Westman Timeline Pt. I

[Mechaman]

Electoral Map 1982-1992

Explanations to come later.

[Dr. Cynic]

Looking forward to what comes next!

(BTW, R. P. McMurphy is the role I've most wanted to play as an actor... Just thought I'd share)

[Mechaman]

Notes on Electoral Map:

Most "real" population growth occurs on the West Coast with many previously young professionals in the tech industry settling down and having families.  Also, the economic recession would be hardest felt in the American Northeast where large numbers of Americans, namely the Irish and Italian immigrants who came over in the late 1960's-early 1970's due to major strife within their home countries, emigrated southward and westward looking for new opportunity.  Many would find occupation in the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, leading to an unexpected population boom in Pennsylvania, a state too used to losing people and not gaining people.  A decade long farming crisis in Iowa takes its toll, leading to massive population emigration to surrounding states, namely Illinois.  Meanwhile in the South the states of Texas and Florida continue to lead the nation in population growth as many of the professional class are lured by the promises of business friendly neo-liberal policies in both states.  The US "friend" policy towards Cuba also leads to increased Cuban immigration to Florida and in some cases Louisiana.  Population growth slows up in California: many experts expected the rapid growth of the 1970s to continue but it seems that more of that growth has happened to the north in Oregon and Washington, both states that gained an electoral vote.
Of note:
The state of Michigan, which had long been losing population, seems to have undergone a period of population growth.  Could it possibly be the young "energy efficient auto industry" that is motivating entrepreneurs to move back and thus spark population growth due to new jobs?  Of note Michigan has led the nation in job growth since the end of the recession.
The state of Montana, though it didn't gain an electoral vote, has experienced massive population growth.  Of note the western city of Missoula seems to have experienced a population growth of 35,000 people over the period of a decade (from 55,000 in 1972 to 90,000 in 1982).  The state itself has grown by leaps and bounds, going from a state with a population of 590,000 in 1950 to a state of over 1,450,000 in 1980.  Montana's biggest city, Billings, has a population of 145,000, nearly 500% growth since 1950.
Experts expect the rate of population growth to continue in Mountain West states for the next few decades.

[Mechaman]

(BTW, R. P. McMurphy is the role I've most wanted to play as an actor... Just thought I'd share)

I've got a friend whose father is a hell of a lot like R.P. McMurphy.  Sarcastic as hell Irish guy from Oregon in his mid 50's who uses swear words very liberally.  He even sounds like McMurphy.  If that wasn't weird enough a year ago I find out the guy did time for statutory rape.  Apparently when he was 25 or so he got it on with an eighth grader (girl was 13).  In his defense he said "judge me if you want but I swear as the Lord as my witness that was some damn nice beaver."  I know, charming guy right?

[Dr. Cynic]

(BTW, R. P. McMurphy is the role I've most wanted to play as an actor... Just thought I'd share)

I've got a friend whose father is a hell of a lot like R.P. McMurphy.  Sarcastic as hell Irish guy from Oregon in his mid 50's who uses swear words very liberally.  He even sounds like McMurphy.  If that wasn't weird enough a year ago I find out the guy did time for statutory rape.  Apparently when he was 25 or so he got it on with an eighth grader (girl was 13).  In his defense he said "judge me if you want but I swear as the Lord as my witness that was some damn nice beaver."  I know, charming guy right?

Sounds like he IS McMurphy... Although a Oregonian with a New Jersey drawl is a bit disconcerting ... By the way, you saved steel!... You basically saved Pittsburgh from 20 years of a lot of problems and the loss of half our population. Although it makes me wonder if Mayor Caliguiri spearheads the second "Renaissance". Or, given the butterflies, if he even becomes Mayor at all. Your map is right in his long tenure here as well as his death. Considering Watson won the 1980 race (as opposed to it being Pete Flaherty), does Flaherty stay in Pittsburgh as Mayor?...

Inquiring minds gotta know! HAHA.

