America the Beautiful: An American Political RP (OOC)

by **Sao Nova Europa** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:09 pm

Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Sao Nova Europa
Character Name: Michael Chang
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 39
Character Height: 1.95cm
Character Weight: 72 kg
Character Position/Role/Job: Representative of the 9th District of California (2018 - )
Appearance:

Character State of Origin: California
Character State of Residence: California
Character Party Affiliation: Democrat
Main Strengths: Decorated war veteran, policy wonk, handsome
Main Weaknesses: Freshman in Congress, not charismatic, boring orator, lost both legs in Afghanistan, considered too progressive by centrists and too centrist by progressives, his foreign policy views are neoconservative
Biography:

Michael Chang was born in April 12, 1982 to a family of Taiwanese immigrants. His parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1960s, and met while they were both in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. He had a rather happy childhood, though the pressure put on him by his parents to excel academically meant that he focused too much on studying to the detriment of his social skills. He enrolled at Brown University in 2000, where he majored in economics and political science, graduating in 2004. While at Brown University, he joined the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and received an officer's commission in the U.S. Navy after graduation.

He volunteered for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. After six months of training, Michael graduated with BUD/S class 264. He completed SEAL qualification training in June 2006. Michael served five tours of duty, in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2014, he and the rest of his team were ambushed by Taliban militants in Afghanistan. Michael stepped on a IED and lost both of his legs, but he and his squad managed to hold off the Taliban long enough to be rescued. For his action, Michael was awarded a Bronze Star Medal, but his injury meant he had to retire that same year from military service with the rank of lieutenant commander.

Coping with the trauma of war and losing his legs, Michael decided to focus on public affairs and civic activism. "I had two choices," he later said in an interview. "I could either isolate myself from society and bottle up everything I felt, destroying myself in the process, or I could stop sulking over the past and do something for my community. I decided to go with the second choice." For the next two years, Michael would author articles at local newspapers on veterans' affairs and, later on, foreign policy. He would also host a podcast which would discuss the domestic problems America was facing. His YouTube channel afforded him great visibility and earned him a highly vocal online fanbase. What many found refreshing was that Michael would discuss with people across the political spectrum instead of creating an echo chamber.

This, along with his profile as a veteran, allowed him to gain broader recognition and to build ties with local politicians and activists. In September 2015, he published online his memoirs from his time as a soldier. The success of the book further raised his profile. In 2016, he first campaigned for office for the Oakland City Council. Running on a center-left platform, he focused mostly on local problems rather than national politics. Among his priorities were increased government transparency, supporting veterans, and supporting progressive solutions to local problems. Michael managed to narrowly - down to only a few votes - win a seat in the City Council. As councilor, he raised his local profile. He became known for avoiding mudslinging and sloganeering, and instead presenting solutions backed with charts and stats, which earned him the reputation of a 'policy wonk'. Michael was all too happy to promote this, modelling himself as a technocrat rather than a regular political.

Michael decided to run for the office of Representative of District 9 of California in the 2020 elections. He run on a center-left platform. He supported the creation of a public option for health insurance, with the aim of expanding health insurance coverage to 97% of Americans, instituting a federal carbon tax while reducing income tax on lower-class families, raising the minimum wage, trade protectionism, implementing a liberal immigration policy, pushing for criminal justice reform and legalizing marijuana for recreational use at the federal level. At the same time, he supported increased support for veterans, support for NATO (including pushing European nations to raise their military spending) and a policy of containment of China along with recognition of Taiwanese independence. He also spoke out against cancel culture, arguing that it was the wrong way to change minds. He was successfully elected into office. Since then, he has also began speaking about the benefits of a Universal Basic Income as a way to deal with automation and the fourth industrial revolution. This has earned him a dedicated, mostly online, following.

Other Info:

He is happily married with two kids, both boys.
He is nondenominational Christian

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by **Gordano and Lysandus** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:30 pm

Feel like I've done a slightly weaker job this time, but that's character number 3!

Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Gordano and Lysandus
Character Name: Bryan Burgess
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 44
Character Height: 5’10”
Character Weight: 151lbs

Character Position/Role/Job: White House Press Secretary (2021-); Richardson 2020 Press Secretary (2019-2020); Senior Political Correspondent, National Review (2014-2019); Contributing Editor, National Review (2008-2014); Writer, National Review (2000-2008); Staffer, Burke 2000 campaign (1999-2000).
Character Country/State of Birth: Connecticut, United States
Character State of Residence: District of Columbia
Character Party Affiliation: Republican

Main Strengths: Personally wealthy and well-connected; respected among the conservative media establishment.
Main Weaknesses: Personal adultery scandals make advancing his career outside of being Press Secretary practically impossible; alcoholic.

Bryan Oliver Burgess was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on June 12th, 1976 as the third son of Edwin and Jennifer Burgess, of Burgess Capital, a New York investment firm. As a third son, he was born with no expectation of inheriting the family business and so didn’t receive the same grooming (or attention) from his family. Sent off to boarding schools at an early age, he was mostly emotionally distant from his parents, rendering him somewhat emotionally needy. A middling student, by the time he graduated, he’d only achieved good grades on account of a hardcore last minute session of tutoring. However, his ability to navigate a hierarchical society and his social intelligence grew in this time, growing able to become a social animal in time for college, filling the gaps in his emotional life left by his absent parents.

In 1994, with the aid of his parents’ connections (and no small amount of greased palms behind the curtain), Burgess enrolled at Yale, majoring in Public Humanities with a minor in Journalism. Again, competent but middling in his studies, he was far more successful with the journalism angle than the humanities. Building connections with an active if rowdy social life, at this time, Bryan became associated with one of the campus frats and there was a drunken vandalism incident which needed to be suppressed by the family lawyers, but this marked the beginning of his trend of alcohol abuse. Getting involved in politics for the first time, he was a student activist supporting the (not-Dole) campaign rather hopelessly in Connecticut, but this again expanded the web of people he knew and solidified conservative convictions that he had inherited from his parents.

After graduating in 1998, he spent a period of time using his familial wealth to travel, taking some college acquaintances backpacking across Eastern Europe. Seeing how countries like Poland and Hungary were beginning to develop and liberalize in the wake of the fall of Soviet hegemony, again, his building antipathy for radical socialism hardened. It was during this time that he would end up eloping with one of the women on his trip, Christine, getting married in Paris on the way back. Whilst the two had known each other since college and on paper were highly compatible, the relationship soon suffered from Burgess’ incidental drinking.

Returning to the United States, Burgess tried his hand at political staffing again, working for the Burke 2000 National Campaign this time with yet another boost from his parents. Much of 1999 and 2000 was consumed by work for the campaign’s press office, where he not only proved to be a more than competent writer in articulating the Burke campaign’s attacks on (not-Al Gore), but allowed him to begin building a relationship with writers for the conservative magazine National Review, whose foundational neoconservatism appealed to him. After the end of the campaign, he joined the writing staff of the magazine.

At National Review, he proved to be a hardworking writer. Finding in journalism a vocation that had not been filled by raw academia, he pressed himself hard to produce more and more content for the magazine, spending much time during the Burke Administration both defending the Administration’s record and criticizing its opponents - in 2004, he was an active supporter of the Swift Boats controversy against (not-John Kerry), and in 2006, he referred to (not-Nancy Pelosi) as “America’s new peacenik-in-chief”, critical of what he perceived to be her soft stance on the War on Terror. His aggressive style of polemics against prominent national Democrats, finely balanced to not sink into Fox-style ranting, earned him a position as a Contributing Editor in 2008.

Steering clear of the stories from other National Review writers regarding President Baharia’s birth certificate, he focused on being critical of the Affordable Care Act, calling it “the first steps towards the kind of overbearing government dysfunction typical of every country which had fallen under Soviet dominance”. He found a real cadence with the socialism attacks, and through that helped to foster and support the Tea Party movement’s economic credentials, giving them a veneer of credibility necessary for the approaching electoral rebuke against the Democrats. The steadily increasing workload, however, marked an increase in his drinking, and that - combined with an extramarital affair in the office - led to a breakdown in his marriage, though neither spouse sought a divorce for various reasons.

Along with more academic and insightful pieces supporting the Tea Party movement, Burgess wrote extensively at this time of rural, conservative leaning people, portraying them as more typical of the average American, and using those to make an emotive case against the Baharia Administration. He also deplored what he considered to be the Administration’s weak position on Russia and China. Perhaps most controversially, however, he gambled on the ascendancy of the Tea Party by aligning with them in criticizing Speaker (not-Boehner), helping to set the stage for his replacement with (not-Paul Ryan) in 2015.

By 2015, he was a year into being the Senior Political Correspondent for National Review, when he got to do an exclusive one-on-one interview with Speaker (not-Ryan), catapulting his own national image as a conservative journalist. Later that year, as the 2016 cycle began, he joined colleagues in endorsing (not-Ted Cruz) for the Presidency, however he differed from some in pointedly avoiding open criticism of Arnold Wolf, hedging his bets. Reporting extensively on the 2016 election, he was supportive of Wolf and highly critical of Secretary Clifford, calling her potential election “a return to smarm and sin in the White House, a moral step backwards, and a great policy mistake”.

When the Wolf Administration took office, Burgess was supportive of the policies that passed through the Republican Congress, and did his best to campaign in print for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Whilst he didn’t fly the flag with the same spirit as others for Arnold Wolf, he was generally supportive of the Administration and ideologically did what he could to conceal its flaws and boost its credentials in his writing. When the President’s brain cancer became public in 2019, however, he saw an opportunity to change tracks. Journalism had worn thin with the increasing Wolfist groupthink at his publication, and after identifying Governor Richardson of Florida as a promising conservative who could use the support of someone with more charisma and media connections. He applied to join the campaign and was accepted as the campaign’s national press secretary, taking a lead on helping to form attacks on the rival candidate, former Vice President Diehl, contriving comparisons to socialism and making political hay out of his age next to the younger, more dynamic Richardson. He also helped package some of his more wonkish policies into a digestible format, and was an extensive presence in debate preparation.

With Richardson winning the election of 2020, he continued to work over the transition and is expected to become the White House Press Secretary on Inauguration Day.

Other Info: Married, but living separately from his spouse, Christine Burgess. Has two children, Ethan and Madison. Non-practicing Methodist.

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by **Louisianan** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:59 pm

So since Dent accepted my app and I changed the face claim, am I good Sare?

by **Deblar** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:00 pm

Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Republic of Deblar

Character Name: Hugo Fitzgerald

Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 48
Character Height: 6’ 3”
Character Weight: 224 lbs

Character Position/Role/Job:
US Representative for Texas’ 29th District (2021-present)
Mayor of Pasadena, Texas (2013-2020)
Houston City Council Member (2008-2013)
Law Assistant/ Lawyer (1999-2008)

Character Country/State of Birth: Texas

Character State of Residence: Texas/ District of Columbia

Character Party Affiliation: Democrat
Main Strengths: Appealing to Minorities, Open Support for Bipartisanship, Supported by Most Liberals, Passionate
Main Weaknesses: Disliked by Hardline Progressives, Lack of Experience on Federal Level, Fairly Naive, Not Well Known (for now…muwhahahahah)

Biography (incomplete):
Hugo Fitzgerald was born in eastern Houston, Texas on August 22, 1973 to a Black mother and a Latino father. Growing up, his father dealt with a drug addiction, which would force him to be absent from Hugo’s life up until his teenage years when he finally managed to largely overcome his addiction.

Growing up on the east side of Houston, his family was rather impoverished, though Hugo would still do rather well in school, despite the many challenges that he faced. His experiences in an impoverished area and an underfunded school would contribute to his modern day views of education.

Around his teenage years, he would begin to develop an interest in politics, as he began to frequent news from Washington DC during the Presidencies of Ronald Reagan and [not- H.W. Bush]. He would also gain in interest in law and the different practices of the court system, interests that would stick with him and carry him towards a full education. Hugo would eventually graduate from high school in 1992, and afterwards he would pursue a Political Science major at Texas Southern University. After completing his five years in university, he would move on to go to law school at the University of Texas at Austin.

After completing his four years in law school and earning his law degree, Hugo would secure his first job at a law firm in Pasadena, a suburb of Houston not too far from where he grew up. He kept his eye on the American political scene as it had evolved. Within the law firm, Hugo would provide legal advice to various clients, and sometimes even defend or prosecute in court. There was one particular case in 2005 the Hugo holds as a pinnacle of his legal career, where he was able to score a victory for the family of a Latino man who had been wrongfully murdered by the Pasadena Police Department.

Otherwise, his legal career was rather bland, and he began to explore the option of running for some local public office around 2007. In 2008, inspired in part by the Presidential campaign of Baharia, Hugo would decide to run for Houston City Council, a pretty low-level public office to start off with, and after rather vigorous campaign (at least compared to how low level the office is) based off of helping to bring improvements to Houston’s public transport and reforms to the police, among other things, he would successfully win his election and gain a seat on the council. While on the council, he would accomplish many of the things that he had set out to do, along with Houston Mayors [not- Bill White] and [not-Annise Parker].

By 2013, Hugo felt he had done the most that he could as a member of the City Council, plus he also desired a higher office. Luckily for him, the mayor of Pasadena declared his resignation due to a number of corruption and embezzlement scandals, which meant that emergency elections had to be held. Hugo saw the opportunity and swooped into the race, campaigning off of building off of the progress he helped bring to Houston and bring it to Pasadena. This, combined with a few gaffes by his opponents, would lead to him coming out victorious in the election.

As mayor, Hugo would waste no time in attempting to implement his agenda, passing new laws to further limit air and water pollutants, redevelop a good amount of the city’s aging infrastructure, better protect against the threat of flooding (especially after Hurricane Harvey), and subsidize small businesses. All in all, Hugo was well liked as Mayor, and rightfully so, as he was able to accomplish quite a lot in his time as Mayor.

In 2018, Hugo had his eye on the 29th Congressional District Election, and after some contemplation, decided to run. He campaigned on his successes as Mayor and made some wider promises of reforms. Hugo battled fiercely with the incumbent, [not- Gene Green], as well as another prominent candidate for the position, [not-Sylvia Garcia], and in the primary, Hugo would finish second, barely edging [not-Garcia] and falling behind [not-Green] by only 2.1 percentage points in a thrilling election. After, Hugo would return to his position as Mayor of Pasadena.

Hugo continued to serve as Mayor of Pasadena, and during his last year, while unrest gripped the nation after the unjust death of [not-George Floyd], would manage quite well, earning praise from some of his constituents, but that itch to seek a higher office never truly went away, and by 2020, Hugo would again decide to run for the 29th District, as [not-Green] had announced he would not seek another term and would retire after 2020. Hugo once again faced [not-Garcia], in the primary, though this time Hugo would manage to secure the victory. He would go on to win the District with ease from there, winning 71.1% of the vote.

Now in the US House, Hugo plans on wasting no time and fulfilling his campaign promises, hoping to bring a newfound prosperity to not just his homeland of Southeast Texas, but across America.

Other Info:
Of Mixed Heritage (African American, Latino), married with 2 children

Views:

Healthcare: Supports Bahariacare, supportive of expansion of healthcare access and lowered prescription costs; against single-payer
Climate Change: Supportive of environmental regulations, supportive of Carbon taxes, wary of over-regulation
Abortion: Pro-Choice, Doesn't aim to expand beyond Roe v. Wade
Immigration: Supportive of easier immigration, against border wall, willing to allow more immigrants in
Education: Supportive of increased educational funding, mostly supportive of CRT, supportive of the promotion of egalitarianism and unity in education
Foreign Policy: Supportive of withdrawal from Middle Eastern countries (specifically Afghanistan, supportive of limited presence in Syria), increased cooperation with other nations, anti-PRC
Trade: Mostly supportive of free trade, protectionist when it comes to Chinese trade.
Gun Control: Supportive of closing the gun show loophole, open to other, within reason restrictions
Civil Liberties: Supportive of cannabis decriminalization and legalization of medical cannabis, pro-LGBTQ+, Supportive of "common sense policing reforms" (as he puts it)
Taxation: Supportive of lower taxes on middle to low income people and families, mostly supportive of increased taxes on the upper 1%, supprortive of carbon tax
Welfare: Supportive of medium sized welfare state, expansion of Social Security access

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by **New Cobastheia** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:04 pm

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Vaquas

Character Name: Daniel “Dan” Ziegler

Character Gender: Male

Character Age: 59

Character Height: 4’8

Character Weight: 112 lbs

Character Position/Role/Job:
Representative from Colorado’s 1st District (2003 - Present)
Member of the Colorado State Senate from the 32nd District (1999 - 2003)
Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 6th District (1993 - 1999)

Character State of Origin: Colorado

Character State of Residence: Colorado

Character Party Affiliation: Democratic Party

Main Strengths: Effective legislator with beyond spectacular constituent services, “Teflon” label within his district, exorbitantly wealthy

Main Weaknesses: Extremely hedonistic personal life, career partisan politician, staggeringly arrogant, history of abusing staff

Biography: Daniel Aharon Ziegler was born prematurely in Denver, Colorado on September 28, 1960 to a pair of wealthy aristocrats, his mother the socialite daughter of a member of the federal reserve board and his father the founder and owner of a behemoth multinational chemical company based out of Denver. One of two siblings, the other of whom would be his younger brother Phillip, Dan’s dwarfism quite unexpectedly made him the favorite of the two, his father taking an involved interest in his firstborn son’s development and neglecting Phillip as a result. His family pampering him and ensuring he wanted for nothing, Dan was insulated by much of the harassment that would have otherwise intruded on his formative years, with what did occur coming largely from his own brother, who would be punished harshly as a result. Homeschooled by private tutors for many years, Dan excelled when he applied himself but was frequently rebellious, playing pranks and harassing those in his family’s employ, earning him a reputation as a spoiled brat. In spite of this, upon transitioning to a private high school environment at age 15 (1), he performed extremely well on relevant exams and became quite popular, though if this was because of his charisma or his means and connections is up for debate.

