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Still in the CoD Universe, there was a group of players so powerful they could control a whole thread of 500 pages. So yeah instead of doing all those serious Election wikibox, let's me show me the (totally) serious box about the Triumvirate !
Augenis is the brain of the group. Always had successful and transformative Presidency, he still has his scheme to take over the world (and to be elected to a third term) failed due to consequence outside of his reach (Damn incompetent American Generals ! And damn you mother Nature ) or by an another member of the Triumvirate. And he love Social Credit too but i don't think that it show his intelligence
CCA is more like Pinky. He has the intelligence to be elected but generally is so incompetent he actually destroyed three party system all by himself simply by provoking one race war (who thought that having a black president in 1921 was a good idea ? ) two recession (who could have thought that having a pretty face wasn’t enough to face economic difficulty ? ) and the first step to lose a world war ( And being captured despite being in North Africa and on a desk job). But hey, everytime he did this the others (read Augenis) member of the Triumvirate followed so hey no problem.
Jolou, well he’s here. He can make enough bullshit to transform a very successful Presidency has a shitty one and lead the president to finish third (hi Augenis) and to be the first elected to a third term (hi again augenis). And well he thought that despite being in a great recession it was right to put every cents in the space budget. Because hey going to the moon is way better than eating and fixing the race problem right ?
PS : So for the pictures, i wrote on Google "Typical French", "Typical Lithuanian" and "Typical New Zealander" and took the first one . I didn't know that in New Zealand we used a lot of Communist Propaganda but hey different country, different culture
CCA is more like Pinky. He has the intelligence to be elected but generally is so incompetent he actually destroyed three party system all by himself simply by provoking one race war (who thought that having a black president in 1921 was a good idea ? ) two recession (who could have thought that having a pretty face wasn’t enough to face economic difficulty ? ) and the first step to lose a world war ( And being captured despite being in North Africa and on a desk job). But hey, everytime he did this the others (read Augenis) member of the Triumvirate followed so hey no problem.
Jolou, well he’s here. He can make enough bullshit to transform a very successful Presidency has a shitty one and lead the president to finish third (hi Augenis) and to be the first elected to a third term (hi again augenis). And well he thought that despite being in a great recession it was right to put every cents in the space budget. Because hey going to the moon is way better than eating and fixing the race problem right ?
PS : So for the pictures, i wrote on Google "Typical French", "Typical Lithuanian" and "Typical New Zealander" and took the first one . I didn't know that in New Zealand we used a lot of Communist Propaganda but hey different country, different culture
Gentleman Biaggi
Banned
Since 1824, the Democrats dominated the state of Alabama by a countiuos policy of segregation and populism to the states whites. However, in 1991, Union-New Whig president Bob Kerrey finally passed a bill allowing for African-Americans to vote in all elections, as the states of Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Virginia still refused to allow full voting rights and had been stopping any civil rights legislation with the help of other Southern states, until states like Florida and Georgia began pushing for rights for African-Americans. As this legislation was passed, many Southern states that had been one-party Democratic strongholds since the beginning of time were now going through a major political change. This change was emphasized by the 1994 Alabama gubernatorial election, as the state finally began their shift to a two-party system when Jim Folsom Jr., a former Democrat opposed governor George Wallace III's re-election campaign. Wallace was a member of the powerful Alabama Wallace clan that had four Alabama governors along with a representative, George Wallace I, George Wallace II, George Wallace II's wife, Lurleen, and George Wallace III, and representative Bobbi Joe Wallace[1]. The Wallace family was nicknamed the "Monarchy of Alabama" for its power across the state. Meanwhile, Folsom was the son of political activist Jim Folsom Sr., who notably supported African-American Civil Rights in the 40s and 50s. The election was a easy win for Wallace, but the fact that he only won 56.7% of the vote scared other Southern Democrats who had relied on fantastic job security for decades.
Oh how little we change...
2017 New York Mayoral Election
1994 Alabama Gubernatorial Election
Oh how little we change...
2017 New York Mayoral Election
1994 Alabama Gubernatorial Election
George Wallace III looks like Jean Chretien in a way.
