Talk Elections

Former Northeast Governor Winfield addresses the people of Atlasia.

My fellow Atlasians, I come before you this day to announce that I am running for President of the Republic of Atlasia.

For far too long guns in this nation have been far too easy to obtain and have been used to murder far too many of our people, children, youths, adults.

As President, I will institute a policy of very through and intensive background checks.  Any supplier failing to use these checks will face severe penalties and consequences.

No citizen of Atlasia will be allowed to own or use rapid fire, high powered guns.

The only ones who will be allowed to use rapid fire, high powered guns will be police and military, and any others deemed to require these weapons in the completion of their duties.

No private citizens will be allowed to carry concealed guns.

There will be instituted a time frame for Atlasians to turn over any weapons not allowed under the new legislation.  

Where necessary, search and seizure will be carried out and any illegal weapons found will be confiscated.

My fellow Atlasians, I ask you, nay, I implore you, to join me in making Atlasia a secure place, a place where our people can feel safe.

From the rugged coasts of the Atlantic to the foam crested coasts of the Pacific, from the southern boarder of Canada to the northern boarder of Mexico, from the majestic mountains of the west to the rich red earth of the south, from the golden corn fields of the midwest to the bustling industry of the northeast, we, as a safe and secure nation, shall shout with one accord,

FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY WE'RE FREE AT LAST!

If elected what would you do with the secessionists?

Endorsed!

Time to win with Winfield!

I simply cannot imagine that there would be any secessionists with me as President. :)

Thank you my friend.  As my first endorsement in this coming election, this means a great deal.

Love this platform. I hope the major party tickets take your lead and support meaningful gun control legislation. Thank you for your bravery, I’m sure you’ll get a lot of criticism for this!

I thought a Winfield (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_(cigarette)) was bad for your health.

Honored to be joining this ticket! It's time to defeat the corrupt political class!

Endorsed!

I approve of this candidate's taking no nonsense from the gun nuts.

Thank you.

I shall fight the good fight for the sake of our citizens.

Thank you so much,

My brand of "Winfield" will save lives, no doubt about it. 

I am absolutely honored and delighted to have Dwarven Dragon as my running mate.

He is a proven leader and a talented legislator.

Together we shall carry through with this crusade in behalf of the people of Atlasia.

You got it.

I would like to acknowledge and thank El Bayames for making this magnificent campaign banner.

Thank you very much.  Greatly appreciated.

My fellow Atlasians

I will be an advocate for the elimination of private prisons.

Private prisons will be phased out under my administration, and turned over to the national prison system.

There are simply too many disadvantages to private prisons, in particularly the corruption that occurs.  Private prisons are in the business of housing prisoners in order to maximize profits.  The more inmates they have the more money they make.  This leads to excessive terms being imposed in order to make more money for prisoner placement.  Bribery of judges can also take place so they will in fact impose longer sentences.    

Prisoners tend to serve longer sentences in private prisons.

Studies have shown that prisoners who are being held in private prisons may serve sentences that are up to 7% longer than prisoners who are in public prisons.

Many private prisons do not house costly prisoners.

Many private prisons are given the opportunity to pick and choose which prisoners they house. High-risk prisoners tend to be costlier to supervise.

Private prisons can leave communities with costly facilities that are empty.
 
Private prisons are operated on a contractual basis. The community is often responsible for the facility, while the private prison is responsible for filling the beds.

Private prisons tend to be more violent because of low staffing levels.
 
Private prisons see up to 50% more violence when compared to public prisons with regards to inmate-on-officer assaults.

Prisoners can be thousands of miles away from their family.
 
Prisoner exchange programs can cause inmate transfers that may be hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away from their family.

It creates the foundation for corruption.

Because prisoners are required for a private prison to be profitable, their budgets are never 100% certain.

There may be zero cost-savings advantages.

Comparisons of private vs public prisons that are of similar size and house similar inmates show that both systems face similar cost-per-day rates.

