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Arriving Down Under & the ARP
On July 24th 2012 I was accepted as a citizen to eAustralia by Lancer450, who was one of the main reasons I chose Australia as where I’d move to. Lancer is a nice guy, and has always been easy to talk to and helpful.

On August 16th, as detailed in my ARP history article, I founded the Australian Revolutionary Party, the name reason should have been obvious, I helped found the Revolutionary Party in the eUSA, I liked the way that party functioned internally, so naturally I’d name my Australian Party after it. But also as I’ve said when I first got to Australia this wasn’t the plan, just something that came to be in the week leading up to Party President elections.

Over the course of many mothers the name has been one that has been questioned a lot, I’ve never truly understood why; it is after all just a name. I’ve tried to explain that, but often it just seemed to go nowhere and the questions persisted, eventually I just stopped trying to explain it, not really worth it.

I was party president of the ARP for four straight months, we had a minor peak under lancers recruitment and working with the Australian Freedom Unit, but began a bit of a decline, followed by some slow growths and drops, some controversy wrapped around “blocking” groups out of congress, I will admit sure we were chosen over another party, but on my part there was no malicious intent. Something I made quite clear to Mr. Crumpets at the time. Anyway at the end of my four months of service, Larni took the reigns as Party President, eventually changing her name to Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen, and to be honest the two of us has a rocky relationship during her Party President month, regarding Senate election protocol. Progress came from this the party would adopt a charter and growth went on.

Today the ARP is the number one ranked party, and it hasn’t always been pretty but I am proud of that fact, I won’t defend every action of my party, and sometimes there are things I don’t agree with, but that is democracy, I don’t run the party as a tyrant, nor would I want to do so, the members are free to grow and make mistakes and learn from them as they will.

The Aussie CP runs
Well there have been quite a few, so I’ll break them down one at a time. The first in Oct 2012 was both a mistake and the results of egotistical boredom. I’d put myself on the ballot out of boredom and for a bit of ‘funzies,’ normally this wouldn’t be a big deal to a CP race, if not for on the second of October eRep was going bonkers, and I was unable to switch the endorsement to a legit running candidate of the month.

In December of 2012 during a bit of a chaotic situation involving the ballot and with no one agreeing on much of anything, I put forth a lazy campaign, so the results showed, I finished 5th, I regret this not because I lost, but because I did so with a lack of effort, and some selfishness that could have resulted in the country falling under control of a deemed “PTO” threat.

This one isn’t a CP run, but in Jan of 2013 I served as Deputy Prime Minister to Xavier Griffith, it was educational to say the least, I learned how little I understood cabinet work, and found out the kind of work that went into running a government, the experience was invaluable. As the term was wrapping up before the CoT peace debacle when XG still planned on re-election he admitted to me that even he saw my first month as Deputy Prime Minister as a learning experience, something until now I never publically acknowledged. However after the fall out of the CoT peace breakdown I spent Feb, cut off from government involvement.

In March of 2013 I decided to give it what I believed would be my final run at CP, I put effort into several articles, built up a cabinet, and had supporters trying to get me some votes. In the end I came up 7 votes below DraimAlexander, it was crushing defeat, but I took it mostly in stride, it was easier to do so as Draim was a respectful opponent and in my mind served the job wonderfully. I’d however spend March away from the game, mostly just two clicking, the same for the early part of April being really busy at work; I accepted and later resigned from a cabinet job in irule777’s first term.

In May however I took on the task of Chief of Staff and I’ll admit I was never fully confident with the job as I was confused for the bulk of the month, and tensions came to a head when on old information I booted Binda from the cabinet IRC as last I knew, she’d been fired. For this I was fired, but I’ve moved on, and my relationship with irule has since returned to normal, he was quite helpful at the end of his term at supplying me with important information.

Which brings me to the June 2013 CP election, the race I never intended to run after my March defeat, and to an extent was persuaded to run, Larni can be very persuasive when she wants to be 😃. My campaign came to front, because of support and encouragement from Larni, and a few others including irule777 before are little tiff, and various other ARP members. But the thing that really got it going was Larni’s article where she birthed the persona of Bubbles that became attached to me during that campaign session. For this campaign I put out articles, took a cabinet of volunteers, and spent more time than I care to admit on IRC to all hours of the night. Personally I believe the March campaign was better, but June yielded victory, in what I believe is the greatest achievement of my eRep Career.

My Term as Prime Minister
In a month packed with controversy, my administration saw the removal of Chile, Australia’s exit from NaN, the joining of TWO.

Some rules were bent; some mistakes were made in figuring out just what I could do in terms of the executive order. But positive results were yielded, Chile had been removed from our regions, for the first time in a long time we had more than one region for congressional elections, and a stack of strong MPPs. But of course with any positive results, there are negatives. The things I regret most was the bad communication with NaN in our decision to leave, I regret the matter the vote took place, for I had truly assumed all senators were involved in that message, I should have paid more attention to that. I regret that the ADF issue spent most of the month on the back burner. I also greatly regret how horrid my media staff was during the course of that month, further I regret what became of immigration after Scottty left us, but again I assumed the person who had the job was doing it, I didn’t think someone would lie to me about if they were doing the job or not, I should have been more aware.

It wasn’t perfect, but overall I was an am proud of the overall results of my term, but at month’s end I did not have the energy to run for re-election, and so I didn’t for I didn’t feel it would be right to so without full commitment.

Everything Since
During the month of July I served as Flattys Chief of Staff, I regret that I didn’t do more during this time, I admit I slacked off a bit in responsibility, to be honest I probably shouldn’t have accepted the job, but I let my pride get in the way of better judgment.

After my Chief of Staff term or well during the late part of it, I became ADF Marshal, the first few weeks were difficult as the MoD who appointed me disappeared (I don’t blame him, life happens), and then the next one was focused elsewhere, and well I spent 11 days of August M.I.A. from eRep. After I returned things really hit the fan, arguments sprang up left and right, my job was nearly taken from me, but eventually reform pushed through in the first edition of what the ADF would change too, but as things went on even after this the stress became too much, combined with some stuff I won’t go into I was forced to resign. The New ADF may not be perfect in the eyes of everyone, but I think it is on a good path for good things. I now mostly two click, and occasionally offer my thoughts in mass messages I’m included in.

Finally, my involvement in the ADF may not have been perfect, and I was not able to finish, but I will say Binda and I were able to bury some old feuding and came to a truce in the sake of working.

Closing Up
So closes out Part two, bringing my eHistory to present date. A few things, first I’m not touching the comment crap storm started by Icetek, other than to say I wrote these articles to bring some light to what I’ve done in game, not to brag or gather pity. As to be totally honest, if I truly wanted pity I would go in details of some of my real life problems, but I don’t want too for those are my private matters, all I want is to inform people of some stuff, and maybe garner some votes for my articles. I will also add this, Icetek, you say I hide from bad things, I beg to differ, I am more than willing to admit my faults, but I will not give into false perceptions of myself, I will not give into hate, I will not give into rumors, and I will not admit to things I did not do.

I am who I am, I will always be who I am, for this is who I was raised to be. I prefer to be nice to others, and I will always try to do so. I believe in honesty, and will always try to be honest with others, if you think this makes me weak, those are your thoughts to believe, if you think I’ll let you push me around, you are mistaken.

Finally I wish all candidates running for Prime Minister/Country President this month the best of luck. Also for those of you who enjoyed reading this, thanks I may not have known who would enjoy this, but you are the ones I wrote them for.

Sincerely,
Molly Jo ❤