[Mechaman]

(BTW, R. P. McMurphy is the role I've most wanted to play as an actor... Just thought I'd share)

I've got a friend whose father is a hell of a lot like R.P. McMurphy.  Sarcastic as hell Irish guy from Oregon in his mid 50's who uses swear words very liberally.  He even sounds like McMurphy.  If that wasn't weird enough a year ago I find out the guy did time for statutory rape.  Apparently when he was 25 or so he got it on with an eighth grader (girl was 13).  In his defense he said "judge me if you want but I swear as the Lord as my witness that was some damn nice beaver."  I know, charming guy right?

Sounds like he IS McMurphy... Although a Oregonian with a New Jersey drawl is a bit disconcerting ... By the way, you saved steel!... You basically saved Pittsburgh from 20 years of a lot of problems and the loss of half our population. Although it makes me wonder if Mayor Caliguiri spearheads the second "Renaissance". Or, given the butterflies, if he even becomes Mayor at all. Your map is right in his long tenure here as well as his death. Considering Watson won the 1980 race (as opposed to it being Pete Flaherty), does Flaherty stay in Pittsburgh as Mayor?...

Inquiring minds gotta know! HAHA.

So looking over the 1973 mayoral election I see that Pete Flaherty apparently won in a landslide.........against himself.  Nah, Pete Flaherty doesn't stay in Pittsburgh as Mayor.  Actually he is appointed Secretary of Labor under the Reagan Administration in 1977 replacing outgoing Secretary Mimi LaFollette Summerskill, Democratic-Progressive of Wisconsin, the first female Secretary of Labor in US History.  Caliguiri doesn't become mayor, rather he is a veteran of the US House representing parts of Pittsburg.  He ends up working with Watson on a lot of stuff (considering that they are from the same city after all) and ends up being the main driving force behind Watson's Senate run in 1980.  The Senate race ends up being, in the words of Larry King, "a civil war between the leaders of the Pittsburg machine for a Democratic nomination in a statewide race that they have little chance of winning anyway."  During the Primary many critics would charge that the race wasn't really between Watson and Flaherty, but that Watson was just a "surrogate" for Caliguiri because Caliguiri knew Watson would be a stronger candidate than he.  Flaherty's support within the Pittsburg machine was stronger than Caliguiri's, so he ended up winning Pittsburg in the Democratic Primary.  However, he would win it only by a hair (2%) while Lawrence Watson, the young and charismatic House Representative with the backing of a respected elder statesman, would win most of the rural areas by landslides and would end up winning Philadelphia and some of the suburban areas due to his campaigning as a reformer and a friend of the common man (though Flaherty pretty much said the same thing).  Thus it was thanks to his colleague's powerful influence and support that Watson was to win the Democratic nomination by a hair.  In the general election Lawrence Watson becomes the longshot Democratic candidate against favored to win moderate Republican "Snarlin" Arlen Specter.  However, Watson's strong personality and his "unmatched" charisma would make him popular with Pennsylvania voters.  Even in the rural areas the people loved Lawrence Watson.  During the Senate debates Watson would take advantage of a few gaffes made by Specter, namely on union rights and welfare reform.  Watson's classic line on Specter's position on welfare "this isn't welfare "reform", THIS IS WELFARE ELIMINATION!  ADMIT IT!"  Instead of backfiring on Watson it would give him a last minute boost in the polls before election night.  Come election day many pundits still expected Specter to win the Senate seat in a state that didn't elect a Democrat to the US Senate in decades.  Well they were wrong.
Against the odds Watson won the race.  He was pretty much Joe Sestak if he had an extra day or two.
As for the "Renaissance", meh that kind of happened.  In the US House an "urban bill" was passed that granted government funds to "beautification" programs in urban areas.  The bill was spearheaded by Caliguiri who cited the need for cities "to look good enough for people to want to live in."  Due to the economic recession of the late 70's it failed in a lot of urban areas.  However, Pittsburgh Mayor Nelson J. Krueger used the funds given to Pittsburg to begin a "green city" project.  Though many scoffed at the idea at the time the need for cleaner and more efficient means of producing steel and coal lead to a research spur in the state that led to a number of large "green" firms coming to Pittsburg.  The result?  Pittsburg's grisly image as a blackened coal town is smoothed over by a new one of large city parks with lots of trees and running room for families with kids with a geothermal plant overhead.

