Minutes from the First Josephite Summit

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↔ Minutes from the First Josephite Summit ↔ 

 

 

Inkeeping with our eternal goals of legislative transparency, and to share the inner workings of our leadership’s procedures with those who would take interest, the Josephite Committee, chaired by Sir Terrence May, sees fit to publish for the public record the minutes from the First Josephite Summit at Selm in it’s entirety.

 

 

Sir John: “Let us call ourselves to session.”

Sir Terrence May: “Yes, yes.”

Sir John: “Now, we have a few things to discuss, but the agenda we published is very clear. The first step is to design our leadership. And do not huddle together like penguins, this is a library not the frozen wastes.”

Joseph Clement: “If I may.”

Sir John: “Speak, my Duke.”

Cyrus: “Get to speaking, not a lot of us have time to waste.”

Sir Jahan: “Baba, don't be rude.”

Joseph Clement: “I have given thought to this, brethren, and for the sake of justice and service I think we should give all things to seniority. Seniority of service to the State which we all adore.”

 Lauritz Christiansen: “Competent service or just service?”

Sir John: “What do you propose happens if Dane is the last man standing, eh?”

Joseph Clement: “Then I think we've failed, your Grace.”

Sir John: “Fairly pointed. Any other opinions, then?”

Joseph Clement: “It is in our interests to place our men, and receive men, from positions of service. It is the fairest thing. I imagine the Everardines plan some… agnatic succession.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “If I may?”

Sir John: “This is not a schoolhouse, we're comrades.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “So competent service or just service?”

Sir John: “Talk to you brothers. And sister,” he adds.

Sir Terrence May: “The gentleman is recognized.” He nods to Jonah.

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “The Duke Clement is right, but alongside that we must choose leadership of men who holds vision.”

Joseph Clement: “Service, Lauritz. I do not think we need some vehicle for competence.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Our respectable opposition lacks a forward vision.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “They thrive off of attacking us,” He grunts, nodding in agreement. “It's all they know how to do.”

Sir John: “We must design this leadership to have an unmistakable system of succession.”

Joseph Clement: “I certainly concur with the good Ensign.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “The opposition cannot propose a vision of their own, so they resort to demagoguery.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “We need vision. And I would hope that the veterans have one. I will support those who came before if they know what comes after. That is all.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “The opposition's vision is the reversal of what has brought us to this in the first plan. They seek not to move forward, but backward.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Hence why they endeavor to hide it so, Lauritz.”

Sir John: “I believe that, within our ideologies, we wield many different beliefs as our weapons. A singular leader, with a committee surrounding him. Does this suit those gathered?”

Joseph Clement: “Take three men, or two, or one. Seniority most in service to the State. Let he who is eldest take the helm of ship, the two others his comrades in leadership.”

Edward Williams: “The Josephite National Committee. I think that's a great idea, Your Grace.”

Angelika Eleanora: “Da, they do attack us. Just before leaving Haense, my political experience and competance were criticized for simply being a Josephite.”

Sir John: “Worry not for the Everardines. We speak of ourselves today. We shall slap them at the booth, fret not.”

Joseph Clement: “Oh, but let us not call these things committees. It ought to be as a sworn brotherhood, an organization of good comrades.”

Rha'Kir: “This one can confirm. He stood next to her when a certain lord Amador ridiculed her for her beliefs.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Indeed… So too was I criticized, Angelika.”

Sir John: “Order, order. I have no gavel, so I will bang my cane on the wooden planks.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Just shout.”

Sir John: “Terrence and I are the most senior of officers.”

Rha'Kir: “Though, must this one say, the Everardines are using a critical aspect to gain certain favor.”

Sir John: “I said order, Kha. One thing at a time.”

Cyrus: “There is only one person that is fit through their long years of service and I believe that Senator May is the one to take the head. In my time as Senator, he managed to get us through Peter de Sarkozy's insanity and ran a tight ship.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Ah, Peter de Sarkozy is a prime example of service not equalling competence!”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Aye, it should be May. He's one of the greatest politicians and legislators of our age.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Where is Ted?”

