Fantasy Cabinet game, pt. 2

[LastMcGovernite]

You all made your picks well before they were due- good for you! Now that you have your presidential ticket set, we can move on to filling out our cabinets.

Remember that for all picks, the following rules apply:
1. You cannot pick any individual who has already been drafted.
2. The intent is to make a cabinet for some time during the 2010s. So, all picks must have held one of the following offices or positions at some point during that decade: president, vice-president, senator, governor, congressman, mayor, cabinet official, or CEO/president/director of some kind of legitimate institution, such as a business, a Federal Reserve bank, a university, a think tank, or something of that sort. Even if your pick passed away during or after the 2010s (such as John McCain or John Lewis or Kay Hagan), it's still legal.
3. You cannot draft someone to a position that they held in real life. For example, you cannot pick Rex Tillerson to be your Secretary of State, but you can pick him to be your Secretary of Energy.

As I said in the proposal, I'm dividing the U.S. into four regions, and your pick has to come from your assigned region, which will rotate each turn. For the purposes of the game, our regions are:

A. The Northeast (ME, NH, VT, CT, MA, RI, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, DC)
B. The South (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, AR, TN, KY, WV, TX, OK) + Territories
C. The Midwest (OH, IN, IL, MI, WI, MN, IA, MO, ND, SD, KS, NE)
D. The West (CA, OR, WA, AK, HI, NV, AZ, NM, ID, MT, CO, WY, UT).

I put all the participants' names into Random.org, and for Turn 1 of our cabinet draft,

NY Express, RGM2609, Ishan, and Senator OBD need to pick from somewhere in the Northeast.
The Fonz, KaiserDave, and OldSchoolRepublican need to pick from the South.
BaptistaMinola, Clinton/Kaine voter, and Our Enemy the Irish will pick from the Midwest.
and UtahNeoLib, Beesley, and myself will pick from the West.

Next turn, we'll rotate so that the first group will pick from the South, the second group from the Midwest, and so on. There's 15 cabinet spots to fill. We'll rotate through the regions three times for twelve total picks, and we'll have a free-for-all for that three turns, and you can pick more or less whoever you want.

You do not need to pick cabinet offices in order. You can pick Secretary of State this first round, or Secretary of Transportation, or any of the 15 official cabinet-level offices. Remember that you will need to pick a...

1. Secretary of State
2. Secretary of the Treasury
3. Secretary of Defense
4. Attorney General
5. Secretary of the Interior
6. Secretary of Agriculture
7. Secretary of Commerce
8. Secretary of Labor
9. Secretary of Health and Human Services
10. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
11. Secretary of Transportation
12. Secretary of Energy
13. Secretary of Education
14. Secretary of Veterans' Affairs
15. Secretary of Homeland Security

To help you keep track of who is off the board, I've started a google sheet at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lKijLTH6JqoAZlPlzOJ1dn0DP-vM7PswwmdgpE57jCU/edit?usp=sharing.

You'll have 48 hours to make your first cabinet selection.

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President: John Bel Edwards

President Dennis Kucinich then for a different flavor of crank.

[Continential]

Liz Warren as Secretary of the Treasury

[RGM2609]

Chris Murphy for Secretary of State

[NewYorkExpress]

Secretary of State: Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr (D-DE)

[S019]

Dick Durbin for Attorney General

[LastMcGovernite]

Liz Warren as Secretary of the Treasury

I already picked her as president. Have you got a backup choice?

[OSR stands with Israel]

Marco Rubio for Secretary of State

[LastMcGovernite]

Katie Porter as Secretary of the Treasury

[NewYorkExpress]

If you're looking at my cabinet so far and thinking I must have read Team of Rivals, you're right.

[TheFonz]

Lynn Good (R-NC) for Secretary of Energy

[KaiserDave]

Doug Jones for AG

The Sherrod Brown Administration
President: Sherrod C. Brown (OH)

Vice President: Phillip B. Scott (VT)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: VACANT
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: G. Douglas Jones (AL)
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: VACANT
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: VACANT
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

[OBD]

Secretary of Labor: John Fetterman

[Continential]

Liz Warren as Secretary of the Treasury

Yang for Secretary of Commerce then

[LastMcGovernite]

I was going to correct you two, but...Fetterman works on the grounds that he was mayor of Braddock; Yang was CEO of a startup during the 2010s so he's valid too.

Secretary of Labor: John Fetterman

Yang for Secretary of Commerce then

[beesley]

Barbara Lee for Secretary of State. I'm trying to pick in line with Inslee's real life considerations plus only picking Reps, rather than personal preference.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Cabinet pick #1 - Secretary of Labor: Tammy Baldwin (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin from 1999 to 2013 and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin since 2013).


President: John Bel Edwards (LA)
Vice President: Bob Casey (PA)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: VACANT
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: VACANT
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: Tammy Baldwin (WI)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: VACANT
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

[Utah Neolib]

Secretary of Transportation: FAA Administrator Michael Huerta (2011-2018)

[LastMcGovernite]

Secretary of Transportation: FAA Administrator Michael Huerta (2011-2018)

We're in some sketchy territory here-- he was technically a cabinet member as Acting Secretary of Transportation, but also technically not the (official) Secretary of Transportation, permitting him to fill that role in our exercise. I'll allow it, but this pick is cutting it really close in terms of following the rules!

