and that repairing the relationship America has with NATO countries is of utmost priority as it relates to the foreign policy agenda of the United States. She believes the recent treatment on NATO is a dangerous precedent, and that America must truly treat friends as friends and foes as foes, with zero room for ambiguity.

Afghanistan: September 11th, 2001 will be twenty years ago, and the United States has soldiers on the front lines to fight an enemy in "America's Longest War," who have no recollection of the events that transpired on that fateful day, nor are able to recall life prior, some even not being born yet. Emily believes it is past time to withdraw our forces, and to entrust and support the Afghanistan government in maintaining its' stability as it continues to combat terrorist threats from within.

Iraq: Davenport has a somewhat conflictive voting record: initially opposed, yet turned mildly-supportive of the Iraqi Troop Surge in 2007; citing it as tactically critical to the mission, but yet shortly after has been sharply critical and dismissive of American involvement henceforth in the years that followed, something she has continued adhering to as of this day. As ISIS arose, Davenport staunchly opposed sending American ground forces to even help Iraq combat against the terrorist organization, saying she believed an international coalition that involved limited American forces was the only acceptable option, and even then she desired minimal American involvement.

North Korea: Davenport has been cautiously optimistic as to the Wolf administration's attempts at brokering a diplomatic solution with the North Koreans at the time of negotiation, endorsing the idea of meeting, but has since called it "nothing better than a photo op for the two men," and has cited North Korea's continued nuclear ambitions as evidence to the Wolf administration's complete and total incompetence. Prior to the Wolf administration, however, Davenport has been supportive of diplomatic pressures and sanctions applied on the North Korean state and has generally opposed options of force against them.

Russia: Davenport believes that President Wolf has been too friendly and warm to geopolitical foes, such as Russia, and has strongly rebuked his cordiality with President Putin in juxtaposition with President Wolf's public contempt and frustrations expressed against American allies. Davenport has strongly condemned the Russian government as a "cesspool of corruption," and has called on the United States to be more bold and forceful and direct in its' rebuke against "acts that undermine the integrity and stability of the modern world," especially so in Ukraine, and has frequently called the Republican Party "disgusting hypocrites" for not being as vocal in opposition to President Wolf's dealings with the Russian government as they were against President Baharia.

China: Davenport has called China "the next great unknown," as in she wasn't certain in China was a existential threat to American supremacy or our greatest business partner in the modern world, and she has a mixed voting record between votes to strengthening trade relations with the burgeoning superpower and votes to support measures defending American interests from Chinese exploitation. Davenport has since, however, stated that China is "weaponizing its' economy," and that the United States must work with other business partners to strengthen alternatives to China's economy and markets. Standard mild political rhetoric.

Israel/Palestine: Davenport supports Israel's right to exist, as a state, and has since evolved to also call for Palestine's recognition as a co-equal state to that of Israel, favoring a two-state solution between them. Davenport did not support the Wolf administration's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel, calling the move "dangerously divisive" and "problematic in the movement to seek a two-state permanent solution."

Iran: Davenport has always been critical of the Republican Party's hawkish views on Iran, calling them "warmongers seeking to create a new Iraq," and was supportive of President Baharia's Nuclear Deal to quell its' nuclear program. Not surprisingly, Davenport scolded President Wolf and the Republicans, both, for pulling out of the deal entirely and has since publicly questioned their collective competence on handling the issue of Iran.

Saudi Arabia: Davenport is hesitatingly supportive of the relationship the United States has with Saudi Arabia; in public, she openly enthusiastically touts the partnership as "instrumental to the foreign policy agenda and interests of the United States," yet has been far less clamoring in private and has never endorsed any bills in support of the regime beyond an "aye" vote. However, following the alleged assassination of a high-profile Saudi journalist, Davenport has led the party line in calling for accountability regarding Saudi Arabia.

Libya: Initially, Davenport was supportive of the Baharia Administration, and its' implementation of the "no-fly zone," agreeing with the President (as nearly all Congressional Democrats had) on the grounds of a looming massacre and a political/societal crisis within the country. Yet, in response to the Wolf Administration's actions within the country, Davenport has been more muted, even suggested the United States ought to consider ceasing operations in Libya altogether, to avoid being heavily-embroiled in yet another Iraq War.

