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Allanean Elections approach

Allanea
24-09-2007, 18:57
ANN News Report

Good day.

As Friedrich Goldwasser has announced he will not be running for yet another term, the different Allanean political parties have been deliberating over the last few months as to the choice of the person to lead their parties into the next election. As of today, the last of them – the New World Order party – had completed their primary process, and now the list of political candidates has been made available by the Federal Elections Commission for all Freemen to see. The list is as follows:

The Republican candidate is Mr. Desmond Keyes, known mostly for his calls to “continue in President Goldwasser’s frank, honest, forceful brand of foreign policy”, “complete the Johnson Program”, and “complete the Ten Thousand Ship Navy on schedule.” In essence, this candidate promises to continue as Goldwasser did. Given Goldwasser’s 45% job approval rating, this seems like a sensible electoral strategy.

The Libertarian candidate, Senator Antalia Reynes [L-Montana], campaigns on the abolition of the Department of Education. “The Department of Education is a senseless, useless violation of our Constitution, with the exception – perhaps – of training the Boy Scouts, which is the proper duty of the military anyhow.” – says Reynes – “When I’m President, I’ll eliminate the Department of Education, and use the resulting funding surplus to cut taxes and increase the national defense.”

The Constitutionalist, one Reverend Edward Angstrom, focuses on his strong pro-life platform. “It is true that we need a strong navy, and I will of course complete the Ten Thousand Ship Navy on time.” – notes Angstrom – “But it is important to remember that the duty of all government is to protect the life, liberty, and property of all Freemen. I will work to establish a Constitutional amendment to ensure that the Constitution recognizes that life begins at conception. This is a key step if we are to do our duty unto God and our fellow man and to protect the life of all Allaneans.

The Democrat, Congressman Harvey Lee Jones [15 million endorsements], opposes any cuts in the Department of Education. “While of course the Navy is important – and I would never, ever go as far as suggest a cutting in the budget of our military – we must remember the importance of raising Allanea’s children and maintaining our roads. Further, I am dedicated to the separation of Church and State and increasing funding to the implementation of the Johnson Program.”

The Anarchist, Lysander Suprynowicz, opposes the Ten Thousand Ship Navy program. “The only purpose of such a navy is to invade foreign countries, to commit crimes against humanity and further acts of imperialism. While all government is unnecessary and evil, to use money looted at gunpoint from some taxpayers to provide for the murder and conquest of others is particularly vile,” –said Suprynowicz at the meeting of Allanean Mothers for Peace.

The New World Order – a breakaway wing of the Anarchists – makes its focus on repeal of Allanea’s copyright laws. “Copyright is a fiction” – said the NWO Presidential candidate, Frederick Dalton Chomsky – “It is nothing more then a subsidy for the megacorporations and the RIAA, their enforcement arm.”

The Communist, Socialist, and Ambivalentira parties have banded together to run a candidate, Comrade John Smith [S-Hash]. His campaign platform includes, among other things, the institution of a progressive income tax with a top rate of 7%, the institution of mandatory health insurance, as well a ban on the use of Private Military Contractors by the military and on the operation of nuclear explosives by corporations.

Billionaire Jacob Pentegrue is running on his own, having spent 120 million dollars to achieve ballot status in all states. His main campaign issue is “disengaging Allanea from Menelmacar and ending corruption in the nation’s capital.”


Other candidates exist. The above is only a list of those candidates on the ballot in all states.
The World Soviet Party
24-09-2007, 21:45
Official Communique

We'd like to throw our support behind Comrade John Smith and Congressman Harvey Lee Jones, since we have judged them to be the best candidates and the ones capable of doing mayne great deeds for their nation.

May the better man win.
Vanek Drury Brieres
24-09-2007, 21:51
Official Proclamation of the VDB
We here in the VDB wishes to congradulate Democrat Party member Congressman Harvey Lee Jones, showing our support for his candidacy.

OOC: What is the "Johnson Program"?

Withdrawn money.
The Order of America
24-09-2007, 22:01
The OoA Wishes to Donate 500,000 USD to Mr. Keyes Campaign. Also we will offer him our full support in any other way he might require.

May he Serve his Nation well
Sincerely,
Jefferson Davis
Supreme Emperor of The OoA
High Chairman of The Supreme Governing Council
Vontanas
24-09-2007, 22:32
The Hope Chest political organization, dedicated in bettering nations around the world peacfully, has managed to gather 3.14 million Universal Standard Dollars to the campaign of Senator Antalia Reynes of the Libertarian Party.

Meanwhile, the Pope Chest political organization, dedicated to spreading Christian morals and values, has donated .974 million Dollars to the campaign of Reverend Edward Angstrom of the Constitutional Party.

Finally, the Teachers' Union has scrapped up a total of .134 million Universal Standard Dollars to the campaign of Congressman Harvey Lee Jones of the Democrat Party. The nation as a whole has not presented any official or unified stance.
Allanea
24-09-2007, 23:33
Federal Election Comission Notice

While, under the United States campaign laws, private foreign entities are allowed to donate to politcal causes, such is not the case with governments. No government institution, foreign or domestic, may donate to Allanean election proceedings.
Allanea
24-09-2007, 23:45
OOC: What is the "Johnson Program"?

OOC: It is a complicated education and recruitment program to improve Allanean diplomacy and standing in the world. Basically because Allaneans are generally lousy diplomats, the program attempts to change that.
Allanea
26-09-2007, 00:25
Senator Antalia Reynes continued on her campaign again. Her campaign cavalcade – assembled from a rag-tag bunch of SUV's and familycars – took her to the most important one of her campaign stops – the headquarters of the Society for the Separation for School and State.