Joseph Clement: “Let us not slander the good treasurer. He was fiendishly competence. Too much so, in fact, Lauritz.”

Edward Williams: “I also support Sir Terrence May as leader of the Josephite Faction.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “If anyone can lead us to an electoral victory, it is him.”

Sir John: “Very well, then we are in agreement. Do you take the charge, Sir May?”

Lauritz Christiansen: “I think it should be Ted Napier.”

Cyrus: “Where is Ted Napier?”

Joseph Clement: “Ted Napier is young. Too far below in the seniority.”

Sir John: “Focus, or we will be here all day.”

Edward Williams: “Is he even here?” He'd blink, unable to see Ted Napier within the room.

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Someday, perhaps… But May should take charge for the time being.”

Godfrey Briarwood: “My vote is with Sir May.”

Sir Jahan: “I concur.”

Edward Williams: “My vote is also with Sir May” he'd conclude.

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Best to have a strong name and a prestigeous resume going into the general election.”

Sir John: “Sir May, we ask you to wear the mantle of liberty and hold it in our name. What say you?”

Joseph Clement: “Let Sir Terrence serve as our helmsman, with Sir John and next in seniority for his comrades.”

Angelika Eleanora: “Da, I agree. Senator May is an experienced, loyal, intelligent, and competent man. I can't think of a better man to serve as our helmsman.”

Sir Terrence May: “Oh, goodness brothers I.. I merely agreed to come here to preside over what will be a map of the future. However, if this august group sees me worthy to lead our cause, I will do so with my entire being.”

Cyrus: “Just say yes, you old fool.”

Sir Jahan: “Oh just accept the position before we change our minds.”

Cyrus: “No need to draw it out with pointless speech.”

Sir John: “He has said yes. Now, Chairman Terrence.”

Sir Terrence May: “Sir John, firstly… Before we proceed that is. This group represents the vision that your kin rallied us all half a century ago. It is here in your residence that we have decided to choose liberty and justice for our people. I take this office reluctantly, but with remembrance to you as well. Now simply that you have hosted us, but because of what your name represents to us all. And in service and with dedication, I pledge that we will preserve the integrity of Emperor Joseph Marna with our voice and our actions on behalf of a generation of Orenians that will follow us.”

Joseph Clement: “Harken ye sons of liberty!”

Sir John: “Hear hear.”

Sir Terrence May: “Hear, hear!”

Cyrus: “Hear hear!”

Angelika Eleanora: “Hear, hear!” 

Sir John: “But, Sir Terrence, we must not tarry.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Hear hear.”

Sir Jahan: “Hear hear!”

Lauritz Christiansen: “It's harken all ye sons of liberty.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Hear hear!”

Sir John: “We must select your committee, before these men get too drunk to think. And I would nominate Ted Napier, in absentia.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Ah, yes, Ted Napier, excellent choice.”

Angelika Eleanora: “I second.”

Sir Terrence May: “The Napiers have been a strong advocate and ally in my career in Helena.”

Véres Draskovits: “Secretary Napier, yes.”

Sir John: “Without objection then, eh? Do we have other nominees?”

Joseph Clement: “Sir John himself!”

Véres Draskovits: “Sir John, aye!”

Cyrus: “I agree with Sir John's nomination.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Clement. Nominate Clement.”

Joseph Clement: “Let you three form a cabal of our leadership.”

Sir Jahan: “I support this nomination.”

Joseph Clement: “Oh, I am much too young. I refuse.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Aye, Napier would be good.” He nods in agreement.

Lauritz Christiansen: “You've served the state longer than Napier, did you not want seniority of service?”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “He seems like a promising lad.”

Sir John: “We are too far from an office capable of organizing the massive endeavor we partake upon.”

Joseph Clement: “I am inclined to think it vulgar for myself to join in any capacity, Lauritz.”

Sir John: “Let us have five members of the committee, no?”