Syria: Unlike in Libya or Saudi Arabia, however, Davenport was highly, publicly supportive of the United States policy regarding the fight against ISIS/ISIL, and more muted in response to the Wolf Administration's actions in Syria. Her rhetoric, while toned, has been to suggest a standard, repeated cautionary tale she tells against becoming meddled and over-committed in any foreign war, akin to Afghanistan or Iraq, even though she has also said that "defeating terrorism, wholly and completely" is required.

Latin America: Davenport has expressed a desire to expand trade relations with Latin American countries, and American ties with each country, so as to combat against increasing Chinese influence in the region, and to keep the western hemisphere under U.S. geopolitical hegemony, and doing more to help combat domestic corruption and the prevalence of drug cartels south of the U.S. border, going insofar as to declare that "in the 21st century, we must ensure our own backyard is secure, above all else, and that our neighbors know we stand with them. Their fight is our fight." A notable break from the standard non-interventionist rhetoric she has with other parts of the world, likely as a nod to the Latino vote.

Cuba: Davenport has expressed considerable support to the Baharia Administration's decision to open ties with the Cuban government, calling it "a step in the right direction, with many more to go," and has heavily slammed the Wolf Administration for "turning back the clock, and damaging the reputation of the United States, by deciding on a whim to put into place sanctions against our Cuban neighbors, for no other clear reason than to reserve progress under President Baharia."

Venezuela: Davenport joins alongside many of her Democratic colleagues, calling the country a "dictatorship" under President Maduro, saying it is "unacceptable for us to remain silent against the face of such an extreme humanitarian crisis." Yet, has criticized calls or suggestions for war against Venezuela, calling them "warmongers who offer little actual solutions, only a bigger problem." Davenport agreed with the Baharia Administration's labeling of Venezuela as a national security threat, with their sanctioning of the economic interests of the nations, and has called for more against what she says is "a rogue nation."

Domestic Policy
Healthcare: Davenport proudly touted the Affordable Care Act as "the fix our healthcare needs," and as "the first big step," and has continued to stand by her support of the bill; yet, Davenport has also gone on to suggest it requires "the next big step, a workable embrace of Medicare-For-All," simultaneously suggesting an openness for negotiating down to a public option as she was not "comfortable with current plans for medicare-for-all, particularly its' price tag. Davenport made some headlines when, early in the GOP majority of late-2017, she called her Republican counterparts in both chambers of Congress "senseless cowards" for their support of "Wolfcare."

Social Security: Davenport has mostly stayed quiet about the issue and challenges facing Social Security; yet has been on record suggesting that social security is in need of an overhaul, and that she supports the increasing, or even the elimination of, the payroll tax cap, while opposing the Republican view of raising the retirement age, saying that "some people cannot wait that long to retire," and that "it is another example of Republican obsessive efforts to kick the problem further down the line onto the next few generations."

Climate Change: Davenport has continued to scorch Republicans for their positions on environmental issues, as a whole, and especially so on climate change. Davenport has cited her background in Christianity once, saying "as a daughter of a pastor, I know the Bible, and I remember God commissioning us to be stewards of the Earth since the Old Testament. The Republican Party proudly touts religion on one hand, as the basis for its' beliefs when it is convenient, but runs the other way and ignores the rest when it isn't. They are hypocrites. To ignore the obvious long-term detrimental harm we are committing on the environment isn't just negligent, it should be seen as blatantly sinful for those who aren't complete religious hypocrites." Davenport has publicly expressed her support to House Democrats who call for a "New Green Deal," yet has remained vague as to her personal endorsement for it. Davenport has called for the Richardson Administration to reverse-course, and re-enter into the Paris Climate Agreement, and has once openly suggested that she wished "the Baharia administration would have made climate change a more pressing issue from the start."

