Office of Cranberry, Pacific Regional Senator - RESIGN

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The Office of

THEODORE CRANBERRY
Senator, Pacific Region

CONTACT:
Office of Senator Theodore Cranberry
721 Government Street
Victoria, British Columbia, Pacific Region

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Thank you very much! Here, take some cranberries.

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A short reminder to all Pacificians: Don't forget to vote!

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Portland, Oregon: My dear people of the Pacific! Since February I've had the pleasure to serve you as Councillor, since April as Council Speaker. I have sponsored a bill that will make the Pacific the most green region of Atlasia, I have amended numerous of PJ's bills that were left as his legacy (but - we're finally nearly through with 'em!), administrated and updated the wiki, and together with my dear friend Governor DemPGH drafted the first Stimulus bill. I can promise you, I will continue this work of mine, and especially focus on a pro-labor, pro-nature and in general pro-gressive policy. Thank you for your attention, and don't hesitate to ask questions! (Should they be asked in GIF-form, I'll answer them in that same manner)

Also, I'm here to open my new office in Downtown Portland - feel free to take some snacks and drinks!

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You know that the Pacific can't run without you. Endorsed!

Thanks guys

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Mr Cranberry, Speaker of the 10th Pacific Council, is holding a speech in front of his office in Downtown Portland, Oregon; concering the upcoming Pacific Council Elections, the situation the Pacific is now and has been in the past and his visions for a bright future in the Pacific.

Dear people of the Pacific, dear fellow Pacificians,

I will not hide the truth from you: The Pacific is in a bad shape. Our great region has suffered much and more, and not just lately, activity levels have always been at a deep low. We are the only region without a competetive Regional Senate Race! We have barely had enough candidacies for the upcoming elections. And, as dire as it might seem, of now, it's hard to imagine a Pacific without our great and admired governor, Mr DemPGH.

Yet, if I know one thing, we have always found a way. We have been in direr times, we have suffered more, we even have had no government for a time. Of lately, a small group of people has achieved to stabilize our great region, to give our council proper legislation to discuss and debate (we owe our late former Governor PJ more than twenty bills), to give the people of the Pacific a new hope. Yes, it might still be wise to consider a merger with another region, that I openly admit, yet for now, our region's wheels are again in motion.

Therefore, I want to talk to you also about policy, which may not be forgotten in front of those dire clouds. I can assure you, I have always been a man that fights for nothing but the interests of the common man. In addition, I am a staunch advocate of our environment, having introduced a bill that will make the Pacific the region with the biggest share of "green" energy in its lines. Furthermore, I have one quality I am especially proud of - I always thoughtfully consider every possible up or down of any solution to a problem. I am noone that goes just for the simplest solution, but for the one that is best for us, our children and our region.

Thank you for your attention, and don't forget to vote tomorrow!

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The voting booth just opened, it's accessible here. Don't forget to vote Pacificians!(preferably for me )

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I thank the Pacificians for reelecting me to the council!

Additionally, I want to announce my endorsement for my dear friend Flo, who is currently running for the Pacific Regional Senate Seat. GO FLO!

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Mr. Cranberry, Speaker of the 11th Pacific Council, is holding a speech in front of the Pacific Regional Capitol Building in San Francisco, California. He adresses the progress the Pacific has made, who is to credit for this progress, and what his plans for the future are.

Dear people of the Pacific, dear fellow Pacificians and Atlasians!

We have reached a time of which I dare say that our beautiful region is again going upwards, strongly upwards. In not even half a year we have accomplished to cut our unemplyment rates in half, we have managed to experience a significant growth. We are even on the way to a balanced budget! Who has accomplished this all? Well, it is no lie if I say: "The people of the Pacific!". But more accurately, I will name three names: Duke, our president; Oakvale, manager of the Save The Pacific Project, and DemPGH, our outgoing Governor and becoming President!

All three of these honourable gentlemen are outgoing in their respective positions of service. President Duke, whom we owe our Stimulus and the Save The Pacific Project, has served two terms as President of Atlasia and will resign on July 2nd. Mr Oakvale will resign from his position concurrently, he was a man that especially in the background was always with great and worthy council. And Mr DemPGH is leaving the Governor's Mansion for the White House. Let us all wish these three gentlemen the best of luck on their respective journeys! *cheers* *Duke!, Oakvale! and especially DemPGH! cries*

The departure of these three gentlemen leaves us however with three important positions, especially for the Pacific, to fill. Mr Duke's position, the Presidency, has already been filled, and we have found with DemPGH a man we all know and appreciate the most suitable candidate imaginable for this position. Mr Oakvale's position is to be filled by the president, and a few known candidates have already epressed interest. But the last position, dear people of the Pacific, is yet to be filled, and that is the reason I am here today! I am hereby announcing to you, in front of this historic building representing the Pacific as a whole, my candidacy for the Special Election for Pacific Governor to succed the vacancy caused by DemPGH's election to president!

