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[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

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HARRY S TRUMAN
FIRST  MINISTER  OF  FRÉMONT
ATTORNEY   GENERAL   FOR   ATLASIA
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[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

11 June 2019

Well! Having made our triumphal return to Denver, the Twelfth Parliament is now well underway, making it high time the people had an account of what their representatives have been up to. This session has already seen passage of legislation to abolish toll roads, private health insurance, the so-called "pink tax," and to severely curtail civil asset forfeiture—pernicious evils that will no longer plague the free people of Frémont. There can still be no rest, however, and with the addition of our newest members since the last by-election parliament now proceeds to embrace a new host of initiatives in the second month of its sitting.

Three bills of my authorship are currently on the floor or waiting to be brought forward. This morning, parliament has taken up the Pretrial Detention Reform Act, the second leg of my criminal justice reform initiative, which would abolish money bail and seek to maximize cases where non-dangerous defendants may be released prior to trial. While legislation previously adopted by parliament sought to reform the application of bail and pre-trial release practices, they failed to abolish money bail entirely or to guarantee a defendant's right to be represented by counsel while their eligibility for pre-trial release is being assessed. Most importantly, this bill would make the pre-trial release of defendants the norm, resorting to detention only when there is a significant risk posed to public safety or when the defendant is judged unlikely to appear in court.

Two bills seek to reform parliamentary by-elections and reapportionment following the mass-resignations which ended the Eleventh Parliament: the Vacancies Act, currently on the floor, would reform by-elections to ensure a result that is both representative and transparent; while the proposed Seventh Amendment would fix the number of seats in parliament at five and allow for the inclusion of None Of The Above on parliamentary ballots. Debate on the first of these is currently stalled on the voting system to be used in by-elections: while my original draft calls for the use of FPTP to ensure MFPs chosen mid-term represent the majority of Frémonters, I am open either to party appointments or single-seat elections as alternative methods for resolving vacancies. My top priority is to ensure the inclusion of an NOTA option in the final version of the bill, to ensure Frémonters will not be forced to vote for a candidate they don't want simply because theirs is the only name on the ballot.

I have joined my colleagues in opposing Section 4 of the Frémont Farm Bill, which would allow the first minister to authorize the use of the pesticide DDT in a declared emergency. In lieu of any evidence that this measure is needed, I am opposed to re-authorizing the use of this dangerous chemical pesticide, the devastating environmental effects of which were a key factor in the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency fifty-some years ago.

Finally, we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Kansas as we pass the anniversary of the Sack of Lawrence and Bleeding Kansas. We call on Congress to end the Southern occupation of Kansas and restore her to the communion of the Free West!

Harry S Truman, MFP

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

24 June 2019

There are a number of subjects on which I wish to speak tonight; I'll try to keep it short.

First, my ecstatic congratulations go to the Labor and Peace candidates elected this weekend: namely, to President-elect Griffin and Vice President-elect Jimmy; to Senators-elect Tack and Frémont's own Ontario Progressive; to Representatives-elect J. Gibson, MB, Razze, Wulfric, and YE; and to Councilor-elect PSOL in Lincoln. For the first time in a very long time, we have an opportunity to achieve real, lasting, progressive change in this country; and I will do all in my power, as I am sure will our new president and Congress, to ensure that opportunity is not wasted.

I would next refer to a less-happy set of elections conducted recently: that is, the sham referenda carried out in accordance with the Atlasia Statehood Act. These referenda were proposed as a compromise between the White House and the Congressional advocates of statehood for our Pacific Island territories, and were intended to welcome the island territories of Guam, Atlasian Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Atlasian Virgin Islands into the Union. Because of the gross negligence of basically everyone involved, however, Nyman crucially forgot to extend the date of the referenda after failing for weeks to pass the bill. The result was that when the Statehood Act finally received the president's signature, territorial authorities had less than twenty-four hours to organize an election before the polls were due to open. The people of the territories were likewise given no warning that such a poll was even taking place, let alone time to have a mature and considerate discussion of the merits and demerits of the proposal. All this had a predictable outcome: anemic turnout (less than 1% in most territories), few to no polling stations actually open (exactly four in Guam, where the statehood question failed by fewer than 200 votes), and "results" that reflect the actual will of the people about as well as a Soviet student council.