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In 1900, the Republicans finally won an election for the first time (or first time in twenty years if you listen to their claims of being the true successor of the National Unionists) and it was with French-American young playboy Henry Napoléon Bonaparte, distant relative of that Napoleon. Unsurprisingly for such an inexperienced candidate who mainly got elected thanks to the Progressives begrudgingly casting their electoral votes for him instead of the Conservative, he proved to have a disastrous presidency in which the long economic boom came to a sharp end.
But in 1903, he would die from an anarchist's bullet in one of the several worldwide successful anarchist assassinations of heads of state. The economy was suffering and both unemployment and poverty was on the rise when new President Charles Humphrey Porter assumed charge of the nation. Porter was the longest vice-president, having served in the post for 10 years by the time Bonaparte was shot. He is considered the reason why President McCullough went moderate in his second term and implemented broadly-Republican economic policy [angering the Progressive left in the process]. Now Porter was finally president and he wouldn't waste the opportunity.
By 1904, President Porter has managed to turn things around, with the economy recovering and national unity strong with anarchism fully discredited by the vast majority of Americans. But people still remembered the "Bonaparte Bust" and so was distrustful of the idea of a second term for President Porter. Not helping matters was the fact that the Republicans were still the third party behind the Conservatives and Progressives, and that the Progressives could have easily eclipsed Porter's re-election campaign. However, events would turn otherwise.
The Republicans nominated President Porter easily and he announced that he would run with ex-Conservative Simon Fitzgerald Jr., the well-known inventor of moving pictures. Porter hoped that it would cut into Conservative votes and benefit the Republicans more.
The Conservatives, still sore over "the Betrayal of 1900", re-nominated their nominee that year, folksy populist Bill Cody Hickock of Nebraska. Hickock represented a more western, more populist, kind of Conservative that managed to help the party break out of the South once more, successfully recovering the party from their collapse in the 1890s. Hickock railed against the Republicans and Progressives for "denying the people's wish", which was that of a Conservative president and called upon America to reject their "corrupt bargain" in favour of the "real alternative". He ran with Ernest Sawyer of South Carolina, a much more pro-business Conservative who could assure them that Hickock wouldn't do anything seriously radical that would upset business, that he would have "more serious" Conservatives surrounding him.
The Progressives nominated Theodore Roosevelt, seen in 1904 as a moderate liberal carrying on McCullough's legacy. He chose to run with Western populist Warren Alexander, known rival of Bill Cody Hickock for the title of "Orator of the Platte". However, his nomination was hard-earned and closely fought with maverick Mayor of New York City Paddy O'Brien who had an open drug habit [specifically cocaine-mixed cigars] and reacted badly to Roosevelt's win, declaring that he "would stand for Progressive values, no matter if that bastard won the nomination" and started his Independent Progressive campaign that split the party terribly. O'Brien was on the left of the party and would gather the various "movements" that were closely associated with the Progressives, including Temperance and female suffrage [his running mate Catherine Scott Harrison was one of the most prominent Temperance and women's suffrage organisers, and was the first woman on a presidential ballot in American history]
The party most accustomed to being the most radical choice, the Labor Party, was in an unfamiliar situation. They spent the last decade reaching out to growing labour unions and this brought a chunk of more "practical" people less interested in debating ideology and more in organising for workers' rights. O'Brien's independent campaign was seen, after a fashion, as to Labor's left which bristled Augustus Watson, their founder and their nominee this election. O'Brien was nothing but an upstart who did not stand with the workers and thus was nothing but a capitalist, even if a capitalist who says nice things about labour! This he maintained strongly. The real alternative to the failed Republican-Conservative-Progressive capitalist triopoly was Labor, not an opportunist who would throw them under the bus if he had the chance!
In the end, the Progressive split benefited Porter, who came second and turned to Roosevelt, clearly expecting the old deal to continue, with Roosevelt telling his electors to cast their votes for Porter, which he did.
However, he massively underestimated the anger bubbling under the surface of the Progressive Party, that led to two million people voting for the drug-addled mayor of New York City. The electors exploded in fury and many decided that they would cast their vote for the ticket the people voted for them to do so, Roosevelt/Alexander. Others thought that the Corrupt Bargain was not worth it and cast their vote for Hickock/Sawyer instead. A good chunk chose to vote for another Progressive, that of Paddy O'Brien. And then some saw it all and decided that since Roosevelt discredited himself, that the only choice was Augustus Watson.