Pollution: Davenport has expressed support to the idea of a ban on single-use plastics, as well as calling for urgent action to clean up the world's oceans, saying "it isn't enough to fight against the climate challenges we face tomorrow because of our actions of today, we must save our oceans, and the fate of our existence on this planet, from ourselves today, right now."

Abortion: Davenport is completely, and wholly, supportive of abortion rights, even though she has said that she would "never considered it an option" for herself, she added "but I will be the strongest advocate for our gender, and for our bodily autonomy. This is our choice, not the choice of men in Washington."

Taxes: Davenport supported the Baharia tax bill of 2010, as part of her support of the stimulus bill, though has since expressed some semblance of regret on the matter while opposing the Wolf-led Republican tax cuts of 2017, saying "if tax relief doesn't help the people who need it most, and if economic growth doesn't happen for the stagnant middle and lower classes of America, what even is the point of what we're doing here?" Davenport has accused "trickle-down economics" as being a fraud, and a guise to "help the rich get richer." Supports a Wall Street "speculation" tax, a top-tier "marginal" tax hike, and the increase of tax rates on the wealthiest of Americans.

Federal Budget: Davenport supported the Baharia Administration's spending and tax policies, ignoring criticisms of the effects it would have on the budget, and largely has done the same regarding the Wolf administration, yet has said "long-term, of course our debt has to be paid-off;" and has since regarding Republicans are "disgusting hypocrites" for actively criticizing President Baharia's administration, on the grounds of the national debt, while "not lifting a finger against Wolf, despite doing far worse."

Trade: Davenport has expressed support for NAFTA, as well as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, originally; yet, has taken a balanced-approach to the issue of trade, citing "environment and labor" as chief concerns she has moving forward in future trade negotiations, or re-negotiations, while saying she is open to revisiting the United States and its' involvement in any current trade deals, despite saying she isn't inherently opposed to NAFTA, or any other equivalent deal, and has publicly supported the USMCA trade deal, calling it a "massive improvement over NAFTA."

Gun Control: Davenport has called for greater action, and activism, on the question of gun control, going insofar as to suggest an assault weapons ban, and to support a universal background check. "There is no need for a weapon of war, meant to be in the hands of our military, to be in the hands of ordinary people on the streets of America. This is the United States there is no need for this, and we have to act for the safety of our children." Davenport, however, also equally stressed the need for investments into mental healthcare as it relates to quelling future gun violence perpetrators.

Education: Davenport supports the state's shouldering more fiduciary responsibility, on behalf of the students attending public universities and colleges, going insofar as to seek making them tuition-free for four-year students, while also doing the same for those seeking two-year associate degree educations at community colleges. Davenport supports Common Core standards.

LGBTQ+ Rights: Davenport initially began her legislative career adopting a position as against same-sex marriage; yet, she supported the notion of a "civil union," only to reverse her stance in 2010 to openly supporting same-sex marriage and endorsing bills to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act in 2011. Fast-forward to today, Davenport calls for greater protections for LGBTQ+ Americans, suggesting a "new civil rights act may be necessary" to protect them against discrimination, and has called for Congress to act on banning conversion therapy for minors across the United States.

Labor: Davenport has gravitated from a position of third-way economics, starting in 2006, and into a quasi-social democrat (at least on the issue of labor) as of today. Davenport is supportive of mandating paid family and sick leave, and has taken positions of strong support in regards to labor and trade unions.

Minimum Wage: Davenport, in 2013, supported efforts to raise the minimum wage to $10.10, and again supported efforts to raise the minimum wage in 2015 to $12.00, and now supports a $15.00 minimum wage as-of 2016 with an additional claim that it must be "indexed to a living wage."

Criminal Justice Reform: Davenport is supportive of banning private prisons, declaring them to be a "modern institution of slavery," and calling them "cesspools of systemic racism." Davenport also supports mandating police officers wearing body cameras at all times, and the total abolishing of the death penalty.