[Dr. Cynic]

Amazingly detailed and awesome, my friend.

[Mechaman]

Murphy Enterprises, Inc.

Over the past three decades Fionn "Fletch" Murphy, the Galway born owner and operator of the White Fish Resort, has amassed a sizable fortune with control over a multitude of businesses and industries in northwestern Montana.  Beginning in 1955 he became the owner and operator of the White Fish Resort, a place he helped construct in the late 1930's and early 1940's.  From 1955 to 1965 he would begin an aggressive campaign buying out many local area businesses, namely the Kalispell Logging Company and the Northwestern Montana Mining Company, with "mob like efficiency".  Due to his ability to buy business after business without going into debt many critics would voice accusations of him being in league with the mob, an accusation supported by the controversial arrest of five members of the Hague mob organizing cocaine in a wooden shed located on one of Murphy's properties.  Murphy would be arrested in June 1965 for "collusion with the mob, conspiracy, drug running, prostitution, and murder."
What people didn't count on, however, was Murphy's legal team.  Using the argument of "virulent ignorance of property" Murphy's lawyer Antonio Vontas argued that Murphy purchased the piece of property without regard to the shed.  In other words when the property was purchased Murphy assumed the shed was abandoned, considering how far into the woods it lay.  Considering how large Murphy's land ownership was in northwest Montana it wouldn't surprise him if someone under his employ, who was in league with the Hague Mob, could start up a cocaine shipping center without him or his staff knowing about it.  Considering the lack of evidence linking Murphy, besides the fact that the shed was on a piece of his property, the jury would find Murphy "not guilty" for the crimes of "collusion with the mob, conspiracy, drug running, prostitution, and murder" which carried with it life in prison without parole.
There would be more controversy, like the disappearance of Silvio T. Lovato, his chief of staff, that would gain him much more criticism.  To this day nobody knows what happened to Mr. Lovato.
Since the 1960's Murphy's power has only grown larger, with his enterprises having a net worth of $250 million.  He owns over 350 different properties located in every western state and has even began to expand eastward into Oklahoma and Texas.  He even owns an exhibition center that was built in Billings called "The Skydome"  His most recent property, Dwight's Sporting Goods, is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in that city's "Bricktown" district.  Right now there are plans for company to expand the business into the Tulsa and Tahlequah areas with stores dealing with boating supplies and Native American art.  Needless to say Fletch Murphy believes in variety.

[Mechaman]

May 9th, 1966
Ogden, Utah
Holiday Inn Convention Room:

Fletch Murphy, the lanky Irish businessman who had gained a reputation for being cutthroat and aggressive, sat at the head of a long table of his own associates on one side and the city council members of Ogden on the other.  At the end of the table was Mayor Clem A. Wuthers.  The council members are whispering amongst themselves when Wuthers receives a piece of paper.
Murphy speaks up:

