Friends, I would like to thank you for your endorsement. I am not a member of your party, but I stand beside you in your goal to bring hard work and common sense back to the senate. I bear no ill-will towards my future predecessor (
), but I know I offer a fresh voice to the South. If elected, I pledge to dedicate the time needed to reel in Labor’s extremism and find working solutions for the People.
Two years ago, far-right Hagrid served in the senate alongside a number of your most revered members. During that time, I built strong relationships with each of the People’s senators who passed in and out of that body. Today, thanks to the spirit of conciliation we built during that time, a number of you are my closest friends in the game. We worked not for party, but for the country. I’m running because I think we can bring that positive spirit back to government.
Over time, my views have changed. Today, I pledge to be the moderate voice that some members of the senate abhor but all members of the country need. I believe in labour’s right to organize, and I believe it should be protected. That being said, I know unions often go too far; we can strike a balance in this country between economic output and the livelihoods of breadwinners. I believe in common, core education standards, because I believe everyone in this country should be prepared to compete on the global stage, whichever region they come from. At the same time, I believe the regions should have some flexibility to teach on what’s most important in their local geographies. I believe taxes should be kept progressive, kept low, and left unchanged when they’ve proven to work—instability is good for no one. I believe in a foreign policy that takes the best tenets of hard and soft power to reassert Atlasia in the international dialogue and make a greater push for universal human rights. I believe I am the person to represent these values in the senate.
I know I may sound like someone who’s trying to be all things to all people. But this is what I believe and this is what I’ll fight for. I thank you for your endorsement and humbly ask for your votes next weekend.
Thank you.