It creates the foundation for corruption.
 
Because prisoners are required for a private prison to be profitable, their budgets are never 100% certain. To solve this problem, there are several instances of corporations working with local systems of justice to extend sentences to longer lengths or charge with higher-level crimes for longer sentences.

Many corporations, such as private prisons, have a reputation of focusing on profits over purpose, which can create numerous hardships.

Who still has private prisons in Atlasia? I think the feds and all 3 Regions have phased them out.

Just in case.

Will you be making any attempts to reduce the vast amount of influence prison unions have?

I would prefer to see an equitable balance between the prison unions and the public interest.  So if this issue has not been addressed already, then it should be. 

I support a total and all encompassing ban on e-cigarettes, vaping, throughout Atlasia.



Vaping lowers the body's ability to fight infections

Chemicals in vape smoke can cause bronchiolitiso obliterans (popcorn lung)

Lithium-powered vapes can blow up

The levels of nicotine are loosely monitored

Accidental ingestion of vape liquid is poisonous

Metal particles are found in vape smoke

Vapes also contain formaldehyde, or embalming fluid

Pneumonia is a risk for vape users

E-ciagarettes usage is linked to depression

Some safety studies on e-cigarettes are written by e-cigarettes industry funded scientists





Adam Hergenreder's vaping habit almost killed him.

Late last month, the 18-year-old student athlete in Gurnee, Illinois, was hospitalized after using e-cigarettes for more than a year and a half. Now his lungs are similar to those of a 70-year-old adult, doctors told him.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/vaping-related-illness-leaves-teen-with-lungs-like-a-70-year-olds/ar-AAHcmQt?li=AAggNb9

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beto-orourke-on-his-gun-confiscation-plan-no-its-not-voluntary-its-mandatory

Beto O'Rourke and I must be on the same wave length.

September 6 I announce my gun control policy and September 12 Beto introduces a very similar gun control policy, so I can only conclude that he read my policy and adopted it.  ;)

"Hell yes we're going to take your AR-15" -Winfield

What is your opinion of gun licensing? (where you need a license to own a gun).

Lincoln briefly passed a gun licensing scheme in 2018, which was repealed in 2019 and efforts to reinstate it were very narrowly defeated in a referendum. Would you support any similar efforts at the federal level?

Thank you for your question.

I absolutely am in favor of a law that would require anyone who owns a gun or guns to have a
license in order to own such gun or guns.

You need a license to own a car, which can potentially be considered to be a lethal weapon,  so there is nothing wrong with being required to have a license in order to own another lethal weapon, that is, a gun.

A license would of course be in addition to gun registration.

We can talk turkey on prison reform. Guns and how you want to deny conceal carry among other anti-second amendment positions I can’t support in good conscience.

Thank you for your input.

After consultation with the top of the ticket, I am releasing two additional platform planks for this campaign:



Pro-Life: We applaud each of the regions for enacting at least a 24 week ban on this draconian practice, but lament the lack of federal action to extra-secure these regional measures. If elected, we will pursue at least a federal 15 week ban on this ending of innocent human life.


Opposition to Single-Payer Health Care: We believe DoofCare has created an optimal situation in Atlasia, providing a happy medium between government assistance and preserving the free market dynamic. We would be opposed to expansions of DoofCare that would further erode this free market dynamic.

Are you secretly Obama?

I think we've finally broken Wulfric's left-wing persona.

Can you please take your time to answer the below questions

If elected how would you approach the day to day operations of the Presidency? What would your governing style be?

Do you believe corporations have an ethical mandate regardless of government actions to keep prices affordable (you can define this as you wish)? Regardless of your answer should government ever get involved in decisions of what companies charge for a product of service?

What role do you believe personal behaviours should play in the determination of a persons fitness to become President?

Do you consider terms such as redskins in regards of a sports teams name racist? How about things such as the tomahawk jock done by some teams as racist? Should teams be allowed to be involved in these practices?