In short: Nyman screwed up, and in consequence our brothers and sisters in the Pacific continue to languish in constitutional limbo, taxed but not represented, and excluded from the embrace of the Western Commonwealth.

This result is unacceptable. The Pacific islands are by right and heritage a part of Frémont, and their exclusion from statehood is a daily rebuke of the right of the Western people to be represented in one parliament, as one region. The indifference of Nyman to the cause of Western nationhood is insulting and injurious; and it is the duty of all good Frémonters to do all they can to remedy this monstrous injustice.

Accordingly, in my capacity as a member of the Frémont parliament, I have introduced legislation to extend the right to vote in our elections to residents of the Pacific Island territories. This is fully within the powers of the Commonwealth to define eligibility to vote in its elections and will resolve the most galling consequence of the disastrous sham referenda. I have likewise petitioned our Senators to introduce legislation in the next Congress to nullify these undemocratic, unrepresentative referenda and admit the Pacific islands to the Union without further delay.

Gloria Frémontis!

Harry S Truman, MFP

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

15 July 2019

In the name of the Commonwealth and the Union, I call on the Southern Chamber to adopt the amendment brought by the governor of that region striking the insulting and incendiary demands from the proposed PRAG-Co bill. The failure of the amendment would mean the collapse of negotiations between our regions to restore free trade and end the Southern-instigated trade war. The only path forward is mutual and unconditional disarmament, a course we may pray the Chamber is wise enough to take.

Harry S Truman, MFP

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

The Southern referendum shouldn't require Frémont's approval, because the design of the Southern flag is a question for that region only. Demanding Frémont sign off on your referendum in exchange for ending a trade war you (the South) started is very unfortunate, yes. As you have withdrawn your demands, I will do likewise and continue to advocate for Western reunification only by peaceful means.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

16 July 2019

As we round out the second length of this sitting of parliament, an accounting of our efforts to the people seems deserved. The weeks since the election of our new president and Congress have seen passage of three acts of my proposition, and much more besides, as I will not tell.

The first and proudest of these, the Pretrial Detention Act, passed unanimously in the last month, is a comprehensive reform of pretrial release practices in Frémont. The law replaces the old money bail system and more recently proposed "risk assessment tools"—both of which are subject to systemic biases in favor of wealth and against racial minorities—with a fair and transparent process that prioritizes the release of non-threatening defendants while keeping dangerous criminals off our streets.

The Vacancies Act, which would reform parliamentary by-elections after the chaotic dissolution of the Eleventh Parliament, likewise passed with widespread support after a lengthy debate. Rewritten with input from every MFP, representing a diverse range of perspectives, the law prescribes a standard date each month for conducting by-elections and separate elections for each seat in the event of multiple vacancies—ensuring parliament remains both representative and democratic, while maximizing involvement.

Finally, the Pacific Islands Voting Rights Amendment will go before the people this weekend with the unanimous endorsement of all parties in parliament. Following the disastrous Congressional effort to grant statehood to our Pacific island territories (detailed in the release of 24 June, above), this amendment would extend full voting rights to the Atlasian residents of Guam, Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands while they remain in the territorial stage—ensuring that all Atlasians will be included in the democratic process and ending "taxation without representation" once and for all. This patriotic initiative, furthermore, brings us one step closer to restoring the communion of the West: I ask my fellow citizens to stand for democracy, for Frémont, and for human rights this weekend and vote Aye on the Voting Rights Amendment.

