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by Civia Welephilostopia » Mon May 23, 2022 5:24 am
by The Sarangtus Lands » Mon May 23, 2022 8:52 am
Civia Welephilostopia wrote:(Image)
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Character Application and Information Sheet
NS Nation Name: Civia Welephilostopia
Character Name: Buloin Jenson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 38
Character Date of Birth: 14th September 1969
Character Position/Role/Job: Governor of Oregon (1st term)
Character Country/State of Birth: USA, South Carolina
Character State of Residence: Portland, Oregon
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Strong Grassroots support, small business support and greens support.
Main Weaknesses: outspoken within the party, weak support all over and lack of big business funding.
Biography: Buloin Jenson was born in a quaint country town somewhere on the cost of South Carolina in 1969, the child of ordinary parents at the time he would spend his preschool and kindergarten years in south carolina before moving to finland when he was 7 so that his dad could pursue a lucrative job in Helsinki, he would stay in finland with his family all through elementary school learning and integrating himself with the finnish culture, eventually however, he would have to move back to the US but instead of heading back to South Carolina he would instead find himself in Oregon where he would eventually graduate and get a PhD in Economic at Brown University when he was 21, despite having left Finland at a young age he would become fascinated with the systems of government and economy that Finland and Scandinavia used, he would work a job as an aide to the Mayoral office in Portland where his political career would begin.
When he was only 27 he would be promoted to the mopst senior aide position to the Mayor allowing him to experiment with his economic ideas, he would first introduce a small scale bike hire program desinged to increase the health of the average resident of Portland to mixed success, after that he would oversee many smaller projects until he would be in charge of his largest achievement to date, the Small Business Creation Review Board or SBCR, SBCR was where he put everything to use, using low taxes and government subsidies those small businesses helped boost Portlands economy after a recent Reccession.
When he was 32 he ran for Governor of Oregon, his promises were, more small businesses with less taxes and more subsidies coupled with renewed funding in transportation and tackling climate change, due to his previous position as the chair of SBCR he had strong grassroots and small business support however was seen as a near total outsider to most Oregonians, he failed to court big bussiness resulting in less ads however his opponent was even less popular than he was, even with all of that said on election night the faces were tense with dread and hope forming an odd mix and filling the room, when he was announced as the winner he set about getting to work, however being a radical within his own party meant that up until now he had spent consolifdating power and passing minor legislation.
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Do Not Remove: DRAFT123123
by The Orion Islands » Mon May 23, 2022 10:48 am
Government Oil Purchases Act
A BILL
To require that federal, state, tribal, and local governments use oil drilled by American workers and North American partners in order to free America from foreign oil domination.
Sponsor: Senator Everitt Colbert
Senate Sponsors:
House Sponsors:
SECTION 1: SHORT TITLEThis Act may be cited as the "Government Oil Purchases Act".
SECTION 2: Fuel purchasing proceduresBy a date not later than January 1st, 2010, all gasoline, diesel fuel, and other petroleum based fuels purchased by the government of the United States (including the United States Armed Forces), and all state, local, and tribal governments, and used within the territory of the United States shall be produced from petroleum sourced from the territory of the United States as well as the Dominion of Canada and the United Mexican States.
SECTION 3: American prioritizationIn complying with Section 2, the federal government, as well as state local, and tribal governments, shall seek to prioritize fuels produced from American petroleum, though Canadian and Mexican sourced fuels are acceptable provided the purchaser makes a good faith effort to source its fuels from American sources.
SECTION 4: Foreign use exemptionPetroleum based fuels purchased by the government of the United States for use outside of her territory may come from petroleum produced from countries other than those listed in Section 2, provided that the fuel is not produced from petroleum produced in nations that have been designated State Sponsors of Terrorism or are under United States or NATO sanctions on fuel and petroleum.
by Meretica » Mon May 23, 2022 10:50 am
The Orion Islands wrote:(Image)
Government Oil Purchases Act
A BILL
To require that federal, state, tribal, and local governments use oil drilled by American workers and North American partners in order to free America from foreign oil domination.