Banking Industry: Davenport was supportive of Dodd-Frank, and now as-of her 2018 election, has taken to the position that "no institution should become too big to fail," and that "banks ought to be forced to be broken up" should they reach such levels of financial unsustainability. Also, as-of 2018, Davenport vows she will act to ensure that interest rates on loans are to be capped at a reasonable rate so as to protect consumers from financial exploitation or from other predatory practices against them.

Energy: Davenport has clamored for incentives for the production of energy from solar, wind, and geothermal sources; although, Davenport has also drawn a contrast from many of the others in that she has also vocally supported nuclear energy, touting it as a viable "bridge" between fossil fuels and the "energy of tomorrow," while also being hesitant for embracing the Green New Deal and speaking too hardly against the oil and gas industries.

Homeland Security: Davenport sided with President Baharia in support of the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 and the USA Freedom Act of 2015, having initially refrained from commentary on the NSA spying scandal or sharing her opinion regarding the actions of Edward Snowden, saying on the matter "Mr. Snowden broke the law, but he brought to light a lot of concerns that many of us knew nothing about previously." Since then, Davenport has remained quiet on her opinion of him, and has kept to pivoting onto the point on seeking reforms within the homeland security apparatus while balancing between the national security interests of the United States and the civil rights and privacy of citizens and others alike.

Agriculture: Davenport has stated that "even though I represent a big city, and come from a small city, I have just as much concern for rural America as any other." Davenport supports aggressive trust-busting and comprehensive rural-development and revitalization proposals, stating "rural America oftentimes experiences the brunt of hardship, economically and ecologically; and lower-income rural Americans deserve to see their dreams become as attainable as those anywhere else in America."

Internet: Davenport endorses Net Neutrality, and suggests it ought to be codified into, and mandated by, federal law.

National Park System: Davenport Supports extensive expansion of land claimed under the National Park Service across the United States, and the restricting of "ecologically-threatening activities" and the "expansion of the human footprint" within land claimed by the National Park Service.

Other Info: Emily's middle name is Stephanie, and her maiden name is Shaw. Emily was also a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority during her years at Stanford. Emily's husband, Hal Davenport, owns his own engineering firm. Combined, the Davenport household has about $120 million in net worth.

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How did/does Emily win/keep winning a majority-minority seat, I know her char model is Latina but I can't tell if you're making Davenport Latina too?

Davenport herself is not Latina, merely the faceclaim model itself is, which can easily be changed accordingly. I merely ported her face claim over from Land of the Free, though there is no particular desire to hold onto it.

I shall add more onto her biography which was revised somewhat, being this is just the first draft, but I'm actually going to go ahead and adjust things to have her to serve the 33rd district instead of the 34th district to make it more plausible. I'm sure the demographic shifts are only more recent, but honestly the 33rd district seems more plausible anyway.

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NS Nation Name: Jovuistan
Character Name: Meghan Ackerman
Character Gender: Girl
Character Age: 59
Character Height:
Character Weight:
Character Position/Role/Job: Nominee for Secretary of Defense (2021-present), Commander of the United States Pacific Command (2012-2015), Commander of United States Pacific Fleet (2010-2012), Senior Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy (2008-2009), Commander of USS Bunker Hill (1999-2004)
Character Country/State of Birth: Minnesota
Character State of Residence: Maryland
Character Party Affiliation: Independent
Main Strengths:
Main Weaknesses:
Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs)

-Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1962. Father was a WWII vet.
-Went to the U.S. Navy Academy.
-First sea tours on USS Yorktown and USS Leftwich, taking part in Operation Desert Storm under the latter. Received Secretary of the Navy/Navy League Captain Winifred Collins award.
-Made First Lieutenant on the USS Wasp (LHD-1) in 1993.
-Made Commander of USS Bunker Hill in 1999 and saw action in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
-Became a senior assistant to the Secretary of the Navy in 2008 to 2009
-Made Commander of United States Pacific Fleet in 2010 until 2012 when she was made Commander of the United States Pacific Command.
-Retired from the Navy in 2015.
Other Info:

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[Velahor]

Oh, it's just playing with a box, an image, and a bit of BBCode. I can drop one of them here for you to take a look at in quote.