The building was located – strangely enough – in the casino district of Liberty-City. It was three stories tall, but it was extremely wide – in the fashion of Allaneans, it was built flat, taking up a large amount of space. And it was into this building, flanked by supporters wearing R&R = Reynes Revolution shirts, paced Antalia Reynes.

The group's lecture hall was already packed with over three thousand people – reporters, activists, and, most importantly, 'pro-family' religious personalities. It was to them that the Libertarian candidate has addressed her speech.

“Honorable ladies and gentlemen!

I apologize. I did not mean to insult you by that. “Ladies and gentlemen” seems to me to be the wrong way to call you. It is the method by which one refers to nobles, to elite 'experts', to professional politicians – the kind of people who run public education. You are not like that. You, and nobody else, are the representatives of the common man in the fight over education – or rather, I would say, the struggle for freedom.

Allanea is without doubt one of the greatest and freest nations in the world. In some things, even the Menelmacari need, perhaps, to learn from us. But if there are fieldswhere we went wrong, where this great Republic of ours went deeply astray – I am most assured that public education is one of them. For we allow – in violation of our own Constitution – to have Federal public funds diverted into schools, into enforcement of local school curricula and even truancy laws.

What is this, damn it all, Doomingsland? Will we now establish Federal mandatory education, too? Should we send out Federal cops to harass homeschoolers in their homes? For now, we do not yet do that – we do not rip the child from the arms of a mother. We merely rip money out of her pocket and use it to bribe another mother into parting with her own child easily.

But at least on the state level, public education is within te mandate of state constitutions – though at least Allanean Montana, Kalandia, and Krasivaya have outlawed it altogether. Federal public education is illegal outright.

As such, when elected President, I will seek to abolish all the unconstitutional programs within the DoE, and revert the surviving ones to the military. The resulting budget surplus will be used to both strengthen the naitonal defense and improve the funding of the Johnson Program.

Let me say this out loud:

Allanea needs better diplomats.

Allanea needs better relations with foreign nations.

Every dollar spent on diplomacy and on training better diplomats is a thousand dollars saved on missiles and jet fuel and shells.

Every dollar spent on diplomacy and on training better diplomats is a thousand dollars saved on paramilitary training under the Department of Education.

Every dollar spent on diplomacy and on training better diplomats is a thousand dollars earned in trade.

And this is why my slogan is – less government at home, better diplomacy abroad. Say no to welfare-state socialism and useless war. Say yes to freedom and peace.”

And there was applause.
Kurona
26-09-2007, 00:27
We show our support to The Constitutionalist
Allanea
02-10-2007, 15:33
As the crisis in Western Ariddia develops, multiple candidates have commented on it already during the online Presidential Foreign Policy Debate.

Mr. Desmond Keyes:

“We must continue doing what we are doing, but we must also do what Alexander Kazansky would do when he was President. Harsh! Harsher! Even harsher! That and only that is the only way to talk to the communists! We must stop screwing around and begin a full-time invasion, capture Ea L’Lew, and bring either minarchism or capital-anarchism to Western Ariddia.

Senator Antalia Reynes [L-Montana]:

“We must continue negotiation, of course, but I would oppose any sort of violence. I suggest that we let private charity and activists do their work, while quietly endorsing their actions. In no circumstance must we get involved in an over conflict with the Western Ariddian military, of course.’”

Reverend Edward Angstrom:

“Of course Western Ariddia is important! The struggle against world communism is extremely important! But we cannot beat the tide of communism back if we do not beat back the tide of communism back at home, if we do not protect not just the right of foreign shopkeepers to property, but also of the unborn Allaneans at home to life. When Allanea turns away from God, liberty loses.”


Congressman Harvey Lee Jones [15 million endorsements]:

“While some of the actions of Ea L’lew are objectionable, we must remember she is no communist tyrant. She has the interests of the Western Arridians at heart, and I believe she is truthful in her claim that she will restart elections in five years. Of course, I agree with Senator Reynes in that we should not in any event fight the Western Arridian military.”

Mr. Lysander Suprynowicz:

“Who is Allanea to intervene in the affairs of foreign nations? Remember, all taxation is communist. The government of Friedrich Goldwasser is quite as communist as the government of Ea L’lew. The only difference is the amount of money they collect through loot and where they spend it.”


Frederick Dalton Chomsky expressed his full agreement with Suprynowicz, adding only: “Such situations do nothing but endanger Allanea. The proper way to amend the situation and prevent dangerous blowback against the United States is to abolish the Department of State altogether, as well as most of the Navy.”

Comrade Senator John Smith [S-Hash]:

“Instead of condemnding L’lew, we should look at the positive reforms she carried out for the workers, small businesspeople and ordinary men and womyn in her nation, and maybe imitate some."

Current poll results:

Mr. Desmond Keyes: 34.5%
Senator Antalia Reynes [L-Montana]: 21%
Reverend Edward Angstrom: 12%
Congressman Harvey Lee Jones [15 million endorsements]: 14%
Mr. Lysander Suprynowicz: 13%
Frederick Dalton Chomsky: 10.5%
Comrade Senator John Smith [S-Hash]: 0.5%
Brydog
02-10-2007, 16:40
We, The International Free World Council, a non-profit organization donate 750 million to Mister Harvey Lee Jones.