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Friday December 31st, 2021

New Year Honours: William Morgan becomes a Lord, Frank Cameron & Jack Norris knighted​

William Morgan who served in three of the four great offices of state (Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary & Chancellor between 2011 & 2018) has been elevated to the House of Lords in the New Year Honours list.​

Morgan who has been MP for Bury North since 1996, is also a former serving member of the Parachute Regiment, having served during the Falklands War and in Northern Ireland during the troubles. His elevation means a by-election will be required in the new year.

MP's Frank Cameron and Jack Norris whom have both served as deputy Prime-Minister have been knighted, and both men will now have "Sir" before their name. Both men will remain as MP's.
 

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My New Year's gift is the Senate seat lists for the states where the current party leaders in that body hail from:
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Lists of United States Senators (1985-present)
AL • AK • AZ • AR • CA • CO • CT • DE • FL • GA • HI • ID • IL • IN • IA • KS • KY • LA • ME • MD • MA • MI • MN • MS • MO • MT • NE • NV • NH • NJ • NM • NY • NC • ND • OH • OK • OR • PA • RI • SC • SD • TN • TX • UT • VT • VA • WA • WV • WI • WY
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United States Senators from Alabama​
Class 2
1979-2005: Robert Bennett (Republican)
Elections: 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002
2005-2009: Dale Killy (Democratic)
Elections: 2006 (special)
2009-2027: Cody Riley (Republican)
Elections: 2008, 2014, 2020

Class 3
1981-1988: Jeremiah Denton (Republican)
Elections: 1980, 1986
1989-2010: Jimmy Hobuck (Republican)†
Elections: 1989 (special), 1992, 1998, 2004
2010-2021: Alan Garland (Republican)
Elections: 2010, 2016

Bennett was CIA director for the Walken and first half-year of the Seaborn administration. He left the Senate to serve as the ambassador to Germany under Bartlet.

The class 3 seat is a bit of a mess. Hobuck was established as taking office in 1989, which would have made him a class 1 senator. My solution is that Denton wins another term, but is injured in a car accident in late 1988 that exacerbates the wounds he suffered as a POW in Vietnam to the point where he feels compelled to resign. Hobuck is appointed to replace him at the same time the senators elected in the 1988 elections are sworn in and wins a special election to fill the remainder of Denton's second term a few months later. Hobuck himself committed suicide in 2010, despondent after his wife's death a year earlier.

United States Senators from Massachusetts​
Class 1
1977-1987: Roland Pierce (Democratic)
Elections: 1976, 1982
1987-2001: Isaac Sidley (Democratic)
Elections: 1988, 1994
2001-2025: Ryan Lyndell (Democratic)
Elections: 2000, 2006, 2012, 2018

Class 2
1979-1997: John Hicks (Democratic)
Elections: 1978, 1984, 1990
1997-2010: Roland Pierce (Democratic)†
Elections: 1996, 2002, 2008
2010-2027: Jimmy Fitzsimmons (Democratic)
Elections: 2011 (special), 2014, 2020

Massachusetts has the distinction of having two separate presidential nominees (Pierce and Fitzsimmons) represent them in the Senate within the time frame of the ATL elections. Unlike the other state that has this distinction (California, with Vinick & Seaborn), both of them failed.

Pierce of course resigned from his seat in 1987 to become vice president under D. Wire Newman. After getting curb-stomped in 1994, he returned to the Senate, the first former vice president ITTL to return to elected office since Hubert Humphrey (who also returned to the Senate after losing a presidential election). IOTL, Humphrey is the most recent vice president to have done so, but ITTL that distinction belongs to John Hoynes, who served a term as governor of Texas a decade after resigning. Pierce of course died in office and Sidley (who was serving as governor at this time) appointed Fitzsimmons to the seat.
 

MHurtado09

What happened to Teddy Kennedy? Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR FELLOW WEST WINGERS! May 2022 bring you health and happiness (to bring us good stories).
 