Upon graduation, Dan was admitted into numerous elite universities, and he ultimately chose to attend Stanford, pursuing a degree in business with the expectation that he would one day take over his father’s booming company. This however, did not come to pass. Dan’s brother Phillip attended Harvard and similarly pursued a degree in business, showing a much greater aptitude for the practice than his brother and for the first time truly drawing his father’s attention. This provided an opening for Dan (2), who had grown to dislike his studies, to switch his major and trajectory, opting to instead study political science and minor in asian studies, in part due to his fascination with the region’s rich culture and history and in part because of an infatuation with a member of the associated faculty. While in college, Dan gained a reputation as a womanizer and a partier, running into problems with campus authorities and professors on more than one occasion and orchestrating many a scheme against university staff, many of which would be considered unacceptable by modern standards. This behavior would nearly lead to his expulsion, but his father’s sizable donations to the school prevented such retaliatory action from taking place.

Graduating in 1983, Dan took 2 years to “find himself”, criss crossing western Europe and eastern Asia. In Japan in 1984, he would find his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy automaker, and elope with her just two months into their relationship. This marriage would last for the remainder of his time abroad, with the two splitting up after numerous affairs on Dan’s part and a general disinterest in his wife’s apparent pregnancy. Upon returning to the United States, Dan worked for a year as an “executive without portfolio” and translator within his father’s company, his natural knack for languages serving as a valuable asset in international meetings in the growing Asian markets, much to the chagrin of his brother, who was now positioning himself within the company as an executive. In 1986, Dan would return to Stanford and study law at the behest of his father, with a specific interest in international law. It was here in his freshman year that he would meet his second wife, another student by the name of Hailey Spears, who he would date for 6 months before proposing to her while the two vacationed together in Mexico.

Upon graduation from law school, Dan would again take a post at his father’s company, this time as “Executive Legal Advisor”, a position allowing him to be in the room during high profile meetings and decision making sessions and in practicality giving him a large seat at the table, again to the chagrin of his brother.

In 1991, Daniel was presented with an interesting opportunity. His father’s connections with many Colorado lawmakers as a substantial democratic donor allowed him to hear through the grapevine that a senior member of the Colorado house was retiring, leaving the seat open for interested parties. Sensing an opportunity to launch a political career, Daniel organized a comically large staff and campaign in pursuit of the state house seat, bombarding the radios and tv’s with ads portraying him as an underdog who had overcome much to become a successful businessman and legal expert. He would win handily the primary against a Denver area dentist and a used car salesman and defeat a poorly funded republican vice principal in the general election by an overwhelming margin.

Ziegler’s immense wealth allowed for him to treat the legislature like a full time job, signing on to bills designed to raise his profile and hiring an extensive staff to deal with constituent services and ingratiate him with those who elected him. Quickly becoming an appreciated household name in the district for his seeming omnipresence in its internal affairs, Dan realized that this was the career path for him and fancied himself a natural politician, though his staff did much of the leg-work.

Ziegler would serve in this position for 4 terms, generally pushing for establishment democratic policies, garnering much local acclaim for being an incredibly responsive and effective representative before deciding to run for the State Senate. It was in the middle of this campaign that his second wife would seek a divorce, publicly citing infidelity and her husband’s growing gambling addiction as her reasons to a local paper. Ziegler would come clean about his infidelity and downplay his gambling, citing President Clifford’s ongoing unpopular impeachment over infidelity as a defense and saying “the voters know me, my personal life isn’t on the ballot.” This would prove accurate as the voters of Colorado’s 32nd Senate district eagerly elected him in the general, his opponent barely registering in the solidly blue seat.

Shortly after this victory, Ziegler’s father would be diagnosed with Alzheimers, leading to an internal struggle between Daniel and his brother, backed by their mother, regarding his male progenitor’s will. The fighting would be fraught with the airing of dirty laundry of the most intimate nature, Phillip peddling every indiscretion and negative memory he had to local media in an effort to discredit his brother, which was met with a public façade of indifference from the state senator that masked his unchecked fury at most of his family. Much to the dismay of most of the Ziegler family, Dan would ultimately win out, emerging from a secret 4 hour private meeting with his father and the family attorney having cleverly parsed out a “compromise” in which the business proper would be transferred in full to Phillip, while the vast majority of his father’s other holdings and liquid assets, including their multimillion dollar residences in Denver, Kyoto, and The Hague, would go to Dan. Upon their father’s death the next year, Phillip would discover Dan’s maneuverings when the will was read and cut him out of the family’s life entirely, save to attack his brother in the press as a snake and a hypocrite and join the state of Colorado’s Republican Party. Acquiring the bulk of his family’s wealth, however, Dan had other matters to attend to, investing in a wide variety of projects and industries specifically chosen to elevate his personal reputation and publicly shellacking what was now his brother’s company for its “inadequate” employee pay and lack of social outreach. In the state senate, Ziegler would pursue the same tactics that made his tenure in the state house so successful, building relationships with powerful constituents and even directly contributing with his finances to infrastructure projects within his seat’s limits. For all of his bombast and reputation building as an outside-the-box politician, Dan’s position would always conveniently align with that of Democratic leadership, and he would be a useful instrument in refining their messaging on matters of business and trade.

In 2002, Colorado’s 1st faced a vacancy and Zeigler's campaign machinery kicked into high gear, pushing all serious challengers out of the way with a barrage of advertising and threats of career destruction and resulting in an overwhelming victory in the primary. During this time, stories of staff abuse would break in local outlets, with a former employee detailing verbal harassment throughout the entirety of the time he was employed by Ziegler and alleging that the man had thrown objects including staplers, pens, binders, and towels at him on numerous occasions. Several other staffers and interns, hoping to go to the hill with their boss and wishing to continue to see their handsome paychecks come in, penned an open letter rebuffing the claims and accusing their former colleague of being disgruntled due to a lack of a promotion, though they admitted that work in Dan’s office was “tough and challenging” and “not for everyone.” Ziegler would barely address the accusations of abuse himself, dismissing them as “hyperbole” and an example of someone “angry, for whatever reason, at my effective leadership style.” After being overwhelmingly elected in the general, local papers took to calling the first ever dwarf congressperson “Teflon Dan”.

In congress, Dan’s career began with him carefully constructing his image, signing onto major democratic legislation but rarely stepping into the spotlight himself, instead preferring to focus on his constituents and secure a number of favorable earmarks concerning his district. He would quickly develop a reputation as the largest and most generous employers of anyone on the hill despite his status as a relatively new member and his lack of grand legislative ambition, and he would open several staffed offices within his district despite its relatively small physical size. Ziegler implemented an open door policy in his office in Washington for constituents so as to be as “responsive as possible” to their needs, a policy that would ultimately be scrapped in 2016 after an angry constituent accosted his secretary and threatened to “throw that little fucker around the office” and “show him who’s boss”. Also subject to some attention was the tightly worded and incredibly strong non-disclosure agreements mandated by the congressman’s office for staff and interns, though this would be overshadowed by the congressman’s 20$ base wage for interns and extensive benefits scheme for full time employees. Due to the political machine he has built, Ziegler has rarely faced primary challenges throughout his time in congress and has run unopposed several times.

In 2007, Dan endorsed Diane Clifford early into her campaign before ultimately endorsing Rashid Baharia after he had secured the Democratic nomination, though he privately expressed discomfort with Baharia's inexperience and suggested that he choose a steady hand as his running mate, leaving him elated by Baharia's selection of Robin Diehl.

Dan’s largest hand in actual policymaking was his role in helping to construct the backbone of the ARRA in 2009, having demonstrated an ability to speak to industry leaders in their language and tweak the package to best suit their sectors, leading to public acclaim from President Baharia and earning him some political capital with his colleagues, which he used to finagle his way into lucrative committee assignments. In these committees, as expected, he towed and recited the party line while enriching himself further.

In 2013 he was offered the position of Ambassador to Singapore by President Baharia after donating an immense sum of money to his reelection campaign and stumping for him relentlessly in Colorado, but turned the post down, calling himself a “man of the people” and proclaiming that taking such a post would equate to “a great betrayal” of his constituents. Ziegler also noted that he found it “very hard to see” himself running for statewide office in the future because of his "undying devotion" to his "beloved district".

In 2015, Ziegler again endorsed Diana Clifford for the Democratic nomination on the day of her announcement, contributing substantially to her campaign’s PACs and vocally supporting her on social media. In 2016, Ziegler criticized Presidential candidate Sam Baginski for not being a registered Democrat, proclaiming “The Democratic Party should nominate a Democrat” and serving as one of Clifford’s few enthusiastic surrogates in the state of Colorado when its caucus rolled around. Notably, Clifford would perform better within Ziegler’s district than in areas with similar demographics elsewhere, though she would still lose the state handily.

Ziegler became chair of the House Energy and Commerce committee in 2019 when Democrats took back the house and he has used his position to further consolidate his influence on the hill. In 2020 he endorsed former Vice President Robin Diehl in the primaries and had a significant seat at the table in the negotiation of President Tawney's economic recovery plan.

As Nate Richardson descends upon the White House like a starved vulture, Dan Ziegler quietly breathes a sigh of relief, knowing his assets will not be affected by this man's limp economic policy. Satisfied, the congressman anticipates bright days ahead.

Other Info: Has an extremely hostile relationship with his brother, a Republican. Divorced twice with 1 estranged daughter. Wealthiest member of Congress with a net worth in the hundreds of millions. Reform Jew. Nicknamed “Teflon Dan”. Promiscuous. Borderline alcoholic. Gambling addict. Occasional Marijuana smoker with investment in several dispensaries. Came out as “bisexual I guess” in a widely memed 2018 interview in which he said “I lean towards the ladies but some gents have slipped in, so to speak.” Fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, Korean. Owns various properties overseas. Is very close with his driver, Edwin, who he considers to be one of his best friends.

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(1) Personally curious, why'd he go to a private high school instead of continuing to be homeschooled
(2) How far into college did this happen? Because if it happened late enough it could effect what year he'd graduate in

by **Vaquas** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:11 pm

New Cobastheia wrote:
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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Vaquas

Character Name: Daniel “Dan” Ziegler

Character Gender: Male

Character Age: 59

Character Height: 4’8

Character Weight: 112 lbs

Character Position/Role/Job:
Representative from Colorado’s 1st District (2003 - Present)
Member of the Colorado State Senate from the 32nd District (1999 - 2003)
Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 6th District (1993 - 1999)

Character State of Origin: Colorado

Character State of Residence: Colorado

Character Party Affiliation: Democratic Party

Main Strengths: Effective legislator with beyond spectacular constituent services, “Teflon” label within his district, exorbitantly wealthy

Main Weaknesses: Extremely hedonistic personal life, career partisan politician, staggeringly arrogant, history of abusing staff

Biography: Daniel Aharon Ziegler was born prematurely in Denver, Colorado on September 28, 1960 to a pair of wealthy aristocrats, his mother the socialite daughter of a member of the federal reserve board and his father the founder and owner of a behemoth multinational chemical company based out of Denver. One of two siblings, the other of whom would be his younger brother Phillip, Dan’s dwarfism quite unexpectedly made him the favorite of the two, his father taking an involved interest in his firstborn son’s development and neglecting Phillip as a result. His family pampering him and ensuring he wanted for nothing, Dan was insulated by much of the harassment that would have otherwise intruded on his formative years, with what did occur coming largely from his own brother, who would be punished harshly as a result. Homeschooled by private tutors for many years, Dan excelled when he applied himself but was frequently rebellious, playing pranks and harassing those in his family’s employ, earning him a reputation as a spoiled brat. In spite of this, upon transitioning to a private high school environment at age 15 (1), he performed extremely well on relevant exams and became quite popular, though if this was because of his charisma or his means and connections is up for debate.

Upon graduation, Dan was admitted into numerous elite universities, and he ultimately chose to attend Stanford, pursuing a degree in business with the expectation that he would one day take over his father’s booming company. This however, did not come to pass. Dan’s brother Phillip attended Harvard and similarly pursued a degree in business, showing a much greater aptitude for the practice than his brother and for the first time truly drawing his father’s attention. This provided an opening for Dan (2), who had grown to dislike his studies, to switch his major and trajectory, opting to instead study political science and minor in asian studies, in part due to his fascination with the region’s rich culture and history and in part because of an infatuation with a member of the associated faculty. While in college, Dan gained a reputation as a womanizer and a partier, running into problems with campus authorities and professors on more than one occasion and orchestrating many a scheme against university staff, many of which would be considered unacceptable by modern standards. This behavior would nearly lead to his expulsion, but his father’s sizable donations to the school prevented such retaliatory action from taking place.

Graduating in 1983, Dan took 2 years to “find himself”, criss crossing western Europe and eastern Asia. In Japan in 1984, he would find his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy automaker, and elope with her just two months into their relationship. This marriage would last for the remainder of his time abroad, with the two splitting up after numerous affairs on Dan’s part and a general disinterest in his wife’s apparent pregnancy. Upon returning to the United States, Dan worked for a year as an “executive without portfolio” and translator within his father’s company, his natural knack for languages serving as a valuable asset in international meetings in the growing Asian markets, much to the chagrin of his brother, who was now positioning himself within the company as an executive. In 1986, Dan would return to Stanford and study law at the behest of his father, with a specific interest in international law. It was here in his freshman year that he would meet his second wife, another student by the name of Hailey Spears, who he would date for 6 months before proposing to her while the two vacationed together in Mexico.

Upon graduation from law school, Dan would again take a post at his father’s company, this time as “Executive Legal Advisor”, a position allowing him to be in the room during high profile meetings and decision making sessions and in practicality giving him a large seat at the table, again to the chagrin of his brother.

In 1991, Daniel was presented with an interesting opportunity. His father’s connections with many Colorado lawmakers as a substantial democratic donor allowed him to hear through the grapevine that a senior member of the Colorado house was retiring, leaving the seat open for interested parties. Sensing an opportunity to launch a political career, Daniel organized a comically large staff and campaign in pursuit of the state house seat, bombarding the radios and tv’s with ads portraying him as an underdog who had overcome much to become a successful businessman and legal expert. He would win handily the primary against a Denver area dentist and a used car salesman and defeat a poorly funded republican vice principal in the general election by an overwhelming margin.

Ziegler’s immense wealth allowed for him to treat the legislature like a full time job, signing on to bills designed to raise his profile and hiring an extensive staff to deal with constituent services and ingratiate him with those who elected him. Quickly becoming an appreciated household name in the district for his seeming omnipresence in its internal affairs, Dan realized that this was the career path for him and fancied himself a natural politician, though his staff did much of the leg-work.

Ziegler would serve in this position for 4 terms, generally pushing for establishment democratic policies, garnering much local acclaim for being an incredibly responsive and effective representative before deciding to run for the State Senate. It was in the middle of this campaign that his second wife would seek a divorce, publicly citing infidelity and her husband’s growing gambling addiction as her reasons to a local paper. Ziegler would come clean about his infidelity and downplay his gambling, citing President Clifford’s ongoing unpopular impeachment over infidelity as a defense and saying “the voters know me, my personal life isn’t on the ballot.” This would prove accurate as the voters of Colorado’s 32nd Senate district eagerly elected him in the general, his opponent barely registering in the solidly blue seat.