Our work does not end here. This weekend, I led the successful effort to rally parliament to stand firm in our demand for mutual, unconditional disarmament in the Southern-provoked interregional trade war—a campaign which, I am happy to say, has resulted in the reopening of negotiations between our government and the South. Despite the needless agitation of border ruffians and imperialists, I am confident our regions will come to a fair and mutually-beneficial agreement as we continue our campaign for a strong, democratic, and united Atlasia.

Gloria Frémontis!

Harry S Truman, MFP

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

23 July 2019

Upon signature of the Commerce Act, I invite my fellow Frémonters to celebrate our victory in the Trade War! Thanks to the stoic patriotism of parliament, upheld by the people, and the honorable actions of reasonable people in the Chamber of Delegates, all trade barriers between our Commonwealth and the Southern Region have been blown away, and free trade restored on terms proposed by the Commonwealth. The unnecessary and destructive race to the bottom is over, and Frémont —indeed, all Atlasia —may now walk forward into the bright tomorrow.

I thank those in the South who put aside selfishness and sectionalism to act in the best interests of the Union: by agreeing to mutual, unconditional disarmament, they have helped to establish the foundation for a lasting peace. I likewise congratulate my colleagues for their steadfast courage in refusing to bend to the unreasonable demands of the imperialists, thus saving Frémont from a humiliating vassalage.

Gloria Frémontis! Gloria Atlantis!

Harry S Truman, MFP

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

14 September 2019

Today Frémont joins her Central American sisters celebrating the anniversary of their glorious victory over the imperialists at the Battle of San Jacinto. One hundred sixty-three years ago, Kansans, Nebraskans, and Nicaraguans fought on the same side against the encroaching tyranny of the slave power. Recently, certain agitators have called for the South to absorb Greenland: while I support a democratic path to an American Union, I can never condone annexing more territory to Nashville when our sister states of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas remain wrongly occupied. Let this day remind us that we must always stand united against the border ruffians and modern-day Fillibusters—land-gobblers all—in their nefarious mission to overturn the will of The People and subdue the free spirit of the West.

The Union and Frémont Forever!

Harry S Truman, MFP

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

9 October 2019

This morning, Frémont welcomed her sisters into the loving embrace of the Commonwealth for the first time as equals, signature of the Territorial Statehood Act by President Griffin concluding months of struggle. Territorial government—the last hideous vestige of imperialism that has stained our Union nigh these many years—is dead, and all Atlasians now have their right to representation guaranteed by the national government.

The cause of Western communion marches ever onward, but tonight we celebrate this victory for the people and welcome our brethren in the Pacific into parliament.

Gloria Frémontis!

Harry S Truman, MFP

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

28 October 2019

The moment is not one for celebration, but nevertheless, is: Scott has resigned the helm, and I am now—once more—interim first minister. It has been my pleasure to know him and to work alongside him these past three years, and I can only wish him all the best: he is a great man and a great Frémonter, and when he returns (I will not allow "if"), it will be the gain of all who call this country home. For this moment, I thank him, and wish him the very best fortune as he grapples with the life beyond these shores.

Now. To business.

Ordinarily, parliament would continue to sit for another month; but give that only two of our members now are even remotely engaged with the proceedings in that chamber, my impulse is to use this opportunity to call an early election and "turn over new earth," so to speak. In the coming hours and days I will be in conversation with others in Frémont to discuss this and other matters now before the government as we prepare ourselves for the long winter ahead.

Ave, Frémont!

Harry S Truman, First Minister (ad interim)

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

The Ministry of the Budget is hereby disbanded, and its minister accordingly dismissed.

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[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

By the authority vested in me by Article II§4 of the Second Constitution of the Commonwealth of Frémont as interim first minister thereof, I, Harry S Truman, declare the Thirteenth Parliament of the aforesaid, DISSOLVED; and do further cause Writs of Election to be issued, which poll to proceed Friday the eighth day of November, in the year two-thousand nineteen.

