Valerie

Valerie
1st Co-Leader of the Commonwealth Party
Incumbent
Assumed office December 11, 2021 Serving with Putbye
Preceded by	None
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Jefferson
In office July 17, 2021 – November 13, 2021
Nominated by	Rose
Preceded by	Barch
Succeeded by	None
Senator from Jefferson
In office July 13, 2020 – July 13, 2021
Preceded by	Zarphos
Succeeded by	Bo
55th President of the United States
In office February 6, 2020 – July 13, 2020
Vice President	Webb Cabin
Preceded by	Barch
Succeeded by	Garland
4th and 8th Governor of Jefferson
In office October 9, 2019 – February 6, 2020
Lieutenant Governor	Rincewind
Preceded by	Putbye
Succeeded by	Rincewind
In office December 18, 2018 – February 1, 2019
Lieutenant Governor	NotAName
Preceded by	Peanut
Succeeded by	codegreen
74th Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office November 14, 2019 – February 6, 2020
Preceded by	Thanos
Succeeded by	Cabin
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	Boehner

Valerie is a Jeffersonian attorney and politician in the United States who stood for election as a Republican, Federalist, Libertarian and Libertarian-Republican. She served as Speaker, Governor, President and Senator over a long and often divisive career in which she played an aggressive and, at times, antagonistic role against the opposition. By virtue of good timing, Valerie twice succeeded as Speaker to executive office: first to Governor in 2018 and then to President in 2020. Elected in March, her Administration implemented a single tax on land value, managed the coronavirus pandemic without increasing the tax burden or going into debt, introduced a universal basic income, adopted a reverse carbon tax, reformed and limited drug patents and finalized the withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. While she is controversial, owing to her uncompromising and undiplomatic character, Valerie is regarded as one of the most successful politicians on the right.

Parliament

Elected to the Parliament of Jefferson in October, 2018, her first legislative achievement was lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 amid Progressive opposition. She was re-elected to a second term and further elected Speaker. A month later, however, Governor Peanut and Lieutenant Governor Cool Dad resigned without notice or warning so, as the next in line, she was called upon to succeed to the Governorship.

Re-elected to Parliament between August, 2020 and February, 2021, following her Presidency, Valerie legalized gambling, reformed public education by pushing the school day to 9 am, abolishing homework and capping exams at 50%, authorized the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to order de-certification, lowered the voting age to encompass those turning 18 during the term being elected, defended the single tax system that she enacted as Governor and amended the probate code to better protect conservatees. When Speaker Computerguy had to succeed in September, she once again elected to the chair until the next session in October.

First Governorship

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

House

Elected to the House in October, 2018, Valerie was re-elected to a further 5 terms. She passed legislation to establish default trade reciprocity, make national parks free of charge, abolish the Department of Education in favor of a block grant to the states, merge the Department of Commerce, Deparment of Labor and Small Business Administration to form a single Department of Commerce and Labor, guarantee veterans the right to choose between public benefits, private benefits or regular payments in lieu and repeal the federal drinking age. She also passed constitutional amendments to ban capital punishment, narrow the power of the executive to wage war without legislative consent and repeal the discriminatory age qualification for public office: all were ratified with multi-partisan support. When President MichiganLefty neglected to sponsor a budget, she sponsored her own budget in December, 2019, and pushed the Labor Administration to cut the corporate tax and cut general spending by $32 billion. Finally, during a long period in which the Speaker was regularly dismissed in the middle of the session, Valerie was elected to succeed Representative Thanos and re-elected to the chair by the next Congress. She served a term and a half. While she came close to breaking the Lamport curse, her succession to the Presidency gave that honor to John Smith in April, 2020.

Chief of Staff

Valerie was appointed Chief of Staff to President Lamport in March, 2019, and served until the end of his Administration. She took a leading role in making sure his legislative agenda was passed by Congress and helped negotiate the landmark nuclear disarmament treaty. President LOTR did not keep her on as Chief of Staff, rather, she was nominated and confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services. When he resigned the office amid a primary scandal, however, she was re-appointed as Chief of Staff by President Patty and served until the election of President MichiganLefty in January, 2020.