KingCrawa

KingCrawa

Marky Bunny said:
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Friday December 31st, 2021

New Year Honours: William Morgan becomes a Lord, Frank Cameron & Jack Norris knighted​

William Morgan who served in three of the four great offices of state (Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary & Chancellor between 2011 & 2018) has been elevated to the House of Lords in the New Year Honours list.​

Morgan who has been MP for Bury North since 1996, is also a former serving member of the Parachute Regiment, having served during the Falklands War and in Northern Ireland during the troubles. His elevation means a by-election will be required in the new year.

MP's Frank Cameron and Jack Norris whom have both served as deputy Prime-Minister have been knighted, and both men will now have "Sir" before their name. Both men will remain as MP's.
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Elevating a sitting MP to the Lords is rather unusual. Usually elevation to the Lords is a post retirement honour. I can't think of any examples of someone going straight from the lower to the upper house.
 

Marky Bunny

KingCrawa said:
Elevating a sitting MP to the Lords is rather unusual. Usually elevation to the Lords is a post retirement honour. I can't think of any examples of someone going straight from the lower to the upper house.
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In "universe" it is because he held all "three" great officers of state other than PM, also you are forgetting Willie Whitelaw. At the 1983 General Election he went into it as Home Secretary and "de facto" Deputy Prime-Minister. He ran for re-election in his seat "Penrith and The Border" which he won, but two days after his election win, he was elevated to the House of Lords, meaning a by-election just 6 weeks after the general election. Whitelaw didn't retire he was appointed Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council and was still "de facto" Deputy Prime-Minister until 1988 when he resigned from the government following a stroke.
 
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KingCrawa

KingCrawa

Marky Bunny said:
In "universe" it is because he held all "three" great officers of state other than PM, also you are forgetting Willie Whitelaw. At the 1983 General Election he went into it as Home Secretary and "de facto" Deputy Prime-Minister. He ran for re-election in his seat "Penrith and The Border" which he won, but two days after his election win, he was elevated to the House of Lords, meaning a by-election just 6 weeks after the general election. Whitelaw didn't retire he was appointed Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council and was still "de facto" Deputy Prime-Minister until 1988 when he resigned from the government following a stroke.
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Ah yes. I had forgotten about Whitelaw

Just seems a bit odd when you could just toss them a knigthood

What's Morgans title going to be?
 

lord caedus

MHurtado09 said:
What happened to Teddy Kennedy? Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR FELLOW WEST WINGERS! May 2022 bring you health and happiness (to bring us good stories).
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Excelsior said:
Maybe he took a long drive off a short pier...
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Since his challenge of Carter still occurred ITTL, let's say that the strain of his family life nearly falling apart in the mid-1970s (one son had bone cancer that required his leg to be amputated, another kept having severe asthma attacks, while his wife was arrested for drunk driving and was in-and-out of clinics for alcoholism and emotional exhaustion) and his own well-documented substance issues are slightly worse ITTL and he opts not to run in 1976 citing family matters. He is incensed by Carter's presidency and comes out of retirement for his 1980 primary bid. He takes his loss as a sign that his time in the sun is over and does what his brothers were not able to do--retire on his own terms and die of old age surrounded by family and friends after decades as a elder statesman and liberal icon.
 

Marky Bunny

Republican Primary Schedule

DateStateTypeStates per DayDels
Tuesday Jan 11thIowaCaucus138
Tuesday Jan 18thNew HampshirePrimary120
Tuesday Jan 25thNevadaPrimary126
South CarolinaPrimary249
Tuesday Feb 1stAlabamaPrimary150
ArizonaPrimary256
ArkansasPrimary338
CaliforniaPrimary4169
ColoradoCaucus537
MassachusettsPrimary640
MinnesotaCaucus739
MissouriPrimary853
MontanaPrimary930
New JerseyPrimary1049
New YorkPrimary1191
North DakotaCaucus1228
OklahomaPrimary1342
TennesseePrimary1457
UtahPrimary1539
WyomingCaucus1629
Saturday Feb 5thKansasCaucus139
LouisianaPrimary245
MaineCaucus321
WashingtonCaucus443
Tuesday Feb 8thDCPrimary119
DelawarePrimary216
MarylandPrimary338
VirginiaPrimary448
Saturday Feb 26thAmerican SamoaCaucus19
GuamCaucus29
HawaiiCaucus319
Northern Marianian IslandsCaucus49
Puerto RicoPrimary523
US Virgin IslandsPrimary69
Tuesday March 8thAlaskaCaucus126
ConnecticutPrimary228
IdahoCaucus331
IllinoisPrimary464
IndianaPrimary556
KentuckyPrimary647
North CarolinaPrimary774
OhioPrimary879
Rhode IslandPrimary919
TexasPrimary10161
VermontPrimary1116
Tuesday March 15thFloridaPrimary1123
MichiganPrimary256
MississippiPrimary338
WisconsinPrimary441
Tuesday April 19thGeorgiaPrimary175
PennsylvaniaPrimary268
Tuesday May 17thNebraskaCaucus134
OregonPrimary234
West VirginiaPrimary333
Tuesday May 31stNew MexicoPrimary131
South DakotaPrimary228
 