Sponsor: Senator Everitt Colbert
Senate Sponsors:
House Sponsors:
SECTION 1: SHORT TITLEThis Act may be cited as the "Government Oil Purchases Act".
SECTION 2: Fuel purchasing proceduresBy a date not later than January 1st, 2010, all gasoline, diesel fuel, and other petroleum based fuels purchased by the government of the United States (including the United States Armed Forces), and all state, local, and tribal governments, and used within the territory of the United States shall be produced from petroleum sourced from the territory of the United States as well as the Dominion of Canada and the United Mexican States.
SECTION 3: American prioritizationIn complying with Section 2, the federal government, as well as state local, and tribal governments, shall seek to prioritize fuels produced from American petroleum, though Canadian and Mexican sourced fuels are acceptable provided the purchaser makes a good faith effort to source its fuels from American sources.
SECTION 4: Foreign use exemptionPetroleum based fuels purchased by the government of the United States for use outside of her territory may come from petroleum produced from countries other than those listed in Section 2, provided that the fuel is not produced from petroleum produced in nations that have been designated State Sponsors of Terrorism or are under United States or NATO sanctions on fuel and petroleum.
Thoughts on Colbert's new fuel bill? I had to include Canadian and Mexican oil because if I didn't that would be a violation of NAFTA, and that's not a fight Colbert wants to pick right now.
by The Free Russian Tzarists » Mon May 23, 2022 12:53 pm
The Free Russian Tzarists wrote:Lavan Tiri wrote:
We have a thing about hot shots in this here place. Not only is he a hot shot (young and handsome rich dude becomes Governor of a state and also causes massive scandal), but we generally prefer new players that haven't been involved in the community before to take a place in the House of Representatives, in order to feel out their place in the RP and as a way to gauge their ability and their activity level. With that in mind and with the issues in the app itself that have been brought up, I'd advise you to try making a House member first and revisit the WA GOV idea at a later time.
Ok. Bit disappointed, but as someone who calls himself a writer, I'm not bastardizing him anymore, and I don't particularly want to have to read through the congress page. In any event, I might try again later. Thanks.
by Civia Welephilostopia » Mon May 23, 2022 4:45 pm
The Sarangtus Lands wrote:Civia Welephilostopia wrote:(Image)
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Character Application and Information Sheet
NS Nation Name: Civia Welephilostopia
Character Name: Buloin Jenson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 38
Character Date of Birth: 14th September 1969
Character Position/Role/Job: Governor of Oregon (1st term)
Character Country/State of Birth: USA, South Carolina
Character State of Residence: Portland, Oregon
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Strong Grassroots support, small business support and greens support.
Main Weaknesses: outspoken within the party, weak support all over and lack of big business funding.
Biography: Buloin Jenson was born in a quaint country town somewhere on the cost of South Carolina in 1969, the child of ordinary parents at the time he would spend his preschool and kindergarten years in south carolina before moving to finland when he was 7 so that his dad could pursue a lucrative job in Helsinki, he would stay in finland with his family all through elementary school learning and integrating himself with the finnish culture, eventually however, he would have to move back to the US but instead of heading back to South Carolina he would instead find himself in Oregon where he would eventually graduate and get a PhD in Economic at Brown University when he was 21, despite having left Finland at a young age he would become fascinated with the systems of government and economy that Finland and Scandinavia used, he would work a job as an aide to the Mayoral office in Portland where his political career would begin.
When he was only 27 he would be promoted to the mopst senior aide position to the Mayor allowing him to experiment with his economic ideas, he would first introduce a small scale bike hire program desinged to increase the health of the average resident of Portland to mixed success, after that he would oversee many smaller projects until he would be in charge of his largest achievement to date, the Small Business Creation Review Board or SBCR, SBCR was where he put everything to use, using low taxes and government subsidies those small businesses helped boost Portlands economy after a recent Reccession.