Murphy: Well?
Wuthers looks over the paper and then speaks up.
Wuthers: I'm sorry Fletch.  So far the council is unanimous in not agreeing to this.
Murphy gets red faced.
Murphy: Poill asal!  Don't you people understand what's being offered here!?  The chance for this city to rank in millions in tax revenues and the best acts from throughout the country here?  Do you realize how much pull, how much popularity I have with the big acts!?  I can make this city big, I CAN MAKE IT RICH!
Wuthers: Please don't taken any offense but with your controversial history we can't take the risk of being associated with-
City Council member Samuel J. Lemmings speaks up.
Lemmings: WE WILL NOT ALLOW THIS PLACE TO BECOME A HAVEN FOR GAMBLING, VICERY, AND PROSTITUTION!
Murphy: That's a bit excessive don't you think?  I am not a criminal, I am a businessman.  I will not put up with this blatan-
Lemmings: Do you really think we are that stupid?  We know what you're up to Murphy.  Don't think just because your smooth talking paddy ass was able to sweet talk Laramie into building that race track that you have any pull with us.  We got ethics, we got morals.
Murphy slams his hands on the table and then gets up.
Murphy: Let me tell you something you something you moralistic prick.  Morals don't matter next to the dollar bill.  F**K YOUR MORALS!  F**K THEM!  BECAUSE IF YOU THINK YOU CAN TALK DOWN TO ME, FLETCH F**KING MURPHY, LIKE I'M SOME DAMNED INSOLENT DOG THEN I WILL KICK YOUR MORMON ASSES ALL THE WAY BACK TO MAINE!  I WILL LITERALLY TAKE THIS HAND, PUNCH YOU MOTHERF***ERS IN THE ASS SO HARD YOU WILL LAND IN THE F***ING 1840'S IN MAINE!!!  YOUR DAUGHTERS WILL LOOK SO UGLY AFTERWARDS THAT NOT EVEN JOSEPH F***ING SMITH WOULD DO THEM!!!  DO YOU WANT AN ASS KICKING!!?  DO YOU MORMON F***S WANT AN ASS KICKING!!!  BECAUSE I WILL TAKE THIS DEAL AND I WILL WALK, I WILL LITERALLY WALK TO SALT LAKE CITY AND GIVE THEM THIS DEAL AND WATCH AS YOU KID SCREWING F***S GET YOUR ASSES BEAT BY THE ONLY REAL CITY IN THIS STATE!!!
Wuthers: Fletch, please settle down.  We will consider this offer but please take into consideration our community's concern over this proposition.  This is a Casino you're talking about after all.
Murphy: There are no laws against it in this state.  Believe me the lawyers have checked.
Wuthers: You're talking about placing an establishment of gambling in our city.  That we will not have, not for all the money in Dallas.
Murphy: What about all the money in White Fish?
Murphy writes down a check and hands it to the nearest council member Brian K. Platt.  Platt gasps.  Murphy looks at him and smiles.
I know you're good for it Brian, I know you are.
Murphy: I'll talk to you gentlemen later.

[Mechaman]

August 8th, 1984
Kalispell, Montana:

Scott Westman is walking thru a crowd of reporters when he runs into a tall guy with glasses and a blue business suit holding a microphone with the words National Lampoon National News.  Chevy Chase, Westman thought with a smirk.  Chase runs up to him with a camera man in tow.
Chase: Mister Westman, could I ask you a quick question?
Westman: Yes of course Mister Chase, proceed.
Chase: Sir, is it true that you like beaver?
Westman gives him a huh? look.
Chase: Is it true that you like the beaver sir?
Westman laughs.
Westman: Yes I do Chase, what of it?
Chase: Well what kind of beaver do you like?  I personally like the Short Haired Red Beaver myself.  They seem less eager to build up dams to prevent you from going up their river.
Westman nods with approval.
Westman: Well Mister Chase I do say the Short Haired Red Beaver is indeed a very well behaved breed of beaver, however I think I myself prefer the Long Haired Pink Beaver myself.  I love a beaver that puts up a big dam that makes it harder to navigate up it's river.  To me it's not about getting the beaver itself, but the journey up it.
Chase: Very interesting.  You know I'm kind of surprised you are a fan of the Long Haired Pink Beaver Mister Westman.
Westman: Oh and why is that?
Chase: Because I thought you were a fan of the Cock!
Both men enjoy a moderate laughter as the cameras are rolling.  Little did Westman know just how vital this conversation would be for his campaign.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I have a feeling that "beaver" represents something else, but even if I think I'm getting it, I don't see anything to "die laughing" about.

[Mechaman]

I have a feeling that "beaver" represents something else, but even if I think I'm getting it, I don't see anything to "die laughing" about.

"I'm a fan of pussy" "but I thought you liked dick!" Not really something to die laughing about, assuming my interpretation is correct.

Meh, fail humor .
They had a "Moderate Laugh".

[Mechaman]

Governor Richard J. Peter's Ad
"A New Style"
Airdate: August 9th, 1984:

Commercial opens to footage of Westman in downtown Kalispell, Montana walking up to National Lampoon Reporter Chevy Chase.  The two have the conversation recorded by the media on August 8th, 1984.  As soon as the two men stop laughing subtitles appear:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Scott Westman has promised a new era of civility in politics.  Yet even in the middle of a political campaign this horndog can't stop laughing up sexually implicit comments to show Montana what part of the body he thinks with.  Do you really want somebody who talks about how much he likes beaver on national TV to be your governor?

