Jack Jannon

Jack Jannon was the 57th Prime Minister of Evonian and is the longest serving Prime Minister in history with 15 years of service. Before that, he served as Secretary of Communications, Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, and was a member of Parliament for over 40 years. Jack allowed Justin Pereo to run in the 1998 Evonian Federal Election in which the Conservatives won by a large majority allowing William McCullen to replace him as Prime Minister.

Early Life
Jack Jannon was born November 15th, 1924 in Dillint, a small town in northern Kaskus. Jannon was born to Robert Jannon and Pauline Jannon, his parents, both teachers living off of meager government salary. Jannon had four brothers and three sisters and grew up on a small farm, often working four or five hours a day on top of school. He accredits his ability to work hard to these younger years of often multitasking and hard labor. He graduated high school with a 4.2 GPA and went to the University of Parnesia, graduating with a degree in Journalism. He went to work for the Brisdale Press after college and spent two years as the paper's political correspondent.

Early Political Career
After two years in the Brisdale Press, Jannon eventually got involved in local politics, volunteering for several liberal campaigns and eventually becoming the state attorney general's Chief of Staff in 1949. The state Liberal Democratic Party later began to push Jannon to run for Parliament in 1950, though he eventually declined. He continued to work as Sarah Browstein's Chief of Staff for the next four years during her full term. He made lots of contacts within Brisdale that would assist him in his run for Parliament in 1953. He campaigned in a normally conservative district, hoping to pick up another seat for his party they usually wouldn't take. His contacts helped him raise more money than his competitor and win the election on December 11th, 1953, after 11 months of campaigning.

Member of Parliament
Jannon was elected to Parliament in the 1953 Evonian Federal Election. His party, the Liberal Democrats, won the majority in 1953 for a second consecutive term, and Jannon served as a backbencher during his first term. Jannon took every opportunity that was available to him to get to know the Prime Minister and Party leader, including several private meetings centered around education reform.

Committee Assignments
Jannon was assigned to several committees based off his campaign promises and personal choice of the Prime Minister, who, after their meetings, pushed Jannon into a high ranking spot in the education committee.


 * Education
 * Budget
 * Environment
 * Water and Power (Sub-committee)
 * Energy Allocation (Sub-committee)

Jannon's Education and Environment committees made him a fairly well-known new member of parliament. He continued to make friends on these committees as much as possible during his first term in parliament, hoping building a network of connections would pay off like in Brisdale.

1958 Budget Battle
In 1958 an internal dispute over the budget erupted in the budget committee. It was primarily in-sighted by the conservative group in the committee, though liberals ended up becoming a large part of it. Jannon worked during the battle to bring people from both sides of the argument, one side advocating for major deficit reduction, the other advocating for increased spending in Transportation and deficit reduction in Defense, to come together and create a proposal containing both items.

In the end, Jannon became a favorite of the entire committee as he wrote and proposed a major budget proposal that reduced the deficit by 11% and increased funding to education and transportation. Jannon's bill went on to become the 1958 and 1959 budget (with minor additions in 1959). He was the first new member of parliament to propose and get passed a major budget with no additions on the floor.

1961 Environment Crisis
In 1961 a major oil tanker exploded off the coast of Parnesia causing a major environmental crisis to the coast. Jannon flew out to Parnesia himself and assisted in the cleanup effort while holding many press conferences. He rocketed to national fame as the only Liberal to talk quickly about the lack of standards on oil tankers and the economic and environmental affect on Parnesia. Parnesia's fishery sector experienced a major economic crisis after this, in which Jannon provided assisting legislation on the parliament floor, giving them $400 Million in relief aid from the government.

Jannon's Environmental record ended up assisting him significantly in the future.

Parliamentary Secretary
Jannon was appointed to the position of Parliamentary Secretary in 1968 and served for ten years as popular member of parliament. During this time, Jannon made more friends in parliament than he ever had before. He was the first major person to hold the position of Parliamentary Secretary.

Environment Minister
Jannon was appointed to the position of Minister of the Environment in January of 1964 after John Dursin decided to resign. The Prime Minister stated that, "Jannon was a hard working member of parliament dedicated to real environmental reform". Jannon immediately accepted the position and became a vocal member in cabinet meetings and on the parliamentary floor.