I could tell you now why I am the best suited candidate, why I am the Pacific best choice, but today is a day that should belong to these three gentlemen. I can assure you however, that I will try to follow their glorious lead, and that I hope that I am worth their succession. Thank you Pacific, and thank you, Duke, Oakvale and DemPGH! *cheers*

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Since my candidacy is now official, feel free to ask questions, to bypass until my platform is arriving

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Why would I not endorse you? Endorsed!

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Fabulous news!

Thanks a lot guys!

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FIVE GOALS FOR THE PACIFIC:
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To be distribted in newspapers and aired in networks throughout the region

The Pacific is at crossroads. We have seen progress in the last months, we have averted the dire times that approached us just half a year ago. Yet our work is not done. You, the people of the Pacific, have the choice - either you choose the glorious way ahead, or the way back down into the dark pit we have escaped. Either you choose the future, or the past. Either you choose the best choice, or the worst. It is up to you!

I, Theodore Cranberry, editor of The Observer, an independent paper of Portland, Oregon, three term councillor, always proudly representing and open to his constituents, and two term Speaker of said legislative body, believe to be said best choice. In my months of public service, I proved to be an open-minded Councillor, always ready to work non-partisanly for the best of our beautiful region. I have worked with our honoured former Governor and President-Elect Mr DemPGH on numerous legislations aiding our region, including the center of President Duke's "Save the Pacific Project", the Stimulus. I have introduced a bill that makes the Pacific the region with the highest share of "green" energy, that is energy drawn from renewable and sustainable sources.

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Furthermore, I have crossed the aisle on numerous occassions, and have co-sponsored and then signed as Acting Governor a legislation that will privatise the public transportation in the Pacific, yet nationalize all the infrastructure, including the one currently in private hands, in turn imposing strict rules for private companies, ensuring the highest quality and at the same time cheapest way for the people of the Pacific.

I will not promise you a reduce of the "life tax", while keeping silent at the ongoing discussions of the budget, and while the tax rate in the Pacific is at a level, that cannot possibly be lowered any more, at least not without a significant deficit. I will not completely destroy the Pacific Regional Government and send a whole region into a dark pit of desperation and decline "to make the game more fun". I am no man like my opponents, Devin and Xahar. I am a man that works just for the benefit of the Pacific, and as Governor, I would follow these five simple goals, bringing the Pacific into the right direction:

1. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The Pacific has experienced a great progress in this area, and I promise to follow the path outlined by Duke, Oakvale and DemPGH. I will work with DemPGH and the new leader of the "Save the Pacific Project" on the second stimulus, the heart and center of said project. I will continue to make the Pacific a region suitable for businesses, by saying "NO!" on any attempts of foolish legislation in this area.

2. CREATING NEW WORKPLACES
I will work hard for the creation of new workplaces and a decrease of the unemployment rate. This can be accomplished in numerous ways, one of these ways being a planned bill that would prohibit the Regional government the commission of companies that draw more than half of their workforce from outside the Pacific. I will also stand for prolonging and expanding current tax deductions for companies that create a workplace filled by a Pacifician.

3. SUSTAINABILITY
The Pacific is on the best way on becoming one of the most economically sustainable areas on the planet. I stood as sponsor of numerous legislations concerning this issue, and I proudly outlined sustainability and "green jobs" as main topics of the second stimulus. I can promise to go on this way, and will try my best to make the Pacific a shining example on environmental sustainability.

4. EQUAL CHANCES
Atlasia as a whole has always been a country proud of her equality, and we in the Pacific are equally proud. We must however assure that this equality may stay on, so we can be truly proud of it, and be an example for the whole planet. As governor, I will never sign any piece of legislation that confines this equality in any way, but instead work for a broader enforcement of this equality, in evry single aspect of our lifes.

5. EDUCATION
Our former governor DemPGH has sponsored great pieces of legislations enhancing the quality of our public education, and I can do no more but to promise to continue his work. My plan is it to provide an equal quality of education in our country, by increasing funding of public schools and universities, by creating an enhanced training of our teachers, and ensure that our children will have a safe place to learn, play and develop themselves.

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You have my endorsement. Good luck!

Thanks a lot!

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I want to thank the people of the Pacific for electing me Governor, and assure them that I will try my best to lead our great region to a bright future.

I'll probably write a speech when I'm coming home from holiday, and will start to work with the council on our work - writing the second stimulus and drafting a budget.