LEX POPVLVSQVE PATRIAE REGET

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

By the authority vested in me by Article I§8 of the Second Constitution of the Commonwealth of Frémont as first minister thereof, I, Harry S Truman, nominate YE to assume the parliamentary seat vacated by Pericles for the remainder of the Thirteenth Parliament.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

7 November 2019

The time for compromise is passed.

By this, I do not mean that the time for listening is now behind us —all through my career I have sought to represent all Frémonters regardless of party or worldview, and I will continue to do so. While I refuse to cower in the face of bad-faith grandstanding, those with an honest thought to share will always have a seat at my table —whether they accept is up to them.

But I denounce the ideology that says because we are the smallest or western-most region, that we should accept anything but the best from our government. I stand by my belief, which I have defended over and over again in the face of evils from within and without, that Frémont is the greatest of the regions, not in spite of but because she has known hard times, endured them, and emerged stronger. This I announce to the green-eyed border ruffians and the plotting unitary state, that Frémont will accept nothing less than her due and stop not one step short of her rights as a free people, joined in federal Union, the communion of all the peoples of the West.

We enter now upon the darkest part of the year, when the days grow short and cold and our politicians scatter to the far corners of the globe. As we near the Christmas holidays, parliaments and senates the nation over will grow quieter as their members return to the embrace of their families and the cultivation of their studies. Dishonest people with secret motives will surely, in the months to come, insist this is a sign of weakness; this is a lie. The test for the next government, is not to pull members away from the dinner table to ring in the new year over an excise tax adjustment, but to maintain the momentum of the state through the lull and to bring it back to full throttle in 2020. It is, in the meantime, to resolve what business remains before us in the seven-odd weeks to come with efficiency and competence, in spite of the difficulties that have frustrated progress in the past.

All this, I pledge to you; and offer you, as bond, nearly five years' service in the public sphere, three to this commonwealth, and four ministries under our parliamentary constitution.

First, we will complete the budget, with or without the GM, even if I have to drag parliament kicking and screaming across the finish line (I've done it before). We will purge extraneous positions from the government and restore power to the people's elected representatives. We will guarantee the rights of all citizens, from cradle to grave —because freedom is not merely the absence of government, but it's charge and purpose. We will oppose the tyranny of capital as strenuously as we oppose the tyranny of the state, and we will insist on justice for every Frémonter whether in the courtroom or the break room. We reject out of hand the cowardice of inaction; we chose to believe that better is possible, and strive toward it with the fervor of a people joined in holy cause.

All this, we can do; all this, we must do —by our prayer and our anthem:

Gloria Frémontis!

Harry S Truman, first minister (ad interim)

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

11 November 2019

Thank-you, Frémont!

My congratulations to the new members of parliament who will take office on Wednesday: I look forward to working with all of you in the months to come as we tackle the vast array of challenges facing our region. May this be a bold and productive parliament!

Harry S Truman, first minister (ad interim)

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

11 November 2019 (continued)

During the campaign, I promised to abolish the bloated bureaucracy of ministers and restore the administrative functions of the government to the people's elected representatives. I have never admired the practice of appointing regional cabinets when it is within the ability of the head of government to carry out those functions himself. I am therefore retiring the remaining ministerial posts, retaining as always the option to consult others whenever the need should arise.

I thank the late minister of elections for his service to the last government for a period of nearly seven months.

The Ministry of Elections is hereby disbanded, and its minister accordingly dismissed.

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[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

20 November 2019

Perhaps the most consequential single article before this parliament is the completion of the 2020 Commonwealth budget. Besides the ordinary importance of maintaining the fiscal health of our region, the 2020 budget will fully implement the assumption policy announced earlier this year, whereby Frémont assumed the cost of essential services from the states. On Monday, I suggested two strategies that would allow us to complete the budget before the end of the year and also appealed personally to our new batch of MFPs on FrémontCord. I encourage all Frémonters to reach out to your members of parliament and press them to engage with this process. Ultimately, I will not allow Frémont's finances to fall by the wayside, but it is in the best interests of transparency and democratic accountability that everyone contributes to ensuring our future solvency.