But the electors didn't stop there. Some chose to vote for the 1900 Progressive nominee, Abraham Siegel, in a protest against Roosevelt's moderation while Western electors decided that their voters actually wanted Alexander instead of Roosevelt and cast their votes appropriately, while the Alabaman electors, surprised by how they somehow won [how they did is still debated to this day] split their votes between Roosevelt, Hickock, Porter and two completely different people. Alabama's Progressives tended to be starkly divided between white and black workers, and to keep the peace in a party that would obviously never win the state, the electoral slate were divided between 6 white electors and 5 black ones. One white elector chose to cast his vote for long-dead president George Washington [and was declared void as a result] while two black electors cast their votes for W. E. B. Du Bois, African-American scholar who was making waves for his books and for his civil rights activism. This would elevate the scholar's prominence further, when he intervened on behalf of one of the electors' family in the trial of the lyncher of the elector after a tide of murderous reaction engulfed the state.
And after all that splintering, Roosevelt saw two things: first, that he failed in making Porter president, and second, that he was now fourth in electoral votes due to Paddy O'Brien getting one electoral vote more. Roosevelt re-stated his endorsement of Porter while Watson and Labor quickly jumped on O'Brien's train and told their Representatives to vote for O'Brien. In the end, after several votes, Hickock won a majority of the states in the House, while Sawyer easily won the Senate thanks to the Conservatives' dominance of the South.
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The Gullah People's Party is a political party in the Republic of South Carolina focused on the founding of a Gullah/Geechee nation. It was founded in 1997 after the Arthur Ravenal presidency ended and segregation was slowly removed. The Party is solely based in the state of Mus'bz (Gullah for Must Be). It has expressed interest in spreading to the State of Charleston, a move which is prohibited by National Law and has been repeatedly blocked by the Federal Government and the state government of Charleston. The Party seeks full seperation from South Carolina to establish a left-wing republic. It also seeks an apology for being forced into "Protective Historic Communities", the 1974 Evaporations under President Thurmond, and years of systematic lynching to suppress the community. This are mostly symbolic platforms which have gone no where. The Party sends its complaints in a yearly letter to the President, hand delivered by a prominent member of the Gullah community. The party generally focuses most of its efforts on eases the chronic poverty and crime that plague Mus'bz from years of government oppression. The Party itself is divided by those who support a radical social platform such as decriminalization of Abortion and Same-sex relationships, equal pay for women, and the abolishing of capital punishment, while others seek to ignore or actively enforce a conservative social platform.
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Gentleman Biaggi
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South Dakota is one of the three states (the other two are Oregon and California) in the United States that has a parliamentary system elect a governor. A major part of this goes back to the creation of the Farmer’s Alliance in 1922. Ever since the state’s creation, it had been split between the Socialists, Republicans, the remains of the People’s Party, and left-wing Democrats. This split had allowed the governor’s mansion going to the New Whig-Unionist party in all but one election from 1888 to 1920. However, all four parties (and factions) merged together in 1922 to stop the split from happening. Because of this, the FA dominated the state for almost half a century. Then in the late 1960s, the parliamentary movement began in the US as left-wing states like California, Oregon, and North Dakota (although North Dakota later switched back) adopted parliamentary systems. The Farmer’s Alliance, which was very broad-tent had a history of factionalism decided to adopt the system to give the party members with differences in political views more power. In 1975, the first election was held, and like most elections in the state, it was a large FA victory. The New Whig-Unionists were anti-parliment for the reason that they wanted to expose the splits in the FA. The Farmer’s Alliance actually got their lowest seat total until 2004 in this election due to “radical” George McGovern leading the party. Not only that, but former FA member and First Great African War hero Joe Foss was chosen to lead the New Whigs, pushing the party up in the polls with former anti-FA members opposed to the parliamentary system. However, the election was still a success for FA, and they would continue their dominantion of the state.
*NOTE: just pretend the “54” on that box says 44 or that the “new party” says -10, you get to pick!
Oh how little we change...
*NOTE: just pretend the “54” on that box says 44 or that the “new party” says -10, you get to pick!