Thank you all

TheCranberry, Governor of the Pacific Region

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Congrats, Cranberry, and good luck. Keep the progress going out there!

Thanks, Mr President! I will certainly try.

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A replacement for my old, vacant council seat is needed. If you're interested, please contact me, I'll be sure to appoint you.

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Executive order:

I hereby appoint Mr Thomas Jefferson of California to the currently vacant seat of the 11th Pacific Council.
xTheCranberry, Governor of the People's Region of the Pacific

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A replacement for my old, vacant council seat is needed. If you're interested, please contact me, I'll be sure to appoint you.

This is why the Pacific Region has failed.

In what way does this contribute to the alleged failing of our region?

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A replacement for my old, vacant council seat is needed. If you're interested, please contact me, I'll be sure to appoint you.

This is why the Pacific Region has failed.

In what way does this contribute to the alleged failing of our region?

The excess of offices is so great that offices are literally being given away to whoever asks for one.

The Pacific is the region with the lowest number of offices. What would you propose? Combine Governor and Speaker or what?
Plus, I think you're the last person that is to complain over the failing of the Pacific.

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A notification to the people of the Pacific:
Distributed by the office of Pacific Governor Theodore Cranberry

Xahar, a notable Pacific citizen just recently called our "excess of offices" the reason for the "failing" of our region. Without thinking too much I negated his claims, especially since I personally consider his very own plan to destroy the Regional Government a much bigger reason for the "failing" of our region. On second though though, I had to admit that Mr Xahar was not entirely wrong. Yes, we in the Pacific have indeed to much offices to fill. When I think back to the legislature sessions I have participated in, we seldomly had a discussion, and just days ago I had problems with filling my old, vacant Council seat, and thought of asking veterans like Oakvale for help. Luckiliy we found a replacement, yet I have already heart of at least one councillor that he wants to retire after this term, putting us at the same situation again.
It seems that the Pacific just does not get out of its dark pit. A merger with the Midwest is an often discussed solution, and while I certainly would not oppose this, I am a proponent of trying other, more or less new things to increase engagement and activity in our region, and maybe put the Pacific back on its own feet, without mergering with the Midwest. I have some ideas in my mind, and today, I outlined the first of these here. The amendment to our constitution would abolish the Pacific Council, and replace it with an Universal Legislature, currently with the working title "Pacific Universal Convention". Maybe such an universal legislature could help increasing activity and engagement in regional politics, which the Pacific desperately needs. It is up to you, citizens of the Pacific!

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Well I guess I have to say, my proposal received at least something, the most important - reaction. I cannot remember that anything that has ever happened in the Pacific since I joined evoked such a reaction - that should show everyone how desperate we are. I got some other ideas that hopefully evoke such a reaction, no matter if they are agreed on or not.

It would be a little like sending everything to referendum. Sorry if I glossed over it in the Pac. Council thread, but a reasonable threshold for passage would probably have to be agreed upon. I just don't recall what was proposed.

I proposed that you'd need 1 other supporter for a normal bill, and 2 for a constitutional amendment.

A regional merger would certainly be a better idea. Nobody has yet explained their hostility to the idea.

As I said, I am not hostile to the idea of a merger with the Midwest, but I'd rather see an active Pacific alone than a Midwest-Pacific region, that also has no guarantee of activity. Surely, it maybe would increase interest in the beginning, but for how long? If that should not work, that just puts us at the same situation we have now.

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Universal legislatures = even less activity. We undertook a huge effort back in the day to move both the Pacific and the Midwest out of their universal legislature ruts.

Maybe that's just my idealistic point of view, but an universal legislature, that would enable every citizen to participate, should have that conclusion - more people participate. After all that's the point of it. Why did it not work back then?

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You are probably right, DemPGH. The idea was not that good an idea, and I'll leave it be. It was just that it was so tiring sitting in or now presiding a council wher just noone cares. Devin showed up occasionally, Flo has left us, Simfan never bothered to do anything after becoming AG/GM, and I don't yet know what TomJefferson will be like. I'll give our current council another try, after all we will be/are having two new members (at least one totally new, most likely Oakvale or any other veteran I can think of will be Flo's replacement). Same time, I'll be contacting Arturo Belano over a merger.

So that may be it for the Pacific, I'd say. 

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Again - I need a replacement for Flo's council seat. Any Pacifician that is interested, please contact me!

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Executive Order:

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Referendum Announcement:
I hereby announce a referendum for the 24 July 2014 regarding the question of a merger between the Midwest and the Pacific, being held simultaneously in both regions.
The question asked will be:

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The referendum will last for 72 hours, and when passing in both regions, initiate talks over a merger.