When he was 32 he ran for Governor of Oregon, his promises were, more small businesses with less taxes and more subsidies coupled with renewed funding in transportation and tackling climate change, due to his previous position as the chair of SBCR he had strong grassroots and small business support however was seen as a near total outsider to most Oregonians, he failed to court big bussiness resulting in less ads however his opponent was even less popular than he was, even with all of that said on election night the faces were tense with dread and hope forming an odd mix and filling the room, when he was announced as the winner he set about getting to work, however being a radical within his own party meant that up until now he had spent consolifdating power and passing minor legislation.
I have read and accepted the rules of the roleplay: Civia Welephilostopia
Do Not Remove: DRAFT123123
A fiscally conservative Republican isn't going to lose big business.
by Civia Welephilostopia » Mon May 23, 2022 5:02 pm
Kavanis wrote:A PhD at age 21, huh. From Brown (commuting from Oregon) no less!
by Madrinpoor » Mon May 23, 2022 5:20 pm
by The Free Russian Tzarists » Mon May 23, 2022 5:42 pm
Madrinpoor wrote:Civia Welephilostopia wrote:
well he was on campus and he was quite bright.
Nobody gets a PhD at age 21 unless they are a genius. Mid-20s at the earliest, if they don't get a bunch of degrees before that (easier with humanities PhDs, STEM PhDs usually require a bachelor or two and a masters).
by New Luciannova » Mon May 23, 2022 6:16 pm
Kavanis wrote:A PhD at age 21, huh. From Brown (commuting from Oregon) no less!
by Kavanis » Mon May 23, 2022 7:36 pm
by Civia Welephilostopia » Mon May 23, 2022 9:37 pm
Kavanis wrote:New Luciannova wrote:I don't know a lot about Brown, do they offer PhDs in economics?
I'm sure they do, but they're in Providence, so about as far from Oregon as it's possible to get.
Given how exceptionally rare it is for a 21 year old to earn a doctoral level degree (as in, reserved for the ranks of literal savants) it's pretty weird this RP is going to have two such characters.
by The Free Russian Tzarists » Tue May 24, 2022 3:20 pm
The Free Russian Tzarists wrote:
NS Nation Name: The Free Russian Tzarrists (alt: South Olpen)
Character Name: Micheal Foxheart Schript
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 39
Character Date of Birth: March 4th, 1968
Character Position/Role/Job: Governor of Washington and CEO of Dignity Co.
Character Country/State of Birth: Spokane, Washington, United States
Character State of Residence: Olympia, Washington, United States
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic Party
Faceclaim: Adam Conover
Main Strengths: Schript is incredibly wealthy, his bank balance estimated to be 52 billion dollars, not to mention his stock options. He is supported in Seattle especially, as economic growth due to the Stock Exchange and infrastructure programs aided the city during a slight financial recession. He's also supported by small and large business owners due to his generous application for grants. He is also relatively young, and handsome.
Main Weaknesses: The Washington Success Scandal is still fresh in the public imagination, and his approval rating dropped to a mere 43%. Some more liberals also see him as a lapdog to large businesses, including his own. He is also bashed by environmentalists for his pro-oil stances. Some democrats dislike him for his Reaganomics, although Republicans like it, so it's a weakness and a strength. He's disliked in California, as he is seen as the reason more Asian trade doesn't go through there.
Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs)
Overview
Micheal Foxheart ‘Rebel’ Script is an American executive, businessman, and politician currently serving as the 22nd Governor of Washington since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Michael was the founder, owner, and CEO of Dignity Co. Running and winning as the 22nd Governor of Washington in 2004-5, he currently serves in that post.
Born on March 2nd, 1958 to William and Jeanine Schript, he was rich from birth to his parent's operation of a Californian gold mine. He graduate from Harvard in 1980 with a degree in Finance and went to Stanford for a master's. Using seed money from his father and other family members, he founded Dignity Corporation and quickly amended to Dignity Co., a pharmaceutical and medical research corporation. Under good leadership and with continual financial aid from his father, it became a success, developing an effective medication against epilepsy and selling it to the highest bidder.
