D.a.barchipelago

d.a.barchipelago
Jefferson Senator
In office TBC – N/A
Preceded by	NotAName
Jefferson Minority leader
In office 1st February 2019 – 9th August 2019
Preceded by	some random person
Succeeded by	Cabin (?)
Jefferson Speaker
In office TBC – N/A
Preceded by	Rincewind
Personal Details
Political party	Labor, Progressive Party

d.a.barchipelago joined AGS on 12/1/19 (that's the date the right way, you American muppets, twelfth of Jan (he is an irl Brit)). He joined the Progressive Party immediately. He served as a 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. He controversially supported LOTRcare (public option) , but would prefer a national health service over it. He fights for democractic integrity, supports campaign funding caps, anti-gerrymandering measures and is a prominent critic of Electoral College, and has made many attempts to repeal it. If you ask him which issue is most important to him, he will always say protecting the planet.

Jefferson Parliament

Early on, barch joined the Progressive Party and the Justice Progressives. This allowed him, in a suprise 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 elections following the communist exodus, and for a third term in the following June elections.

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

Following his proxying for ProgressiveMinded, he ran for JF-4 against Putbye. He narrowly lost.

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.

Federal Government

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

Following his proxying for ProgressiveMinded, he ran for JF-4 against Putbye. He narrowly lost.

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

He then ran, simultaneously, for Senate and Parliament, and got elected to both.

He was on the list for possible July Presidential election candidates, but discounted a presidential bid, and instead sought re-election.

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

He ran for Vice President in the November federals, and was successfully elected with MichiganLefty as President.

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.