Think Serious, Think Peters.

[Mechaman]

Happy Clam Resort
Virginia Beach, Virginia
August 9th, 1984:

Tobin MacMahon is walking towards the elevator when a bunch of reporters stop him.
Reporter: Sir, what do you think of the controversial Richard Peters campaign ad?
MacMahon: I could really give a damn.  Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go have sex with my wife.
MacMahon gets into the elevator presumably headed towards the penthouse floor.

Charleston, South Carolina
The Hilton:

Giovanni Russo is walking out of the Hilton when a group of reporters catch up with him.
Reporter: Congressman Russo!  Congressman Russo!  What do you think of the whole controversy with Scott Westman?
Russo looks at them like they got something wrong with them.
Russo: Oh what that he likes beaver?
Reporter nods like a disabled kid.
Russo: Who doesn't?  Jesus.......
Russo storms off, uttering a storm of swear words as his staff follow him.

Missoula, Montana
Missoula International Airport:

Lawrence and Laura Watson are walking out the airport with their kids when the press catches up with them.
Watson: Who told these people we were coming!!!!
Press: We just happened to be here sir.
Watson: Bulloney!  I know a press trap when I see one!
Press: Sir, what are you doing in Missoula?
Watson: I'm going to see a dear friend of mine, okay?  Can't a man and his family see a friend now days without being hounded by you press wolves?
Press: Haven't you heard about the recent controversy with Senator Westman?
Watson: What controversy?  Sorry for not being up to date about controversies that aren't dealing with Philly Steel!
Laura laughs.
Press: No I mean Scott Westman talked with the reporter from National Lampoon.
Watson: Oh Chevy Chase?  I think he's pretty retarded really, don't see why Scott likes him so much though.
Laura: Honey, you shouldn't use words like "retarded" when talking about the mentally disabled.  It sends a bad message to your home district.
Watson: The people know I love retards, why else would I consistently vote against cutting costs spent on mental health institutes?  Not to mention voting for funding for the Gifted Olympics?
Laura laughs.
Laura: He means well Bernie.
Watson: You are right though, it's insulting to retarded people to compare them to Chevy Chase.  Anyway what the problem is?  I thought National Lampoon wasn't serious news....
The reporter looks perplexed.
Reporter: Well ummm...meh umm the Peters Campaign ran his interview about beavers with Mister Chase and ummmm uhhh huh.....
Watson: Tatatatatoday junior!
Reporter looks like he is about to throw up.
Watson: What did Scott say he likes beaver?
The Watsons laugh.
Watson: Who the hell doesn't!?
Reporter stammers as the Watsons walk out of range of the airport and a limo picks them up.
Watson: God reporters can be retards sometimes.........

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Watson seems kind of demeaning in the "Mr. Woodcock" way, making fun of retards and people with stutters.

[Mechaman]

Watson seems kind of demeaning in the "Mr. Woodcock" way, making fun of retards and people with stutters.

He's making fun of the reporter who is speechless at his form of talking.

Nah, he loves the retards, especially the Ba-ba-billy Bib-bib-bibbit sorts.  He's just not politically correct about it like quite a few liberals are.

[Dr. Cynic]

Probably just dislikes the particular reporter...

[Mechaman]

Probably just dislikes the particular reporter...

Yeah that too.

Not many politicians like Bernie Douschle.
The Watsons also have a low opinion of Laura Hennigan, the reporter from Philadelphia who has consistently given Larry negative reporting.  Not to mention the whole child custody case going on with Scott Westman.  Laura Watson made it quite clear when she once said of Hennigan "the woman is a vicious snake, a low life example of a human being and a reporter."