Jannon passed major Oil tanker reform standards in 1965 pointing to the 1961 oil spill as the pushing purpose. Nationally the law received major support and was a big campaign item for the next election. Many pollsters predicted the law would add upwards of fifteen seats to the parties majority due to some people's advocacy for major environmental reform. Jannon was considered a parliamentary heavyweight after the law was passed and was involved in most major legislation afterwards.

Jannon's relationship with Victor Saylor, the Prime Minister, was very strained and had lots of issues. The two didn't work well together after Saylor's ousting of the former Prime Minister who appointed Jannon. Eventually this lead Jannon to resign as Environment Minister in 1969. This is largely what is accredited to for what started the leadership spill lead by Brittany Abel, who Jannon supported.

Home Minister
h Jannon was appointed Home Minister the day he resigned as Environment Minister. He was largely forced into the position with Saylor announcing his succession to the position before Jannon even knew he was being considered. Jannon strongly disliked Saylor for this, but he accepted the position due to his knowledge of the coming leadership spill, desire for the position, and realization that this would get him to stay in the position with Abel took over as Prime Minister.

As Home Minister, Jannon pushed for major reform in Education, Transportation and Environment, and passed multiple pieces of legislation in each home department. Jannon toured the nation significantly talking about how to fix many internal systems.

Infrastructure Proposal
In 1974 a major report showed that the Infrastructure in Evonian was largely declining and being destroyed daily. Jannon proposed major reform with an aid package of $50 Billion which was shot down on the parliamentary floor despite large support from his own party. This lead to him going on every major press outlet about parliament as he declared their "lack of ability and conviction to solving real issues".

The rift this created between him and Abel lead him to resign May 11th, 1974.

Interim
Jannon was appointed Interim Minister of Home Affairs when Nancy Stillman was indicted in a major marriage scandal. This lead to large disapproval of the Abel Government, so the Prime Minister quickly threw popular choice Jack Jannon back into the position while she found a new Minister, which took over several months. Some believe she delayed on purpose because of her secret approval of Jannon.

Shadow Foreign Minister
Jannon was appointed Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs after the Liberal Democrats lost the 1980 Evonian Federal Election. Jannon spent most of his time as Shadow Foreign Minister traveling and working on trade deals for the next time the Liberal Democrats win the Prime Minister's seat. He spent a lot of his time with the media, becoming an even larger face in liberal and national politics.

United Kingdom/Chinese/Evonian Trade Agreement
Jannon authored a major trade accord between the United Kingdom, China and Evonian creating a huge trade incentive for Evonian industry. This would've created a massive amount of jobs, somewhere around a projected 400,000. The accord, which was struck as he was the non-official minister (shadow/opposition), was rejected by the government. Jannon spent a lot of time trashing this decision along with most of the party in the media. This caused a major rift in the conservative party and destroyed their public polling. It became a major issue for the next election as Arnold Mateo became the new Prime Minister amid this rift.

Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Jannon orchestrated a coup of the liberal leader and became the leader of the Party during the 1982 party convention. On December 1st, 1982, Jannon became leader of the Party and next candidate for Prime Minister.

Internal Friendships
Jannon's internal connections proved to be essential in winning him the race. During the convention he received 85% of the parliamentary members votes. Many members of the party immediately began raising money for the party and providing one of the largest grassroots organisations in election history. His internal connections proved to be one of the most important items in his winning the Prime Ministerial position.

Prime Minister Campaign, 1983
Jannon became party leader in 1982 and became the party's nominee for Prime Minister. He spent one month raising over three hundred million dollars, creating a massive grassroots campaign and spent lots of time in Parnesia, Brisdale and the Red Provinces, where he would pick up large amounts of seats for the party. His presence in Brisdale, being from there, provided essential in him being a popular candidate from a swing state, while his competitor was from a standard state, was rich, and older. They painted the image that he was out of touch and as such, this pushed him to be widely unpopular.

Trade Accord
Jannon campaigned significantly on the conservative's lack of approval for a "Sensible" trade accord Jannon had reached as Shadow Foreign Minister. He painted the conservatives as, "Partisan legislators who have no intent of working with any deal, regardless of how sensible, if it comes from across the isle". He promised he would be entirely different as Prime Minister and would often work with Conservative leaders and members.

Campaign Points
Jannon ran on several major campaign ideas. Including,


 * Education Reform
 * Infrastructure Reform
 * Trade Reform
 * More economic work
 * Defense cuts (unpopular)