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Gene Obradovic
@SenatorObradovic
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Thanks for the template Gord!

Diane Paulson
@DianeForMaine
paulson.house.gov | Presque Isle, ME

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@WSRIIISenate
rogers.senate.gov | Bozeman, MT

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Oh, I see. Thanks! I might have my guy use Facebook.

Thanks for the template Gord!

Diane Paulson
@DianeForMaine
paulson.house.gov | Presque Isle, ME

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@WSRIIISenate
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Thanks for the template Gord!

Diane Paulson
@DianeForMaine
paulson.house.gov | Presque Isle, ME

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Senator William Rogers III
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What’s the easiest way to make to profile pics smaller?

Postimages.org is a good way but somewhat limited in size variety, I use that for a lot of my images around the site.

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Madrinpoor
Character Name: Franklin Binesi
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 52
Character Height: 5'9
Character Weight: 175
Character Position/Role/Job: U.S. Senator for Minnesota (2018—)
Board Member of the AAIA (2014—2018)
U.S. House representative for MN-8 (2010—2014)
Montana Representative for Legislative District 2A (2008—2010)
Red Lake Nation Tribal Chairman (2000—2008)
ATNI Secretary (1998-2000)
Red Lake Nation Tribal Council, City of Red Lake (1994—1998)
Founder/Chairman, NWNYA (1991-1994)
AIM member/University of Minnesota (1977-1981)
Character Country/State of Birth: Minnesota, USA
Character State of Residence: Minnesota
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic—Farmer—Labor
Main Strengths: Grassroots campaigner, respected activist, likeable, moderate enough to be elected in a swing state but progressive enough to have credibility in his campaigns for Native American rights, intelligent, can read the room politically
Main Weaknesses: Inflexible, has said some radical stuff in the past which still haunts him, as does being a member of AIM, not great at speeches, "exotic" name, minor criminal record, boisterous and gaffe-prone which gets himself into trouble, focused on activism rather than pragmatism, had an affair with a married secretary who he claims not to know was married.

Biography:

Franklin "Binesi" Ross was born in the city of Red Lake on the Red Lake Reservation on the shores of the Red Lake on December 12, 1969. The Red Lake are a band of Chippewa in Minnesota, and notably are the only band of Chippewa not to be in a tribal conglomerate called the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe; they also are among the most independent and isolated tribes in the nation. His family, like that of most Native Americans, were dirt poor and he lived in a three room shack made out of corrugated tin and plywood with his family of six and his grandparents. The time in which he was born was on of great tumult in the Native American world—just one month before he was born, an American Indian student group led an occupation of Alcatraz island, which would last for 19 months.

His father was ran a small drugstore with his brother, but went out of business when Franklin was five. Franklin's father moved to Minneapolis in order to try and find work, as the reservation held no opportunities for him. The money was not often enough however, and began dwindling overtime. Desperate and trying to help her family, Franklin's mother began to work as a prostitute. This allowed for her to put food on the table, but when Franklin was seven his mom got pregnant, and unable to afford an abortion had another child she couldn't support. Around this time, his family found out that the money from his father was dwindling due to drugs, which his father was had become addicted to.

Franklin's childhood was tough, with his family struggling to survive off of menial jobs his mother managed to get. When he became a teenager, Franklin started mixing with the wrong crowd. He started out running errands for gangsters on the reservation, but as he got older he became more involved. He spent short periods of time in jail for petty theft and other misdemeanor charges, but never killed anyone or did drugs; he saw what they did to both his father and his family. When he turned 16, he was arrested for helping destroy a rival gangster's safehouse and sentenced to a few years in jail. However, he managed to work out a plea deal with police — he would get off with a misdemeanor charge, do a certain amount of hours in community service, and provide condemning evidence on the others in his gang. As Franklin turned 17, his father appeared back at the reservation. He had become addicted to drugs and later homeless, but a charity found him and sent him through rehab. He since had gotten sober and become a member of the charity, trying to fight the growing opioid crisis in Native reservations. He wanted to restart his relationship with his estranged family, but Franklin's mother would have no part in it, and told him to go back to Minneapolis.

