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Shirley Chisholm will take on Al Sharpton as a master protege

Relocations Ellis Arnall GA>WY (overpop-underpop) Lyndon Johnson TX>PR (overpop-underpop) Andrew Brimmer LA>MA (alt-state) Ideology Shifts (up to 5) Carl Albert Mod>Lib Scoop Henry M Jackson Mod>Lib Joseph A Bevilacqua Sr Lib>Prog Dan Walker Lib>Prog Moon Landrieu Lib>Mod

Target Henry Wheaton @BlockCPU William Pinkney will take on John McKinley as a protege

Placements Private: Al Sharpton Military: Dave Loabsack (roll) Judicial: Sonia Sotomayor Gov: John Lynch Legis: Robert F Kennedy Jr Admin: Sheldon Whitehouse Backroom: Dannell Malloy Removals 20 years/automatic: Ron Green (Backroom), Herb Kohl (Legis), Frank Kelso (Military), Dianne Feinstein (Gov) 16 years: none 12 years: Barney Frank (Legis) 8 years: none 4 years: Elizabeth Warren (Legis), Dina Titus (Private)

Relocations William Pinkney MD>AL (overpop-underpop) Ideology Shifts John Forsyth Cons>Trad John Catron Trad>RW Pop David Porter Lib>Prog

The new FL doesn't roll for gains nor face an extra retirement roll if I replace them in 2.2, right? Assuming that's correct, I'll go with MLK.

Placements Private: Franklin Elmore Military: Andrew Jackson Donelson Judicial: Alfred Iverson Sr Gov: John P King (roll) Legis: James Sevier Conway (roll) Admin: Moses Norris Jr (roll) Backroom: William K Clowney Removals: 20 years/automatic: Frederick Bates and William Wilkins (both Backroom) 16 years: David Porter (Military), John McKinley (Judicial) 12 years: Gabriel Moore (Private), Oliver Hazard Perry (Military), John Catron (Judicial), John Lyde Wilson (Legis) 8 years: James Carroll (Judicial), John S Barbour Sr (Private) 4 years: Elias Kane (Legis)

@ebrk85 I’m going to vote for Bumpers (so you don’t even have to take a vote since @10centjimmy, @DJBillyShakes, and I have a majority of Kingmakers). I just wanted to be able to say that LBJ was almost nominated VP lol.

President Johnson is going to nominate himself for Vice President. However, as a faction, we'll get behind Bumpers for VP.

Well the deal was for RFK, so now I'm trying to figure out what I should even do now...

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Party Leader Johnson will institute another rules change, dropping the requirement for the nomination to a simple majority

I’ll nominate my major candidate’s subordinate as well: Admiral Wesley Brown

10. No, because this is leading to students who are not fit for college to take out student loans that they aren't able to pay back. There are far too many students going to college instead of trade school or entering the workforce immediately after high school. This leads to "over-educated" people working jobs they're overqualified for because there are far too many people with college degrees. 12. In addition to the three I selected, I would advocate moving away from property taxes as the main source of funding for public schools. This leads to a cycle of poorly-educated students who then go on to earn low-incomes, who then go on to produce little tax revenue for their school district and so on. Zoning reform and affordable housing could also help level the playing field. 21. Yes, but not until significant reforms are made. There are far too many students going to college who shouldn't be going to college. De-stigmatizing not going to college, encouraging trade school, and raising admissions standards would help. Additionally, predatory for-profit schools (e.g. University of Phoenix, DeVry University, Grand Canyon University, etc.) should not be allowed to advertise themselves as educational institutions. They also should not have access to federal student loans. 24/25. I have a fundamental disagreement about the purpose of college with people who think it's to prepare you for a career. College is about gaining knowledge and making you a more well-rounded person, not about preparing you for any specific career. But if you know you want to work a specific career, like in business or STEM, you should be able to go to a business or STEM school and not be required to take any liberal arts courses. Don't go to a liberal arts school if you don't want a liberal arts education, though. 28. If this person is happy with their life, then great! If they thought they were going to become a Wall Street tycoon or nuclear engineer by way of earning a PhD in sociology, then they are a fool.

Housing (even though I'm probably the only person interested enough here haha)

I picked three: high rates of mental illness, high rates of drug addiction, and poverty. The "other" two I would pick would be: homelessness (not the same as "homeless people") and, for lack of a better term, evil. By "evil", I just mean that some people are going to commit crimes and do awful things regardless, and in those instances it doesn't make sense to attribute their crimes to addiction, poverty, or something else. Murdering your spouse to cash out on their life insurance policy is an example of something that falls into that category. Yes There should be no minimum sentences or even sentencing guidelines. Criminal justice reform should be focused on rehabilitation, not punishment. I would advocate for a system of rehabilitation which would isolate potentially dangerous offenders from general society while they are being rehabilitated. In instances where people are too dangerous for general society and rehabilitation efforts have consistently failed, focus should be shifted to trying to bring these offenders as normal a life as possible, while not risking danger to society. I imagine this would consist of the offender spending their life in prison, but in better conditions than current U.S. prisons (e.g. no solitary confinement, prevention of assaults inside prisons, penal labor reform, etc.). I categorically oppose the death penalty. Yes, but that shouldn't matter. While I don't understand how a Christian could ever support the death penalty, we have separation of church and state for a reason, so the Commandments should not have an effect on our laws. See #4. I would do the fourth option, plus increase efforts to bring about affordable housing. See #3. In addition, for white-collar crimes, it would make sense to prevent offenders from even having the ability to repeat their offenses. (For example, someone like Bernie Madoff would never be able to work in white-collar professions again. He would be limited to working primarily physical labor jobs.) Yes. I understand it's easier said than done, but I'd like to believe I'd forgive them, regardless of whether they show remorse or not. As a Catholic, I would need to forgive them.

It’s nearly impossible for Blues to make a good platform in this era. Since we have every ideology in our party, any bill that helps one of us will hurt someone else. Meanwhile, Federalists only have two ideologies, so they can easily create a platform that’s strong for everyone. I don’t think we’ve ever won the platform point.

Turner will appeal to credibility (on-going war)

It never says you go from speeches to ballot. It says the 2nd ballot comes after the nomination speeches - big difference. This is just differentiating from the pre-primary era, because the nomination speeches have to come before the 1st ballot (since there are no primaries to derive the delegates from). There's no need to have nomination speeches if the nomination has already been secured.

It also says: "If any state has a primary, then that state will use their primary delegates for their first ballot vote. Starting with the 2nd ballot, they can start using the standard Convention Rules," which doesn't conflict with what you underlined, but implies that inter-ballot actions are allowed (it's also implied that they're allowed by the definition of the prefix "inter-").

The first ballot is just the primary results, then you have nomination speeches and standard convention rules starting with the second ballot.

President Johnson has one more political maneuver up his sleeve before he rides off into retirement. As Party Leader with Iron Fist, he'll unilaterally institute the unanimous rule, requiring any candidate to win unanimous support to win the nomination.

Gov. Mario Cuomo will nominate Turner

We get inter-ballot actions though, right?

Moynihan’s not winning a majority before the convention, and we can easily stop him if it comes to that at the convention.