He continued running his business, and it continued thriving as he opened more branches across the country and North America. In 1998, he put his company on the market, selling only 35% of it. He also joined the Democratic Party that year, contributing 15 million dollars to the campaign of Bill Clinton. His father died in 2004, leaving him the Schript family fortune, which by then was a fraction of his wealth of Micheal.
He used that money to begin a campaign in Washington to become Governor. He promised the support of small businesses and an infrastructure bill as key points, and also said that he would be socially progressive. He ran against the Republican candidate, Sherley Firns, outspending her by 134% to overcome his lack of reputation. He won with the support of 53% of the voting populace and was inaugurated on January 12th, 2005.
He spent his first year tackling infrastructure. He announced in March that he would work with Democrats and bi-partisans to create an infrastructure bill. His plans came to fruition in July, he signed the Washington Trade, Spending, and Infrastructure Bill. The bill gave 6.9 billion dollars to upgrading ports and roads in Seattle and the coast to benefit from increasing Asian trade. It also gave infrastructure access to rural areas, including an internet connection guaranteed to every county.
In March 2006, he announced the Small Business Support Act was entering the state HOR. The bill created the Washington Success Fund, which would give grants to those wishing to create a small business. He also signed a tax break on companies surfing on the Dot.com bubble, which he justified using Reaganomics. He was accused by a Washington Star journalist to be embezzling 6 billion dollars from the Washington Success Fund. This was found to be false, but he did admit to signing off on a 300 million dollar grant to his company, which he stipulated was not related to his status. Although he was found innocent by a fair margin, public support for him dipped as low as 31%, only recovering slightly after he signed the Social Acceptance Bill in late 2006.
2007 was mostly built around fixing Schript’s image in the aftermath of the Washington Success Scandal. He announced a trade bill in July, which would deregulate highly regulated industries and give subsidies to companies that employed Washingtonians. Today, his approval rating is 42%.
Life Before Politics
Born on March 2nd, 1958 in Spokane, Washington at Mother of God Lutheran Hospital, he was destined for wealth. He was born to an American industrialist named William Schript and an Army Nurse named Jeanine Schript, he was to inherit the family's fortune as the only son.
He was enrolled at St. Joseph High School in Spokane until High School when he went to Spokane Public High School. It is said he almost flunked out in his 1st Year, but by his 4th Year, he was accepted into the Harvard undergraduate business program in 1980 (he has come under slight scrutiny, as some consider some form of corruption occurred). He wrote his final on the applications of long-distance communication as a field. He was accepted to the Stanford Business Program, where he wrote his thesis on the regulation of the aviation field in Washington in 1982.
He was unemployed for 6 months, during which he met Amanda Fold, who he married in 1986, and moved back to Washington. He founded Dignity Co. in 1987, which he funded using seed money from his affluent family and grants from the state. The company was a medical and drug research company, which gained prestige when in 1988 when he sold a patent for a treatment for Epilepsy to a humanitarian.
In 1990, he announced that he would be selling 40% of the company's shares on the New York Stock Exchange. He sold them, and he expanded the company to North America and Europe. He purchased a house in Spokane and had a child named Max in 1997. In 2003, he appointed a ‘caretaker CEO’ she was ‘busy with familial concerns.’ This was his father's declining health, which boiled over in his father's death in the middle of 2004. He inherited the family's wealth.
Governorship of Washington
Campaign
Using the inheritance of his father, Micheal ran as Governor of Washington State. He ran on platforms of economic growth and supporting small businesses. He announced this at a Press Briefing that took place in his office at Dignity Tech HQ, which to some seemed out of touch and elitist.
Often mingling with other men of wealth as well as the common man, Micheal made up for inexperience and some retracted most elite statements by spending 135% more than his opponent, Sherley Firn. He won the election with a 53% margin and especially won in big cities.
He was inaugurated on January 12th, 2005. His inauguration drew crowds of 57,000 Washingtonians. In his speech, he stressed the importance of prosperity and reaffirmed that ‘the American dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is the Washingtonian dream.’
