18-10-2024, 12:23 AM
KNN NEWS:
New Political Pary Forms
CAPITAINIA, Oldufaray - Following several days of peaceful demonstrations and political maneuvering delegates from the first Third Way national conference have announced that they have reached an agreement to form a political party and have elected party leadership. The demonstrations began on February 26th, 3075 with small scale protests over the national sales tax and grew as other organizations and individuals throughout Oldufaray and Kalistan learned of the demonstrations via the internet. Police estimated that upwards of 30,000 people may have taken part in the demonstrations.
On March 1 delegates from the largest political organizations present formed a leadership committee to oversee the demonstrations and plan strategy. Although the committee was split early on popular demand brought them to the conclusion to found a new political party. When a spokesman for the committee revealed to the crowd that they were considering forming a new political party a great cheer erupted from the crowd and elections for party leadership were announced.
Following this announcement hopeful politicians began maneuvering to gain a position of power. Hopefuls for the office of party chair addressed the crowd the next day to varying levels of support. The clear crowd favorite was former general Bill Sherman who gave a rousing speech near the end of the day that cemented his place as the clear favorite to win the chairmanship. True enough, he was elected by popular vote of all assembled with a mandate on the first ballot over both more progressive and a more conservative nominees.
Party leadership immediately announced that they will submit a platform to reinvigorate the economy before the end of the year. Chairman Sherman stated that economic issues would take precedence in the party platform.
Text of Bill Sherman's "Expect More, Kalistan" speech:
"Greetings, fellow Kalistanis. In all my years of public service I have never felt so privileged to speak as I do to you today. Looking out over this great mass of patriots, mothers and fathers, workers and business owners, I see one thing: the desire to give our children a better world than the one we inherited. Today, we come together to form a new movement. Today, we are choosing to take charge of our own destiny. Today, we proclaim in one united voice, that we expect more from ourselves and our leaders.
It is not at all improper that we should expect more from our government; no, not in Kalistan, because Kalistan is unique among nations. We are a star in a vacant sky, a shining haven of democracy. Yet our government does not work for the majority of Kalistanis. Whether by conservative indifference or socialist mismanagement our people find themselves struggling. This should not happen in Kalistan.
There are some who say compromise is a bad word. They conjure up fables of politicians without convictions and voters without principles. Any ground given to the enemy is surrender, they claim. And while they stamp and swear and smear Kalistani families can’t find food to eat. They have the luxury of inflexibility, but our families don’t. Orthodoxy can’t provide a wage. Slogans can’t feed children.
I went by the old treacle mine where my father worked to support our family years ago. At one time, the mine employed over a thousand workers. Today, the mine that once fed an entire town has shut its doors. Decreased investment in the economy deprived ordinary people the opportunity to improve their community and starved the economy of necessary funds. And while a few jobs have come to replace the good paying union ones eliminated with the mine, the lack of a basic minimum wage and a regressive tax structure mean that people receive even less compensation for a hard day’s work as they did before. The result is that hard work no longer pays for the average family. We’re here to fix that.
Our opponents call us “without principles”. How wrong they are! If they would only listen to the voice of the people they would know our movement is based on the most fundamental principle of modern democracy: that hard work should be fairly rewarded. We believe the best government is the one that helps people help themselves. While the past rule of the right wing made it impossible to move up in the social ladder the socialist temptation could just as well lead us to ruin. For in the socialist system the people work for the government, but the government does not work for the people.
We choose a different path. We choose to accept Kalistan’s destiny as a world leader. We choose to expect more."
New Political Pary Forms
CAPITAINIA, Oldufaray - Following several days of peaceful demonstrations and political maneuvering delegates from the first Third Way national conference have announced that they have reached an agreement to form a political party and have elected party leadership. The demonstrations began on February 26th, 3075 with small scale protests over the national sales tax and grew as other organizations and individuals throughout Oldufaray and Kalistan learned of the demonstrations via the internet. Police estimated that upwards of 30,000 people may have taken part in the demonstrations.
On March 1 delegates from the largest political organizations present formed a leadership committee to oversee the demonstrations and plan strategy. Although the committee was split early on popular demand brought them to the conclusion to found a new political party. When a spokesman for the committee revealed to the crowd that they were considering forming a new political party a great cheer erupted from the crowd and elections for party leadership were announced.
Following this announcement hopeful politicians began maneuvering to gain a position of power. Hopefuls for the office of party chair addressed the crowd the next day to varying levels of support. The clear crowd favorite was former general Bill Sherman who gave a rousing speech near the end of the day that cemented his place as the clear favorite to win the chairmanship. True enough, he was elected by popular vote of all assembled with a mandate on the first ballot over both more progressive and a more conservative nominees.
Party leadership immediately announced that they will submit a platform to reinvigorate the economy before the end of the year. Chairman Sherman stated that economic issues would take precedence in the party platform.
Text of Bill Sherman's "Expect More, Kalistan" speech:
"Greetings, fellow Kalistanis. In all my years of public service I have never felt so privileged to speak as I do to you today. Looking out over this great mass of patriots, mothers and fathers, workers and business owners, I see one thing: the desire to give our children a better world than the one we inherited. Today, we come together to form a new movement. Today, we are choosing to take charge of our own destiny. Today, we proclaim in one united voice, that we expect more from ourselves and our leaders.
It is not at all improper that we should expect more from our government; no, not in Kalistan, because Kalistan is unique among nations. We are a star in a vacant sky, a shining haven of democracy. Yet our government does not work for the majority of Kalistanis. Whether by conservative indifference or socialist mismanagement our people find themselves struggling. This should not happen in Kalistan.
There are some who say compromise is a bad word. They conjure up fables of politicians without convictions and voters without principles. Any ground given to the enemy is surrender, they claim. And while they stamp and swear and smear Kalistani families can’t find food to eat. They have the luxury of inflexibility, but our families don’t. Orthodoxy can’t provide a wage. Slogans can’t feed children.
I went by the old treacle mine where my father worked to support our family years ago. At one time, the mine employed over a thousand workers. Today, the mine that once fed an entire town has shut its doors. Decreased investment in the economy deprived ordinary people the opportunity to improve their community and starved the economy of necessary funds. And while a few jobs have come to replace the good paying union ones eliminated with the mine, the lack of a basic minimum wage and a regressive tax structure mean that people receive even less compensation for a hard day’s work as they did before. The result is that hard work no longer pays for the average family. We’re here to fix that.
Our opponents call us “without principles”. How wrong they are! If they would only listen to the voice of the people they would know our movement is based on the most fundamental principle of modern democracy: that hard work should be fairly rewarded. We believe the best government is the one that helps people help themselves. While the past rule of the right wing made it impossible to move up in the social ladder the socialist temptation could just as well lead us to ruin. For in the socialist system the people work for the government, but the government does not work for the people.
We choose a different path. We choose to accept Kalistan’s destiny as a world leader. We choose to expect more."
Primary: Institutionalist Party of Kalistan (IPoK), 5146-
Inactive:
Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK), 2591-
Inactive:
Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK), 2591-