Shortly after this victory, Ziegler’s father would be diagnosed with Alzheimers, leading to an internal struggle between Daniel and his brother, backed by their mother, regarding his male progenitor’s will. The fighting would be fraught with the airing of dirty laundry of the most intimate nature, Phillip peddling every indiscretion and negative memory he had to local media in an effort to discredit his brother, which was met with a public façade of indifference from the state senator that masked his unchecked fury at most of his family. Much to the dismay of most of the Ziegler family, Dan would ultimately win out, emerging from a secret 4 hour private meeting with his father and the family attorney having cleverly parsed out a “compromise” in which the business proper would be transferred in full to Phillip, while the vast majority of his father’s other holdings and liquid assets, including their multimillion dollar residences in Denver, Kyoto, and The Hague, would go to Dan. Upon their father’s death the next year, Phillip would discover Dan’s maneuverings when the will was read and cut him out of the family’s life entirely, save to attack his brother in the press as a snake and a hypocrite and join the state of Colorado’s Republican Party. Acquiring the bulk of his family’s wealth, however, Dan had other matters to attend to, investing in a wide variety of projects and industries specifically chosen to elevate his personal reputation and publicly shellacking what was now his brother’s company for its “inadequate” employee pay and lack of social outreach. In the state senate, Ziegler would pursue the same tactics that made his tenure in the state house so successful, building relationships with powerful constituents and even directly contributing with his finances to infrastructure projects within his seat’s limits. For all of his bombast and reputation building as an outside-the-box politician, Dan’s position would always conveniently align with that of Democratic leadership, and he would be a useful instrument in refining their messaging on matters of business and trade.

In 2002, Colorado’s 1st faced a vacancy and Zeigler's campaign machinery kicked into high gear, pushing all serious challengers out of the way with a barrage of advertising and threats of career destruction and resulting in an overwhelming victory in the primary. During this time, stories of staff abuse would break in local outlets, with a former employee detailing verbal harassment throughout the entirety of the time he was employed by Ziegler and alleging that the man had thrown objects including staplers, pens, binders, and towels at him on numerous occasions. Several other staffers and interns, hoping to go to the hill with their boss and wishing to continue to see their handsome paychecks come in, penned an open letter rebuffing the claims and accusing their former colleague of being disgruntled due to a lack of a promotion, though they admitted that work in Dan’s office was “tough and challenging” and “not for everyone.” Ziegler would barely address the accusations of abuse himself, dismissing them as “hyperbole” and an example of someone “angry, for whatever reason, at my effective leadership style.” After being overwhelmingly elected in the general, local papers took to calling the first ever dwarf congressperson “Teflon Dan”.

In congress, Dan’s career began with him carefully constructing his image, signing onto major democratic legislation but rarely stepping into the spotlight himself, instead preferring to focus on his constituents and secure a number of favorable earmarks concerning his district. He would quickly develop a reputation as the largest and most generous employers of anyone on the hill despite his status as a relatively new member and his lack of grand legislative ambition, and he would open several staffed offices within his district despite its relatively small physical size. Ziegler implemented an open door policy in his office in Washington for constituents so as to be as “responsive as possible” to their needs, a policy that would ultimately be scrapped in 2016 after an angry constituent accosted his secretary and threatened to “throw that little fucker around the office” and “show him who’s boss”. Also subject to some attention was the tightly worded and incredibly strong non-disclosure agreements mandated by the congressman’s office for staff and interns, though this would be overshadowed by the congressman’s 20$ base wage for interns and extensive benefits scheme for full time employees. Due to the political machine he has built, Ziegler has rarely faced primary challenges throughout his time in congress and has run unopposed several times.

In 2007, Dan endorsed Diane Clifford early into her campaign before ultimately endorsing Rashid Baharia after he had secured the Democratic nomination, though he privately expressed discomfort with Baharia's inexperience and suggested that he choose a steady hand as his running mate, leaving him elated by Baharia's selection of Robin Diehl.

Dan’s largest hand in actual policymaking was his role in helping to construct the backbone of the ARRA in 2009, having demonstrated an ability to speak to industry leaders in their language and tweak the package to best suit their sectors, leading to public acclaim from President Baharia and earning him some political capital with his colleagues, which he used to finagle his way into lucrative committee assignments. In these committees, as expected, he towed and recited the party line while enriching himself further.

In 2013 he was offered the position of Ambassador to Singapore by President Baharia after donating an immense sum of money to his reelection campaign and stumping for him relentlessly in Colorado, but turned the post down, calling himself a “man of the people” and proclaiming that taking such a post would equate to “a great betrayal” of his constituents. Ziegler also noted that he found it “very hard to see” himself running for statewide office in the future because of his "undying devotion" to his "beloved district".

In 2015, Ziegler again endorsed Diana Clifford for the Democratic nomination on the day of her announcement, contributing substantially to her campaign’s PACs and vocally supporting her on social media. In 2016, Ziegler criticized Presidential candidate Sam Baginski for not being a registered Democrat, proclaiming “The Democratic Party should nominate a Democrat” and serving as one of Clifford’s few enthusiastic surrogates in the state of Colorado when its caucus rolled around. Notably, Clifford would perform better within Ziegler’s district than in areas with similar demographics elsewhere, though she would still lose the state handily.

Ziegler became chair of the House Energy and Commerce committee in 2019 when Democrats took back the house and he has used his position to further consolidate his influence on the hill. In 2020 he endorsed former Vice President Robin Diehl in the primaries and had a significant seat at the table in the negotiation of President Tawney's economic recovery plan.

As Nate Richardson descends upon the White House like a starved vulture, Dan Ziegler quietly breathes a sigh of relief, knowing his assets will not be affected by this man's limp economic policy. Satisfied, the congressman anticipates bright days ahead.

Other Info: Has an extremely hostile relationship with his brother, a Republican. Divorced twice with 1 estranged daughter. Wealthiest member of Congress with a net worth in the hundreds of millions. Reform Jew. Nicknamed “Teflon Dan”. Promiscuous. Borderline alcoholic. Gambling addict. Occasional Marijuana smoker with investment in several dispensaries. Came out as “bisexual I guess” in a widely memed 2018 interview in which he said “I lean towards the ladies but some gents have slipped in, so to speak.” Fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, Korean. Owns various properties overseas. Is very close with his driver, Edwin, who he considers to be one of his best friends.

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(1) Personally curious, why'd he go to a private high school instead of continuing to be homeschooled
(2) How far into college did this happen? Because if it happened late enough it could effect what year he'd graduate in

(1) His parents wanted to socialize him somewhat.
(2) Probably happened around a year in.

by **New Cobastheia** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:17 pm

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NS Nation Name: Vaquas

Character Name: Daniel “Dan” Ziegler

Character Gender: Male

Character Age: 59

Character Height: 4’8

Character Weight: 112 lbs

Character Position/Role/Job:
Representative from Colorado’s 1st District (2003 - Present)
Member of the Colorado State Senate from the 32nd District (1999 - 2003)
Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 6th District (1993 - 1999)

Character State of Origin: Colorado

Character State of Residence: Colorado

Character Party Affiliation: Democratic Party

Main Strengths: Effective legislator with beyond spectacular constituent services, “Teflon” label within his district, exorbitantly wealthy

Main Weaknesses: Extremely hedonistic personal life, career partisan politician, staggeringly arrogant, history of abusing staff

Biography: Daniel Aharon Ziegler was born prematurely in Denver, Colorado on September 28, 1960 to a pair of wealthy aristocrats, his mother the socialite daughter of a member of the federal reserve board and his father the founder and owner of a behemoth multinational chemical company based out of Denver. One of two siblings, the other of whom would be his younger brother Phillip, Dan’s dwarfism quite unexpectedly made him the favorite of the two, his father taking an involved interest in his firstborn son’s development and neglecting Phillip as a result. His family pampering him and ensuring he wanted for nothing, Dan was insulated by much of the harassment that would have otherwise intruded on his formative years, with what did occur coming largely from his own brother, who would be punished harshly as a result. Homeschooled by private tutors for many years, Dan excelled when he applied himself but was frequently rebellious, playing pranks and harassing those in his family’s employ, earning him a reputation as a spoiled brat. In spite of this, upon transitioning to a private high school environment at age 15, he performed extremely well on relevant exams and became quite popular, though if this was because of his charisma or his means and connections is up for debate.

Upon graduation, Dan was admitted into numerous elite universities, and he ultimately chose to attend Stanford, pursuing a degree in business with the expectation that he would one day take over his father’s booming company. This however, did not come to pass. Dan’s brother Phillip attended Harvard and similarly pursued a degree in business, showing a much greater aptitude for the practice than his brother and for the first time truly drawing his father’s attention. This provided an opening for Dan, who had grown to dislike his studies, to switch his major and trajectory, opting to instead study political science and minor in asian studies, in part due to his fascination with the region’s rich culture and history and in part because of an infatuation with a member of the associated faculty. While in college, Dan gained a reputation as a womanizer and a partier, running into problems with campus authorities and professors on more than one occasion and orchestrating many a scheme against university staff, many of which would be considered unacceptable by modern standards. This behavior would nearly lead to his expulsion, but his father’s sizable donations to the school prevented such retaliatory action from taking place.

Graduating in 1983, Dan took 2 years to “find himself”, criss crossing western Europe and eastern Asia. In Japan in 1984, he would find his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy automaker, and elope with her just two months into their relationship. This marriage would last for the remainder of his time abroad, with the two splitting up after numerous affairs on Dan’s part and a general disinterest in his wife’s apparent pregnancy. Upon returning to the United States, Dan worked for a year as an “executive without portfolio” and translator within his father’s company, his natural knack for languages serving as a valuable asset in international meetings in the growing Asian markets, much to the chagrin of his brother, who was now positioning himself within the company as an executive. In 1986, Dan would return to Stanford and study law at the behest of his father, with a specific interest in international law. It was here in his freshman year that he would meet his second wife, another student by the name of Hailey Spears, who he would date for 6 months before proposing to her while the two vacationed together in Mexico.

Upon graduation from law school, Dan would again take a post at his father’s company, this time as “Executive Legal Advisor”, a position allowing him to be in the room during high profile meetings and decision making sessions and in practicality giving him a large seat at the table, again to the chagrin of his brother.

In 1991, Daniel was presented with an interesting opportunity. His father’s connections with many Colorado lawmakers as a substantial democratic donor allowed him to hear through the grapevine that a senior member of the Colorado house was retiring, leaving the seat open for interested parties. Sensing an opportunity to launch a political career, Daniel organized a comically large staff and campaign in pursuit of the state house seat, bombarding the radios and tv’s with ads portraying him as an underdog who had overcome much to become a successful businessman and legal expert. He would win handily the primary against a Denver area dentist and a used car salesman and defeat a poorly funded republican vice principal in the general election by an overwhelming margin.

Ziegler’s immense wealth allowed for him to treat the legislature like a full time job, signing on to bills designed to raise his profile and hiring an extensive staff to deal with constituent services and ingratiate him with those who elected him. Quickly becoming an appreciated household name in the district for his seeming omnipresence in its internal affairs, Dan realized that this was the career path for him and fancied himself a natural politician, though his staff did much of the leg-work.

Ziegler would serve in this position for 4 terms, generally pushing for establishment democratic policies, garnering much local acclaim for being an incredibly responsive and effective representative before deciding to run for the State Senate. It was in the middle of this campaign that his second wife would seek a divorce, publicly citing infidelity and her husband’s growing gambling addiction as her reasons to a local paper. Ziegler would come clean about his infidelity and downplay his gambling, citing President Clifford’s ongoing unpopular impeachment over infidelity as a defense and saying “the voters know me, my personal life isn’t on the ballot.” This would prove accurate as the voters of Colorado’s 32nd Senate district eagerly elected him in the general, his opponent barely registering in the solidly blue seat.

Shortly after this victory, Ziegler’s father would be diagnosed with Alzheimers, leading to an internal struggle between Daniel and his brother, backed by their mother, regarding his male progenitor’s will. The fighting would be fraught with the airing of dirty laundry of the most intimate nature, Phillip peddling every indiscretion and negative memory he had to local media in an effort to discredit his brother, which was met with a public façade of indifference from the state senator that masked his unchecked fury at most of his family. Much to the dismay of most of the Ziegler family, Dan would ultimately win out, emerging from a secret 4 hour private meeting with his father and the family attorney having cleverly parsed out a “compromise” in which the business proper would be transferred in full to Phillip, while the vast majority of his father’s other holdings and liquid assets, including their multimillion dollar residences in Denver, Kyoto, and The Hague, would go to Dan. Upon their father’s death the next year, Phillip would discover Dan’s maneuverings when the will was read and cut him out of the family’s life entirely, save to attack his brother in the press as a snake and a hypocrite and join the state of Colorado’s Republican Party. Acquiring the bulk of his family’s wealth, however, Dan had other matters to attend to, investing in a wide variety of projects and industries specifically chosen to elevate his personal reputation and publicly shellacking what was now his brother’s company for its “inadequate” employee pay and lack of social outreach. In the state senate, Ziegler would pursue the same tactics that made his tenure in the state house so successful, building relationships with powerful constituents and even directly contributing with his finances to infrastructure projects within his seat’s limits. For all of his bombast and reputation building as an outside-the-box politician, Dan’s position would always conveniently align with that of Democratic leadership, and he would be a useful instrument in refining their messaging on matters of business and trade.

In 2002, Colorado’s 1st faced a vacancy and Zeigler's campaign machinery kicked into high gear, pushing all serious challengers out of the way with a barrage of advertising and threats of career destruction and resulting in an overwhelming victory in the primary. During this time, stories of staff abuse would break in local outlets, with a former employee detailing verbal harassment throughout the entirety of the time he was employed by Ziegler and alleging that the man had thrown objects including staplers, pens, binders, and towels at him on numerous occasions. Several other staffers and interns, hoping to go to the hill with their boss and wishing to continue to see their handsome paychecks come in, penned an open letter rebuffing the claims and accusing their former colleague of being disgruntled due to a lack of a promotion, though they admitted that work in Dan’s office was “tough and challenging” and “not for everyone.” Ziegler would barely address the accusations of abuse himself, dismissing them as “hyperbole” and an example of someone “angry, for whatever reason, at my effective leadership style.” After being overwhelmingly elected in the general, local papers took to calling the first ever dwarf congressperson “Teflon Dan”.

In congress, Dan’s career began with him carefully constructing his image, signing onto major democratic legislation but rarely stepping into the spotlight himself, instead preferring to focus on his constituents and secure a number of favorable earmarks concerning his district. He would quickly develop a reputation as the largest and most generous employers of anyone on the hill despite his status as a relatively new member and his lack of grand legislative ambition, and he would open several staffed offices within his district despite its relatively small physical size. Ziegler implemented an open door policy in his office in Washington for constituents so as to be as “responsive as possible” to their needs, a policy that would ultimately be scrapped in 2016 after an angry constituent accosted his secretary and threatened to “throw that little fucker around the office” and “show him who’s boss”. Also subject to some attention was the tightly worded and incredibly strong non-disclosure agreements mandated by the congressman’s office for staff and interns, though this would be overshadowed by the congressman’s 20$ base wage for interns and extensive benefits scheme for full time employees. Due to the political machine he has built, Ziegler has rarely faced primary challenges throughout his time in congress and has run unopposed several times.

In 2007, Dan endorsed Diana Clifford early into her campaign before ultimately endorsing Rashid Baharia after he had secured the Democratic nomination, though he privately expressed discomfort with Baharia's inexperience and suggested that he choose a steady hand as his running mate, leaving him elated by Baharia's selection of Vinnie Diehl.

Dan’s largest hand in actual policymaking was his role in helping to construct the backbone of the ARRA in 2009, having demonstrated an ability to speak to industry leaders in their language and tweak the package to best suit their sectors, leading to public acclaim from President Baharia and earning him some political capital with his colleagues, which he used to finagle his way into lucrative committee assignments. In these committees, as expected, he towed and recited the party line while enriching himself further.

In 2013 he was offered the position of Ambassador to Singapore by President Baharia after donating an immense sum of money to his reelection campaign and stumping for him relentlessly in Colorado, but turned the post down, calling himself a “man of the people” and proclaiming that taking such a post would equate to “a great betrayal” of his constituents. Ziegler also noted that he found it “very hard to see” himself running for statewide office in the future because of his "undying devotion" to his "beloved district".

In 2015, Ziegler again endorsed Diana Clifford for the Democratic nomination on the day of her announcement, contributing substantially to her campaign’s PACs and vocally supporting her on social media. In 2016, Ziegler criticized Presidential candidate Sam Baginski for not being a registered Democrat, proclaiming “The Democratic Party should nominate a Democrat” and serving as one of Clifford’s few enthusiastic surrogates in the state of Colorado when its caucus rolled around. Notably, Clifford would perform better within Ziegler’s district than in areas with similar demographics elsewhere, though she would still lose the state handily.

Ziegler became chair of the House Energy and Commerce committee in 2019 when Democrats took back the house and he has used his position to further consolidate his influence on the hill. In 2020 he endorsed former Vice President Vinnie Diehl in the primaries and had a significant seat at the table in the negotiation of President Tawney's economic recovery plan.

As Nate Richardson descends upon the White House like a starved vulture, Dan Ziegler quietly breathes a sigh of relief, knowing his assets will not be affected by this man's limp economic policy. Satisfied, the congressman anticipates bright days ahead.

Other Info: Has an extremely hostile relationship with his brother, a Republican. Divorced twice with 1 estranged daughter. Wealthiest member of Congress with a net worth in the hundreds of millions. Reform Jew. Nicknamed “Teflon Dan”. Promiscuous. Borderline alcoholic. Gambling addict. Occasional Marijuana smoker with investment in several dispensaries. Came out as “bisexual I guess” in a widely memed 2018 interview in which he said “I lean towards the ladies but some gents have slipped in, so to speak.” Fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, Korean. Owns various properties overseas. Is very close with his driver, Edwin, who he considers to be one of his best friends.