As Governor
On his second day in office, his office released a statement declaring that his focus for the first year would be infrastructure. He signed Gubernetorial Order 1987, which allocated funds to road and bridge repairs. To do this, he notably cut funding for inclusion programs. At the time little cared, but later he was accused of not caring about integration in Washington. Days later, he announced that his office was working with bi-partisans and liberals in the Washington Senate on an infrastructure bill.
The Senate also added spending and trade to the bill, making it so the bill would also deal with deregulation and taxation. On July 4th, America’s independence day and the day the Washington star was added to the US flag, the Senate approved the Washington Spending, Trade, and Infrastructure Bill. A day later, Governor Schript signed the bill on live television and accompanied by Trade Secretary Virkoff.
The bill allocated 600 million dollars toward the renovation of roads, ports, and railroads. The bill especially focused on trade with China and Asia, which proved smart as Chinese manufacturing increased and trade with China benefitted the state. The bill also involved provisions renovating utilities in rural areas, including securing every county in Washington with a stable, 2G internet connection by 2016. This also meant giving contracts to corporations to secure these lines.
He also signed the Mandate Act. The Act mandates all Washingtonian children have health insurance. This was meant to decrease the cost of insurance for everyone, and it did drop by 21%. The act was controversial and among poorer citizens was seen as benefitting the rich, but as the price decreased people became amiable to the idea.
In March of 2006, Schript announced the Support Small Business Act. Following public support for the bill and modest Conservative support, the bill passed 2 months later. The Governor signed it a week later, and then signed the 1988 Gubernatorial Order, which appointed the leader of the Washington Success Fund.
The Bill, also known as the Washington Sucess Fund Act, creates the WSF to give out grants to those wishing to start a small business. It also declares public defenders can be used as civil lawyers in a case relating to a small business. The bill gives a 15% tax cut to businesses starting in Washington for the first 8 years of operations.
In June of 2006, Kim Dragonheart of the Seattle Sun wrote an article named ‘Washington Success Fund: Defender of Small Business or Gubernatorial Piggy Bank.’ Although overlooked at the time, she had noticed a 190 million dollar big gap in the accounting of the fund, and also that the Fund had recently shifted high ranking employees at the ‘insistence of the Governor.’ She claimed Governor Schript had embezzled the money into his company, which was facing trouble in Britain due to an oversight when testing a drug.
Schript was called before a Washington House Committee once the article and surrounding theory picked up steam. He was asked to testify why he had asked for a shuffling. Representative Drüm of the GOP asked, “Is there any reason that when, at a time when 200 million dollars are vaporized, you have any witnesses discredited?”
Schript said that he asked for a shuffling so payrolls could be eliminated. Despite denying the claims, he did say he had knowingly signed off on a grant of 80 million dollars to his company. He declared, however, that this was legal and it was not a one-off, as the Health Department had given similar grants.
Despite being found innocent, his approval rating suffered terribly, dropping at one point to 35%. He was bashed in the press and was placed on the cover of Time’s Magazine in a special edition regarding the scandal.
2007 was mostly spent trying to ‘regain lost support.’ He signed Executive Order 1989, which strengthened unions and strengthened many laws by making it more difficult to skirt the intent of the laws (ie, you can't be fired for something dumb and fake after you talked about unionizing). He worked with Senate Democrats and made backroom deals trying to enact the Homosexual Partnership Act, which would allow gay and lesbian couples to register domestic partnerships, marriages in all but name.
Views of Election
Governor Schript has taken a keen interest in this year's Presidential and Congressional elections. He has so far failed to ask and failed to endorse any candidate presidentially. He supports the 9 democrats in the House, as they are of his party, and 5 of them are in his faction. He is more contested on the President, though.
He has no preferences in the Democratic field, as he believes they mainly have similar enough policies. However, in the Republican field, he believes the best member of the GOP would be Hepburn-Smith. They have similar parties, and he is even considering the idea of making a new party with her as a mid-point.
Other Info: Governor Schript does not hope for the Presidency, although he does wish for the Vice Presidency or a cabinet post. Some see him as a Republican, but his support of small businesses and liberal grants, as well as liberal social ideas, give him enough support to stay in the party.