Oh how little we change...
it's back (a little)
The Iskra County Forest Preserve is one of over 300 forest preserves established by the Concert of Associated Powers in conjunction with independent counties on dozens of Frontier and Hinterworlds. Iskra CFP is one of the largest such preserves, clocking in at over eight million square miles. Geographic tourism has become Iskra County's dominant industry, and tourists regularly dwarf the population of the county's largest cities (Iskra County's local population numbers only 180,000, and its seat and largest city, Bertram, accounts for nearly a fifth of that total).
The Dancing Pines wolf (Canis lupus lawrencia) is notable for being one of the tamest wolves in known space, and considerable effort is dedicated to ensuring tourists only encounter select populations to prevent the spread of human and domestic dog disease and genetics. Indeed, Dancing Pines wolf breeding materials are notoriously contraband on Dancing Pines without special licenses- a fact occasionally exploited by unscrupulous policemen and by park rangers looking to evict uncouth guests by planting certain older pamphlets in compromising places.
Iskran live oak is also remarkable as the material from which the Twining was built. Dancing Pines's largest sailing vessel, with a displacement of nearly 2100 tons, and largest of the eight ships in the current global merchant marine, is notable for having once carried the population of sixty-five Dancing Pines wolves that were stolen from the planet and used to breed the original Setlandian Wolfdog, American Aerial Wolfdog, and Standard American Wolfhound.
EX ALOGIA
Wikiboxes:
Execution of the Bloodmouth Gang • Sca Crian Space Fleet • United Workers of Marybelle • Mutegard South • House Atlantic • '97 (Sprague County Impact) • King William VII Celadon • George Bush • 4233 BC in spaceflight • John Lockwood • Sylvestrian fever • Star sword • Styan Prairie Bush War • Peace Obelisk of Avalon • CAP Trade Unit • The Trial of Dª Miranda Sofia Martin, lately of Porto Victoria • Rockefeller Ocean Oil Spill
Short stories:
Five Dresses • The Ambassador • Conference Room Three • Broken Sword • That's no moon
The Iskra County Forest Preserve is one of over 300 forest preserves established by the Concert of Associated Powers in conjunction with independent counties on dozens of Frontier and Hinterworlds. Iskra CFP is one of the largest such preserves, clocking in at over eight million square miles. Geographic tourism has become Iskra County's dominant industry, and tourists regularly dwarf the population of the county's largest cities (Iskra County's local population numbers only 180,000, and its seat and largest city, Bertram, accounts for nearly a fifth of that total).
The Dancing Pines wolf (Canis lupus lawrencia) is notable for being one of the tamest wolves in known space, and considerable effort is dedicated to ensuring tourists only encounter select populations to prevent the spread of human and domestic dog disease and genetics. Indeed, Dancing Pines wolf breeding materials are notoriously contraband on Dancing Pines without special licenses- a fact occasionally exploited by unscrupulous policemen and by park rangers looking to evict uncouth guests by planting certain older pamphlets in compromising places.
Iskran live oak is also remarkable as the material from which the Twining was built. Dancing Pines's largest sailing vessel, with a displacement of nearly 2100 tons, and largest of the eight ships in the current global merchant marine, is notable for having once carried the population of sixty-five Dancing Pines wolves that were stolen from the planet and used to breed the original Setlandian Wolfdog, American Aerial Wolfdog, and Standard American Wolfhound.