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by **Sarenium** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:19 pm

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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:
-United States Senator from Mississippi
(since January 3rd, 2015)
-Former member of the Mississippi State Senate for the 31st District
(January 3rd, 2003 - January 3rd, 2014)
-Manager of the Yazoo Star Newspaper
(August 14, 1986 - October 8, 2000)

Character Country/State of Birth: Yazoo City, Mississippi
Character State of Residence: Cedar Grove, Mississippi
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Well-liked in Mississippi; enjoys strong support from Gun's Rights and Anti-abortion activist groups;
Main Weaknesses: History of controversial statements and opinions; Foul mouth;

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 when she was old enough. The moment she held a firearm in her hands, she fell in love with it. She admits later that she "went a little overboard" with being trigger-happy. The back-seat of her father's red pick-up truck were covered in pumpkin guts.

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. 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.

In 1986, Maxine decided to open up a newspaper called the 'Yazoo Star'. During this time, she would bemoan the loss of 'traditional values' of the 'old days' and call for a 'return to Stennis's Hour'. The newspaper was 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. She was tempted to run for Stennis's old seat as a conservative Democrat, but decided that the Democratic Party had 'abandoned traditional conservatives' in her eyes, and so on August 5th, 1994 she officially changed her party registration from Democrat to the GOP, abandoning the donkey for the elephant.

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. Although laughing the idea off at first, 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 2002, 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 before cruising to an easy victory in the General election that fall.

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.

2014 was when the thought occurred to her: "'National Politics, now that's somethin'". So, Maxine tentatively held her breath on the Senate seat that had been held by Thad Cochran since she had been a teenager just going through Driver's Ed when he had been elected for Eastland's senate seat. Although she personally loathed 'identity politics', she was willing to let Republican staff members on her campaign for the Senate emphasize the 'historic' choice she would be as Mississippi's first female senator 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.

However, controversy came up when a 1998 periodical that she had written came up in the Senate debate, 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 in the Senate." 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 the RNC in alarm, according to political veterans and scientists, forcing more money to shore up Maxine that might have been spent in other competitive states. In the end, the money did go to good use, as Maxine won 57% of the vote agaisnt her Democratic opponent's 42%.

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 Senator a resounding victory for a second term with a margin of 65% to her opponent's 35%.

While in the U.S Senate, Maxine has worked hard for farmers and gun-owners. She readily adopted President Wolf's anti-immigration rhetoric whilst serving in the senate, 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 Republican Senators 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".

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 Senate sub committees:

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
Employment and Workplace Safety
Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security
Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety

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Welcome friend, can I invite you to relocate this character to the U.S. House? We have a general rule of thumb where fresh players to ATB/LOTF are asked to be in the House, naturally you may apply in future, and find an opening in the Senate

by **Newne Carriebean7** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:22 pm

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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:
-United States Senator from Mississippi
(since January 3rd, 2015)
-Former member of the Mississippi State Senate for the 31st District
(January 3rd, 2003 - January 3rd, 2014)
-Manager of the Yazoo Star Newspaper
(August 14, 1986 - October 8, 2000)

Character Country/State of Birth: Yazoo City, Mississippi
Character State of Residence: Cedar Grove, Mississippi
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Well-liked in Mississippi; enjoys strong support from Gun's Rights and Anti-abortion activist groups;
Main Weaknesses: History of controversial statements and opinions; Foul mouth;

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 when she was old enough. The moment she held a firearm in her hands, she fell in love with it. She admits later that she "went a little overboard" with being trigger-happy. The back-seat of her father's red pick-up truck were covered in pumpkin guts.

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. 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.

In 1986, Maxine decided to open up a newspaper called the 'Yazoo Star'. During this time, she would bemoan the loss of 'traditional values' of the 'old days' and call for a 'return to Stennis's Hour'. The newspaper was 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. She was tempted to run for Stennis's old seat as a conservative Democrat, but decided that the Democratic Party had 'abandoned traditional conservatives' in her eyes, and so on August 5th, 1994 she officially changed her party registration from Democrat to the GOP, abandoning the donkey for the elephant.

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. Although laughing the idea off at first, 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 2002, 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 before cruising to an easy victory in the General election that fall.

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.

2014 was when the thought occurred to her: "'National Politics, now that's somethin'". So, Maxine tentatively held her breath on the Senate seat that had been held by Thad Cochran since she had been a teenager just going through Driver's Ed when he had been elected for Eastland's senate seat. Although she personally loathed 'identity politics', she was willing to let Republican staff members on her campaign for the Senate emphasize the 'historic' choice she would be as Mississippi's first female senator 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.

However, controversy came up when a 1998 periodical that she had written came up in the Senate debate, 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 in the Senate." 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 the RNC in alarm, according to political veterans and scientists, forcing more money to shore up Maxine that might have been spent in other competitive states. In the end, the money did go to good use, as Maxine won 57% of the vote agaisnt her Democratic opponent's 42%.

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 Senator a resounding victory for a second term with a margin of 65% to her opponent's 35%.

While in the U.S Senate, Maxine has worked hard for farmers and gun-owners. She readily adopted President Wolf's anti-immigration rhetoric whilst serving in the senate, 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 Republican Senators 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".

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 Senate sub committees:

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
Employment and Workplace Safety
Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security
Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety

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Welcome friend, can I invite you to relocate this character to the U.S. House? We have a general rule of thumb where fresh players to ATB/LOTF are asked to be in the House, naturally you may apply in future, and find an opening in the Senate

Sure, I can move her to the house district that Cedar Grove is in. Thanks for getting to this, I'll edit the application so she's a member of the House instead of the Senate. Maybe in the future I can have some-one in the Senate.

So I'll remove all references to her time in the Senate and have her time in the House instead, correct?

by **Sarenium** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:24 pm

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by **New Cobastheia** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:47 pm

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Karg
Character Name: Earl "Big Ears" Joshua Tenson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 54
Character Height: 5' 10"
Character Weight: 215 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job:
House Majority Whip (2021-Present)
House Minority Whip (2019-2021)
Chair of House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities (2017-2019)
Member of the House Armed Services Committee (2015-2019)
Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce (2011-2015)
Member of the House Energy Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change
Member of the Republican Study Committee (2011-Present)
Representative for Montana's At-Large Congressional District (2011-Present)
CEO Tenson Oil (2006-2009)
Master's Student Marine Corps War College (1997-1999)
Officer USMC (1999-2005)
Bachelor's Student in Business-University of Montana (1984-1988)

Character Country/State of Birth: Montana
Character State of Residence: Washington D.C.
Character Party Affiliation: GOP (2006-Present)
Independent (1988-2006)
Main Strengths:
-Experienced Lawmaker: Earl has learned the ways of Washington quite well by now, working his way up the ladder of the House Republican Conference

-Foreign policy expertise: Through both his time in the Marine Corps and in Washington Earl has extensively studied how to deal with America's enemies, especially from nations such as Iran and North Korea. Few are as well equipped in the GOP Conference to talk foreign issues as Earl.

-Charismatic: In part thanks to his days as an officer in the Marines, Earl has quite a nack for public speaking. He can easily deliver off the cuff speeches and has no issues debating his opponents when needed.

-Conservative Pariah: Earl is quite popular amongst rank and file Republicans due to his documented Conservative past as well as his loyalty to President Wolf the past four years.

Main Weaknesses:
-Silver Spoon Background: There is no denying Earl was raised with a silver spoon in his mouth. Born into Tenson Oil, at no point was Earl ever at risk of not being able to afford a home payment or be on the streets. As well, being born into an oil company specifically comes at the cost of making him an easy target for environmental activists.

-Brashness-Earl has a bit of a history of saying things that get himself in trouble, with an easy example being a tasteless tweet posted after the 2015 Obergefell v Hodges ruling that was quickly deleted. He also tends to have quite a potty mouth in private, and will not hesitate to cuss out any Republicans he is becoming frustrated with in private.

Overweight-Unfortunately, Earl has not kept up with his fitness following his exit from the military, needless to say, this has made him a bit chunky.

-Closeted Anti-Wolfist: While it was no secret back in 2016 his opposition to then candidate Arnold Wolf, Earl came to fall in line with the man who had taken over the party seemingly overnight. Earl has repeatedly said things he didn't believe, voted for policies he doesn't support and generally been a loyal Wolfist in public despite his private views.

Biography: Earl Tenson was born just outside Baker Montana in 1966. His father, Joshua Tenson, was the CEO of Tenson Oil and his mother a stay at home parent. As his parent's only child, it was expected from early on that Earl would take over his father's business one day. He scored decent marks in school but found himself disinterested in the idea of serving his father's business. Earl attended the University of Montana at Missoula where he received a Bachelor's in Business. He made an agreement with his father that he would take over the business after serving in the military, attending Marine Corps Officer Candidates School in Quantico, Virginia in 1988 and commissioning as a Second Lieutenant (O-1) and an infantry platoon leader in the 2nd Marine Division. It was around this time he met his future wife Clara, who he would marry in 1993 and give birth to his son Earl Jr. in 1995.

Second Lieutenant Tenson soon found himself in the sandy desert of Saudi Arabia following the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. His promotion to First Lieutenant (O-2) came only a few weeks before the greenlight was given for Coalition troops to forcibly remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Tenson fought in the Battle of Kuwait International Airport, leading his platoon to secure the heavily guarded airfield. Earl continued to serve in the Marines, being promoted to Captain (O-3) in 1992 and then attending the Marine Corps War College where he received a "Master of Strategic Studies" in 1999 so he could be promoted to Major. Earl had planned to bring his service to an end in 2002 with the end of his enlistment at the time, but the September 11th attacks encouraged him to remain in service. Major (O-4) Tenson deployed to Afghanistan in 2002 where he was Second in Command to a Battalion under a Lieutenant Colonel (O-5) which he planned to become soon. However everything changed when his father passed on in 2005. Earl brought his service to an end at the rank of Major, a disappointment to himself as he had been promised a Battalion in Iraq upon promotion, but he felt it was time to uphold his commitment to his parent's.

Earl served as CEO of Tenson Oil for three years. He expected to stay there until old age but the election of President Baharia made Earl warry for the future of the fossil fuel business as well as a potential weakening of America's armed services, which Earl found unacceptable. In 2009 Earl decided to pass his business to his wife until his son was ready to take over. He officially filed for candidacy for Montana's At-Large Congressional District in the 2010 midterms, replacing the retiring Republican incumbent. Due to 2010 being a GOP wave year and Montana a red leaning state Earl was easily elected Representative.

Earl was a known opponent of the Baharia administration during his time in Congress. He mostly opposed environmental policies, gun control, abortion rights and cuts to military spending. He was especially opposed to the President's blocking of the Keystone Pipeline, which he saw as crucial to the economy of Montana. He got himself into major controversy following the 2015 Obergefell v Hodges decision, making a tweet in which he joked America had legalized "unmanliness". He also heavily opposed the signing of the Iran Nuclear Deal, which he saw as "bowing to America's enemies".

In the 2016 election, Earl initially was a supporter of (Not-Jeb Bush), but turned his support towards (Not-Ted Cruz) following his campaign's collapse down in flames. Earl firmly opposed the campaign of Arnold Wolf, who he called a threat to Democracy and "good natured politics". Following Wolf's victory in the primaries, Representative Tenson quickly fell in line behind the future President. Despite his public support, Earl heavily disagreed with Wolf's protectionist trade policies, semi-isolationist foreign policy, extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric and lack of "Christian Values"(In Private).

He agreed with Wolf's abortion views, environmental policies and "Maximum Pressure" campaign on Iran. Privately he blamed Wolf for the GOP's losses in 2018, but did not say it publicly. In 2019 he elected House Minority Whip, the second in line to House Minority Leader. Earl managed to keep many Republicans in line with the President even when he didn't agree with it.

In 2020 Tenson was much more supportive of Nate Richardson's campaign as opposed to Arnold Wolf, even if he was a bit moderate for Earl's taste. He was very happy when Richardson prevailed and the GOP retook the House of Representatives, stating that "America was defended from Socialism". He was distraught with the loss of Jon Ronson and the loss of the U.S. Senate. With the House back under GOP control, Earl found himself promoted to the House Majority Whip. Earl is now ready to whip House Republicans in line with President Richardson and Speaker (Not-McCarthy).
Other Info: Married to Clara Tenson, has two children: Earl Jr. (Born 1995) and Katherine Tenson (Born 1998)

1988: (Not-George Bush Sr.)
1992: (Not-George Bush Sr.)
1996: GOP Primaries:(NotRichard Lugar) General: (Not-Ross Perot)
2000: (Not Bush Jr.)
2004: (Not Bush Jr.)
2008: Primaries: (Not-Huckabee) General: (Not-McCain)
2012: Primaries: (Not-Perry) General: (Not-Romney)
2016: Primaries: (Not- Jeb!) followed by (Not-Cruz) General: Arnold Wolf
2020: Nate Richardson

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The only known human being from Montana is ACCEPTED

by **Greater Arab State** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:52 pm

Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Greater Arab State
Character Name: Thomas Volker
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 58
Character Height: 5’11
Character Weight: 196 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (2021-Present), House Minority Leader (2019-2021), Leader of the House Republican Conference (2019-Present), House Majority Whip (2015-2019), Chair of the Tea Party Caucus (2010-2015), Chair of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (2005-2007), Representative for Missouri’s 8th Congressional District (1995-Present), Representative for the 145th District of the Missouri House (1989-1995)
Appearance:

Character State of Origin: Missouri
Character State of Residence: Missouri
Character Party Affiliation: Republican (1976-Present)
Main Strengths: Knows where the bodies are buried, strong support in supporting downballot candidates, viewed positively by Wolfists on account of his unflinching support for the 45th President.
Main Weaknesses: Controversial on account of his early career and primary endorsements, has an uncertain level of influence with the new administration, weak on economic policy, finds himself with a tenuous majority.
Biography:

Thomas Volker was born on the 22nd of December 1962 in the small town of Leopold, Missouri. The firstborn of Rudolf Volker (1938-Present), a then-Captain serving in the United States Army and Grace Volker (née Dare) (1940-Present), Thomas enjoyed a comfortable upbringing steeped in discipline and a strong emphasis on the family’s Lutheran faith, unusual in the largely Catholic community of Leopold.

Academically, the sole Volker son performed well, albeit not to any extent significant from that of his peers. Politically, Thomas’ convictions, naturally Conservative due to his upbringing, were firmly consolidated by the influence of his maternal grandfather, a retired attorney who whilst studying at the Washington University in St Louis’ Law School, led the University’s chapter of the America First Committee, and who was currently serving the first of two terms as Prosecuting Attorney for Bollinger County after his election in 1960. This culminated in Thomas joining the Republican Party at the earliest date he could. It was also during his schooling that the young Volker met Torrie Barnes, who had recently arrived to the state. The two developed a close relationship, culminating in marriage in 1985.

After graduating high school in 1981, Thomas proceeded to study Political Science with a minor in Legal Studies at Washington University in St Louis, where he continued to show a strong academic performance whilst also actively involving himself in the university’s College Republicans, during which he secured an internship with then-White House Communications Director (Not-Pat Buchanan) in the months prior to his graduation in 1985, enabling the Missourian to develop a nascent political network within the conservative movement. After graduating, Thomas enrolled in the University’s School of Law, studying a joint JD/LLM in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, where he was noted for being particularly skilled in terms of preparation during mock trials, a matter which the law student used to compensate for what was generally an otherwise dull presentation.
Having graduated in 1987, Thomas found work at the small law practice which counted amongst its founding partners his late grandfather. Although the work the young attorney took on was for the most part unremarkable, it enabled Thomas to network further within his little corner of southeastern Missouri, something which would prove a substantial benefit within the next year.

Come 1988, the incumbent Republican State Representative for the 145th District was term-limited, thus leaving the seat open. Seeing his opportunity, Thomas ran for the Republican primary, emphasising his social conservative credentials as well as the commitment to moral standards shown during his time in private practice. After winning the Republican primary with 46% of the vote, Volker easily won the general election.
Representative Volker’s tenure in the Missouri State House was one that saw attention drawn to the freshman, largely as a result of the Republicans being in a minority throughout his time in Jefferson City. Nevertheless, Thomas was able to achieve some legislative success through sponsoring a bill seeking to strengthen community banks by cutting regulation on them at the state level, with the bill being signed by Governor (Not-John Ashcroft) in 1991. However, the State Representative garnered some controversy in the state after endorsing the insurgent campaign of his mentor (Not-Pat Buchanan).

