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Republican
 A retired UCAS army general, Franklin Yeats left military service for the private sector in the early 2040s and has worked since then as a "military advisor" for several corporations. He has also traveleed the public lecture circuit and written several popular books on his experiences in the military during some of the harrowing formative years of the UCAS. Yeats is Colin Powell after he left the Joint Chiefs of Staff - intelligent, reserved, honorable, and popular precisely because he does not seem like a politician.
General Yeats has made Bug City his personal cause célèbre. Chicago is his home town; the Gereal only escaped imprisonment in the Chicago Containment Zone because he happened to be in DeeCee when the whole mess happened. General Yeats has strongly criticized the UCAS goverment's treatment of the crisis and advocates quick, decisive action to end the deadlock between the UCAS military and the bugs.
Vice President: Yeats' running mate and longtime friend Anne Penchyk, an ork who served two terms as a UCAS Representative from Wisconsin. Before that, she founded and ran her won marketing consulting business in Milwaukee. She is a savvy spokes-woman for metahuman rights and an economic progressive who maintains that peace and prosperity go hand in hand. As a strong woman, Penchuk is a likely candidate for recruitment by the mantis spirits operating within Bug City. She has deeply buried connections to the Desoltation Angels, of which General Yeats and the public know nothing.
Platform: Yeats is a hawk and makes few apologies for it. His platform calls for rebuilding the shattered nation of America, that once-shining star of freedom and liberty. As the first step towards his goal, Yeats supports building the weakened UCAS military back up to strength, thereby also creating more jobs via hugh military contracts and expenditures plus increased demand for support personnel. Yeats advocates reunification with California, by force if necessary, and most people believe that he intends to follow up a successful annexation of the California Free State by sending the tanks rolling into the CAS or NAN territory.
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