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 October, 2019. 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 universal basic income (named the Common Wealth Fund) which guaranteed $1,300 a year. 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 private prisons, prohibited exploitative penal labor and required public buildings to double as homeless shelters at night. When the federal government neglected to act during the coronavirus outbreak, Valerie organized a public health campaign in Jefferson and, with Americans stranded in China, her Administration took charge of the situation and chartered transportation to bring them home to national acclaim.

Running against codegreen, her successor two years prior, Valerie was re-elected to the post with 64% of the vote in February, 2020. Her second term saw her pay off the debt, which was $250 billion when she took office, grow the universal basic income to $4,000 a year and establish a $25 billion investment fund with a mandate to prioritize no-to-low carbon business. She also led the opposition against some in her own party who sponsored a bill to ban abortion in the Commonwealth: while the bill was passed, she vetoed and no further attempt to impose the ban was made during her tenure.

Soon after beginning her second term, however, President d.a.barchipelago was impeached by the House, convicted by the Senate and dismissed.. As there was no Vice President and she was next in line, as the Speaker of the House, Valerie was called upon to succeed to the Presidency in a situation remarkably similar to her succession to the Governorship in 2018. She resigned in favor of her Lieutenant Governor, Rincewind, moments before taking the oath.

Presidency

Valerie assumed the Presidency in February, 2020, with a month until the general election. She passed a budget which abolished the corporate tax and land appreciation tax, among other taxes, and - following her model in Jefferson - established a single tax on land value. She also established a program to house more than 560,000 people at federal expense, ending homelessness in the United States, signed two treaties to ban anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs (which the Senate ratified) and took a role of international leadership in clearing oceanic pollution.

She sought election with J.G.T. Webb as Vice President in March, 2020, and won with more than 60% of the vote. He later retired and Governor Cabin was nominated and confirmed to succeed him. Her elected term was focused on the coronavirus: Valerie mandated treatment without charge, established an emergency income fund to guarantee $1,063 a month to the working population, sent aid to the states, directed the military to assist and suspended non-essential government work in a determined campaign to limit its spread. Despite her record as a strict fiscal conservative, she committed more than $500 billion to relief. During the crisis, Congress took unprecedented action to empower her to re-direct budget appropriations to emergency spending as required: this made sure key federal programs were well-funded and not subject to political gridlock. Valerie managed the crisis without going into debt or running a deficit.

During her term, she also introduced the foundation of a universal basic income at $600 a year, legislated a reverse carbon tax to reduce emissions without growing the tax burden, established a grant to encourage high school graduation, stopped extradition to states with capital and corporal punishment, made life-saving medication patent-free to lower prices, abolished qualified immunity, repealed a number of exceptions to freedom of speech, closed the Drug Enforcement Administration, mandated same day registration to protect against voter suppression, re-authorized the Commission on Civil Rights and - following a long political debate which spanned multiple Administrations - withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Valerie nominated Yimir, an experienced Attorney General and Governor, to the Supreme Court and she was confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support.

Following the example of President Lamport, Valerie decided against seeking a second term. She was succeeded by Governor Garland in July, 2020, after his contingent election in the House. While she was elected to the Senate, she set a new precedent by deciding to remain in the White House until the election was resolved.

Senate

Valerie was elected to the Senate in July, 2020, and re-elected without opposition in January, 2021. During her first term, she and Senator Bo were able to seize control of the agenda despite being the minority in what would be called Gavelgate. She did not have a formal leadership role, however, many believe that she was the de facto head of the Libertarian caucus.

While she blocked tens of billions in proposed deficit spending and insisted on equal cuts to other appropriations, she further empowered the Department of Justice to investigate police abuse and misconduct, banned interrogatory deception, reformed the Environmental Protection Agency into the Department of Conservation and Climate Change, added millions of acres of designated wilderness, ended the ex parte nature of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and made its proceedings adversarial, banned torture framed as “enhanced interrogation,” prohibited military recruitment at public schools and abolished the national interest waiver to legislation intended to address and take action against the use of child soldiers. Re-elected to the Senate in January, 2021, she had $20 billion in debt owed by Puerto Rico to Dixie assumed by the federal government and, with President Sandoval, Vice President Bo, Senator Elkridge, Senator Ian and Representative Wonder, enacted a budget without any new taxes or spending despite the liberal majority in the House and Senate calling for both.

Honors

• Presidential Medal of Freedom (October, 2019)
• Medal of Extraordinary Service (July, 2020)
• Key to the City of Washington, D.C. (January, 2021)