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Duke widens lead in Iowa, but Irving wins important endorsement

Monday, January 3rd, 2022

Opinion polling among Republican primary voters in Iowa has shown Alan Duke's lead over his rivals nearing nearly 20 percentage points, but that did not stop the state's largest newspaper, The Des Moines Register from endorsing his opponent, senator Jasper Irving of Illinois, for the party's nomination.

The Register, which has endorsed candidates for both major-party's nominations since 1986, cited Irving's "willingness to be an independent voice" for its endorsement of the Illinois senator, who is polling at around 15% for next Tuesday's upcoming caucus.

With all eyes on Iowa as the first contest in the Republican Party's presidential primary process, the volatility in the race, especially the collapse and late withdrawal of Michigan governor Ben Laurion, has led to a sparsity of endorsements. Both the state's Republican senators, Joe Joeckler and Bryce Bradley, have again opted to not endorse a candidate ahead of the caucus, as has congressman Brian Hale, whose northwestern fourth district is key to Republican statewide victories in the Hawkeye State. The only other Republican member of Congress from Iowa, Kevin Nix of the third district (which contains Des Moines as well as southwestern Iowa), has opted to endorse Irving, a longtime political ally.
 

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Some more senators. Three delegations including three Presidents pro tempore, to go with the three already listed in previous installments (Little-DE, Gianelli-NY, Furman-TX).
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Lists of United States Senators (1985-present)
AL • AK • AZ • AR • CA • CO • CT • DE • FL • GA • HI • ID • IL • IN • IA • KS • KY • LA • ME • MD • MA • MI • MN • MS • MO • MT • NE • NV • NH • NJ • NM • NY • NC • ND • OH • OK • OR • PA • RI • SC • SD • TN • TX • UT • VT • VA • WA • WV • WI • WY
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United States Senators from Iowa​
Class 2
1955-1997: Bill Glomer (Republican)
Elections: 1954, 1960, 1966, 1972, 1978, 1984, 1990
1997-2015: Lorraine Lindsay (Democratic)
Elections: 1996, 2002, 2008
2015-2027: Joe Joeckler (Republican)
Elections: 2014, 2020

Class 3
1981-1987: Chuck Grassley (Republican)
Elections: 1980
1987-2017: Rod Kasey (Democratic)
Elections: 1986, 1992, 1998, 2004, 2010
2017-2023: Bryce Bradley (Republican)
Elections: 2016

Glomer was President pro tempore for about a year and a half between Jesse Calhoun's death and the Democrats winning control of the Senate in 1990. I'd had him starting his career in 1951 previously, but that wouldn't line up with his Class 2 seat, so treat 1955 as the correct year he joined the Senate.

Grassley IOTL is the longest-serving Republican senator in the Senate, but *here* he's a one-termer so that Rod Kasey can take his place. Current ATL resident of the seat Bryce Bradley isn't an old man doing "u know what" at Iowa Dairy Queens, which is a tragedy of sorts, I guess.

United States Senators from Kansas​
Class 2
1978-1991: Richard Rumson (Republican)
Elections: 1978, 1984
1991-2021: James Taglio (Republican)
Elections: 1990, 1996, 2002, 2008, 2014
2021-2027: Peter Gault (Republican)
Elections: 2020

Class 3
1981-2023: Samuel Wilkinson (Republican)
Elections: 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998, 2004, 2010, 2016

Rumson, like his OTL stand-in Nancy Kassebaum, took office early after his lame-duck predecessor resigned so that he could gain seniority. Gault, of course, ran for president in 2018 while as Kansas' governor and managed to take the fight to the GOP convention itself.

