Post by Maximilien Robespierre on Jan 21, 2008 2:06:51 GMT -5
In an effort to quickly acquaint the public with the candidates in this regrettably hurried election, the Times will be running a series of articles about the candidates.
Victor Crumble, Townsend Again?
by Eleanor Esther Cummings
It was a dour, thin-faced man who walked into the small restaurant in which I had arranged to meet the first of our five candidates. Crumble began as a lawyer for the Shawl District Attorney's office, but switched to a political career in order to support his law school friend William Townsend's run for mayor. After a career as Attorney General, Postmaster General and other odd jobs within Townsend's administrations. Victor Crumble has always been a reliable, competent civil servant.
Crumble remains calm and dependable, responding to my various questions without hesitation or circumlocution. He continues to be strongly conservative economically, though he shares the late Townsend's liberal stance on supernatural rights. Despite the recent waves of crime in an always dicey city, Crumble maintains that the way to prevent these urban disturbances is not through expensive programs aimed at the city's youth but through an expansion of local business in order to put money in the pockets of the parents of the offenders, which he sees to be the stem of the problem. Crumble hopes to bring an economic revitalization to darkening neighborhoods in Western Shawl by lowering business taxes and anti-trust laws in order to draw in fledgling businesses.
In all previous elections, Crumble has been a dependable proponent of Townsend, occasionally eloquent but rarely effervescent. Never known to be bubbly, Crumble seems to have crumbled somewhat in the wake of his good friend William Townsend's untimely death, and his normally somber demeanor seems considerably more mired in depression. However, never one to give up in the face of a good fight, Crumble is seen as the favorite in the upcoming mayoral elections. The question that remains to be answered is whether Crumble will be seen as his own man or merely an extension of the Townsend administration.
Victor Crumble, Townsend Again?
by Eleanor Esther Cummings
It was a dour, thin-faced man who walked into the small restaurant in which I had arranged to meet the first of our five candidates. Crumble began as a lawyer for the Shawl District Attorney's office, but switched to a political career in order to support his law school friend William Townsend's run for mayor. After a career as Attorney General, Postmaster General and other odd jobs within Townsend's administrations. Victor Crumble has always been a reliable, competent civil servant.
Crumble remains calm and dependable, responding to my various questions without hesitation or circumlocution. He continues to be strongly conservative economically, though he shares the late Townsend's liberal stance on supernatural rights. Despite the recent waves of crime in an always dicey city, Crumble maintains that the way to prevent these urban disturbances is not through expensive programs aimed at the city's youth but through an expansion of local business in order to put money in the pockets of the parents of the offenders, which he sees to be the stem of the problem. Crumble hopes to bring an economic revitalization to darkening neighborhoods in Western Shawl by lowering business taxes and anti-trust laws in order to draw in fledgling businesses.
In all previous elections, Crumble has been a dependable proponent of Townsend, occasionally eloquent but rarely effervescent. Never known to be bubbly, Crumble seems to have crumbled somewhat in the wake of his good friend William Townsend's untimely death, and his normally somber demeanor seems considerably more mired in depression. However, never one to give up in the face of a good fight, Crumble is seen as the favorite in the upcoming mayoral elections. The question that remains to be answered is whether Crumble will be seen as his own man or merely an extension of the Townsend administration.