As 1994 approached, and now in his own third term, Thomas Volker announced his campaign for Missouri’s 8th Congressional District after (Not-Bill Emerson) declined to run for another term. Running as a “trade-sceptical” conservative, and emphasising his own credentials on family values, State Representative Volker handily won the primary with 53% of the vote. Despite now being the Representative-Elect in all but name, Thomas continued to run an active campaign during the general election, emphasising his conservative credentials on family values and law and order in traditionally Republican areas whilst at the same time using his “trade-sceptic conservatism” in an attempt win over traditionally Democratic and union voters in the Lead Belt region. And so, Thomas Volker was duly elected to represent the 8th Congressional District of Missouri with 64% of the vote, a narrow gain from that won by his predecessor in the previous cycle.

His freshman term in the House saw Congressman Volker draw little attention initially, with him regularly voting the party line on legislation. However, that changed when the Missourian endorsed (Not-Pat Buchanan)‘s primary campaign in 1996. Thomas’ stumping for the candidate within his district enabled his ally and mentor to win the states delegates. Nevertheless, Volker’s support for the candidate would prove to be troublesome after his endorse dropped out during the convention, leaving the freshman Congressman to deal with a displeased House leadership.

As a consequence of his support for the insurgent candidate, Thomas was denied a seat on the House Judiciary Committee and was instead placed at what was perhaps the worst place for an ambitious legislator to find themselves, the House Administration Committee. Nevertheless, Congressman took to his committee assignment as well as one could with such a committee, whilst also working his way back into favour with the GOP leadership by doing the rounds of news outlets during the impeachment of (Not-Bill Clinton) in which he defended the impeachment on the grounds of the presidency requiring only those individuals with the “highest moral fortitude and sense of public service, capable of representing the fundamental values and hopes of the American people”. As the new millennium, and with them, a new set of primaries, drew in, Volker’s chance finally came.
Despite initially endorsing (Not-Gary Bauer) out of a sense of conviction, Thomas endorsed the campaign of (Not-George W. Bush) following the results of the New Hampshire primary and actively stumped for the Governor during both the primary and general elections. Finding himself now in favour, Thomas was moved up from the Administration Committee to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, where the Missourian was able to apply his own emphasis on morality within Congress. However, his new found favour was overshadowed by the beginning of the War on Terror in response to the attack against the United States on September 11th 2001. Despite his scepticism towards foreign interventions, Thomas was for the most part supportive of US troop deployments in both Afghanistan and later, Iraq, on the grounds that the United States was the direct victim of an attack by its enemies.

In February 2005, Representative Volker chaired the Standards of Official Conduct Committee in what would be his final term there. Despite his efforts however, the committee was unable to take effective action in a number of cases due to a boycott of its activities by the Democratic members, notably when the committee’s own Ranking Member, (Not-Jim McDermott), revealed ethics violations by former Speaker (Not-Newt Gingrich) to the press without prior authorisation. Fortunately for the Missourian, the Democrats flipping control of the House in 2006 enabled him to vacate the chair. Setting aside his committee work in Congress, Thomas now endeavoured to focus on recruiting candidates that would enable the House Republican Conference, and hopefully Congress at large to move into a more conservative direction in the long-term.

Despite seeing relatively little success at first, particularly after the Democrats increased their House majority in 2008, opportunity struck for Volker after the nascent Tea Party movement slowly started to gain steam. During this time, the Congressman proved to be a staunch ally of the movement on the Hill and became something of a regular speaker at their events. This culminated in Thomas forming and becoming the inaugural Chair of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus in the midst of the 2010 midterm campaign. During the campaign, Thomas actively recruited candidates seeking the Tea Party’s support in their primary campaigns, with many of those who the Caucus endorsed going on to win the nomination for their district and contributing to the GOP regaining control of the House.

Now that the Republican Party had once again returned to the House majority, the Tea Party Caucus, claiming that its own successes had largely driven the GOP’s triumph at the midterms, made a push at implementing its own policy. Consequently, with the announcement that (Not-Mike Pence) was standing down from the position of House Republican Conference Chair, Volker proceeded to run as his replacement in what was widely seen as a test of how the Tea Party movement’s leaders would be treated by the Republican establishment. During his candidacy, the Missourian emphasised the fact that he had successfully managed to maintain Tea Party voters within the Republican Party and therefore was well qualified to “act as a bridge between the leadership of the House Republican Conference and those who we have the utmost honour and privilege to represent.” However, Thomas was unsuccessful in his leadership campaign, being passed over during the transition into the 112th Congress. Following the failure of his candidacy, the Congressman returned his energies to managing his still embryonic caucus, being one of four sponsors on a bill that would repeal the Dodd-Frank Act. Nevertheless, as the 2012 electoral cycle slowly drew into view, Thomas Volker, a man whose ambitions of establishing the foundations of a more authentic conservatism, ran for the Republican presidential nomination.

Running on a platform that was described by most commentators as “paleoconservative” stressing a broad commitment to non interventionism as well as support for tougher policies on law and order as well as stronger precautions and enforcement against illegal immigration, notably through the strengthening of facilities on the US-Mexico border, and an expanded use of E-Verify on a federal level. Nevertheless, in spite of running an active campaign, and having won the 2011 Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, the Missourian was only able to attract 5% of the vote in the Iowa caucuses, with his campaign being suspended following similar results in both New Hampshire and South Carolina. The result itself did not come as a great shock to Thomas however, with his main aim having been to place public pressure on the GOP to adopt a tougher line of immigration and trade, as well as re-emphasise its support for family values and morality within the United States. To that end, Thomas endorsed and actively campaigned for (Not-Rick Santorum), and was considered for his running mate should he have won the Republican nomination. Despite these efforts however, the more moderate (Not-Mitt Romney) was successfully nominated as the Republican candidate for the presidency in that year, leaving Volker to tend to his own re-election campaign for the House.

The next three years proved to pass quite uneventfully for the Congressman, who spent much of the time focusing on leading the Tea Party Caucus despite its gradually declining membership, for which he was rewarded with the position of Majority Whip following the 2014 midterms. That changed however with the announcement that Arnold Wolf was running in the Republican primary and advocated for similar positions to those the Missourian had four years prior. Sensing an opportunity to place his worldview into ascendency amongst the Republican electorate, defied contemporary political wisdom and was one of the first congressional Republicans to endorse the upstart campaign, helping the insurgent candidate win a narrow victory in Missouri and gain the Republican presidential nomination. With a man who shared his ideological sympathies and worldview now leading the GOP into the general election, Volker did his utmost to ensure that the campaign would run as smoothly as possible, notably by being amongst those advising Wolf on his Vice Presidential selection, during which Thomas advocated for his predecessor as Majority Whip, Richard Tawney, for the nomination, on the grounds that selecting him would enable Wolf to hold the support of more conventional Republican voters as well as the Republican leadership on the Hill. Needless to say, Tawney was soon selected as the Republican vice presidential nominee for the 2016 election. Throughout the general election, Thomas proved to be amongst the most loyal congressional Republicans towards Wolf, consistently defending the candidate in spite of the accusations of impropriety that emerged in October. On November 9th, Thomas’ work paid off, Arnold Wolf had defied the odds and was elected as the 45th President of the United States, and with a Republican Congress to boot. It seemed as if the world was now for the Missourian’s taking, and he was going to make sure he got as much as possible.

Despite the Majority Whip’s initial hopes, the Wolf administration faced a number of difficulties implementing its legislative agenda, notably of all the repeal of the ACA, which despite passing the House faltered into the Senate. Thomas did manage however to pass through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 as well as retaining his reputation as one of the President’s staunchest allies in the House, and perhaps the most loyal in the House Republican leadership, for which he drew the ire of both the Speaker and Majority Leader. The failures to implement Wolf’s legislative agenda soon came back to haunt the House Republicans in 2018, with them losing control of the House in what would turn out to be the largest gain by Democrats since 1974. During the transition, Volker, sensing an opportunity to strengthen the hold of his particular conservatism in the Republican Party due to (Not-Paul Ryan) not running for re-election to the 116th Congress, managed to successfully oust the Majority Leader in the Conference’s vote for the new leader of the House Republican Conference on the grounds of insufficient support for the Wolf administration in implementing its legislative agenda.

The initial period of House Minority Leader Volker’s leadership saw little of note, what with no opportunity for Republican legislation passing the House. However, things heated up after President Wolf announced that he would not be running in 2020 due to a diagnosis of brain cancer, thus leaving the primary field open. Thomas remained silent regarding which of the candidates he would support for the nomination, although he did provide behind the scenes support for Governor Richardson on the grounds that it would be easier to flip the House with him at the top of the ticket. After Governor Richardson became the presumptive nominee, Volker went to work ensuring that those elements previously opposed to Richardson in the primary would support the Republican Party’s campaign in the general, thus ensuring a united front against the Democrats. This was combined with the launch of an aggressive campaign to retake the House which saw the use of candidate recruitment in a number of target districts as well as an emphasis on law and order issues in the suburbs following a number of riots by BLM caused by the death of (Nit-George Flloyd) in May. This, along with the benefit of Richardson at the top of the ballot, enabled the Republicans to over-perform expectations in the House and win a narrow majority, a mere cycle after it had been lost.

And now Thomas Volker, the Missourian who in spite of the efforts of his opponents to hold him back each step of the way, finds himself at the political summit of Capitol Hill. With a Republican President, a House that he was presiding over, and a party that was to some extent now of a similar mould to his conservatism, the Speaker has the opportunity to shape policy over the next Congress and complete the agenda of Arnold Wolf, and with 2022 edging closer and closer by the day, he finds himself facing what will be the greatest challenge of his political career up to this point.

Other Info: Devout Lutheran, resides in Leopold, Missouri with his wife of 35 years, Torrie by whom he has five children: Thomas Jr (Born September 1989), Sarah (Born April 1991), William & John (Born January 1993) and Robert (Born November 1998)
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Greater Arab State
Do Not Remove: 84721

by **Imperial Esplanade** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:12 pm

I'm deciding I will port over Emily Davenport, make her operate out of California as she was previously and merely editing out her character to make it applicable for this roleplay, as well as creating an establishment-heavy Democratic Senator from Connecticut, and likely a Tea Party/Wolfist Republican from Georgia. It'll take some time for me to flesh them out, but I am going to be active this time around, I hope.

by **Imperial Esplanade** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:18 pm

If you guys behave well (or badly) enough, I'll possibly even eventually make an edited/revised version of Gianna Carrollton.

by **Sarenium** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:20 pm

Imperial Esplanade wrote:I'm deciding I will port over Emily Davenport, make her operate out of California as she was previously and merely editing out her character to make it applicable for this roleplay, as well as creating an establishment-heavy Democratic Senator from Connecticut, and likely a Tea Party/Wolfist Republican from Georgia. It'll take some time for me to flesh them out, but I am going to be active this time around, I hope.

Welcome back bestie <3

Greater Arab State wrote:
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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Greater Arab State
Character Name: Thomas Volker
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 58
Character Height: 5’11
Character Weight: 196 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (2021-Present), House Minority Leader (2019-2021), Leader of the House Republican Conference (2019-Present), House Majority Whip (2015-2019), Chair of the Tea Party Caucus (2010-2015), Chair of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (2005-2007), Representative for Missouri’s 8th Congressional District (1995-Present), Representative for the 145th District of the Missouri House (1989-1995)
Appearance: (Image)
Character State of Origin: Missouri
Character State of Residence: Missouri
Character Party Affiliation: Republican (1976-Present)
Main Strengths: Knows where the bodies are buried, strong support in supporting downballot candidates, viewed positively by Wolfists on account of his unflinching support for the 45th President.
Main Weaknesses: Controversial on account of his early career and primary endorsements, has an uncertain level of influence with the new administration, weak on economic policy, finds himself with a tenuous majority.
Biography:

Thomas Volker was born on the 22nd of December 1962 in the small town of Leopold, Missouri. The firstborn of Rudolf Volker (1938-Present), a then-Captain serving in the United States Army and Grace Volker (née Dare) (1940-Present), Thomas enjoyed a comfortable upbringing steeped in discipline and a strong emphasis on the family’s Lutheran faith, unusual in the largely Catholic community of Leopold.

Academically, the sole Volker son performed well, albeit not to any extent significant from that of his peers. Politically, Thomas’ convictions, naturally Conservative due to his upbringing, were firmly consolidated by the influence of his maternal grandfather, a retired attorney who whilst studying at the Washington University in St Louis’ Law School, led the University’s chapter of the America First Committee, and who was currently serving the first of two terms as Prosecuting Attorney for Bollinger County after his election in 1960. This culminated in Thomas joining the Republican Party at the earliest date he could. It was also during his schooling that the young Volker met Torrie Barnes, who had recently arrived to the state. The two developed a close relationship, culminating in marriage in 1985.

After graduating high school in 1981, Thomas proceeded to study Political Science with a minor in Legal Studies at Washington University in St Louis, where he continued to show a strong academic performance whilst also actively involving himself in the university’s College Republicans, during which he secured an internship with then-White House Communications Director (Not-Pat Buchanan) in the months prior to his graduation in 1985, enabling the Missourian to develop a nascent political network within the conservative movement. After graduating, Thomas enrolled in the University’s School of Law, studying a joint JD/LLM in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, where he was noted for being particularly skilled in terms of preparation during mock trials, a matter which the law student used to compensate for what was generally an otherwise dull presentation.
Having graduated in 1987, Thomas found work at the small law practice which counted amongst its founding partners his late grandfather. Although the work the young attorney took on was for the most part unremarkable, it enabled Thomas to network further within his little corner of southeastern Missouri, something which would prove a substantial benefit within the next year.

Come 1988, the incumbent Republican State Representative for the 145th District was term-limited, thus leaving the seat open. Seeing his opportunity, Thomas ran for the Republican primary, emphasising his social conservative credentials as well as the commitment to moral standards shown during his time in private practice. After winning the Republican primary with 46% of the vote, Volker easily won the general election.
Representative Volker’s tenure in the Missouri State House was one that saw attention drawn to the freshman, largely as a result of the Republicans being in a minority throughout his time in Jefferson City. Nevertheless, Thomas was able to achieve some legislative success through sponsoring a bill seeking to strengthen community banks by cutting regulation on them at the state level, with the bill being signed by Governor (Not-John Ashcroft) in 1991. However, the State Representative garnered some controversy in the state after endorsing the insurgent campaign of his mentor (Not-Pat Buchanan).

As 1994 approached, and now in his own third term, Thomas Volker announced his campaign for Missouri’s 8th Congressional District after (Not-Bill Emerson) declined to run for another term. Running as a “trade-sceptical” conservative, and emphasising his own credentials on family values, State Representative Volker handily won the primary with 53% of the vote. Despite now being the Representative-Elect in all but name, Thomas continued to run an active campaign during the general election, emphasising his conservative credentials on family values and law and order in traditionally Republican areas whilst at the same time using his “trade-sceptic conservatism” in an attempt win over traditionally Democratic and union voters in the Lead Belt region. And so, Thomas Volker was duly elected to represent the 8th Congressional District of Missouri with 64% of the vote, a narrow gain from that won by his predecessor in the previous cycle.

His freshman term in the House saw Congressman Volker draw little attention initially, with him regularly voting the party line on legislation. However, that changed when the Missourian endorsed (Not-Pat Buchanan)‘s primary campaign in 1996. Thomas’ stumping for the candidate within his district enabled his ally and mentor to win the states delegates. Nevertheless, Volker’s support for the candidate would prove to be troublesome after his endorse dropped out during the convention, leaving the freshman Congressman to deal with a displeased House leadership.

As a consequence of his support for the insurgent candidate, Thomas was denied a seat on the House Judiciary Committee and was instead placed at what was perhaps the worst place for an ambitious legislator to find themselves, the House Administration Committee. Nevertheless, Congressman took to his committee assignment as well as one could with such a committee, whilst also working his way back into favour with the GOP leadership by doing the rounds of news outlets during the impeachment of (Not-Bill Clinton) in which he defended the impeachment on the grounds of the presidency requiring only those individuals with the “highest moral fortitude and sense of public service, capable of representing the fundamental values and hopes of the American people”. As the new millennium, and with them, a new set of primaries, drew in, Volker’s chance finally came.
Despite initially endorsing (Not-Gary Bauer) out of a sense of conviction, Thomas endorsed the campaign of (Not-George W. Bush) following the results of the New Hampshire primary and actively stumped for the Governor during both the primary and general elections. Finding himself now in favour, Thomas was moved up from the Administration Committee to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, where the Missourian was able to apply his own emphasis on morality within Congress. However, his new found favour was overshadowed by the beginning of the War on Terror in response to the attack against the United States on September 11th 2001. Despite his scepticism towards foreign interventions, Thomas was for the most part supportive of US troop deployments in both Afghanistan and later, Iraq, on the grounds that the United States was the direct victim of an attack by its enemies.

In February 2005, Representative Volker chaired the Standards of Official Conduct Committee in what would be his final term there. Despite his efforts however, the committee was unable to take effective action in a number of cases due to a boycott of its activities by the Democratic members, notably when the committee’s own Ranking Member, (Not-Jim McDermott), revealed ethics violations by former Speaker (Not-Newt Gingrich) to the press without prior authorisation. Fortunately for the Missourian, the Democrats flipping control of the House in 2006 enabled him to vacate the chair. Setting aside his committee work in Congress, Thomas now endeavoured to focus on recruiting candidates that would enable the House Republican Conference, and hopefully Congress at large to move into a more conservative direction in the long-term.