I have read and accepted the rules of the roleplay: The Free Russian Tzarists
Do Not Remove: DRAFT123123
by The Free Russian Tzarists » Thu May 26, 2022 5:51 am
The Free Russian Tzarists wrote:The Free Russian Tzarists wrote:
NS Nation Name: The Free Russian Tzarrists (alt: South Olpen)
Character Name: Micheal Foxheart Schript
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 39
Character Date of Birth: March 4th, 1968
Character Position/Role/Job: Governor of Washington and CEO of Dignity Co.
Character Country/State of Birth: Spokane, Washington, United States
Character State of Residence: Olympia, Washington, United States
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic Party
Faceclaim: Adam Conover
Main Strengths: Schript is incredibly wealthy, his bank balance estimated to be 52 billion dollars, not to mention his stock options. He is supported in Seattle especially, as economic growth due to the Stock Exchange and infrastructure programs aided the city during a slight financial recession. He's also supported by small and large business owners due to his generous application for grants. He is also relatively young, and handsome.
Main Weaknesses: The Washington Success Scandal is still fresh in the public imagination, and his approval rating dropped to a mere 43%. Some more liberals also see him as a lapdog to large businesses, including his own. He is also bashed by environmentalists for his pro-oil stances. Some democrats dislike him for his Reaganomics, although Republicans like it, so it's a weakness and a strength. He's disliked in California, as he is seen as the reason more Asian trade doesn't go through there.
Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs)
Overview
Micheal Foxheart ‘Rebel’ Script is an American executive, businessman, and politician currently serving as the 22nd Governor of Washington since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Michael was the founder, owner, and CEO of Dignity Co. Running and winning as the 22nd Governor of Washington in 2004-5, he currently serves in that post.
Born on March 2nd, 1958 to William and Jeanine Schript, he was rich from birth to his parent's operation of a Californian gold mine. He graduate from Harvard in 1980 with a degree in Finance and went to Stanford for a master's. Using seed money from his father and other family members, he founded Dignity Corporation and quickly amended to Dignity Co., a pharmaceutical and medical research corporation. Under good leadership and with continual financial aid from his father, it became a success, developing an effective medication against epilepsy and selling it to the highest bidder.
He continued running his business, and it continued thriving as he opened more branches across the country and North America. In 1998, he put his company on the market, selling only 35% of it. He also joined the Democratic Party that year, contributing 15 million dollars to the campaign of Bill Clinton. His father died in 2004, leaving him the Schript family fortune, which by then was a fraction of his wealth of Micheal.
He used that money to begin a campaign in Washington to become Governor. He promised the support of small businesses and an infrastructure bill as key points, and also said that he would be socially progressive. He ran against the Republican candidate, Sherley Firns, outspending her by 134% to overcome his lack of reputation. He won with the support of 53% of the voting populace and was inaugurated on January 12th, 2005.
He spent his first year tackling infrastructure. He announced in March that he would work with Democrats and bi-partisans to create an infrastructure bill. His plans came to fruition in July, he signed the Washington Trade, Spending, and Infrastructure Bill. The bill gave 6.9 billion dollars to upgrading ports and roads in Seattle and the coast to benefit from increasing Asian trade. It also gave infrastructure access to rural areas, including an internet connection guaranteed to every county.
In March 2006, he announced the Small Business Support Act was entering the state HOR. The bill created the Washington Success Fund, which would give grants to those wishing to create a small business. He also signed a tax break on companies surfing on the Dot.com bubble, which he justified using Reaganomics. He was accused by a Washington Star journalist to be embezzling 6 billion dollars from the Washington Success Fund. This was found to be false, but he did admit to signing off on a 300 million dollar grant to his company, which he stipulated was not related to his status. Although he was found innocent by a fair margin, public support for him dipped as low as 31%, only recovering slightly after he signed the Social Acceptance Bill in late 2006.
