Valerie

Valerie
Senator from Jefferson
Incumbent
Assumed office July 13, 2020
Preceded by	Zarphos
55th President of the United States
In office February 6, 2020 – July 13, 2020
Vice President	J.G.T. Webb Cabin
Preceded by	d.a.barchipelago
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
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	John Boehner

Valerie is a Jeffersonian attorney and politician in the United States. A Republican, Federalist and Libertarian, she served as a popular Speaker, Governor, President and Senator over a long career. By virtue of good timing, she succeeded to executive office twice as Speaker, first as Governor in 2018 and later as President in 2020. Elected to a full term in March, her Administration led the country through the coronavirus pandemic without going into debt, achieved a single tax on land value, implemented a reverse carbon tax and withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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. 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 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.

Congress

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 for citizens and residents, abolish the Department of Education in favor of block grants to the states, merge the Departments of Commerce and Labor and Small Business Administration to form a single Department, 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. 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. 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.

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 public dividend, or 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 was made.

Soon after beginning her second term, however, President d.a.barchipelago was impeached by the House, convicted by the Senate and removed from office. 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, ending homelessness in the United States, signed two treaties to ban anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs (which the Senate ratified) and took a leadership role in clearing the North Atlantic and Great Pacific garbage patches.

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 preoccupied by 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.

During this time, she also established a program to encourage high school graduation by rewarding each and every graduate with $250.

Honors

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