[Gass3268]

I put myself in the South as I assume that would be the next slot.

If we can add EPA Administrator, I'd put Al Gore there. If not put him as Secretary of Energy.

[LastMcGovernite]

I put myself in the South as I assume that would be the next slot.

If we can add EPA Administrator, I'd put Al Gore there. If not put him as Secretary of Energy.

Unfortunately, Gore is not eligible, since this is limited to office holders of the 2010s. Would you like to pick someone else?

[Diabolical Materialism]

Picking Bishop Mark Pivarunas of Illinois for the post of Secretary of Education. Bishop Mark Pivarunas is the Superior General of Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. And the Rector of the Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha, Nebraska, which technically makes him the head of an institute of higher education.

President: Dennis Kucinich(OH)
Vice President: Tulsi Gabbard (HI)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: VACANT
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: VACANT
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: VACANT
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: Bishop Mark Pivarunas
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

[NewYorkExpress]

Picking Bishop Mark Pivarunas of Illinois for the post of Secretary of Education. Bishop Mark Pivarunas is the Superior General of Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. And the Rector of the Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha, Nebraska, which technically makes him the head of an institute of higher education.

President: Dennis Kucinich(OH)
Vice President: Tulsi Gabbard (HI)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: VACANT
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: VACANT
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: VACANT
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: Bishop Mark Pivarunas
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

I thought the Catholic Church prohibited their clergy from taking government jobs.

[LastMcGovernite]

Fair point- but he’s a sedevacantist, and doesn’t recognize that JPII, who made that rule, was ever the legitimate pope.

[Diabolical Materialism]

Picking Bishop Mark Pivarunas of Illinois for the post of Secretary of Education. Bishop Mark Pivarunas is the Superior General of Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. And the Rector of the Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha, Nebraska, which technically makes him the head of an institute of higher education.

President: Dennis Kucinich(OH)
Vice President: Tulsi Gabbard (HI)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: VACANT
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: VACANT
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: VACANT
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: Bishop Mark Pivarunas
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

I thought the Catholic Church prohibited their clergy from taking government jobs.

Technically he isn't Catholic and doesn't consider himself bound to the standards of the modern Catholic church.

[LastMcGovernite]

Time for Round 2 of your cabinet draft.

Remember that for all picks, the following rules apply:
1. You cannot pick any individual who has already been drafted.
2. The intent is to make a cabinet for some time during the 2010s. So, all picks must have held one of the following offices or positions at some point during that decade: president, vice-president, senator, governor, congressman, mayor, cabinet official, or CEO/president/director of some kind of legitimate institution, such as a business, a Federal Reserve bank, a university, a think tank, or something of that sort. Even if your pick passed away during or after the 2010s (such as John McCain or John Lewis or Kay Hagan), it's still legal.
3. You cannot draft someone to a position that they held in real life. For example, you cannot pick Rex Tillerson to be your Secretary of State, but you can pick him to be your Secretary of Energy.

For the second round:

UtahNeoLib, Beesley, and myself will pick from the Northeast.
NY Express, RGM2609, Ishan, and Senator OBD will pick from the South.
The Fonz, KaiserDave, Gassman, and OldSchoolRepublican will pick from the Midwest.
BattistaMinola, Clinton/Kaine Voter, and Our Enemy the Irish will pick from the West.

A. The Northeast (ME, NH, VT, CT, MA, RI, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, DC)
B. The South (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, AR, TN, KY, WV, TX, OK) + Territories
C. The Midwest (OH, IN, IL, MI, WI, MN, IA, MO, ND, SD, KS, NE)
D. The West (CA, OR, WA, AK, HI, NV, AZ, NM, ID, MT, CO, WY, UT).


Remember that you will need to pick a...

1. Secretary of State
2. Secretary of the Treasury
3. Secretary of Defense
4. Attorney General
5. Secretary of the Interior
6. Secretary of Agriculture
7. Secretary of Commerce
8. Secretary of Labor
9. Secretary of Health and Human Services
10. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
11. Secretary of Transportation
12. Secretary of Energy
13. Secretary of Education
14. Secretary of Veterans' Affairs
15. Secretary of Homeland Security

To help you keep track of who is off the board, I've started a google sheet at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lKijLTH6JqoAZlPlzOJ1dn0DP-vM7PswwmdgpE57jCU/edit?usp=sharing.

You'll have 48 hours to make your second cabinet selection.

UtahLib and Gassman still need to make a round 1 selection, but that's okay! I tried to design this so that you could miss a round or two when life gets in the way, and jump back in. Just make a valid round 1 pick when you can.

Also- let me know if you prefer not to get a notification when a new round starts.

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Interesting

Interesting

I'm willing to do this

I'd be interested.

This sounds cool!

I'll join

I’m down. Would appreciate reminder pms though.

Sure I’m in

Interested

President: John Bel Edwards

President Dennis Kucinich then for a different flavor of crank.