Harry S Truman, first minister

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

12 December 2019

The midterm elections are nearly underway: I have just posted the official ballot for Frémont, though I will remind citizens voting will not formally commence until midnight tonight! It is my privilege that I may whole-heartedly commend the honorable Devout Centrist to the public for reelection as the senior senator from Frémont and urge them too to return our glorious Labor and Peace House majority for another term. As we anticipate the third decade of the twenty-first century, there is no group of individuals I trust more to lead our nation to brighter days and greener pastures, and no better allies I can conceive of in Frémont's eternal struggle against the forces of eastern imperialism and for the triumph of the people and the free West!

Gloria Frémontis!

Harry S Truman, FM

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

20 December 2019

On behalf of the commonwealth, I thank Vern for his service to Frémont. Per the Parliamentary Vacancies and By-elections Act of 2019, an election to fill his vacant seat will proceed 24 January of the new year; in the meantime, I will appoint an interim member to succeed him in office. Interested parties may contact me here or by private message.

Harry S Truman, FM

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Koopa Da Quick is appointed to the Frémont Parliament to fill the seat vacated by Vern.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

   “Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask,” said Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit’s robe, “but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?”
   “It might be a claw, for the flesh there is upon it,” was the Spirit’s sorrowful reply. “Look here.”
   From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.
   “Oh, Man! look here. Look, look, down here!” exclaimed the Ghost.
   They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.
   Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.
   “Spirit! are they yours?” Scrooge could say no more.
   “They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!” cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. “Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And bide the end!”
   “Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.
   “Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”

Merry Christmas
& Happy New Year!


Gloria in excelsis deo!
Harry S Truman, FM

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

3 January 2020

What a beguiling mistress is time! We may well marvel that barely three years ago, Frémont was within days of discovery that she no longer had a government —a constitutional crisis that has defined our history to the present moment. That discovery took place on the second anniversary of my arrival on these boards, since when many poor and innocent citizens have been subjected to the endless droning of the "second-worst senator." The years have changed, but the subject has not! and I look forward to many new and fruitful opportunities to wax poetically into the void in the twelvemonth to come.

We may celebrate that the new year arrived two days and two hours after parliament voted —unanimously —to pass the 2020 commonwealth budget. Beyond the usual reaffirmation of our commitment to fiscal solvency (a welcome change from three years ago, when Frémont had no budget at all), this resolution has the peculiar significance as abolishing forever the blight of "tripple taxation" —under which the poor denizens of the North and South yet labor. By this vote, parliament had tied the states of the commonwealth so much closer together, established as a financial as well as spiritual reality the communion of the West. With a surplus in excess of $18 trillion, and not a dollar raised from any sales tax or an additional dollar from the poor and middle classes, we may celebrate that Frémont continues to be the financial envy of the Union —long may it continue!

Frémont and indeed the nation may likewise celebrate, as the final great act of this Congress, the ratification by the House of two constitutional amendments which will codify the sacred natural rights of our citizens so long disparaged by reactionaries and the monied interests. The Labor Rights Amendment, protecting the right of all workers to unionize and bargain collectively for the betterment of their condition (a nearly-identical copy of the proviso adopted in Frémont at the last election), and the Right to Life Amendment, acknowledging that private profits may not take precedence over sacred life, represent a dual victory for the cause of liberty and independence for all people. I am proud to have been able to author these amendments and commend them to the Senate for their approval and speedy ratification by the regions.

There are many momentous issues which yet remain before this parliament, the boldest of these being legislation to establish collective ownership of energy. While honest citizens may differ on matters of policy and politics, we may take comfort in the knowledge that vigorous debate only strengthens the cause of the people, in whose service I continue after lo these many years.

Gloria Frémontis apud novum annum!