2007 was mostly built around fixing Schript’s image in the aftermath of the Washington Success Scandal. He announced a trade bill in July, which would deregulate highly regulated industries and give subsidies to companies that employed Washingtonians. Today, his approval rating is 42%.
Life Before Politics
Born on March 2nd, 1958 in Spokane, Washington at Mother of God Lutheran Hospital, he was destined for wealth. He was born to an American industrialist named William Schript and an Army Nurse named Jeanine Schript, he was to inherit the family's fortune as the only son.
He was enrolled at St. Joseph High School in Spokane until High School when he went to Spokane Public High School. It is said he almost flunked out in his 1st Year, but by his 4th Year, he was accepted into the Harvard undergraduate business program in 1980 (he has come under slight scrutiny, as some consider some form of corruption occurred). He wrote his final on the applications of long-distance communication as a field. He was accepted to the Stanford Business Program, where he wrote his thesis on the regulation of the aviation field in Washington in 1982.
He was unemployed for 6 months, during which he met Amanda Fold, who he married in 1986, and moved back to Washington. He founded Dignity Co. in 1987, which he funded using seed money from his affluent family and grants from the state. The company was a medical and drug research company, which gained prestige when in 1988 when he sold a patent for a treatment for Epilepsy to a humanitarian.
In 1990, he announced that he would be selling 40% of the company's shares on the New York Stock Exchange. He sold them, and he expanded the company to North America and Europe. He purchased a house in Spokane and had a child named Max in 1997. In 2003, he appointed a ‘caretaker CEO’ she was ‘busy with familial concerns.’ This was his father's declining health, which boiled over in his father's death in the middle of 2004. He inherited the family's wealth.
Governorship of Washington
Campaign
Using the inheritance of his father, Micheal ran as Governor of Washington State. He ran on platforms of economic growth and supporting small businesses. He announced this at a Press Briefing that took place in his office at Dignity Tech HQ, which to some seemed out of touch and elitist.
Often mingling with other men of wealth as well as the common man, Micheal made up for inexperience and some retracted most elite statements by spending 135% more than his opponent, Sherley Firn. He won the election with a 53% margin and especially won in big cities.
He was inaugurated on January 12th, 2005. His inauguration drew crowds of 57,000 Washingtonians. In his speech, he stressed the importance of prosperity and reaffirmed that ‘the American dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is the Washingtonian dream.’
As Governor
On his second day in office, his office released a statement declaring that his focus for the first year would be infrastructure. He signed Gubernetorial Order 1987, which allocated funds to road and bridge repairs. To do this, he notably cut funding for inclusion programs. At the time little cared, but later he was accused of not caring about integration in Washington. Days later, he announced that his office was working with bi-partisans and liberals in the Washington Senate on an infrastructure bill.
The Senate also added spending and trade to the bill, making it so the bill would also deal with deregulation and taxation. On July 4th, America’s independence day and the day the Washington star was added to the US flag, the Senate approved the Washington Spending, Trade, and Infrastructure Bill. A day later, Governor Schript signed the bill on live television and accompanied by Trade Secretary Virkoff.
The bill allocated 600 million dollars toward the renovation of roads, ports, and railroads. The bill especially focused on trade with China and Asia, which proved smart as Chinese manufacturing increased and trade with China benefitted the state. The bill also involved provisions renovating utilities in rural areas, including securing every county in Washington with a stable, 2G internet connection by 2016. This also meant giving contracts to corporations to secure these lines.
He also signed the Mandate Act. The Act mandates all Washingtonian children have health insurance. This was meant to decrease the cost of insurance for everyone, and it did drop by 21%. The act was controversial and among poorer citizens was seen as benefitting the rich, but as the price decreased people became amiable to the idea.
In March of 2006, Schript announced the Support Small Business Act. Following public support for the bill and modest Conservative support, the bill passed 2 months later. The Governor signed it a week later, and then signed the 1988 Gubernatorial Order, which appointed the leader of the Washington Success Fund.
The Bill, also known as the Washington Sucess Fund Act, creates the WSF to give out grants to those wishing to start a small business. It also declares public defenders can be used as civil lawyers in a case relating to a small business. The bill gives a 15% tax cut to businesses starting in Washington for the first 8 years of operations.