[Mechaman]

Later that night
Westman's Estate
A Conversation:

Scott Westman and his runningmate Mendelik D'Israeli are in Westman's study going over the campaign.
D'Israeli: I can't believe those idiots went with that ad?  Are they that desperate?
Westman: You give the Montana Grand Old Party too much credit friend.  When I first ran for the US Senate all they could do was obsess over how evil my relationship with Marci was.  What the hell, I shouldn't be talking to you about this.
D'Israeli: What friend?
Westman: Oh just this whole "beaver" business.  I got an idea, maybe it's a joke idea but it could work.
D'Israeli: What the hell Scott?  Let's have it.
Right when Westman is about to tell him his plan Caroline walks in.
Caroline: Honey, they're here.
Sh*t, I totally forgot.
Westman: Forgive me Mend, I forgot some people were coming.
The two men go upstairs into the den and find Larry and Laura Watson and their two sons, Robert, 3, and Sean, 1 and a half, waiting for Westman.  Immediately Robert rushes for Scott.
Robert: Uncal Scott!
Scott catches Robert and gives him an aeroplane hug.
Westman: How ya doin sport?  You mind if I say hello to your father and give your beautiful mother a kiss first?
Robert: Ewww!  Yuck!
Watson gets up and gives Westman a big hug.
Watson: So great to see you Scott!  It feels like it's been forever!
Westman: It's been too long old friend.
Watson lets go of Westman as a very pregnant Laura gets up to greet him.
Westman: Miss Laura, you look more gorgeous than ever!
Westman goes for a kiss on the cheek when Laura stops him.
Laura: Scotty, no dear friend of Larry's going to kiss me on the cheek.
She wraps her arms around his neck and kisses him on the lips.  Westman smiles.
Westman: I see someone used the Bacardi on the way over here.  Anyway, glad to see everybody.
Watson: Well we have a busy week next week, so now was the most opportune time to come over.  Especially with the campaign and everything.
Westman: Tell me about it.  I need to sucker these paddy teamsters for all their worth.  Thus alcohol liberalization and your appearance.
Watson: Yeah I noticed that, your speech in Anaconda in front of that friggin Mick Hall or whatever the hell it's called.  Man, you got a hard on for Butte voters.
Westman: Well, I'm trying my damnedest to guarantee a strong performance in case a progressive third party ends up running.  I know my record with unions is pretty dismal so I'll need all the momentum I can get.  It just sucks though, you know?
Watson: What?
Westman: Oh playing this ethnocentric bullsh*t.  I was never really that excited about it, but if I do go through with it is likely to result in a very strong performance in an otherwise close election year.
Watson: Well I mean come on most everybody has to pull it at one point Scott.  Do you think I seriously went around Pittsburgh and Philadelphia without emphasizing how much I love Catholics?  It's target marketing, and it works.
Westman: Yeah but it sucks.  I don't want people to like me because I'm like a quarter Irish, I'm a Catholic, my last name is Westman, and I'm related to the Kennedys.  I want them to vote for me because I'm well.....me.  If it weren't necessary at all I wouldn't even spend a week in southwestern Montana promoting the hell out of alcohol liberalization or having pro-labor Democrats speaking favorably of me, but knowing my past luck I have to.  It's the nature of the beast.
Watson laughs.
Watson: Tell me about it........

[Dr. Cynic]

Probably just dislikes the particular reporter...

Yeah that too.

Not many politicians like Bernie Douschle.
The Watsons also have a low opinion of Laura Hennigan, the reporter from Philadelphia who has consistently given Larry negative reporting.  Not to mention the whole child custody case going on with Scott Westman.  Laura Watson made it quite clear when she once said of Hennigan "the woman is a vicious snake, a low life example of a human being and a reporter."

Screw Philly, I don't need 'em anyway LOL...

My timeline Laura is qute the outspoken one compared to my real life "apolitical liberal" Laura lol

[Mechaman]

Probably just dislikes the particular reporter...

Yeah that too.

Not many politicians like Bernie Douschle.
The Watsons also have a low opinion of Laura Hennigan, the reporter from Philadelphia who has consistently given Larry negative reporting.  Not to mention the whole child custody case going on with Scott Westman.  Laura Watson made it quite clear when she once said of Hennigan "the woman is a vicious snake, a low life example of a human being and a reporter."

Screw Philly, I don't need 'em anyway LOL...