Joseph Clement: “Three! Five is burdensome.”

Edward Williams: “I also support Secretary Napier as a member of the committee” he'd say.

Lauritz Christiansen: “Three.”

Cyrus: “We need one more then!”

Sir Terrence May: “I support Secretary Napier and the Baron of Selm.”

Joseph Clement: “We've three already! Let us put it to rest.”

 Lauritz Christiansen: “May, Napier and d'Arkent, what a beautiful triumvirate of Josephite ideology.”

Joseph Clement: “May, Napier, Selm. Hip hip for that!”

Sir John: “Three, then, very well.”

Urrigon Drumm: “Oi always fought Nappy 'ad a gifted mind.”

Sir John: “Now, the next item on the agenda. How is the next Party Leader chosen? Terrence will, of course, live immortally, so this is only in case he resigns.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Just let the man pick himself.”

Joseph Clement: “Out of you three in order of seniority.”

Cyrus: “Should we not elect our next party leader? Follow the path that we have set the empire on?”

Joseph Clement: “Pah! You'd do away with all experience, Cyrus.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “I reckon a two-thirds vote of Josephite delegates, in order to maintain unity.”

Sir John: “We all value democracy, but it can be the undoing of stability with something as fragile as we have.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “If we saw May fit to lead the party, then we ought to be able to find him capable of choosing his own successor.”

Sir John: “I agree. Let the Chair select his successor.”

Cyrus: “I don't want this to become an old man's club, we need those capable to be elected as May's successor if the unthinkable happens.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Agreed, May should nominate his successor.”

Sir John: “With the agreement of at least one committee member, let us say that, then, aye?”

Joseph Clement: “Surely. I can agree to this.”

Edward Williams: “Perhaps the best would be just to hold a new Convention and decide the new leader there.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Very good.”

Sir Terrence May: “Oh goodness me..” He begins to blush..

Edward Williams: “But as you all prefer, of course.”

Sir John: “Then we are decided there, as well. Now, onto the next item on the agenda. I wish to walk away today with three key points of our platform. Ones with strong arguments, that will win votes.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Is it wedding time yet, Drumm?”

Sir John: “I open the floor to you all, of course.”

Joseph Clement: “Liberty, life, and trial. Simple.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “If I may, Duke Clement.”

Urrigon Drumm: “A bit longa.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Our creed is not an argument.”

Joseph Clement: “No, very fair, Ensign.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Very good, very good.” He nods to Urrigon.

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Jonah, please. I'm set to resign anyways.”

Sir John: “So then let us examine our creed.”

Aren Ault: “That is Liberty, is it not good Kha?”

 Sir John: “Here is a fair argument I have thought on for some time, help me with this. The Courts, the Diet, the Cabinet. Instruments all born of the Emperor's will, but by the Emperor's grace, he subjugates these bodies to the people's electorate. They are, without argument, instrumental to our economic blossom, our progress, and our worth.”

Rha'Kir: “This one is certainly for liberty. It is not as if I'd still have my fur if this one stood in an Everardine party. I endorse those who are open for others.”

Sir John: “It is easy to say, then, that here, the Josephites have already given you these three. Why would you not elect that which offers us such an emerald place in the world?”

Joseph Clement: “But we need something more particular, is that not right? Positive results.”

Angelika Eleanora: “I think we must address the subject of the Church. The Evardines have been accusing us of heresy and using our supposed 'hatred' for the Church against us.”

Sir John: “Agreed, with the lady in the back.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “We should not respond to attacks like that, though. Lest it seems like we are defensive.”

Rha'Kir: “One of the Everardines we encountered addressed that as their main argument.”

Sir John: “Here is my thought on that.”

Edward Williams: “I agree with her. The Everardines are constantly accusing us of being atheists and heretics.”

Sir Terrence May: “I should like to give a speech to this group that I have so prepared so as to outline our past and what we could offer for the future.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Ah, Terrence, can we speak in private after this, by the way?”