Wilkinson is the current President pro tem ITTL, but he's already declared that he won't seek re-election, meaning there will be a new PPT in 2023. Don't quite know what happened to cause his predecessor Bob Dole (who IOTL held the seat until he resigned in 1996 to better concentrate on his presidential bid against Bill Clinton) to not seek a third term, but I'd guess that we could say that Dole's war wounds were exacerbated by an ATL ailment (Legionnaire's disease, based purely on the name?) and he shocked the political establishment by retiring from politics a mere four years after being the Republican vice-presidential nominee.

United States Senators from South Carolina​
Class 2
1949-1964: Jesse T. Calhoun (Democratic)
Elections: 1948, 1954, 1960
1964-1989: Jesse T. Calhoun (Republican)†
Elections: 1966, 1972, 1978, 1984
1989-2003: Calvin Callahan (Republican)
Elections: 1990 (special), 1990, 1996
2003-2015: Harry Proctor (Republican)
Elections: 2002, 2008
2015-2021: Sam McCord (Democratic)
Elections: 2014
2021-2027: Hamilton Crooks (Republican)
Elections: 2020

Class 3
1979-2005: Walter Harvey (Democratic)
Elections: 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996
2005-2017: Tim McCord (Democratic)
Elections: 2004, 2010
2017-2023: Brad Maxwell (Republican)
Elections: 2016

Calhoun was PPT when Reagan became incapacitated, and is a clear homage (alongside Joseph Furman) to Strom Thurmond. Like Thurmond, I put him as initially a Democrat, but switch to Republican after the national party shifts to actively supporting desegregation and civil rights. This was due to South Carolina being perhaps the best example of a Solid South de facto one-party state (both the Republican nominee for president and the Republican candidate for Senate IOTL 1948 got less than 4%). As mentioned in Kansas' entry, Calhoun dies in office (presumably of old age).

Harvey & Tim McCord somehow manage to extend South Carolina having at least one Democratic senator into the second decade of the 21st century, but of course both were conservative Democrats (Harvey especially so). It's honestly not a wonder that South Carolina's weird affinity for the Democrats (to the point where they voted for a liberal, Hispanic Catholic twice!) died off during the lifetime of the old thread: it would have been comically easy for the SC GOP to paint the party that chose two brothers to be the state's Senate delegation (something that hasn't ever happened IOTL) as elitist and out of touch, which was the last thing the SC Dems needed with the state swinging farther to the right.
 
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EOKA-III insurgency continues as public support grows

Athens, Greece- As the Cyprus Crisis remains unresolved, the violence on the island has only ramped up. What was, at early stages, confined to the Troodos Mountains has now spread throughout the island as EOKA-III continues their insurgency against the Turkish Occupation. Once considered to be a terrorist organization, EOKA-III has seen a massive surge in popularity and public support. In Greek & Greek Cypriot communities the world over EOKA signs and banners can be seen displayed in homes and businesses alike. Numerous Governments, including the United Kingdom and the United States has issued warnings concerning their citizens joining or contributing money to EOKA. Despite these warnings, the latest incarnation of EOKA seems to be better supplied than ever. ACN Military Affairs Analyst Mike Tapley stated last night on News Night with Will McAvoy that "EOKA-III is way too armed, way too well supplied for this simply to be a case of them inheriting what was left of the Cypriot Army. There is clear evidence that they are receiving outside support."

Meanwhile, thousands of Cypriot Refugees remains in the UK Sovereign Base Areas on the island, placing a strain on the UK personnel there. With no diplomatic end to this crisis in sight, many in the Aegean zone believe that renewed violence is inevitable.
 

lord caedus

No. Like the old thread, we will keep using this one until it hits 500 pages, even if the title no longer describes the current state of affairs (the "2010 US Presidential Election" thread closed during TTL's 2018 presidential campaign).
 
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