Franklin started to get into trouble with gangs again, despite being on probation. His mother, terrified that he would break probation and be sent back to jail, reluctantly called his father and asked him if Franklin could go live with him until he was 18. His father agreed, and Franklin packed his bags and moved to Minneapolis. Franklin's father helped him turn his life around, as he had, and Franklin got accepted to the University of Minnesota pursuing a degree in engineering. There, he began to get involved with the Native rights group AIM, or the American Indian Movement, which had occupied Alcatraz after he was born and the much better known occupation of the Pine Ridge Reservation only a few miles from his hometown. He changed his last name, from the European sounding Ross to his Chippewa name, Binesi (thunderbird). Minneapolis has a large Native diaspora community, especially from tribes like the Crow, Sioux, and Chippewa, and Franklin led marches and rallies to try and pressure the federal government to grant pensions and other anti-poverty measures to Native Reservations; right now they weren't granting any.

When Franklin was a junior in college he went back to the reservation to visit his family, and they were in a desperate state. His older brother had gone to prison for drug dealing, and his younger brother fled out of the state to escape retaliation by another gang. In return, the other gang destroyed Franklin's mother's car, and her way to get to work. Franklin convinced them to move out of the reservation and to Minneapolis, where there were more opportunities and less crime, and they did.

After he graduated from college, Franklin worked as an engineering technician for a short time in Minneapolis. Franklin never felt happy with his cushy salary and stable job, as so many other Chippewa, and natives of other tribes, were living in squalid conditions in places with little opportunity. Franklin decided to move back to the Red Lake reservation, and alongside an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, founded the NWNYA, North-West Native Youth Association. It was a nonprofit that aimed to provide jobs to young Native Americans, and keep them out of gangs, and found early success in the Pine Ridge (Sioux/Lakota), Crow, and Chippewa reservations. By 1994, they would expand their operations all across Montana and the Dakotas and even setting up a chapter in the Nez Perce-Coeur d'Alene area in Idaho and the Blood reservation in Alberta, Canada. In 1993, he moved back to Red Lake to be closer to his people.

The NWNYA could only do so much to help the tribes, and in 1994 Franklin decided to run for the Red Lake nation tribal council. It wasn't especially competitive, and Franklin won easily. Right away he went to work, trying to improve the quality of life for the reservation. In 1998, he was convinced to run for a position in the ATNI (Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians) by a friend and fellow tribal senator. The ATNI works with other Native American tribes in the northwest to collaborate development projects and foster inter-tribal cooperation, and pass resolutions calling on the government to do certain things. In 2000, Franklin decided run for tribal chairman. He was elected easily. As chairman, Franklin oversaw development projects, the construction of new casinos in the reservation, opening it up more to potential casino customers, and purging corruption in the governing administration. Many people in the tribal government used the position to embezzle or retain power, and Franklin personally led an internal investigation into all of the senators, exposing an embezzlement scandal in the Pryor district at the end of 2007. However, the senators charged said that he had overstepped his bounds, and brought an impeachment charge against him. It was thrown out, as according to the tribal constitution only a member of the executive branch has the power to impeach another member of the executive branch. The two legislators that embezzled were impeached and removed from office, and Franklin was safe for now.

In 2008, Franklin and the rest of the government was up for election again. Just before the election, the tribal Secretary discovered that Franklin and the tribe's Vice-Chairman were having an affair. Franklin was not married, but the Vice-Chairman was, which caused a political scandal. Franklin and the Vice-Chairman said that it was their consensual decision—despite that, impeachment charges were once again brought up by the Secretary on the grounds of abuse of power. He claimed that Franklin was using his position as Chairman to coerce the Vice-Chairman into having an affair, but the charges were thrown out by the tribal court as both parties denied that. It turned out that the Secretary had his eye on the Chairmanship, and was trying to discredit his main rival.