EX ALOGIA
Wikiboxes:
Execution of the Bloodmouth Gang • Sca Crian Space Fleet • United Workers of Marybelle • Mutegard South • House Atlantic • '97 (Sprague County Impact) • King William VII Celadon • George Bush • 4233 BC in spaceflight • John Lockwood • Sylvestrian fever • Star sword • Styan Prairie Bush War • Peace Obelisk of Avalon • CAP Trade Unit • The Trial of Dª Miranda Sofia Martin, lately of Porto Victoria • Rockefeller Ocean Oil Spill
Short stories:
Five Dresses • The Ambassador • Conference Room Three • Broken Sword • That's no moon
Iowa Public Assembly Elections, 2018
Parties of the Republic of Iowa;
Democratic Progressives; Historically the major conservative party of Iowa, it supports a free market economy, but also supports for Iowa’s struggle rural areas, where it finds most of its most loyal base. It has enjoyed record popularity under the 9 year leadership of elder statesmen Chuck Grassley, who became leader in 2008 after several failed attempts, and at one point having just over 400 seats. Grassley lead the party to a slim victory after the 2009 snap election which was a response to Daschle’s failure to control the growing Depression. Grassley also served as a mediator between the Republic of Superior and Chicagoland after the later suddenly refused to let Superior use the port of Milwaukee and Chicago, which were crucial to Superior’s economy. This was known as the Lake Michigan Crisis. Grassley negotiated where Superior would be allowed to use the ports, albeit with a charge and a quota. Grassley’s Democratic Progressives saw huge margins in rural Iowa and would win many over many suburbanites. However starting in 2016 Grassley began to discuss his future retirement, and in 2017 he announced that he was retiring and would call an election by next April. Several members began to position themselves to become leader after Grassley, the front runners were seen as incumbent Education Secretary Terry Branstad and controversial President Jesse Ventura. However at last minute Election Secretary Michele Bachmann began a grassroots campaign energizing the party’s conservative base who were uninterested in the moderate candidates. After Bachmann was announced leader on the first ballot, just barely beating Ventura, who came in second, and Branstad, moderates began booing and shouted her down during her victory speech. This frustration would turn into the Iowa United Party.
Iowa United; Formed out of opposition to Michele Bachmann, it quickly, and somewhat haphazardly held a convention and nominated Agriculture Secretary David Johnson. Johnson was relatively unknown since he had been Agriculture Secretary for less than 6 months. Iowa United called for what the called “Moderate continuance of Grassley’s Government”. They would gradually climb in the polls as moderates became disgusted with Bachmann. However they struggled to raise awareness of their party in rural Iowa, and when they did many there were turned off by their moderate to liberal social positions. They also struggled to field candidates, managing to get just 216 candidates, as many assumed it would go just eventually merge back with the PD’s, despite Johnson’s repeatedly assertion that they were a new permanent party. In the end many suburbanites and rural voters would traditionally vote for the PD’s ended up voting for the National Popular Left
National Popular Left; founded in the 70’s as a merger between urban white Popular Labor and rural left-wing populists under the Farmer’s Left Union which was brought together under Regents Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern. Today they are the main left wing party, supporting a left-wing Economic and Social platform. They last were in power under the moderate Tom Daschle. They fell from power dramatically after the Crash of 2008 and the subsequent election they were briefly lead by Leonard Boswell who began to move the party back to the left. Boswell resigned after a humiliating showing the election of April 2014, where they one less than 100 seats, and left a power vacuum with no clear frontrunner. The convention was deadlocked between the left-wing rural populist Dave Loebsack of Hoover-Lemme, the Urban liberal Betty McCollum of Brooklyn Park South, and the moderate Pat Conway of St. Joseph SouthEast. 27 ballots were cast with little change in the results; Loebsack with roughly 40%, Conway with roughly 30%, and McCollum with roughly 30%. Several compromise candidates were proposed; Frank Cownie of Des Moines Central, Dan Sparks of Austin, Susan Wismer of Roberts-Day-Marsh, Skip Humphrey of Rochester South, and many others. For a while it seemed that all candidates could agree on Skip Humphrey, and Betty McCollum withdrew her name from consideration. However his nomination fell just short 6 times in a row, and lost votes from there. Eventually Steve Loebsack presented promising backbencher Ann Poe of Cedar Rapids NorthWest. Poe had no name recognition outside of those who religiously followed politics. Many close observers thought she had potential but she needed time to build up seniority. However the party was getting ballot fatigue and Poe’s little name recognition played to her favor and she was found to be agreeable to all segments of the party. She was nominated of the 86th ballot with over 60%. She would lead the party to gain nearly 100 seats in the election of August 2015. Poe was set to win a comfortable majority and become the first female Regent, given her previous record and the destruction of the PD, however the NPL would unperformed greatly due to Iowa United and the unexpected surge from the Socialist Liberals under the young charismatic Cori Bush