Harry S Truman, first minister

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

25 January 2019

The free citizens of Frémont extend their congratulations to the people of Korea on their historic vote for unity. Born from the horrors of war, North Korean democracy has flourished under the Kaesong congress; as the heirs to the world's oldest democracy, our fondest hopes are for the success of this new venture and continued peace and good fellowship between our republics. The fair waters of the Pacific must never again run red with the blood of our countrymen, and a strong Korea, united under a single, democratic constitution, is the best safeguard we can conceive for the future happiness of her people.

As our thoughts turn towards our own shores, Frémont stands in solidarity with the brave Southerners who today took to the streets to demand an efficient, modern transportation system for their region. Sadly, such is the fruit of years of government by aloof reactionaries and imperialists! For years, Frémont has led the nation in transportation, laying thousands of miles of rail during my first government; we stand ready to work with our Southern neighbors to institute a modern, pan-regional rail network, or if Nashville is uninterested to receive those states now under Southern dominion who may wish to cast their lot with the free West into the commonwealth.

De libertas et fraternitas omnium populorum!

Harry S Truman, first minister

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

8 February 2020

Many Lincolners are asking me to intervene in the event of a plurality to ratify the so-called Jackie Chiles Amendment this weekend. Rest assured, Frémont will never allow her Northern brothers and sisters to be overrun by an army of bureaucrats. Should the day come that the forces of reason are vanquished in Lincoln and the people subjected to the rule of an Orwellian nightmare dystopia, I stand ready to take whatever action is necessary to overthrow the Byzantine law-writers and restore Peanutocracy throughout the realm!

Harry S Truman, first minister

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

11 February 2020

It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here, have, thus far, so nobly advanced.

When this sitting of parliament gives up the ghost a little more than a fortnight from now, it will be my five hundred third day as your first minister.

I have loved this office which I created to be the ideal expression of executive leadership in an Atlasian democracy. It has been my privilege to serve alongside the most promising of the freshman class of legislators and the most deserving of veteran lawmakers: to keep step with presidents and vice presidents, senators and secretaries, the very best that the right and the left have to offer not only in Frémont, but in the nation.

When the fourteenth parliament adjourns on the 26th of this instant, they will have doubled the number of bills passed by the previous parliament, more than any single sitting of the Frémont legislature in the history of the commonwealth. Nor were these empty measures, idle affirmations of the status quo. In the last three months, we have gone farther, dreamed bigger than any government or legislature in the history of the West: and so much farther will we go, in pursuit of the raison d'être of the republic expressed more than two centuries ago, that government exists by the consent of a free people, created equal, as the guarantor of their absolute liberty.

There are those who would demean the name of liberty, by ascribing to it the selfish motives of a society organized for the enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. According to these, perfect liberty is that right by which the capitalist extracts the value created by labor and repays it with pennies; the right by which the strong prey upon the weak; by which hate, fear, and intolerance divide our society against itself. We reject this philosophy. We demand that a free society recognize the inherent equality of all people; that property rights belong not just to the stockholder or the executive, but to the farmer, the worker, and the immigrant; that inalienable rights may no more be violated by markets than by governments; that we have an obligation, as citizens of the richest state this side of Heaven, to see to it that all people enjoy a standard of living worthy of a great nation.

This is our moment; this, the sparking dawn of the Frémontian epoch; and while I remain as your first minister, I will not allow this opportunity to fade into the silent oblivion of history.

We have secured the financial integrity of our commonwealth with a budget that funds the essential services of our constituent states with $10 billion to spare, and without a cent more demanded of the lower and middle classes. We have smote the inequities of for-profit preparatory education and guaranteed equal opportunity for all. We have affirmed the rights of labor as a collective and as individuals. We have weeded-out corruption and bribery at every level of government. We have delivered energy policy into the hands of the people; and we have done this, all of this, not in secret or through tricks of procedure, but by the free and transparent act of a democratic legislature, chosen by, from, and for the people of the West.

Frémonters, Atlasians, free people of the West: I ask for your votes and your confidence for three months more.

Come on! Do you want to live forever?

Harry S Truman, first minister