D.a.barchipelago

d.a.barchipelago
Jefferson Senator
In office 19th March 2019 – 7th Nov 2019
Preceded by	NotAName
Succeeded by	JMP
Jefferson Minority leader
In office 1st February 2019 – 9th August 2019
Preceded by	???
Succeeded by	.E (?)
Jefferson Speaker
In office 13th October 2019 – 18th January 2020
Preceded by	Rincewind
Succeeded by	JMP
Vice President of the United States
In office 7th Nov 2019 – 18th January 2020
Preceded by	Patty
Succeeded by	Webb
President of the United States
In office 18th January 2020 – 6th February 2020
Preceded by	MichiganLefty
Succeeded by	Valerie
Secretary of Health and Human Services
In office 22nd April 2020 – N/A
Preceded by	Peanut
Succeeded by	N/A
Jefferson Congressman
In office 15th February 2019 – 3rd March 2019
Preceded by	ProgressiveMinded
Succeeded by	Putbye
Jefferson Chief Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office 5th February 2021
Succeeded by	Jack Macklin
Federal Election Commissioner
Personal Details
Political party	Labor, Progressive Party

d.a.barchipelago joined AGS on January 12th, 2019. He joined the Progressive Party immediately. He served as President, Senator and MP, and was a founding member of the Labor Party. He is commonly known as Barch.

Political Beliefs

D.a.barchipelago is a green moderate Leftist, and is a strong supporter of civil liberties. He controversially supported LOTRcare (public option) , but would prefer a national health service over it. He fights for democratic integrity, supports campaign funding caps, anti-gerrymandering measures and is a prominent critic of Electoral College, and has made attempts to repeal it. He is also a strong advocate for better mental health provisions. If you ask him which issue is most important to him, he will always say protecting the planet.

Political Career

Jefferson Parliament

In January 2019, Barch joined the Progressive Party and the Justice Progressives. This allowed him, in a surprise upset, to beat Cool dad™ in the Jefferson Parliament Progressive Primary, meaning he was top of the ticket. Due to low all round campaigning (not from Barch though) he ended up being the only Progressive elected, making him automatically minority leader.

He was elected successfully in the April 2019 elections following the communist exodus, and for a third term in the following June elections.

The following August he failed to win re-election to Parliament, which meant for the first time ever, there was no Labor or Progressive member in Parliament. However, the Anarchist .E won her election, and promptly permanently made Thanos her proxy, so while not an official member, there was 'technically' a Laborite in parliament.

He was successfully elected to Parliament in October, and for the first time was part of the majority caucus with Hombre and hopeful candidate. He was elected speaker, and oversaw a fruitful session.

In December he was elected to Parliament yet again.

He resigned from Parliament after becoming the President.

Congress

He was nominated by ProgressiveMinded as his proxy in the house in January 2019. This allowed him to gain some legislative experience.

Following his proxying for ProgressiveMinded, he ran for the JF-4 congressional seat against Putbye in the March 2019 Federal elections. He narrowly lost.

Following the Second Communist Exodus, d.a.barchipelago founded the Labor Party with Lohengramm, Matthew Hale, codegreen, Trash and MichiganLefty.

He then ran, simultaneously, for the Class II Jefferson Senate seat in the special election, and Parliament in the regularly scheduled election, and won both his races.

He was on the list for possible July 2019 Presidential election candidates, but discounted a presidential bid, and instead sought re-election to the Senate, and endorsed his colleague and friend, codegreen.

He was successfully re-elected to his Senate seat, even though all the predictions (including his own) predicted that Valerie would take it from him.

He served as a Senator until he became Vice President in November 2019 with MichiganLefty on the top of the ticket.

He was elected to the House in July 2020, beating Kestrel for the seat.

Federal Executive Branch

Barch served as Secretary of Energy under Lamport, LOTR and Patty's administration.

He ran for Vice President in the November federals, and was successfully elected with MichiganLefty as President. As Vice President, he wasn't active much, nor was the administration in general.

On January 18, 2020, he was sworn in by Chief Justice Lamport as the 54th President of the United States, the day following President MichiganLefty's historic resignation. President Barch made a few press releases and signed a few bills, along with one Executive Order withdrawing troops from Non-NATO nations, but he tragically suffered an intense bout of Depression, leading him to nothing while in office.

A joint resolution was proposed by Representative John Boehner, H.J.Res.19, to impeach Barch for inactiveness. It passed the House of Representatives on February 2, 2020, with 17 Representatives in favor, and 2 abstaining. He was convicted in the Senate with all six Senators voting to convict him, after a three day trial. This makes Barch the third President in history to be impeached.

After a period out of politics, the sudden resignation of Peanut as HHS Secretary led President Valerie to reach out to Barch to ask if he wanted the job. After some consideration, he decided to accept, and him, Valerie and VP Cabin lead the effort against COVID-19.

Parties

When Barch first joined, he joined the Progressive Party. He was a member of the Justice Progressive movement, which meant he was elected to the PNEC. Upon the disbanding of the Progressives, he was a founding member of the Labor Party, and sat on the LNC for over seven months. He ran for party leadership in November, and became Party Chair, with Hale as his Vice Chair. He chose not to run for a second term in January, but remained a member. When the Labor Party disbanded, he became an independent.

After his return to politics, he joined the American Liberals, which changed it's name to the Social Democratic Party while he was a member.

He left the SDP after being nominated by Governor Dallas to the Jefferson Supreme Court.

Other activities

Barch has worked at ABC for a very long time, and also ran the Green Uprising organization.

After being impeached, Barch withdrew from all public activities for two months. After he came back, he decided not to immediately re-enter politics, and instead ran the news organization ABC. He became head of ABC on 11th May 2020, after Justin stepped down.

Post-political career

Judicial career

After finishing his term in the House in September 2020, Barch decided not to run for election. He approached Govenor Dallas about being nominated to the Jefferson Supreme Court, and was sworn in as Associate Justice on 16th November 2020 by Jefferson Chief Justice Jack Macklin. After Macklin's resignation on 28th January 2021, he was then nominated to the position of Chief Justice by Governor Sysadmin, and was subsequently confirmed by Parliament.

His most important case to date was April vs Commonwealth, which concerned an amendment in which the same section of the Jefferson constitution had been amended to different things.

FEC

Barch was recess appointed to the Federal Election Commission by President Bo, and confirmed to the role on 6th July.

Honors

• Presidential Medal of Freedom (June, 2020)