Socialist Liberals; The Socialist Liberals were founded in 2005 by Dick Gregory after a perceived neglect of Iowa’s inner cities and minority communities and originally called the Urban Liberals. They made significant gains taking the vast majority of seats in St. Louis and a large minority of seats in Minneapolis. This came at the expense of the NPL. Most minorities had been a reliable NPL bloc, however under Daschle there was a crime wave that swept St. Louis, who responded by passing legislation to make a stronger police force. Gregory claimed this only exasperated the problem and caused increase persecution in minority communities. Gregory was also heavily critical of Daschle’s moderation of the NPL. This frustration lead to the Urban Liberals. However the party’s voter base was consistently over 95% minority voters and gained the image of being solely a minority’s interest party, and Gregory’s personal history as a Civil Rights activist and his continued push for Minority’s rights helped paint this image. When Gregory announced his retirement in 2017 many wondered if the Urban Liberals would survive the transition as it had only a few dozen seats, and Gregory had been such a figure in the party and the nation few thought anyone could fill his shoes. Initially Lucy Clay and Clem Smith announced their candidacy, but not long before the leadership election Cori Bush announced her candidacy, in response Clay dropped out and endorsed Smith. Bush won by a surprisingly large margin, over 70%, and immediately began changing the image of the party. She renamed it to the Socialist Liberals and began to make left-wing platform, dragging the party to the left especially on social issues, such as emphatic support for refugees from Chicagoland, Arcadie, and the Middle East, proposing a national anti-discrimination amendment that would encompass women and sexual minorities, as well as things like founding a national university system, and targeted focus to helping the urban poor. She also worked hard to build connection in the white community saying that minority Iowans could not achieve justice on their owns. This strategy worked surprisingly well and saw the Socialist Liberals deny the NPL a majority by flipping many of their seats in places like Minneapolis, Des Moines, Sioux Falls, and Iowa City.
Analysis;
while the NPL and the DP have been repeatedly refuted the claim that this represents a new norm in Iowa, many experts and observers disagree. Some still expected the DP and Iowa United to merge into one, seeing that neither can make a considerable impact apart, but after Bachmann was forced into a leadership election in May 2018, she survived a challenge from David Young and David Johnson has repeatedly said he has no interest in ever returning to DP or any other party, as well as the fact that 13 MA of the DP announced their departure from the party following Bachmann's re-election to join Iowa United, has squashed talk of a merger. On the left the NPL has been confused as to the direction is wants. It formed a coalition with Socialist Liberals and talks with Iowa United fell through, but factions seek to moderate to capitalize of the DP-Iowa United rift, while others seek to move to the left to help retake the cities and minorities, yet the Socialist Liberals doubling their seats have given them some bargaining power, and possibly a path to form their own government should NPL move to far to the center or self-destruct. Likely NPL will remain in power for quite sometime, coalitioning with either Iowa United or the Socialist Liberals depending on the situation. While DP may be able to form a government should they moderate enough where Iowa United would be willing to work with them, but that would also require Michele Bachmann to retire, which she had maid clear would not happen for sometime, making it seem NPL will stay in power for the foreseeable future
Parties of the Republic of Iowa;
Democratic Progressives; Historically the major conservative party of Iowa, it supports a free market economy, but also supports for Iowa’s struggle rural areas, where it finds most of its most loyal base. It has enjoyed record popularity under the 9 year leadership of elder statesmen Chuck Grassley, who became leader in 2008 after several failed attempts, and at one point having just over 400 seats. Grassley lead the party to a slim victory after the 2009 snap election which was a response to Daschle’s failure to control the growing Depression. Grassley also served as a mediator between the Republic of Superior and Chicagoland after the later suddenly refused to let Superior use the port of Milwaukee and Chicago, which were crucial to Superior’s economy. This was known as the Lake Michigan Crisis. Grassley negotiated where Superior would be allowed to use the ports, albeit with a charge and a quota. Grassley’s Democratic Progressives saw huge margins in rural Iowa and would win many over many suburbanites. However starting in 2016 Grassley began to discuss his future retirement, and in 2017 he announced that he was retiring and would call an election by next April. Several members began to position themselves to become leader after Grassley, the front runners were seen as incumbent Education Secretary Terry Branstad and controversial President Jesse Ventura. However at last minute Election Secretary Michele Bachmann began a grassroots campaign energizing the party’s conservative base who were uninterested in the moderate candidates. After Bachmann was announced leader on the first ballot, just barely beating Ventura, who came in second, and Branstad, moderates began booing and shouted her down during her victory speech. This frustration would turn into the Iowa United Party.