My timeline Laura is qute the outspoken one compared to my real life "apolitical liberal" Laura lol

She's actually usually quite sweet (as evidenced by her warm greeting of Westman), but some subjects (like Hennigan) causes her to speak her mind in a not so pleasant way.

[Mechaman]

August 10th, 1984
1:05 AM
Westman Estate:

Warning: Contains some Republican bashing, but not the type you would expect.

Scott Westman, Mendelik D'Israeli and Larry Watson are in the "Lodge Room" on the bottom floor of Westman's four level split style mansion.  Larry personally thought it was a weird house, entering on the third floor and all.  But, it seems that a failure to understand basic geometric principles was normal in Montana, so the style could be forgiven.  In Larry's defense Westman did say he "hated" Geometry in the 10th grade.
Westman: Personally I don't know who I like less: the moralistic prudes that run the Montana GOP, or the blue-blooded WASP statists who run the national party.
Watson: Yeah, both groups are pretty slime.  Sure, the moderate faction may support some good stuff, but overall they are annoying elitist assholes born with silver spoons in their mouths.
D'Israeli: Yeah, everytime I go to one of those out of state GOP conventions with some annoying Rockefeller wannabe hack it makes me want to vomit.  They kind of are part fo the reason why I am running on this ticket to be truthful.  The annoying liberal wannabe takeover of the state GOP pisses me off.
Westman: What do you mean "liberal wannabe" takeover?  They seem to be hell bent on legislating morality, like the typical blueblood asshole from New York or Vermont.  I mean damn man, how can you put up with these annoying little sh*ts?  Much less be in the same party as them?  I mean really what drives somebody to join the party of elitist little sh*ts like the Republicans?
D'Israeli: Well you got to understand that out here in the West the Republican Party is usually a bit different.  In Wyoming, for example, the party is run by anti-conformist libertarian secularists, like Beauregard.
Watson: Or used to be.  Beauregard's gone to sh*tcrazy heaven right now with his declaration to run as a Marxist Leninist.  I mean really dude: what the f**k?
Mendelik cracks up
D'Israeli: I seriously think he must be trolling.  I mean his term is almost up and even though Wyoming state law allows him to "double run" as you might call it he's made it pretty clear to the rest of the family since '82 that he plans on retiring from the Senate.
Watson and Westman look speechless.
Westman: I F***ING KNEW IT!!!!
D'Israeli: Dude, I know it's shocking but aren't people sleeping?
Westman: It's my damn house I'll shout as loud as I like.  Besides, see this wood paneling?  Yeah, it's sound proof.  I could murder somebody down here and nobody would be none the wiser.  Besides, everybody is on the other side of the house.....on the top floor.
Watson: God you Montanans construct weird houses.  Do they teach you guys anything about geometric construction?  At all?
D'Israeli: I'm sorry but we don't believe in big words up here.
Westman: No, we just construct split level houses so it's harder for people to walk in on us having sex.  Either way it's a bit more interesting than say normal ass straight level housing.  I mean really Watson.......how can you live in such a mundane looking house?
Watson: Umm maybe because I feel safer knowing that I'm sleeping above ground?  Never know when some big ass worm from some f***ing horror film or something might break through the walls?  You got to think these things through Scott.  While my family is totally safe because I'm protecting them with my old man's M4 from upstairs the worms will get the jump on you while you're too busy boning your wife in the 2nd basement level.
D'Israeli: Oh man this is just too good, you guys are really throwing out the sh*ts and giggles.  But let's get back on subject: the GOP is full of elitist bastards.  But not out west.  Hell my family, which has Italian and Jewish descent, practically helped make the western GOP in Montana and Wyoming.  It was either us or the Mormons......who would've you preferred?
Westman: Good point.  But still man who can people like your family put up with the elitist assholes out east or the moralistic biblethumpers in Moronland?  I mean really what's even the point?  You should join us in the Democratic Party!  We totally hate elitist assholes.
D'Israeli: Yeah, and you guys quite clearly don't like authoritarians like Daniel Lynch or all out social democrats like Fred Harris.  Yeah, quite a freedom loving party.
Watson: Hey!  You watch your mouth!  I was a hard on supporter of Harris throughout the primaries!  He's a good politician!
Westman throws his thumb over his back to Larry.
Westman: Yeah, forgot about that didn't you?  Anyway, sure there are some unsavory characters in my party, so?  There are unsavory characters in every party.  For me it's more about who can I stand more?  The three piece suit wearing grey poopon eating pure blood rich boys, or the thrift store tweed suit wearing Killiken drinking mongrel race union members?  To me the latter one may not be as well educated, but he is a lot less of an insufferable prick.  It may sound like nothing more than anti-elitist sentimentalism to you, but it sounds a hell of a lot better than working with WASP statists who would love for the army to take all of my Lever Action Rifles and my marijuana crop just to make their privileged machine gun bodyguarded asses feel safer.  Because that is exactly what the Rockassfeller media that is backing my opponent wants to do.
D'Israeli: Which is why I'm running with you.  Believe me it disturbs me to no end how far they've gotten over the past four years.  First they started using the argument that our faction was full of Satanic extremists who would cost the Republican Party to become a joke just because of my cousin, then they argued that the Moderate Reform Party was full of rational and normal politicians who left because our party was pandering too much to "radicals".  Then they started sending out "advisors" to sway Republican governors towards "law and order" stances.  Not to sound like a hippie but there is a difference between stronger police and supporting laws against marijuana decriminalization and for assault rifle bans.  The social moderates who have suddenly taken over the GOP are going to cost us dearly in the coming years if they insist on these.....fascistic crime heavy positions.  It might help us in Suburbia, it won't help us out here where everybody and their grandmother are armed to the teeth and everybody and their girlfriend is growing marijuana crop.  It's just a way of life out here and they are totally disregarding it, and for what!?
This election is more than just Democrat versus Republican, it's about issues that are above partisan ID.  This election is about freedom versus authoritarianism, about free markets versus state control.
Westman: Damn right, and that is why we will win.
D'Israeli: Most likely, because the GOP is so damn dumb out here they couldn't save a cat from a tree, much less run a state government.