In June of 2006, Kim Dragonheart of the Seattle Sun wrote an article named ‘Washington Success Fund: Defender of Small Business or Gubernatorial Piggy Bank.’ Although overlooked at the time, she had noticed a 190 million dollar big gap in the accounting of the fund, and also that the Fund had recently shifted high ranking employees at the ‘insistence of the Governor.’ She claimed Governor Schript had embezzled the money into his company, which was facing trouble in Britain due to an oversight when testing a drug.
Schript was called before a Washington House Committee once the article and surrounding theory picked up steam. He was asked to testify why he had asked for a shuffling. Representative Drüm of the GOP asked, “Is there any reason that when, at a time when 200 million dollars are vaporized, you have any witnesses discredited?”
Schript said that he asked for a shuffling so payrolls could be eliminated. Despite denying the claims, he did say he had knowingly signed off on a grant of 80 million dollars to his company. He declared, however, that this was legal and it was not a one-off, as the Health Department had given similar grants.
Despite being found innocent, his approval rating suffered terribly, dropping at one point to 35%. He was bashed in the press and was placed on the cover of Time’s Magazine in a special edition regarding the scandal.
2007 was mostly spent trying to ‘regain lost support.’ He signed Executive Order 1989, which strengthened unions and strengthened many laws by making it more difficult to skirt the intent of the laws (ie, you can't be fired for something dumb and fake after you talked about unionizing). He worked with Senate Democrats and made backroom deals trying to enact the Homosexual Partnership Act, which would allow gay and lesbian couples to register domestic partnerships, marriages in all but name.
Views of Election
Governor Schript has taken a keen interest in this year's Presidential and Congressional elections. He has so far failed to ask and failed to endorse any candidate presidentially. He supports the 9 democrats in the House, as they are of his party, and 5 of them are in his faction. He is more contested on the President, though.
He has no preferences in the Democratic field, as he believes they mainly have similar enough policies. However, in the Republican field, he believes the best member of the GOP would be Hepburn-Smith. They have similar parties, and he is even considering the idea of making a new party with her as a mid-point.
Other Info: Governor Schript does not hope for the Presidency, although he does wish for the Vice Presidency or a cabinet post. Some see him as a Republican, but his support of small businesses and liberal grants, as well as liberal social ideas, give him enough support to stay in the party.
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Draft 4
- Added his thoughts on 2007 Elections (I don't know if these are the IRL '07 or if they're '06)
- Made his college acceptance spicy.
by The Free Russian Tzarists » Thu May 26, 2022 8:44 am
Kavanis wrote:His business career is still completely absurd.
by Kavanis » Thu May 26, 2022 9:28 am
by The Free Russian Tzarists » Thu May 26, 2022 10:29 am
Kavanis wrote:He is in the top five richest people in the world based on selling a cure for epilepsy "to a humanitarian" at such great profit margin that Dignity immediately overtakes Pfizer (founded in 1849) for the biggest market cap of any drug company.
Dude.
Edit: But, I'm not an admin or anything, and they've let far crazier stuff go, so maybe you're good. I just don't see why everyone's characters have to be so extra.
by Madrinpoor » Thu May 26, 2022 12:24 pm
The Free Russian Tzarists wrote:Kavanis wrote:He is in the top five richest people in the world based on selling a cure for epilepsy "to a humanitarian" at such great profit margin that Dignity immediately overtakes Pfizer (founded in 1849) for the biggest market cap of any drug company.
Dude.
Edit: But, I'm not an admin or anything, and they've let far crazier stuff go, so maybe you're good. I just don't see why everyone's characters have to be so extra.
I mean, he did sell other things over, what, 20 years? He also did have grants and investments. He mostly sold to the military, though.
by Yusufzai Swat » Thu May 26, 2022 12:38 pm
by Lavan Tiri » Thu May 26, 2022 1:59 pm
by Kavanis » Thu May 26, 2022 2:00 pm
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