Iowa United; Formed out of opposition to Michele Bachmann, it quickly, and somewhat haphazardly held a convention and nominated Agriculture Secretary David Johnson. Johnson was relatively unknown since he had been Agriculture Secretary for less than 6 months. Iowa United called for what the called “Moderate continuance of Grassley’s Government”. They would gradually climb in the polls as moderates became disgusted with Bachmann. However they struggled to raise awareness of their party in rural Iowa, and when they did many there were turned off by their moderate to liberal social positions. They also struggled to field candidates, managing to get just 216 candidates, as many assumed it would go just eventually merge back with the PD’s, despite Johnson’s repeatedly assertion that they were a new permanent party. In the end many suburbanites and rural voters would traditionally vote for the PD’s ended up voting for the National Popular Left
National Popular Left; founded in the 70’s as a merger between urban white Popular Labor and rural left-wing populists under the Farmer’s Left Union which was brought together under Regents Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern. Today they are the main left wing party, supporting a left-wing Economic and Social platform. They last were in power under the moderate Tom Daschle. They fell from power dramatically after the Crash of 2008 and the subsequent election they were briefly lead by Leonard Boswell who began to move the party back to the left. Boswell resigned after a humiliating showing the election of April 2014, where they one less than 100 seats, and left a power vacuum with no clear frontrunner. The convention was deadlocked between the left-wing rural populist Dave Loebsack of Hoover-Lemme, the Urban liberal Betty McCollum of Brooklyn Park South, and the moderate Pat Conway of St. Joseph SouthEast. 27 ballots were cast with little change in the results; Loebsack with roughly 40%, Conway with roughly 30%, and McCollum with roughly 30%. Several compromise candidates were proposed; Frank Cownie of Des Moines Central, Dan Sparks of Austin, Susan Wismer of Roberts-Day-Marsh, Skip Humphrey of Rochester South, and many others. For a while it seemed that all candidates could agree on Skip Humphrey, and Betty McCollum withdrew her name from consideration. However his nomination fell just short 6 times in a row, and lost votes from there. Eventually Steve Loebsack presented promising backbencher Ann Poe of Cedar Rapids NorthWest. Poe had no name recognition outside of those who religiously followed politics. Many close observers thought she had potential but she needed time to build up seniority. However the party was getting ballot fatigue and Poe’s little name recognition played to her favor and she was found to be agreeable to all segments of the party. She was nominated of the 86th ballot with over 60%. She would lead the party to gain nearly 100 seats in the election of August 2015. Poe was set to win a comfortable majority and become the first female Regent, given her previous record and the destruction of the PD, however the NPL would unperformed greatly due to Iowa United and the unexpected surge from the Socialist Liberals under the young charismatic Cori Bush
Socialist Liberals; The Socialist Liberals were founded in 2005 by Dick Gregory after a perceived neglect of Iowa’s inner cities and minority communities and originally called the Urban Liberals. They made significant gains taking the vast majority of seats in St. Louis and a large minority of seats in Minneapolis. This came at the expense of the NPL. Most minorities had been a reliable NPL bloc, however under Daschle there was a crime wave that swept St. Louis, who responded by passing legislation to make a stronger police force. Gregory claimed this only exasperated the problem and caused increase persecution in minority communities. Gregory was also heavily critical of Daschle’s moderation of the NPL. This frustration lead to the Urban Liberals. However the party’s voter base was consistently over 95% minority voters and gained the image of being solely a minority’s interest party, and Gregory’s personal history as a Civil Rights activist and his continued push for Minority’s rights helped paint this image. When Gregory announced his retirement in 2017 many wondered if the Urban Liberals would survive the transition as it had only a few dozen seats, and Gregory had been such a figure in the party and the nation few thought anyone could fill his shoes. Initially Lucy Clay and Clem Smith announced their candidacy, but not long before the leadership election Cori Bush announced her candidacy, in response Clay dropped out and endorsed Smith. Bush won by a surprisingly large margin, over 70%, and immediately began changing the image of the party. She renamed it to the Socialist Liberals and began to make left-wing platform, dragging the party to the left especially on social issues, such as emphatic support for refugees from Chicagoland, Arcadie, and the Middle East, proposing a national anti-discrimination amendment that would encompass women and sexual minorities, as well as things like founding a national university system, and targeted focus to helping the urban poor. She also worked hard to build connection in the white community saying that minority Iowans could not achieve justice on their owns. This strategy worked surprisingly well and saw the Socialist Liberals deny the NPL a majority by flipping many of their seats in places like Minneapolis, Des Moines, Sioux Falls, and Iowa City.
