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Capital Update: Jan. 11, 2010 CORRUPTION sighted!

Day 783, 17:12 • Published in USA USA

• by James Roosevelt

My friends this is Capitol Beat with your host James Roosevelt, Senator from the great state of Minnesota.

Here are some things we have been working on:
-Renewing our Alliances in Game with our EDEN brothers
-Continuing to Donate Money to the CBO, but still trying to keep our Gold stable doing so
-Preventing PTO efforts from our enemies
-Upholding Democracy, no big deal, it’s kind of a cool gig

Some Things that have happened since my last post:
-Jewitt was reelected President of the United States
-There is no more Germany, Poland has taken it over 😛

The big the thing that happened was not good, and happened just recently, today in fact. I went to my inbox that had 1 new message. I read it and started to get pretty mad. A representative who will remain unknown from The Q1 Food Consortium messaged me about possibly backing a policy to help there conglomerate Food Company in exchange for votes coming reelection time. First things first, I’m still not 100% sure if I’m running for reelection (I guess I’m in an exploratory phase 😛). Next, even if I was I would not accept any votes for policy backing. It undermines our democracy and the citizens of my state. Most of the people that are not in States like California and Florida are usually the ones who need Q1 food the most, and therefore we cannot side with a corrupt organization. And nor should any of my colleagues for that matter. That is why I call upon my fellow Members of Congress to call out the Q1 Food Consortium and reprimand them for trying to buy us out with votes and undermine our great Democracy.

Down With Buying Votes!

Down With Corruption

Long Live the United States Congress

Thanks you, God Bless you and God Bless the United States!

Comments

Mourning Star Day 783, 17:14

EZCO MAXXXXXX

Dell Fargus Day 783, 17:20

All you had to do was reply with a "no", and hit send.

Jude Connors Day 783, 17:21

WAY TO GO DUDE!!!

EFF THOSE TAX HUNGRY IDIOTS!!!!

Astra Kat G Day 783, 17:23

Hahaha, seriously, a food consortium tried to sell votes to you in exchange for pushing their special interests?

They obviously don't get that many if not all politicians in eRep are made of better stuff than their RL counterparts.

Quanah Parker Day 783, 17:44

Down with political corruption! Unless I have a cut of it.

Nb97 Day 783, 18:22

Wow, lobbyists are so lame in Erep.

Astra Kat G Day 783, 19:26

"Wow, lobbyists are so lame in Erep."

x 2

jon ford Day 783, 20:18

im not surprised
(how to caculate corruption/bribary/cheating in games)
real life corruption * 65675754365687983365879856587= game corruption

James Roosevelt Day 783, 20:33

Well Jon, to my knowlege it is not common that Senators ever take the bribes of votes or money. That is incumbency makes it pretty easy to round up some mobile voters, and it is relatively cheap to run a campaign unless you are posting an add.

To Dell: The only reason I published this is because this conglomerate owns 50% of the market for Q1 food and needs to be held accountable. That and I wanted to publicize this if God Forbid one of my fellow Senators took them up on their offer. Now that it's public knowledge, it will be harder for them to participate in this corrupt bribery

cam94509 Day 784, 08:05

Personally, I'd take the food, say I'd distribute it myself, because I 'felt I could do better at vote buying myself', donate it to MoW instead, and then renege on my promise to help them with their interests.

Just sayin'.

James Roosevelt Day 784, 10:18

Well they were not asking for us to buy the food from them, but for us to raise import taxes

Astra Kat G Day 785, 17:24

There was once an instance of corruption when I was in Congress of a certain Senator demanding money in exchange for granting citizenship... we had our suspicions but due to a lack of reliable information, we weren't ever to put a finger on who it was, exactly.

Other than that, I haven't seen or heard about an instance of corruption in our Congress in this game... eRep Congress is NOT full of corrupt, self-serving politicians.

I found the food consortium, btw. Wanting higher import taxes is understandable but favor-trading/bribery is NOT they way to go about it. I encourage all Senators, future and current, to bring such attempts at corrupting Congress to the light when they encounter them. Give corruption no quarter.

http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/the-times-are-a-changing-214348/1" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/th[..]348/1

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