Sir John: “Give it, Chairman.”

Joseph Clement: “Let us hear the helmsman!”

Sir John: “Step up the stairs, Sir Terrence. Lauritz, give him the steps.”

Sir Terrence May: “Stairs..” 

Sir John: “You can do it.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Terrence struggles with stairs.”

Joseph Clement: “The first step! Be careful now.”

Sir Jahan: “The first step is always the hardest.”

Sir Terrence May: “This election represents the best of our great nation. Gathered in the Heartland of the Empire, we are reminded of what we have fought so valiantly to obtain- the Rights of LIFE, LIBERTY, and TRIAL and the courage to govern with these principles. Sir Terrence May: “Nearly fifty years ago, I remembered the movement against tyranny as we coalesced behind the words at Nenzing to oppose a regime that had wronged so many of our fathers and their fathers. We must strive, therefore, to prevent the shackles of tyranny to bind us up and silence our voices with misinformation. We must be witnesses of social harmony and progress, devoting ourselves to build an Oren that incorporates the many people that lift up our lives! When I came to the Senate nearly thirty years ago, I spoke on the Senate as a ‘Conscience of the State’, the idea that we as elected people who represent all aspects of the Empire. We, the citizens, have a responsibility to uphold the moral character of our government in honoring the social obligation of governing and governed. The people need to continue to be determinants of their path. Guided by their god-given rights, , it is our responsibility today to ensure that no citizen is subject to the vices of malicious powers. My friends, it is in fact the most profound duty we have as citizens in this age. Not only are we here because we agree on a certain principle. We are here out of love and compassion to the welfare of every individual that calls this Empire their home! That is why we passed laws to ensure juries provide judgment of an accused by their peers! That is why we passed laws to promote the advertisement of small businesses and tax breaks to new entrepreneurs to place in our economic success! That is why we passed laws to promote transparency in government, ensuring that every voter knows what their lawmakers are doing! That is why we passed education grants to further research and uplift an educated and informed youth! That is why we passed funding reserves for clinics, promoting the innovation and compassion of medicine to treat our citizens who have a RIGHT TO LIFE! That is why we passed Civil Unions, allowing those non-humans who have come to make Oren their home to receive the benefits of recognizing their union! And so my friends!” He pauses to catch his breath. Together, the Josephite vision can achieve what centuries of history have sought before us: That of a country where prosperity maintains its longevity, enshrined by the perfect contract of what it means to be a citizen.”

Sir John: “To be Orenian.”

Sir Terrence May: “Thank you!” 

Joseph Clement: “Well put, Sir Terrence, but what new!?” 

Edward Williams: “Hurrah!” He'd exclam as he continues clapping for Sir May.

Joseph Clement: “I should think there's a reason this coalition has arisen against us. What new? We cannot run only on our accomplishments. We require a forward vision.”

Sir John: “The coalition that stands before us,” he remarks as he climbs with his own cane.

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Might I say something?”

Sir John: “Speak, Jonah.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “About our vision.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “It's a shoddy one, granted. The coalition that is.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “I am a Harrenite. Two hundred years ago, I would be an outlaw on the basis of my birth. Two hundred years ago, that Kha would be a rug. And Urrigon would likely be in a cave somwhere, grumbling about the Empire of the Heartlands.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “That Kha would have been a rug fifty years ago, too.”

Sir John: “Ten, maybe.”

Rha'Kir: “Not even that.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Look where we are now. We own businesses, we have served and know those who do serve in the army, the constables, and so on.”

Rha'Kir: “But right now, this one is a citizen of the Empire as well as a succesful business owner.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “I have the opportunity, to be a Man, once again.”

Sir John: “Let us take also, the example of Sir Terrence. Is he noble? No.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “I have taken this opportunity, which was ensured by the Josephites.”

Sir John: “Well, he is noble. But he is not of noble blood.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Our vision is this: Opportunity.”

