Why I will be voting for HarrisonRichardson on July 5th

Day 588, 09:16 • Published in USA USA • by PigInZen

Thanks for reading this and giving what I am about to write some thought.

Let me being by stating for the record that I'm not a supporter of Harrison's "tradition pictures" - his closing pictures of scantily-clad women pulled from major men's magazines in RL. Now, in my RL I am active in Diversity Training. Much of Diversity Training revolves around increasing people's awareness that other people may not be just like them and may not come to the same conclusions as one does based upon personal experience. While I might personally enjoy an occasional viewing of Megan Fox, I can completely understand why someone else won't. This may be due to real life experiences or closely held personal beliefs that shape their world view. To me, it's an extension of the reasoning that one doesn't crack racist or sexist jokes - it's insensitive.

I would hope that eUSA citizens would put aside their objections to or approval of this issue and consider Harrison's unique qualifications to be President of the eUSA. I have done so. I have had the opportunity to work for HarrisonRichardson at the eUS State Department as both Under Secretary of State for Developing Regions and eUS Ambassador to Turkey. In the course of my daily duties I have grown to understand that Harrison takes a pragmatic and realist approach to his responsibilities as Secretary of State. I find this approach to be refreshing and instrumental to his effectiveness.

The eUS State Department revolves around two subgroups - Harrison's group of close advisors, of which I am a member along with LexLuthor1, qkoller, ProggyPop, Chris Stanwick and OneEye, and the Congress' Foreign Affairs Committee, also known as FRAC. Harrison relies upon these subgroups to provide him both with information that he would not normally be privy to in the course of his daily duties and with advice about current world events. Harrison believes in building a consensus-based approach to policy development. Such an approach prevents emotion-based and rash decisions from being made and is quite reassuring to both our allies and the rest of the eRepublik nations.

Finally, the eUS President's responsibilities are setting an agenda for domestic affairs through law proposal and conducting foreign affairs. Foreign Affairs dominates most of what the President does from day to day. HarrisonRichardson's experience as Secretary of State gives him a unique advantage over the other candidates and electing him as eUS President would give the eUS full access to both that experience and the personal knowledge he earned over the past several months. You can find out more about HR's policy proposals at his newspaper, here:

Harrison's campaign announcement
Harrison's campaign platform

I would like you to seriously consider voting for HarrisonRichardson for President on July 5th if you have not yet firmly decided for whom you will vote. I will be more than happy to elaborate on my experiences working for HR in the State Department if anyone would like for me to do so. You can find me in IRC (handle: PigInZen), at the eUS and USWP forums or via PM here in eRep.

Vote for HR. Thanks for your time.

PigInZen (aka Phil)
US Senator, Massachusetts
US Under Secretary for Developing Regions
US Ambassador to Turkey