Analysis;
while the NPL and the DP have been repeatedly refuted the claim that this represents a new norm in Iowa, many experts and observers disagree. Some still expected the DP and Iowa United to merge into one, seeing that neither can make a considerable impact apart, but after Bachmann was forced into a leadership election in May 2018, she survived a challenge from David Young and David Johnson has repeatedly said he has no interest in ever returning to DP or any other party, as well as the fact that 13 MA of the DP announced their departure from the party following Bachmann's re-election to join Iowa United, has squashed talk of a merger. On the left the NPL has been confused as to the direction is wants. It formed a coalition with Socialist Liberals and talks with Iowa United fell through, but factions seek to moderate to capitalize of the DP-Iowa United rift, while others seek to move to the left to help retake the cities and minorities, yet the Socialist Liberals doubling their seats have given them some bargaining power, and possibly a path to form their own government should NPL move to far to the center or self-destruct. Likely NPL will remain in power for quite sometime, coalitioning with either Iowa United or the Socialist Liberals depending on the situation. While DP may be able to form a government should they moderate enough where Iowa United would be willing to work with them, but that would also require Michele Bachmann to retire, which she had maid clear would not happen for sometime, making it seem NPL will stay in power for the foreseeable future
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"When I said I wanted to build one, I meant I wanted to build one."
One of the earliest CAP joint megaprojects, Scarlet Bay is home to the galaxy's worst scum- document forgers, horse thieves, dog killers, rifle robbers, and occasionally, if they're particularly nasty, a serial killer or two. The Night Watchmen send their worst, most un-reformable criminals to Scarlet Bay as a last resort, when county jails no longer prove adequate, and the Concert of Associated Powers, for a considerable annual fee, provides the with housing, food, water, and work- largely in the effort to push back Jaspermoss, an incredibly invasive fungus-lichen-thing that has a tendency to release exceptionally angry spores when burned. Since it has opened, it has been an unprecedented success, clearing more than 1.3% of the planet's land area, with hopes that the efforts might speed up as expansion camps are built and settlement is opened to non-criminals.
MEAL SCHEDULE: BLOCKS A-F
SUNDAY
Breakfast: pancakes
Lunch: tomato soup
Dinner: baked potato
MONDAY
Breakfast: hashbrowns and toast
Lunch: cheese sandwich (toasted) and salad
Dinner: spaghetti and garlic bread (toasted)
TUESDAY
Breakfast: French toast
Lunch: turkey sandwich
Dinner: beef tacos
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast: scrambled egg wrap
Lunch: quesadillas and rice
Dinner: fuck you more tortillas
DONNERSDAY
Breakfast: did I say you were through with tortillas
Lunch: french fries, but not enough ketchup for all of them
Dinner: hamburgers with too much ketchup on them
FRIDAY
Breakfast: waffles
Lunch: surprise, more tortillas
Dinner: chicken and waffles
SATURDAY
Breakfast: corn
Lunch: corn
Dinner: corn
SUNDAY
Breakfast: corn
Lunch: fish and chips
Dinner: pancakes
HOLIDAY
Breakfast: syrup
Lunch: mystery???
Dinner: Chef's Choice (it's tortillas)
EX ALOGIA
Wikiboxes:
Execution of the Bloodmouth Gang • Sca Crian Space Fleet • United Workers of Marybelle • Mutegard South • House Atlantic • '97 (Sprague County Impact) • King William VII Celadon • George Bush • 4233 BC in spaceflight • John Lockwood • Sylvestrian fever • Star sword • Styan Prairie Bush War • Peace Obelisk of Avalon • CAP Trade Unit • The Trial of Dª Miranda Sofia Martin, lately of Porto Victoria • Rockefeller Ocean Oil Spill • Iskra County Forest Preserve
Short stories:
Five Dresses • The Ambassador • Conference Room Three • Broken Sword • That's no moon
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