Despite that most of the legislators despised Franklin for potentially boundary-overstepping investigations, and a decrease in credibility from the scandal, Franklin was very popular among the residents of the Reservation, as he had brought significantly more revenue to the tribe and fought corruption in the tribe's leadership, as well as the rest of Central Minnesota's majority-white population due to his working his way from the bottom appeal. Frustrated with the limitations of being the tribal chairman, and by the internal conflicts taking precedent over helping his people, he ran for Montana House of Representatives district 42, which is within the Crow reservation, and beat the unpopular incumbent by a significant margin. While in the Montana House, he voted in support of environmental policy, and sponsored a resolution to give Natives on reservations more control over what they do with their land. He served in the House for two years.

In early 2010, Franklin declared his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives at the Minnesota Indian Festival. He said that he wanted to "bring unheard voices into the spotlight" and represent ignored minorities across America. He barely won the primary against not-Rick Nolan, a political veteran, and it seemed like the DFL vote might not be able to come together in time for Franklin to win the election—however, not-Rick Nolan quickly endorsed Franklin and spent a lot of time campaigning for him. This, on top of an inflow of millions from outside of the state, led Franklin to the House in 2010. Franklin spent two years in the House, notably voting on both sides. He tried to be a moderate in a time of polarization and gridlock, especially in a swing district.

In 2014, Franklin did not run for reelection, instead becoming a board member of the AAIA (Association on American Indian Affairs), a nonprofit and lobbying group. He worked closely with senators and politicians, crafting policies. In 2018, not-Al Franken resigned over a sexual harassment scandal and was replaced by the Lieutenant Governor. Franklin was persuaded to run for senate in the election for not-Al Franken's former spot, and, despite an uphill battle in the primaries, defeated the interim candidate with a weak mandate. Now, it is his first term in the Senate, and he was elected by a large majority over not-Jason Lewis due to the support from both the urban city areas and the rural country, which still backed him.

Other Info:

Catholic

A member of the Red Lake Band of the Chippewa.

Political Stances:

Gun Control: For, though he believes common sense gun control laws are a good idea. He disagrees with permitless carry, but does not support bans of certain weapons or overregulation, having a very western libertarian philosophy.
The Environment: In favor of preserving national forests, against drilling in preserved spaces, opposed to Keystone XL, in favor of carbon taxes, nuclear and renewable energy, opposed to coal, oil, and some natural gas, against deforestation, supports commercial fishing regulations, against the TMT though that isn't a very pressing issue for his constituency
Economy: Opposed to government regulation, supports corporate and 1% taxes, supports UBI for Native American tribes as reparations, or at least a pension program, calls himself a "progressive capitalist" economically
LGBTQ+: Moderate on LGBTQ+, says that there is "no reason" for discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals, but has not publically supported nor opposed it.
Abortion: Stated that he is "against unnecessary abortion" but is also pro-choice, saying that "the government has no right to interfere in women's bodies."
Police: Is in favor of increasing police funding, especially in high-crime areas, but also supports using that funding for anti-bias training, as he says that bias and discrimination is a "big problem" in the police force.
Drugs: Is in favor of legalizing Marijuana, but has a unique position among Democrats where he is in support of Reagan's War on Drugs. As someone who was "profoundly affected" by drugs himself, he believes that opioid manufacturers need to be held accountable for their products and that dealers of hard drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine should be severely punished. He is, however, in support of legalizing drugs used for religious purposes, like peyote.

That's all I came up with so far, tell me if I need more.

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I changed a lot of stuff, but basics are the same.

Also, note: MN-8 is +10 Republican now, but prior to 2016 it was relatively reliably DFL.

What else do I need to change/add more to?

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Oh God, Vel, we gotta deflate your images. You've got an inflation crisis!

[Madrinpoor]

"Oh Gord, how did you spend your evening?"

Drafting up Twitter frames for all my characters. Y'know. The usual.

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This is what I used for LOTF

Alexander Santiago
@SantiagoForFL

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[Velahor]

Diane Paulson
@DianeForMaine
paulson.house.gov | Presque Isle, ME

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Senator William Rogers III
@WSRIIISenate
rogers.senate.gov | Bozeman, MT

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