Valerie

Valerie
4th and 8th Governor of Jefferson
Incumbent
Assumed office October 9, 2019
Lieutenant Governor	Rincewind
Preceded by	Putbye
In office December 18, 2018 – February 1, 2018
Lieutenant Governor	NotAName
Preceded by	Peanut
Succeeded by	codegreen
20th Speaker of the House
Incumbent
Assumed office November 14, 2019
Preceded by	Thanos
Chief of Staff to the President
In office September 27, 2019 – November 6, 2019
President	Patty
Preceded by	Cabin
Succeeded by	Thanos
In office March 5, 2019 – July 12, 2019
President	Lamport
Preceded by	Peanut
Succeeded by	John Boehner

Valerie is a Jeffersonian politician and attorney in the United States. A Republican, and later Federalist, she is a strong right libertarian who is skeptical of federal power.

Parliament

Elected to the Parliament of Jefferson in October, 2018, her first legislative achievement was lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 amid some Progressive opposition. She was re-elected in December and further elected Speaker. Soon after, however, Governor Peanut and Lieutenant Governor Cool Dad unexpectedly resigned so, as the next in line, she was called upon to succeed to the Governorship.

First Governorship

Valerie recognized neither she, nor her party, were elected by the people to govern the Commonwealth so she committed to hold office in a non-controversial and generally non-partisan manner. She nominated the leading Progressive, NotAName, to serve as Lieutenant Governor. She did not seek her own mandate in next gubernatorial election and she was succeeded by codegreen in February.

Congress

Elected to the House in October, 2018, Valerie was re-elected in January, May, September and November, 2019, and January, 2020, to serve 6 non-consecutive terms. Most notably, she passed legislation to establish trade reciprocity, make national parks free of charge for citizens and residents, abolish the Department of Education in favor of block grants to the states and guarantee veterans the right to choose between public benefits, private benefits or regular payments in lieu. She also passed constitutional amendments to ban capital punishment and narrow the power of the executive to wage war without legislative consent, effectively constitutionalizing laws passed by President Lamport. During a long period in which the Speaker was regularly (and invariably) dismissed in the middle of the term, she was elected to succeed Thanos and chair the House in the 11th Congress.

Chief of Staff

Valerie was appointed Chief of Staff to President Lamport, where she served the whole term, and President Patty, when he was called upon to succeed. She took a leading role in the execution of their foreign policy agenda: ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, negotiating a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty and giving up the veto in the United Nations to promote its abolition. Embroiled in a whipping scandal near the end of the Lamport Administration, she said she would “never apologize” for doing her utmost to pass legislation making it more difficult to send young Americans off to war.

Second Governorship

Critical of Governor Putbye and his Administration taking on hundreds of billions in debt, Valerie challenged his re-election and won, taking office in December. She immediately began to pay down the debt, implemented a land value tax, abolished the income tax, corporate tax and sales tax, achieving the first single tax in the United States, and established a public dividend, or universal basic income, named the Common Wealth Fund. She also ended the construction of a Trumpian border wall begun by Governor System, bought 60 million acres of land from Washington and put it back in Jeffersonian hands, legalized drug possession and prostitution, banned exploitative prison labor and coverted public buildings to double as homeless shelters at night.

Honors

She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in October, 2019.