Despite seeing relatively little success at first, particularly after the Democrats increased their House majority in 2008, opportunity struck for Volker after the nascent Tea Party movement slowly started to gain steam. During this time, the Congressman proved to be a staunch ally of the movement on the Hill and became something of a regular speaker at their events. This culminated in Thomas forming and becoming the inaugural Chair of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus in the midst of the 2010 midterm campaign. During the campaign, Thomas actively recruited candidates seeking the Tea Party’s support in their primary campaigns, with many of those who the Caucus endorsed going on to win the nomination for their district and contributing to the GOP regaining control of the House.

Now that the Republican Party had once again returned to the House majority, the Tea Party Caucus, claiming that its own successes had largely driven the GOP’s triumph at the midterms, made a push at implementing its own policy. Consequently, with the announcement that (Not-Mike Pence) was standing down from the position of House Republican Conference Chair, Volker proceeded to run as his replacement in what was widely seen as a test of how the Tea Party movement’s leaders would be treated by the Republican establishment. During his candidacy, the Missourian emphasised the fact that he had successfully managed to maintain Tea Party voters within the Republican Party and therefore was well qualified to “act as a bridge between the leadership of the House Republican Conference and those who we have the utmost honour and privilege to represent.” However, Thomas was unsuccessful in his leadership campaign, being passed over during the transition into the 112th Congress. Following the failure of his candidacy, the Congressman returned his energies to managing his still embryonic caucus, being one of four sponsors on a bill that would repeal the Dodd-Frank Act. Nevertheless, as the 2012 electoral cycle slowly drew into view, Thomas Volker, a man whose ambitions of establishing the foundations of a more authentic conservatism, ran for the Republican presidential nomination.

Running on a platform that was described by most commentators as “paleoconservative” stressing a broad commitment to non interventionism as well as support for tougher policies on law and order as well as stronger precautions and enforcement against illegal immigration, notably through the strengthening of facilities on the US-Mexico border, and an expanded use of E-Verify on a federal level. Nevertheless, in spite of running an active campaign, and having won the 2011 Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, the Missourian was only able to attract 5% of the vote in the Iowa caucuses, with his campaign being suspended following similar results in both New Hampshire and South Carolina. The result itself did not come as a great shock to Thomas however, with his main aim having been to place public pressure on the GOP to adopt a tougher line of immigration and trade, as well as re-emphasise its support for family values and morality within the United States. To that end, Thomas endorsed and actively campaigned for (Not-Rick Santorum), and was considered for his running mate should he have won the Republican nomination. Despite these efforts however, the more moderate (Not-Mitt Romney) was successfully nominated as the Republican candidate for the presidency in that year, leaving Volker to tend to his own re-election campaign for the House.

The next three years proved to pass quite uneventfully for the Congressman, who spent much of the time focusing on leading the Tea Party Caucus despite its gradually declining membership, for which he was rewarded with the position of Majority Whip following the 2014 midterms. That changed however with the announcement that Arnold Wolf was running in the Republican primary and advocated for similar positions to those the Missourian had four years prior. Sensing an opportunity to place his worldview into ascendency amongst the Republican electorate, defied contemporary political wisdom and was one of the first congressional Republicans to endorse the upstart campaign, helping the insurgent candidate win a narrow victory in Missouri and gain the Republican presidential nomination. With a man who shared his ideological sympathies and worldview now leading the GOP into the general election, Volker did his utmost to ensure that the campaign would run as smoothly as possible, notably by being amongst those advising Wolf on his Vice Presidential selection, during which Thomas advocated for his predecessor as Majority Whip, Richard Tawney, for the nomination, on the grounds that selecting him would enable Wolf to hold the support of more conventional Republican voters as well as the Republican leadership on the Hill. Needless to say, Tawney was soon selected as the Republican vice presidential nominee for the 2016 election. Throughout the general election, Thomas proved to be amongst the most loyal congressional Republicans towards Wolf, consistently defending the candidate in spite of the accusations of impropriety that emerged in October. On November 9th, Thomas’ work paid off, Arnold Wolf had defied the odds and was elected as the 45th President of the United States, and with a Republican Congress to boot. It seemed as if the world was now for the Missourian’s taking, and he was going to make sure he got as much as possible.

Despite the Majority Whip’s initial hopes, the Wolf administration faced a number of difficulties implementing its legislative agenda, notably of all the repeal of the ACA, which despite passing the House faltered into the Senate. Thomas did manage however to pass through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 as well as retaining his reputation as one of the President’s staunchest allies in the House, and perhaps the most loyal in the House Republican leadership, for which he drew the ire of both the Speaker and Majority Leader. The failures to implement Wolf’s legislative agenda soon came back to haunt the House Republicans in 2018, with them losing control of the House in what would turn out to be the largest gain by Democrats since 1974. During the transition, Volker, sensing an opportunity to strengthen the hold of his particular conservatism in the Republican Party due to (Not-Paul Ryan) not running for re-election to the 116th Congress, managed to successfully oust the Majority Leader in the Conference’s vote for the new leader of the House Republican Conference on the grounds of insufficient support for the Wolf administration in implementing its legislative agenda.

The initial period of House Minority Leader Volker’s leadership saw little of note, what with no opportunity for Republican legislation passing the House. However, things heated up after President Wolf announced that he would not be running in 2020 due to a diagnosis of brain cancer, thus leaving the primary field open. Thomas remained silent regarding which of the candidates he would support for the nomination, although he did provide behind the scenes support for Governor Richardson on the grounds that it would be easier to flip the House with him at the top of the ticket. After Governor Richardson became the presumptive nominee, Volker went to work ensuring that those elements previously opposed to Richardson in the primary would support the Republican Party’s campaign in the general, thus ensuring a united front against the Democrats. This was combined with the launch of an aggressive campaign to retake the House which saw the use of candidate recruitment in a number of target districts as well as an emphasis on law and order issues in the suburbs following a number of riots by BLM caused by the death of (Nit-George Flloyd) in May. This, along with the benefit of Richardson at the top of the ballot, enabled the Republicans to over-perform expectations in the House and win a narrow majority, a mere cycle after it had been lost.

And now Thomas Volker, the Missourian who in spite of the efforts of his opponents to hold him back each step of the way, finds himself at the political summit of Capitol Hill. With a Republican President, a House that he was presiding over, and a party that was to some extent now of a similar mould to his conservatism, the Speaker has the opportunity to shape policy over the next Congress and complete the agenda of Arnold Wolf, and with 2022 edging closer and closer by the day, he finds himself facing what will be the greatest challenge of his political career up to this point.

Other Info: Devout Lutheran, resides in Leopold, Missouri with his wife of 35 years, Torrie by whom he has five children: Thomas Jr (Born September 1989), Sarah (Born April 1991), William & John (Born January 1993) and Robert (Born November 1998)
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Greater Arab State
Do Not Remove: DRAFT84721

Ew I hate him, so he's pretty good. I kindly ask for a line or two describing his relationship with each aspect of the Republican Congressional Caucus; the last two centrist/moderate Republicans; the hundred or so mainstream Republicans, the principles warhawky conservatives who sank the initial ACA repeal bill, and finally the emerging GQP caucus of MTG.

by **Newne Carriebean7** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:27 pm

Alright I made Maxine the Representative for Mississippi's 3rd. If there's anything else that needs clarification, just let me know and I'll answer your questions.

by **Solomons Land** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:31 pm

I may end up making a more unique character, but for Michigan's 3rd, can I just make Justin Amash if he had been Republican and won reelection?

by **Helliniki Katastasis** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:45 pm

Heavily based off Cuomo/Hochul debacle IRL

Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Helliniki Katastasis
Character Name: Michael "Mick" Doherty
Character Gender: non-female
Character Age: 57
Character Height: 6'01
Character Weight: 184 Pounds
Character Position/Role/Job: Governor of New York [2020-] Lieutenant Governor of New York [2010-2020] HUD Secretary [2008-2010] Representative NY-29 [2002-2008] Chemung County Executive [1996-2002] Chemung County Highway Supervisor [1992-1996]
Character Country/State of Birth: Danby, New York
Character State of Residence: Albany, New York
Character Party Affiliation: Democrat
Main Strengths: Well-balanced between progressive and moderate factions, draws roots from upstate, experience with infrastructure, popular policies on corporations/infrastructure, charismatic, willingness to work with Republicans, old House caucus reputation, views on Iraq War
Main Weaknesses: Lack of economic experience, HUD scandal, disliked by hardline progressives, lackluster minority appeal, flip flops
Biography:

Mick Doherty was born on September 11, 1963 to John and Marie Doherty. His father, the owner of the town diner and personal friend of Governor Rockefeller, was a strict disciplinarian and encouraged his son to actively pursue schoolwork and his grades, and came down hard on Mick and his two sisters lest they step out of line. Their mother, on the other hand, was a more gentle parent with an even hand. She guided her son through domestic violence issues at home, as well as social issues in school. A bookish child, he spent his high school years racking up credits and taking accelerated civics and history courses. Slated to attend nearby Cornell University on a history scholarship, he majored in social studies and received an undergraduate degree in 1985. Taking up a position as a Junior logistics staffer for Senator Pat Moynihan, he met his wife Lorraine, a press staffer for Moynihan, and they were married in 1990. Leaving the Moynihan team, he returned to Chemung County and began to drum up support among locals, familiar with his name via his father, for a highway supervisor run. Winning the position in 1992, he negotiated deals with both the state and town leaders to repave and reconstruct bridges and roads across the county, notably in Elmira, the home of noted author Mark Twain. Widely popular in the county for his work, as well as riding off his father's past as a dominant figure in the county social and political scene, he ran for the open County Executive seat in 1996, winning fairly solidly.

As County Executive, he continued to advocate for infrastructure reform, working with neighboring Steuben and Tioga counties to push the state to assist the counties in repairing roadways and railway tracks, such as the major Southern Tier artery that was Route 17. Forging a personal relationship with Governor Cuomo, he pursued further investment in the Chemung River watershed and Elmira Dam, as well as further rail connections between townships in the county.

In 2002, partly due to the strong support from Governor Cuomo, Doherty announced he would forgo running for re-election and instead pursue the newly-redistricted 29th district. With the redistricting, he faced incumbent 31st District representative in the general election. With the district being a key swing area in both the congressional race and presidential race, the race drew national attention as both parties wrestled for control over the House. On Election Day, Doherty narrowly edged out his opponent by just 2500 votes, and the district went to Fake Bush by a slim margin. Crossover support had carried Doherty over the edge, and he would establish himself as a moderate in the U.S. House.

Taking up conservative viewpoints on issues such as Gay Marriage and school choice, he paved the way for the creation of the Bipartisan Action caucus for incoming members. In addition, he became a vocal proponent of infrastructure reform as well as expanded healthcare coverage. Throughout the early 2000s, he was an opponent of the war in Iraq, as well as members of his caucus. On September 11 of 2002, they staged an event outside the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall to demand further investigation and transparency, and most importantly, solid proof, that the Iraqis were developing WMDs. The event drew national attention as a wide swath of pacifists, libertarians, moderates, and more congregated for the event, and the metropolitan police had to be called in to prevent a counter-protest of veterans and hard-core Bushites from fighting with activists. Doherty strongly denounced this, and called for both crowds to be civil. Later that day, they traveled to Ground Zero where he joined President Fake Bush and others to observe the anniversary. When the House voted a month after, the Bipartisan Action caucus voted against the authorization to invade Iraq.

Winning re-election in 2004 and 2006 by double digits, he opted not to run again in 2008. Instead, he joined the Fake Clinton campaign team as a surrogate and campaigned across the country for her in the primaries. When she lost to the charismatic Fake Obama, he endorsed the rising star and for a time was considered a potential running mate. However, after the 2008 Election, he was declared the nominee for HUD Secretary. Pledging to turn the housing market around and revamp the nation's infrastructure. Immediately pledging to spend nearly $250 billion dollars on efforts and incentives to localities to rebuild infrastructure, lobbying Congress to introduce sweeping legislation to implement many of Fake Obama's policies on housing. However, on Christmas Eve of 2009, officials at HUD were seen unlawfully tampering with housing reports and blacklisting information that would've effected both Doherty and the President's approval ratings. A whistle-blower leaked the story to the Washington Post. These officials were charged and a series of contentious congressional hearings, complete with subpoenas of administration officials and the release of thousands of HUD documents revealing discrepancies in housing reports from February of 2009 through December. Doherty himself testified in front of a special investigation committee for 21 hours in March of 2010, and hundreds of HUD officials were hired and some charged for their involvement. Congressional reports showed that the Preisdent had absolutely nothing to do with the scandal, and in April he requested Doherty's resignation. With further reporting, Doherty was exonerated of any possible indictment in the case, however many believed that his career was over. However, it was about to be saved.

Back in New York, the gubernatorial primaries had just concluded. Democratic nominee Fake Andrew Cuomo was in search of a viable balance between upstate and downstate, and found Mick Doherty. Choosing Doherty as Lieutenant Governor, his political career was saved and he won election as the number two in charge of New York state in November of 2010. Quietly criss-crossing the state throughout his term, he made personal friends both upstate and downstate.

In late 2018, accusations against Governor Fake Cuomo of sexual harassment and assault emerged by Fake Lindsay Boylan. However, these were swept aside by the Governor. Later that year, however, in December of 2019, further allegations by several other women brought the state attorney general to launch an investigation into Fake Cuomo's conduct. Over the course of the investigation, state finance boards found the governor in violation of several campaign finance laws. The governor continued to deny these accusations and violations, however the final nail in the coffin was driven in May of 2019 when the attorney general found that Cuomo lied about all but one accusation. Following this, the State Assembly began moving forward with impeachment. Before this could occur, however, Cuomo announced that he would resign as governor effective July 1. With this announcement, Doherty began assembling a new staff and preparing to take the helm of New York, interviewing officials for potential positions, reaching out to state and local legislators and executives, and drafting an immediate plan for his ascension to the office. Leaning into his moderate, bipartisan positions whilst also pledging to balance out the table for progressives, he presented himself as a unifying figure following the tumultuous resignation of his predecessor. Choosing downstate County Executive Fake George Lattimer as his Lieutenant Governor, his first official address emphasized the need for a balance between regulation and economic growth, and pledged to support small businesses and the private sector, repair state infrastructure, hold corporations, energy and water companies, and other accountable for ripping off consumers, to regulate the environment, to eliminate corruption that had defined the previous administration, to provide safe and legal abortion, and to allow parents to chose their children's schools, the first notable Democrat to favor the measure. He also touched on having a diverse and balanced cabinet between races, and the upstate/downstate divide. Holding firm on his positions on education, however, has drawn significant criticism from progressives. He plans on running for a full term in 2022.
Other Info:

Married to Lorraine Doherty since 1990, currently tumultuous though
Has three children, son Andrew (born 1992), daughter Olivia (born 1997), and daughter Nicole (born 2000)

Eventually, Bipartisan Action caucus merged with Bipartisan Problem Solvers caucus in 2017.
Flipped on gay marriage, climate change, immigration. Maintained school choice advocacy.

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here) Helliniki Katastasis

Do Not Remove: DRAFT87421

by **Sarenium** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:49 pm

The President is accepted.

by **Dentali** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:52 pm

Helliniki Katastasis wrote:Are there limitations as to who I can app as?

No senators for first timers otherwise you are totally open. It is encouraged that you take a Representative as it maximizes your interaction and let’s you learn the RP

by **Yaruqo** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:05 pm

Whew, I did it. It's been a while since I've done one of these apps, but I've tried to stick to RL trends for KS-3 and go from there.

by **Jovuistan** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:26 pm

by **Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:01 pm

The Sarangtus Lands wrote:
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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: The Sarangtus Lands
Character Name: Eric Roffe
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 56
Character Height: 215cm
Character Weight: 100kg
Character Position/Role/Job: Commander of the MNC (2004-2009), Commander of the ISAF (2010-2014), Governor of Ohio (2014-)
Appearance: Paul Gosar
Character State of Origin: Ohio
Character State of Residence: Ohio
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: War hero, charismatic, strong rural and working-class support, high name recognition, military support, popular among young conservatives.
Main Weaknesses: Extremely socially conservative, splinters from the paleoconservative base due to his militaristic foreign policy, may be too economically liberal for traditional Republicans, soft on guns, quite corrupt, somewhat controversial, not entirely mentally stable.
Biography: Roffe was a working-class man, with both his parents being land-owning yet poor farmers who sold to large clients that. In his younger years, he began to resent wealth and what he deemed as 'elites', as he often heard conversations across the walls where his parents were threatened by the representatives of rich men. In order to gain an education, he joined the USM, went to ROTC and got his degree to become an officer, qualifying for the Elite Rangers, and was specifically chosen for UNOSOM I. He got a bit of a reputation as a vicious fighter, and so was deployed to UNOSOM II, and was one of the soldiers stuck behind enemy lines in the Battle of Mogadishu, and had seized a Somali position containing machine guns with the remaining members of his personal fireteam (as he was a major at the time), and had held off Somali troops for several hours of constant fire and bloodshed, until they ran out of ammo and charged down with knives to meet the rest of the force. Roffe was the only survivor, and was left heavily injured, particularly in the right leg, yet uncaptured, to be extracted. The TV coverage of the area had granted Roffe name recognition, etc...HIs actions were awarded a Medal of Honor by President Clifford. He was later interviewed for Black Hawk Down and was recruited for the film of the same name to ensure that it was accurate, albeit he pushed his political slant on the film, being one of the few people that made it the pro-war piece that it became. He also took an advanced infantry course at Fort Benning once he had recovered, allowing him to become a West Point company tactical officer, later becoming the Executive Officer for the 19th Mountain Division after taking a US Army Command and General Staff Course.

