Panzeh
1711
Stevens will use his ability to make a speech for free.
Jackpot! Stevens rolls a 6, for +1 popularity.
Now we move on to the auction of the final card and initiative. Bidding begins with @Navaronegun.
@CF_Kane Pass. After you give @Cuthbert his card and see if he has any other action, then the Webster-Taney administration is ready for the first issue.
@Cuthbert, card delivered. Any card play or further action before the first issue is revealed?
(The first issue card of the Webster administration is the Gadsen Purchase, which requires the Mexican-American War to be eligible. The next card is Mexican-American war, which requires the admission of Texas to be eligible.)
The first issue confronting the Webster administration was the admission of Maine to the Union. The admission of Maine was part of the compromise that lead to the admission of Missouri to the United States during the Polk Administration.
Admission of Maine is a difficulty 2 issue for the Secretary of State and Congress. Popularity +1 if admitted, and Maine has 9 electoral votes.
@Ironsight, to you to appoint a Secretary of State or ignore.
President Webster will delegate this to VP Taney with instructions to appoint T. Stevens as Secretary of State and carry Maine through Congress.
Vice-President Taney, thrilled every day in this alternate reality that he is not Chief Justice (and somehow possessing interdimensional awareness of that fact) smiles and nods, and appoints Thaddeus Stevens Secretary of State (@Panzeh).
Panzeh
1723
Thaddeus Stevens, somehow both the best orator in the nation and also very happy to collude with slave-expanding power will accept and send Maine to congress.
@Navaronegun to start the voting.
The King-King-Bentonians are fond of lobster. Vote Yea with 8 votes.
@Brooski
@Panzeh Current vote is 8 Yes - 41 No .
This is about the marriage, isn’t it?
I TOLD you, we can discuss it when we get home.