Sir John: “Well said, Jonah.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “You see a man on the street and he asks you 'why am I a Josephite? You see a man on the street and he asks you 'why am I a Josephite? Why must I vote for you? You tell him that you fought for him to have the opportunity in the first place. Opportunity is the word we must all know if we are to win. I reckon I'll shut up now.”

Sir John: “Opportunity! Yes. And proof of our previous success, yes.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Thank you, gentlemen.”

Angelika Eleanora: “Well said.”

Sir John: “Sir Konrad, you have remained silent. What say you, esteemed Sir?”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Ah yes…” 

Sir John: “Take the steps.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Friends… Nearly fifty years ago to this day, I had the honor of riding with Joseph Marna himself, along with my colleague Sir John of Sunholdt. Things were very different then.”

Sir John: “Of Nowhere, back then.”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “The roads were unsafe, and the the government of the Empire tyranical,” He continues, letting out a deep sigh. “After the young child emperor, Alexander, came to the throne… We began to travel down a long road. A road toward achieving peace and prosperity, strength and stability- A world in which generations to come can live without the fear of tyranny and bloodshed. Joseph Marna might have lost the physical war, but his ideologies have won the war of ideas. Let us now allow this work that we have done, that we have all striven toward, to have been in vain. The Everdinians seek to reverse our progress and plunge us back into an era of darkness. Should they have their way, our progress toward achieving good government and a future for our children will have been in vain. They seek to antagonize us. They do not rely on facts, only fiction and the power of emotions. We must be better than them. Marna would have wanted it no other way.”

Sir John: “So do we address them, Sir Konrad! Do we address their slander?”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Aye, we do, but we do not focus on the slander being hurled at us. We must win based on the power of our ideas, and never, /ever/ sink to their level.”

Sir John: “Agreed, hear hear!”

Edward Williams: “Hear, hear!”

Sir Konrad Stafyr: “Only through proving to the people of the Empire that we are IN THE RIGHT may we ride to victory over the forces of regression and evil. And that is all I have to say on the matter. I shan't bore you any longer with an old man's ramblings,” He says as he steps down from the stairs.

Joseph Clement: “Well put, Konrad. Well put.”

Sir Terrence May: “Thank you everybody. What is our platform now? Let's think about the future, you all have children, don't you?”

Sir John: “Perhaps Jonah can summarize for us.”

Sir Terrence May: “Why ask me when you can think of them? Ah? Jonah, please.” 

Sir John: “Let us keep the theatrics to a minimum here, we have business here. Summarize our platform, dear Jonah. Take the steps, boy.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Our platform should be this. The expansion of opportunity, and the preservation of liberty. We, the Josephites. Shall protect an individuals rights to life, liberty, and trial. From the Everardines. Yet we must be careful not to call them unpatriotic.”

Edward Williams: “I agree with Jonah. The Everardines are also orenians like us after all.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “And we must emphasize this! Our brothers across the aisle are lost. Lost in old thinking.”

Edward Williams: “But If I may. Another word that I would include in the definition you've just made of our platform is: Progress.”

Angelika Eleanora: “Da. And perhaps if we treat them with respect, they will deliver the same respect to us.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Progress! Progress, Master Williams.You found the golden word. Master Williams has found the golden word, my friends. We run on Progress, Opportuntiy, and the Protection of the two.”

Edward Williams: “Progress” he'd repeat to himself “Is the golden word of our movement.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “If you are to run for the House, use these words.”

Sir John: “Good, I think we have developed a clear platform with which to mount our legislation upon. Now, let us speak on what we must campaign on the back of. Legislation. What will we legislate!?”

Joseph Clement: “Shall we not at the very least establish who shall be doing the legislation? The list needs finalization, I say.”

Sir John: “Oh, yes, of course!”

 Joseph Clement: “The Ministry's calling for lists. We must have ours in as soon as is possible. I have a draft, if curious.”

Sir John: “Show us the draft, then.”

Joseph Clement: “Or at least- provisionally so. I did not know so many would come… The single factor, for equity and experience sake, was seniority in service. Now being fair I do not know some of these men, nor where they have served. Things may be altered accordingly to good scrutiny.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Read it aloud, John!”