He joined the war in Iraq, first as Chief of Staff at United States Central Command, leading several stratagems and later being promoted to head up the Iraq mission - and writing (albeit not publishing) a few books on military strategy, along with a few fiction books with war themes. He didn't touch on politics that much in his books, but many began to analyse his books and determine that he had a right-wing slant when they were finally ghostrewritten and released prior to his run for Governor of Ohio. He hired some ghostwriters, handed them some ideas and gave them a share of the profits from his name recognition in getting the Medal of Honor. Meanwhile, back in Iraq, he got appointed as head of the MNC, commanding over 150,000 troops, and his actions had earned him both infamy and fame back home, for his strong yet brutal manoeuvres, helping crush the Iraqi army in good time and he continued being hailed as a hero even after the war became unpopular. After the dissolution of the MNC, Roffe was reassigned to Afghanistan and promoted to General, commanding the ISAF and helping to run the show, heading up the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

However, while he still held his political opinions, he mostly focused on his military service until the Governor of Ohio declared his surprise announcement to retire - some say because of Roffe's allies coercing them into it, although he did no such thing - and so Roffe came in, charging at what many saw as a shoo-in for a prominent moderate Congressman, managing to triumph over them, climbing just over the top in the primary, then destroying his opponent in a landslide at the general election as 6-year syndrome set in, thumping his opponent 59-39 (worse than IRL), after his opponent was hit by several scandals, some researched by Roffe's team - who many of his detractors named the Ohio CREEP for its viciousness in going after many of the leads that they found against the opponent in question - and others simply emerging organically as a result of his opponent's lack of discretion.

Roffe himself, however, had quite a bit of discretion, some would say too much, as he has been called paranoid and mad, with one socialist journal even printing out that he was 'mentally ill', and Roffe, taking personal offence at the attack, sued the journal for libel and won damages, even getting a psychiatrist in to prove the allegations weren't true. In terms of his personal life, he has a wife - who has been considering getting into politics herself - and five children, along with two grandchildren.

Roffe, immediately upon taking office, soon became a darling of the far-right, some say almost out of nowhere. He became a mainstay of FOX News whenever they needed a conservative Republican, and developed a national following, both of supporters and detractors, for his controversial statements. Conservative Republicans called him the future of the party, while liberal Democrats denounced him as a madman and a fascist, as he struck back with colourful rhetoric, once telling a BLM protester at one of his events to "shut up and sit down" and called her a "coward and a socialist", which attracted much denouncement from many calling his comments racist and sexist.

However, for some reason yet unknown to people, while this increased the strength of his detractors, this didn't make him any less popular, portraying himself as a man of the people and honed his skills at selling an image, reminding people of his military service which would be reminiscient of [not-Kerry] were he not so aggressive about it. Meanwhile, in his first term, much to the surprise of many, he actually did things, signing a bill to reverse his predecessor's tax bill - slashing sales tax and raising income tax as he did so - while implementing universal preschool for the entire state, slashing renewable energy subsidies and signing a heartbeat bill in 2016. (Note: the IRL Ohio legislature passed such a bill, it was just vetoed by Kasich)

He also privatised prisons - making very close friends of the CEOs of those companies in the process, using the money to increase fossil fuel subsidies and create coal jobs across his home region of Southeast Ohio. He also signed into law a medicaid expansion law, and implemented bills to strengthen charter schools and provide school choice to Ohio, while increasing the funding of public schools there, in order to prevent a teachers' strike. He also fought an effort by civil rights organisations to legalise same-sex marriage in Ohio in the early part of his term in 2014, defeating the ballot measure soundly, however Obergefell v. Hodges made his attempts to fight against it moot.

Roffe was then the keynote speaker at the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast - of which he was a regular attender - and he had made a fiery speech calling for the need to restore morality in American politics and talking about the need for a national rebirth under God and to recognise the Christian heart of America. This had built up speculation of a possible Presidential run, with many fearing that he would come to power. However, that did not happen. Instead, he spoke with a certain man from Maine, whom he had been contacting since his rise to the Governor of Ohio, with him having made some political donations to his campaign. They became very close friends, agreeing on a strong conservative viewpoint.

Upon Wolf's announcement to run, Roffe endorsed him, and in return he was given a leading role within the campaign. Roffe, in an off the record with a reporter, once said about this, "It's not about winning. It's about pushing an agenda. It's about...a real conservative, a push towards a better and stronger America. Reagan said he'd make America great again and so will Wolf. I don't care about winning. If I wanted to win I'd endorse [not-Cruz] or some other fellow. But I want a new movement, for a different America, for an ascendant conservatism that will lead us to a brighter dawn. Even if we lose...we're going to make all the establishment shriek."

Well, despite what he expected, Wolf won not just the primary, but the general election too. And so Wolf reached out to him, offering Defence or maybe State. Roffe refused, saying that he preferred to be Governor, but would work with Wolf on many key issues. And so he did. He often spoke out in defence of the Wolf administration on every TV and radio station, along with speaking to Wolf personally at least once or twice a week. Meanwhile, despite a strong challenge, he was reelected 52-47 in 2018, and in his second term had got to work on various other issues, implementing universal background checks and red flag laws while - in the same bill - expanding concealed and open carry permits. He also built a large rail network, known as OhioRail, with partial funding from the federal government (as he influenced Wolf to help him with the project in 2017 to help him coast to reelection), which is up and running and employing thousands of people. He also implemented jobs training programmes and grants for afterschool clubs.

During the recession, he sent out stimulus cheques and provided support for small businesses, being widely praised in his home state and beyond for his broadly popular response, although some fiscal conservatives condemned him for his large-scale spending and increasing Ohio's deficit more and more.

Upon the announcement of Wolf's brain tumour, he began to receive a decent political draft, with around 30,000 signatures for him to run for President, as many saw him as a reasonable successor to Wolf, along with one of his friends. He ran for President and got the same results Porter did in LOTF, barring any other externalities. However, unlike Porter, he went all the way to the convention, managing to sway Richardson on a few parts of the party platform.

After 2020, he helped Richardson win the election by campaigning for him in wavering Rust Belt states, including and especially neighbouring Michigan and Pennsylvania, and spoke publicly with members of the young right, such as [not-Charlie Kirk] and [not-Ben Shapiro], while offering support for candidates of his own ideology downballot.

Other Info: Personality-wise, many see him as dangerous and dictatorial, prone to bouts of inchoate anger. Economically moderate, socially conservative.

Israel: "The Jews have a right to their holy land. There is only one solution I recognise: the one-state solution."
Foreign Wars: "We must not let fear stop us from doing what must be done, from doing what is necessary. I have been there, down in the trenches myself, and I would gladly do it again."
Foreign Aid: "I believe in limited amounts of foreign aid, as a method of regime change."
Same-Sex Marriage: "The issue of gay marriage must be left to the religious institutions of this nation. I will not force a man to do a ceremony nor make a cake for a thing he does not believe in."
Immigration: "We must stop the migrant caravan, stop the drugs and stop the illegal border crossings. Human trafficking, rape and other savagery at our border must stop. We must put in strict citizenship tests, strict English tests and a points-based system for immigration. I believe in the melting pot - assimilate or get out."
Refugees and Asylum Seekers: "Many of those who claim to be fleeing death are economic leeches, terrorists or rapists. We must screen them to the highest degree, and only allow a limited number in."
Marijuana: "Marijuana is a gateway drug. Legalising it - and any other drug - would be a symbol of the moral degeneracy of our nation and our lack of concern for our children."
Abortion: "Abortion should be legal only in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's life."
Healthcare: "I think medicare for all is a very very expensive thing...I think everyone should have healthcare - and by that I include private healthcare - so I think personally on this issue I would stand in favour of a medicaid expansion as I have stood for in my record as Governor."
HIgher Education: "We must end the education inequality faced by working-class families such as mine. We must also offer more funding for STEM programmes and for education in general. I believe in income-controlled grants, taken away from criminals and from known benefits scammers...In our country, you see all these students, all these young, curious people, brainwashed to hate America. Ban the teaching of critical race theory and ensure Patriotic Education!"
Inequality: "All men and women are born equal, and die equal. We must allow all to eat and sustain their basic needs, after all - as long as they work, of course. We must end the economy of greed that we have made, and replace it with an economy of duty and hard work. Consumerism and greed isn't all there is to life, and we would all do well to remember that at times."
Energy: "We can keep a stable world, a prosperous world, with coal and oil, just as long as we adapt to the changing climate. Switching to wind and solar is an attack on blue-collar jobs, and the Democrats know it!"
Taxation: "Bring up tariffs to cut taxes on the working and middle class!"
Electoral College: "This country was built on the rights of the states and I see no reason to disrupt that."
Guns: "Don't let lunatics or criminals have guns. Give guns to people who need them: hunters, gun ranges and particularly the vulnerable."
LGBT: "The condition of sodomy is a sickness of the mind and transsexuality is no different."
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: The World Capitalist Confederation

Do Not Remove: 84721

Alright let us take a look at Porter Jr.

1. Land in rural Ohio is not lucrative enough for a major company's representatives to start threatening a family. The risk to reward ratio doesn't make sense. You can just say that they ran into financial difficulties and were forced to sell the farm
2. A major is not gonna be running around with his personal fireteam that is Lieutenant/Captain work
3. How did this person miraculously survive the encounter with the Somalis? No action movie events, better to have him lead the relief convoy where he showed immense personal bravery
4. Everybody and their dog knows that "his" books are ghostwritten they would not have known his political stance only his ghostwriter's
5. I am going to have to veto the medal of honor, he was given a Distinguished Service Cross
5.Election results make sense as 2014 was known for being a year where many "angry" types won primaries, and the Democratic candidate is a walking disaster
6. Saying that somebody is "mentally ill" is not sufficient in the United States to win damages thanks to the very broad interpretation of the 1st amendment. He has to prove that the publication substantially harmed him in some one. He lost the suit against the socialist newspaper
7. Ohio doesn't really mine that much coal, change his increased fossil fuel subsidies to fracking
8. No universal pre-K, the best he can do is give every family a pre-K refundable tax credit
9. He can defeat the gay marriage ballot measure by pulling strings behind the scenes to make an insufficient number of signatures appear
10. Obama is not going to invite this dude to be the Speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast, he will have to speak in 2017 with Wolf as President
11. The gun laws that he proposed are not going to pass Ohio's state legislature

by **Sarenium** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:02 pm

Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi wrote:
The Sarangtus Lands wrote:
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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: The Sarangtus Lands
Character Name: Eric Roffe
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 56
Character Height: 215cm
Character Weight: 100kg
Character Position/Role/Job: Commander of the MNC (2004-2009), Commander of the ISAF (2010-2014), Governor of Ohio (2014-)
Appearance: Paul Gosar
Character State of Origin: Ohio
Character State of Residence: Ohio
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: War hero, charismatic, strong rural and working-class support, high name recognition, military support, popular among young conservatives.
Main Weaknesses: Extremely socially conservative, splinters from the paleoconservative base due to his militaristic foreign policy, may be too economically liberal for traditional Republicans, soft on guns, quite corrupt, somewhat controversial, not entirely mentally stable.
Biography: Roffe was a working-class man, with both his parents being land-owning yet poor farmers who sold to large clients that. In his younger years, he began to resent wealth and what he deemed as 'elites', as he often heard conversations across the walls where his parents were threatened by the representatives of rich men. In order to gain an education, he joined the USM, went to ROTC and got his degree to become an officer, qualifying for the Elite Rangers, and was specifically chosen for UNOSOM I. He got a bit of a reputation as a vicious fighter, and so was deployed to UNOSOM II, and was one of the soldiers stuck behind enemy lines in the Battle of Mogadishu, and had seized a Somali position containing machine guns with the remaining members of his personal fireteam (as he was a major at the time), and had held off Somali troops for several hours of constant fire and bloodshed, until they ran out of ammo and charged down with knives to meet the rest of the force. Roffe was the only survivor, and was left heavily injured, particularly in the right leg, yet uncaptured, to be extracted. The TV coverage of the area had granted Roffe name recognition, etc...HIs actions were awarded a Medal of Honor by President Clifford. He was later interviewed for Black Hawk Down and was recruited for the film of the same name to ensure that it was accurate, albeit he pushed his political slant on the film, being one of the few people that made it the pro-war piece that it became. He also took an advanced infantry course at Fort Benning once he had recovered, allowing him to become a West Point company tactical officer, later becoming the Executive Officer for the 19th Mountain Division after taking a US Army Command and General Staff Course.

He joined the war in Iraq, first as Chief of Staff at United States Central Command, leading several stratagems and later being promoted to head up the Iraq mission - and writing (albeit not publishing) a few books on military strategy, along with a few fiction books with war themes. He didn't touch on politics that much in his books, but many began to analyse his books and determine that he had a right-wing slant when they were finally ghostrewritten and released prior to his run for Governor of Ohio. He hired some ghostwriters, handed them some ideas and gave them a share of the profits from his name recognition in getting the Medal of Honor. Meanwhile, back in Iraq, he got appointed as head of the MNC, commanding over 150,000 troops, and his actions had earned him both infamy and fame back home, for his strong yet brutal manoeuvres, helping crush the Iraqi army in good time and he continued being hailed as a hero even after the war became unpopular. After the dissolution of the MNC, Roffe was reassigned to Afghanistan and promoted to General, commanding the ISAF and helping to run the show, heading up the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

However, while he still held his political opinions, he mostly focused on his military service until the Governor of Ohio declared his surprise announcement to retire - some say because of Roffe's allies coercing them into it, although he did no such thing - and so Roffe came in, charging at what many saw as a shoo-in for a prominent moderate Congressman, managing to triumph over them, climbing just over the top in the primary, then destroying his opponent in a landslide at the general election as 6-year syndrome set in, thumping his opponent 59-39 (worse than IRL), after his opponent was hit by several scandals, some researched by Roffe's team - who many of his detractors named the Ohio CREEP for its viciousness in going after many of the leads that they found against the opponent in question - and others simply emerging organically as a result of his opponent's lack of discretion.

Roffe himself, however, had quite a bit of discretion, some would say too much, as he has been called paranoid and mad, with one socialist journal even printing out that he was 'mentally ill', and Roffe, taking personal offence at the attack, sued the journal for libel and won damages, even getting a psychiatrist in to prove the allegations weren't true. In terms of his personal life, he has a wife - who has been considering getting into politics herself - and five children, along with two grandchildren.

Roffe, immediately upon taking office, soon became a darling of the far-right, some say almost out of nowhere. He became a mainstay of FOX News whenever they needed a conservative Republican, and developed a national following, both of supporters and detractors, for his controversial statements. Conservative Republicans called him the future of the party, while liberal Democrats denounced him as a madman and a fascist, as he struck back with colourful rhetoric, once telling a BLM protester at one of his events to "shut up and sit down" and called her a "coward and a socialist", which attracted much denouncement from many calling his comments racist and sexist.

However, for some reason yet unknown to people, while this increased the strength of his detractors, this didn't make him any less popular, portraying himself as a man of the people and honed his skills at selling an image, reminding people of his military service which would be reminiscient of [not-Kerry] were he not so aggressive about it. Meanwhile, in his first term, much to the surprise of many, he actually did things, signing a bill to reverse his predecessor's tax bill - slashing sales tax and raising income tax as he did so - while implementing universal preschool for the entire state, slashing renewable energy subsidies and signing a heartbeat bill in 2016. (Note: the IRL Ohio legislature passed such a bill, it was just vetoed by Kasich)

He also privatised prisons - making very close friends of the CEOs of those companies in the process, using the money to increase fossil fuel subsidies and create coal jobs across his home region of Southeast Ohio. He also signed into law a medicaid expansion law, and implemented bills to strengthen charter schools and provide school choice to Ohio, while increasing the funding of public schools there, in order to prevent a teachers' strike. He also fought an effort by civil rights organisations to legalise same-sex marriage in Ohio in the early part of his term in 2014, defeating the ballot measure soundly, however Obergefell v. Hodges made his attempts to fight against it moot.