What do you believe are the major forces behind poverty? Is poverty inevitable or can it be eliminated? Should government do anything to solve it? If so what steps should they take to solve poverty?

What do you define as hate speech? Do people have the right to say whatever they want? What if anything should government, society and other individuals do to prevent, respond to and or combat hate speech?

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Former Northeast Governor and now Presidential candidate Winfield speaks to an overflow raucous crowd in Michigan as part of his nationwide whistle stop campaign

Vote for me and I'll keep you safe


My priority is you the people, not the big party and big money interests
I will never let you down


Deafening cheering and clapping from the gigantic crowd

Not only gigantic crowd, gigantic letters!

Can you please take your time to answer the below questions

Pragmatic Conservative

Thank you for your questions.  I can see you have put a great deal of thought into them.

If elected how would you approach the day to day operations of the Presidency? What would your governing style be?

I am a pragmatist and a realist.  I would tend to prioritize the issues and I would act in the best interests of Alasians.

Do you believe corporations have an ethical mandate regardless of government actions to keep prices affordable (you can define this as you wish)? Regardless of your answer should government ever get involved in decisions of what companies charge for a product of service?

Of course prices for consumers should remain or be made reasonable.  I would fight for the consumer, not the multinationals.  At the same time, however, we must ensure that corporations have an environment in which they can make a profit, but not an unreasonable one.  For example, pharmaceutical companies should not be allowed to profit unreasonably by gouging the public for necessary drugs.

What role do you believe personal behaviours should play in the determination of a persons fitness to become President?

As long as one meets the requirements necessary to run for President that individual should be allowed to run for President,

Do you consider terms such as redskins in regards of a sports teams name racist? How about things such as the tomahawk jock done by some teams as racist? Should teams be allowed to be involved in these practices?

Personally, I do not approve of these behaviors, and I do not believe they should be used.  Some would consider them racist, some would consider them cultural, meaning they have been part of the cultural of the game for generations.

What do you believe are the major forces behind poverty? Is poverty inevitable or can it be eliminated? Should government do anything to solve it? If so what steps should they take to solve poverty?

Poverty is a scourge on mankind, no doubt.  In most cases, the cycle runs from one generation to the next.  The most effective tool to combat poverty is education.  Of course the government has a responsibility, in my view a major responsibility, in combating poverty.  If you are talking about poverty in Atlasia, there should be thoughtful and well laid out strategies by governments to stem the tide of Atlasia.  Poverty in underdeveloped countries is quite another thing altogether.  It breaks my heart to see babies and young children in these countries going without food and clean water.  In this type of poverty, it is a world responsibility to ensure aid gets sent and to ensure this aid gets to where it is supposed to get.

What do you define as hate speech? Do people have the right to say whatever they want? What if anything should government, society and other individuals do to prevent, respond to and or combat hate speech?

Hate speech is a direct verbal attack against any particular group, race, religion, orientation etc.
As far as I am concerned, nobody has the right to say anything they want if it targets any certain particular group etc.   Hate speech should be considered to be a crime punishable by law.  The public should as to what hate speech is be educated

Easier to get noticed that way. :)

Endorsed for a high preferences, but not first (probably second or third)

I know it is early in the voting, but, as the Silent Majority is not rallying to my candidacy, I am prepared at this time to concede the Presidential election to my friends, President Griffin and Vice President Pericles.

To President Griffin and  Vice President Pericles, I wish you well, and best  wishes for a successful second term.

 

Thanks for fighting the good fight!

Thank you.

Thank you.

You ran a good campaign and I admire you putting yourself and your positions forward, I hope you continue to contribute to the game. Thank you for your support, and I will do my very best to serve you in the four months ahead if we are re-elected (it is looking good so far, but better not take it for granted).

Thank you.

Much appreciated.

Consolations on your extermination.

Thank you to all who supported me.

Thank you to all who ran in this election, for giving the voters a choice.

If you had any idea what that word means, or what the historical context of that word is, you would not use that word in this context.