[Mechaman]

Montpelier, Vermont
August 10th, 1984
Jack Layton for Mayor rally:

John Gilbert "Jack" Layton, the Montreal born incumbent Democratic state Senator from the Montpelier area, is about to address a crowd of several hundred in front of City Hall.  Over the past ten years since he graduated from college and his entry into America he has quickly ascended the career ladder: going from jobless graduate to one of the most popular Democratic state senators in Vermont.  His popularity in formerly solid Republican Montpelier caught the attention of the Democratic National Convention, who diverted cash towards his way to win the Montpelier mayoral race.  Although a non-partisan race Layton's success there could lead to the biggest gains for the Democratic Party in Vermont since 1972 when Robert Kennedy managed to win an upset victory in the state due to Republican infighting.
Jack Layton addresses the audience:
Fellow Vermonters, this is a most historic election.  In this election you will decide if you want to continue things as they are with an apathetic Montpelier government that acts as a mouthpiece for the national GOP.  Or do you want independence?  Or do you want a government that actively helps people achieve the best that they are willing and capable of? Do you want a leader who is sympathetic the cries of the homeless of this city?  Of the old, weary, and dying?  Who wants the best education for your children?  Do you want a leader who will defend the people of this city's healthcare against an apathetic state government?  Or do you want more and all of the same?
If true reform and true caring government are your to worries then vote for me, Jack Layton, for Mayor.

At the time many saw Layton as a young idealistic Quebec born state senator with his head in the skies.  Little did they know just how far he would end up going.........

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Gotta love the East v. West dynamic in this tl's Republican Party. Also gotta love bashing Rockefeller Republicans. One of the great joys in life.

[Mechaman]

In Other News:

Shocking news from the state of Nebraska as a killer is on the loose.  Last Thursday 20 year old Michael J. Forrester was found cut to bits in a dumpster in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska.  Michael Forrester was a prominent member of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of pro-gay rights Republicans.  he was a supporter of Republican Mayor Richard W. Stevenson.  City police officials belive that the graphic killings may be indicative of a serial killer and advise police in other areas, especially the major cities of this nation, to be on the lookout.