Roffe was then the keynote speaker at the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast - of which he was a regular attender - and he had made a fiery speech calling for the need to restore morality in American politics and talking about the need for a national rebirth under God and to recognise the Christian heart of America. This had built up speculation of a possible Presidential run, with many fearing that he would come to power. However, that did not happen. Instead, he spoke with a certain man from Maine, whom he had been contacting since his rise to the Governor of Ohio, with him having made some political donations to his campaign. They became very close friends, agreeing on a strong conservative viewpoint.

Upon Wolf's announcement to run, Roffe endorsed him, and in return he was given a leading role within the campaign. Roffe, in an off the record with a reporter, once said about this, "It's not about winning. It's about pushing an agenda. It's about...a real conservative, a push towards a better and stronger America. Reagan said he'd make America great again and so will Wolf. I don't care about winning. If I wanted to win I'd endorse [not-Cruz] or some other fellow. But I want a new movement, for a different America, for an ascendant conservatism that will lead us to a brighter dawn. Even if we lose...we're going to make all the establishment shriek."

Well, despite what he expected, Wolf won not just the primary, but the general election too. And so Wolf reached out to him, offering Defence or maybe State. Roffe refused, saying that he preferred to be Governor, but would work with Wolf on many key issues. And so he did. He often spoke out in defence of the Wolf administration on every TV and radio station, along with speaking to Wolf personally at least once or twice a week. Meanwhile, despite a strong challenge, he was reelected 52-47 in 2018, and in his second term had got to work on various other issues, implementing universal background checks and red flag laws while - in the same bill - expanding concealed and open carry permits. He also built a large rail network, known as OhioRail, with partial funding from the federal government (as he influenced Wolf to help him with the project in 2017 to help him coast to reelection), which is up and running and employing thousands of people. He also implemented jobs training programmes and grants for afterschool clubs.

During the recession, he sent out stimulus cheques and provided support for small businesses, being widely praised in his home state and beyond for his broadly popular response, although some fiscal conservatives condemned him for his large-scale spending and increasing Ohio's deficit more and more.

Upon the announcement of Wolf's brain tumour, he began to receive a decent political draft, with around 30,000 signatures for him to run for President, as many saw him as a reasonable successor to Wolf, along with one of his friends. He ran for President and got the same results Porter did in LOTF, barring any other externalities. However, unlike Porter, he went all the way to the convention, managing to sway Richardson on a few parts of the party platform.

After 2020, he helped Richardson win the election by campaigning for him in wavering Rust Belt states, including and especially neighbouring Michigan and Pennsylvania, and spoke publicly with members of the young right, such as [not-Charlie Kirk] and [not-Ben Shapiro], while offering support for candidates of his own ideology downballot.

Other Info: Personality-wise, many see him as dangerous and dictatorial, prone to bouts of inchoate anger. Economically moderate, socially conservative.

Israel: "The Jews have a right to their holy land. There is only one solution I recognise: the one-state solution."
Foreign Wars: "We must not let fear stop us from doing what must be done, from doing what is necessary. I have been there, down in the trenches myself, and I would gladly do it again."
Foreign Aid: "I believe in limited amounts of foreign aid, as a method of regime change."
Same-Sex Marriage: "The issue of gay marriage must be left to the religious institutions of this nation. I will not force a man to do a ceremony nor make a cake for a thing he does not believe in."
Immigration: "We must stop the migrant caravan, stop the drugs and stop the illegal border crossings. Human trafficking, rape and other savagery at our border must stop. We must put in strict citizenship tests, strict English tests and a points-based system for immigration. I believe in the melting pot - assimilate or get out."
Refugees and Asylum Seekers: "Many of those who claim to be fleeing death are economic leeches, terrorists or rapists. We must screen them to the highest degree, and only allow a limited number in."
Marijuana: "Marijuana is a gateway drug. Legalising it - and any other drug - would be a symbol of the moral degeneracy of our nation and our lack of concern for our children."
Abortion: "Abortion should be legal only in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's life."
Healthcare: "I think medicare for all is a very very expensive thing...I think everyone should have healthcare - and by that I include private healthcare - so I think personally on this issue I would stand in favour of a medicaid expansion as I have stood for in my record as Governor."
HIgher Education: "We must end the education inequality faced by working-class families such as mine. We must also offer more funding for STEM programmes and for education in general. I believe in income-controlled grants, taken away from criminals and from known benefits scammers...In our country, you see all these students, all these young, curious people, brainwashed to hate America. Ban the teaching of critical race theory and ensure Patriotic Education!"
Inequality: "All men and women are born equal, and die equal. We must allow all to eat and sustain their basic needs, after all - as long as they work, of course. We must end the economy of greed that we have made, and replace it with an economy of duty and hard work. Consumerism and greed isn't all there is to life, and we would all do well to remember that at times."
Energy: "We can keep a stable world, a prosperous world, with coal and oil, just as long as we adapt to the changing climate. Switching to wind and solar is an attack on blue-collar jobs, and the Democrats know it!"
Taxation: "Bring up tariffs to cut taxes on the working and middle class!"
Electoral College: "This country was built on the rights of the states and I see no reason to disrupt that."
Guns: "Don't let lunatics or criminals have guns. Give guns to people who need them: hunters, gun ranges and particularly the vulnerable."
LGBT: "The condition of sodomy is a sickness of the mind and transsexuality is no different."
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: The World Capitalist Confederation

Do Not Remove: 84721

Alright let us take a look at Porter Jr.

1. Land in rural Ohio is not lucrative enough for a major company's representatives to start threatening a family. The risk to reward ratio doesn't make sense. You can just say that they ran into financial difficulties and were forced to sell the farm
2. A major is not gonna be running around with his personal fireteam that is Lieutenant/Captain work
3. How did this person miraculously survive the encounter with the Somalis? No action movie events, better to have him lead the relief convoy where he showed immense personal bravery
4. Everybody and their dog knows that "his" books are ghostwritten they would not have known his political stance only his ghostwriter's
5. I am going to have to veto the medal of honor, he was given a Distinguished Service Cross
5.Election results make sense as 2014 was known for being a year where many "angry" types won primaries, and the Democratic candidate is a walking disaster
6. Saying that somebody is "mentally ill" is not sufficient in the United States to win damages thanks to the very broad interpretation of the 1st amendment. He has to prove that the publication substantially harmed him in some one. He lost the suit against the socialist newspaper
7. Ohio doesn't really mine that much coal, change his increased fossil fuel subsidies to fracking
8. No universal pre-K, the best he can do is give every family a pre-K refundable tax credit
9. He can defeat the gay marriage ballot measure by pulling strings behind the scenes to make an insufficient number of signatures appear
10. Obama is not going to invite this dude to be the Speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast, he will have to speak in 2017 with Wolf as President
11. The gun laws that he proposed are not going to pass Ohio's state legislature

Mr. Roffe also needs a character model.

by **Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:05 pm

Yaruqo wrote:Whew, I did it. It's been a while since I've done one of these apps, but I've tried to stick to RL trends for KS-3 and go from there.

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Yaruqo
Character Name: Oliver Miller
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 35
Character Height: 5' 8"
Character Weight: 162 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: United States Representative of the 3rd Congressional District of Kansas (2019 - Present); Overland Park City Council Member for the 6th Ward (2013 - 2018)
Character Country/State of Birth: Kansas
Character State of Residence: Kansas
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths: Strong local connections; personable and empathetic; emphasis on constituent services; "history making" election and re-election as Kansas's first LGBTQ Member of Congress has ensured continued fundraising support from a growing number of LGBTQ political action committees and power-building groups.
Main Weaknesses: His congressional district, which has been trending blue since 2016, is a target of state and national Republicans who aim to gerrymander it to a stronger Republican district and/or flip it red; while he has stronger bases of support in the major suburban areas of the district, the few rural areas swing too far to the right; many of his campaign promises may be unable to pass under a Republican Congress, could affect re-election chances.
Biography:

Oliver Miller was born to Timothy and Jocelyn Miller on February 12, 1986 in Overland Park, Kansas. An only child, his Methodist parents doted on him as he grew up, entertaining him and his various interests - from archaeology, to mythology, and ultimately history and politics. He was a loner in high school, with a small circle of friends. His eleventh grade American History teacher went above and beyond to foster Oliver's interest and helped cultivate in him a desire to teach social studies and civics and help other kids feel welcome at school. With a goal in mind, Oliver would enroll into the University of Kansas in the fall of 2004, where he would graduate with a Bachelor's in Secondary History & Government Education in the spring of 2008.

It was in the midst of his college years that Oliver felt that he was not quite like his classmates and friends. Sure, he felt more welcomed here with his a larger clique of nerds and Dungeons and Dragons players than he had through his childhood, but this feeling was deeper than that. He had a feeling that he liked men, but with the state of sexual education in Kansas and the Internet still in its relatively infant stages, he didn't really know how to comfortably explore his feelings in a comfortable or safe environment. So instead, he had thrown himself deep into his studies, hoping to excel and push aside these thoughts and feelings whenever they arose. For a time, it worked.

He earned his teaching certification for secondary social studies and began teaching as a secondary substitute teacher in one of the few resident school districts back in Overland Park in the fall of 2009, having taken odd jobs in the interim as he prepared for his certification. When the school district finally hired him as a full time teacher in 2010, he was excited to leave his mark. Much as he did with his tertiary studies, he threw himself into his role as a middle school social studies teacher, winning praise from the district and parents alike. He had a reputation for being patient with his students, dedicating time after school to help those who were struggling with assignments or subjects.

In 2010, he had volunteered for the then-Democratic incumbent who served as the U.S. Representative for the 3rd Congressional District of Kansas, Sandra Shore, primarily fundraising and canvassing. Despite the district containing both the Kansas City suburbs and Lawrence, the amount of anti-Baharia sentiment by 2010 had overwhelmed local Democratic efforts to maintain control of the district and, subsequently, the rest of the House of Representatives, resulting in the seat flipping to Republican Stephen Wooler after twelve years of Democratic control, who had painted himself as a moderate against "Baharia's communist policies," despite Congresswoman Shore being a Blue Dog Democrat. Shocked that his community would buy into what he perceived to be outright drivel, Oliver sought to improve civic education in his school and the wider school district. A year later, the Kansas State Legislature would redraw the maps after the 2010 census and cut Lawrence out from the 3rd Congressional District in a bid to strengthen now-Congressman Wooler's position. Oliver was further shocked at the naked hard-elbowed maneuvers of his parents' Republican Party. He lost faith that Republicans would play by the rules that Democrats bent over backwards to avoid breaking.

His frustrations with the system and the status quo would boil over in 2012, when he decided to run for the city council of Overland Park. Even though he had only been a teacher for a few years, he had seen firsthand that mental health care was taking a backseat on the municipal and school board levels of governance: students felt alone; bullying was on the rise, a trend coinciding with the rise of social media platforms; and mental health care resources were either delegated to teachers and guidance counselors at best, or neglected at worst. Since the laws of the city made it so that all municipal elections were nonpartisan, Oliver and his small, dedicated team of family members, friends, and Johnson County Democrats worked hard to set him apart from his challengers, emphasizing a platform that focused on improving mental health care in Overland Park, maintaining the city's fiscal responsibility by balancing low property taxes with smart investments, and increased spending in infrastructure and transportation spending to overhaul the city's roads and sewers. Oliver would win the race, securing his first 4 year term as one of two city council members of Overland Park's 6th Ward in the south of the city. On the city council, he championed programs to improve mental health care and mental health care in the city, urging his colleagues to remember that, "Not all wounds are visible, and we can only guess at the battles our families, friends, and colleagues are wrestling with." This initiative ultimately passed, and Councilman Miller would go on to sponsor and co-sponsor other pieces of legislation with some of his more liberal or center-left leaning colleagues on the council to push through projects that would make the city's downtown areas safer for pedestrians, introduce smart sewer programs to the city, and initiatives to set up green energy infrastructure. There were some victories, and there were some defeats - Oliver's bill to introduce a nondiscrimination ordinance that would expand protections to LGBTQ people was tabled when the mayor and city manager feared that Governor NotBrownback, who had a reputation of being a staunch Catholic and conservative, would sue the city on the grounds of "religious discrimination."

By the launch of Oliver Miller's re-election campaign in 2016, he had grown more confident in himself, who he was, and what that meant. First, he privately came out as a gay man to his parents, who maintained their love and unabashed acceptance of their son. A couple months after he launched his re-election campaign, he submitted an op-ed to the Kansas City Star, penning an open letter to his constituents. In the letter, he walked readers through his journey to self-awareness of his sexual orientation, touching on the loneliness he felt growing up; he guided them through his journey to accepting who he was; and finally, he declared that, "I look forward to continuing to serve you, unashamed, with nothing to hide, and with nothing to fear. Regardless of your decision on Election Day, know that being your Councilman has been one of the greatest honors of my life, and may God bless and keep you all." While the op-ed won him the odd glare from neighbors and community members, for the most part, many Overland Park residents fell into two camps, which Oliver summed up to friends into two statements: "Okay, and what are you going to do about our utilities?" and "I'm so happy for you! I love the gays!" Oliver would go on to win re-election that fall.

Continuing to focus on mental health, public safety, and infrastructure, Oliver would have continued into his second term without complaint had it not been for the election of President Arnold Wolf, who had lost the popular vote count in the Kansas 3rd by 1% to [NotHillaryClinton or ATB Character Here]. The suburbs that dominated the 3rd Congressional District of Kansas hadn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in years, and now, with a raving extremist at the head of the Republican Party, it appeared that Democrats had a shot to effect some change in ruby red Kansas, bit by bit. Oliver was encouraged by the DCCC, the Victory Fund, and local Democratic organizations to weigh a run against Congressman Stephen Wooler, who had taken a more stringent right wing position than he had initially begun with back in 2010. On December 18th, 2017, Oliver announced his intent to run for the Democratic nomination for congressional seat, entering a somewhat crowded Democratic primary. Oliver would ultimately push ahead and win the August 2018 primary with 38% of the vote, with the closest challenger, a former NotBernieSanders campaign surrogate in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, snagging 34% of the vote. It is at this point that the campaign took a savage turn. A far-right conspiracy theorist popular in alt-right online spaces began to tweet and share social media posts that claimed that Oliver had abused children while he was a substitute teacher in 2009. The claims, like much of what the conspiracy theorist had declared before - including that a well known Democratic Senator had a steamy affair with a much younger Marine - were unsubstantiated, but it didn't stop the Wooler campaign from leaping on it, perhaps with the goal of depressing Democratic turnout and encouraging Wolfist supporters to turnout. The Miller campaign and Democratic campaign organs hit back hard against the Congressman, but Oliver himself, while privately distraught over the allegations, publicly focused on the issues with voters: he promised accountability for the Wolf Administration's oversteps and conduct; he would work with Kansas City area Members of Congress - Democrat and Republican - to get the Department of Transportation to modernize and overhaul the beltway that fed into the greater Kansas City area; improve public education funding, particularly for Title I schools and school districts; and to work on legislation that would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices and get generics to the market faster, among other goals. He acknowledged to voters that some of these goals might not be possible with a Republican in the White House, especially one like Arnold Wolf, but he promised that while he would push on those priorities in Congress, in the meantime, his office would also put greater value and focus on constituent relations. On November 4th, 2018, Oliver Miller was elected to represent the 3rd Congressional District of Kansas with 53.3% of the vote, to Congressman Wooler's 44.2%.

Since his election, Oliver has mostly tried to follow the lead of Democratic Congressional leadership, all to wary of how precarious his position is. He has met mixed success in getting resources to his district, but just as he warned, very few of his priorities could be accomplished with Arnold Wolf in the White House. As history would have it, Wolf would not be in office for much longer, and by the November 2020 election, the showdown between Vice President Diehl and Governor Richardson would reach into his suburban district. Where other Democrats suffered defeats, Oliver's constituent service emphasis, honesty and empathy with regards to the situation he and his constituents faced, both politically and in light of the 2020 recession, maintained his favorability in the polls. It certainly didn't help that the local Republican machine nominated a Wolfist that alienated moderate Republicans and fired up Democratic voters at a time when lack of enthusiasm for the presidential candidates threatened turnout for both parties across the board. Oliver Miller was re-elected to office with 53.5% of the vote, touting a platform that declared that, with economic crisis hitting the nation and its most vulnerable communities, nothing short of historic investment in all communities could bring about an all-American recovery. Privately, Oliver is unsure about how such a recovery can go through, but he will be damned if he doesn't try.

One other footnote: when the Overland Park City Council voted to adopt a nondiscrimination ordinance in 2019, Oliver Miller was one of the first to be notified. It's said he grinned ear from ear and said a silent prayer of thanks that his hometown saw it through.

Other Info: Single as a Pringle, though he has exhibited interest in starting a relationship. He is also a practicing Methodist and belongs to an LGBT-affirming Methodist church in Overland Park.

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