Sir John: “Number One, Sir Terrence May. Number Two, Joseph Adler. Then, Cyrus Basrid. Then Siegmund Corbish. Then Sir Konrad Stafyr. Sixth, Edward Napier. Seventh, Godfrey Briarwood. Eight, Jonah Elendil. Ninth, Mary Philippa. Tenth, Angelika Vanir. Eleventh, Edward Williams. Twelfth, Edward Selm. Then Rennard Amador. Then Cecil Halcourt. Then Aren Ault. That is fifteen.”

Sir Jahan: “Am I not included?”

Sir John: “You are the Count Susa.”

Joseph Clement: “No, sir, you are Count of Susa.”

Sir John: “You cannot run.”

Sir Jahan: “Oh you're talking about the House of Commons.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Can I run?”

Joseph Clement: “Why wouldn't you?”

Sir John: “He wed a Baroness.”

Joseph Clement: “Ah….”

Sir John: “I don't think you can, no.”

 Lauritz Christiansen: “Does my wife's peerage disallow me?”

 Joseph Clement: “A curious conundrum.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “I'm not eligible for the House of Lords, surely.”

Rha'Kir: “Hmm. You are a grey zone.”

Sir John: “Put the question to the Supreme Court if it bothers you much.”

Jonah Stahl Elendil: “Play it safe and say you aren't, for now?”

Joseph Clement: “I would think yes - you are not a lettered peer, but you are wed one.”

Edward Williams: “Your Grace. Wouldn't it be wiser to elevate Edward Napier from number 6 to number 2 in the list? He's part of the national committee underneath it all.”

Sir John: “I agree, Williams. Without objection?”

Joseph Clement: “I think Mister Williams makes a valid point. Committee members being given precedence, I suppose. But you yourself disbarred.”

Sir Terrence May: “Very well, without objection.”

Sir John: “Sir Terrence, is Corbish going to be actively participating?”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Move Mary Philippa up the list as well. I wanted her to succeed me as Senator of Helena.”

Sir Terrence May: “I shall speak to the people on this list and make any final revisions with the committee.”

Joseph Clement: “Mary served long as undersecretary of the Treasury, but I know not how long. She has been ever present. I think you might be right, Lauritz.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “However, Mary is in the same grey zone as myself, no?”

Sir John: “Aye, Sir Terrence, Napier and I will look closer upon the list and decide from there.”

Joseph Clement: “However!”

Sir Terrence May: “Yes?”

Sir John: “This is a good place to start, Duke Helena.”

Joseph Clement: “Our fair lady Mary- she is wed to a baron. The Baron Carrington.”

Lauritz Christiansen: “Just as I was about to say.”

Joseph Clement: “As such, it seems she is in the same grey area.”

Sir John: “Hm. We should put the question to the Courts, frankly. Which of you will file a request for judicial review?”

Joseph Clement: “I will do so myself.”

Rha'Kir: “This one has a question?”

Sir John: “Very well. Speak, rug- er, Kha. Forgive me, I am old.”

Sir Terrence May: “Very good. Forgive me friends, I must depart from our wonderful convocation. You all know where my office is!” He smiles.

Sir John: “G'day, Sir Terrence.”

Joseph Clement: “Aye sir, God bless you Sir Terrence. And most, God save the Emperor.”

Edward Williams: “God save the Emperor” he'd repeat.

Signed,

Sir Terrence May, Chairman of the Josephite Committee

Sir John d’Arkent, Committee Member

Edward Napier, Committee Member
 

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"For the dignity of all." Edward Williams would nod in approval to his josephite colleagues.

[ApplePieKathy 561]

Vivaca Rutledge, a renowned centre-left liberal scratches her chin...

”Party politics... sounds dangerous! Should I really vote?”

[argonian 14254]

“I see we live in their heads rent-free!” an Everardine would laugh as he underlined all the mentions of his party.