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« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2018, 07:37:08 AM » |
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Here's a few things for my character:
Emily Charlotte Peebleton (born June 20, 1976) is an American politician who's served as the junior Senator from North Carolina since 2018. Prior to her election to the Senate in a 2017 special election, Peebleton served as the Mayor of Charlotte from 2009 to 2014, when she resigned to become Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Barack Obama (AN: Is he still President ITTL?).
The 2009 election for Mayor of Charlotte was one full of twists and turns. Incumbent Mayor Pat McCrory opted to retire, rather than seek an eighth term. Prospective frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, councilman Anthony Foxx, surprised pundits by announcing that he would run for re-election instead of mayor. With her party lacking a strong candidate, Peebleton, then a businesswoman, decided to run, winning the Democratic nomination handily. Councilman John Lassiter ran on the Republican line, also winning heavily.
Lassiter maintained a slim margin in the polls from when polls between Peebleton and Lassiter were first conducted in June 2009 to September the same year, in which it was revealed that Peebleton underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1996. Lassiter's margin increased further for one month, before a sex tape with Democratic then-Mayor Pro Tem Patsy Kinsey was released (AN: Apologies to Bagel for ripping off the fake sex tape plot point).
The final poll, taken on November 2 (Election Eve), had Peebleton and Lassiter in a dead heat. Peebleton would win with 53,589 to Lassiter's 53,332, a margin of 0.24%, the first Democrat to win an election for Mayor of Charlotte since Harvey Gantt in 1985. In sharp contrast to the 2009 election, Peebleton won the 2011 election 63%-37%, and the 2013 election 55%-45%.
The 2017 United States Senate special election in North Carolina was held on November 7, 2017. The Senate election was required, as incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Thom Tillis resigned effective upon the election of a successor, citing health concerns. State Senator Dan Bishop ran for the open seat, but was defeated by Democrat Emily Peebleton. The November general election was the first time in North Carolina history, and only the second time in U.S. history, that a major-party candidate for a U.S. Senate seat was openly transgender. The election received national attention when Bishop launched in a tirade against Peebleton and "his [sic] radical transgender agenda", a remark which proved incredibly beneficial for the Peebleton campaign (AN: the Bob Marshall effect, if you will).
Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Emily Peebleton (D)
State Senator Dan Bishop (R)
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