Julia Cassidy

Julia Cassidy was the first President of the Republic of Cantonia, a Vice President of Brazil, and a long time politician. She remains one of the most famous President's of Cantonia and experienced the highest approval ratings of any President. This allowed her to serve three terms, or 18 years as President, which makes her the longest serving leader of Cantonia in history. She was also previously the Speaker of Brazil's congress.

Early Life
Julia Cassidy was born on May 3rd, 2119 in Santo Paulente, a state in Eastern Brazil at the time. She was born to a mixed family of Hispanic and Caucasian ethnicity, which is why she's of mixed race. Julia had five brothers and two sisters and attended local school until 18 years old. At that point she moved to Descantion and went to the local university for a degree in Education and later received her Juris Doctorate in Law from the same school.

Julia was known for being wildly popular in school, an athlete, and very vocal about local issues in politics while leading the debate club.

Descantion City Council
Julia, at only 22 years old, decided she was fed up with the way schools where handled in her home city and ran for City Council. To her surprise, with the help of much of the local university, who she fired up with her wondrous speaking skills, she won the election by 327 votes. She took office July 11th, 2145 and became an incredibly active member of the cities city council, which was primarily comprised of rich old men.

Julia spent her time going from school to school talking to teachers and proposing reforms and eventually got the city to pass a major education ordinace that significantly improved public school funding, teacher salaries, training and reduced class sizes. She was re-elected several times because of her involvement in local affairs of individuals and her ability to listen and respond accordingly.

Mayor of Descantion
After only three years in the Descantion City Council, Julia Cassidy was elected the cities youngest mayor at only 25 years old after having just finished her Law School tenure. She was elected by over 75% of the vote in the city, the largest in history.

Cassidy spent her time focusing on Education and the Cities' horrific budget deficit. During her time, Education scores increased by an average of 15% and the budget deficit was cut in half. The city also experienced a large amount of economic growth due to her business friendly policies and cuts in the waste of government. The city re-elected her in 2147 with 82% of the vote, another record in the large city of 800,000.

Cassidy spent her second term focusing on industrial growth, business competitiveness, education, and removing some of the "Incredibly strict regulations", as she would call it to her constituents. She replaced them with more relaxed regulations, but still kept the business environmentally friendly and economically responsible. She was hailed by many national politicians on both sides of the aisle for her brilliance, youth, dedication and vigor.

First Tenure
After the death of Paul Decards in 2149, which happened to be at the end of Julia's Second mayoral term when she was term-limited and not allowed to run again, the regional governor, despite being a member of another party, appointed Julia Cassidy to fill Decards seat in the national Chamber of Deputies. Cassidy spent just slightly over one year in the Chamber of Deputies. Despite being a national phenomenon, she found herself very uncomfortable in the capital as she was limited in her abilities to talk to people, especially with being new to an old man's game.

Cassidy decided to run for re-election and face up to the challenge, however, her slow movement in the Chamber resulted in her opponents showing her weakness in the Congress and beating her in the 2150 election. Cassidy took her time off and focused on being a Lawyer while working avidly in her community and district. She had vowed privately to take back her seat in several electoral terms when the incumbent was vulnerable.

Second Tenure
Cassidy, being as smart as she was, played off her opponent's long tenure and small record as weak and took back her seat with the same vigor her opponent had in 2150 when he had beat her. She beat out James Destick in 2152 and took back her seat in the National Chamber of Deputies.

During her second tenure, Julia was much more comfortable after having spent more time meeting most of the members of congress. This time she quickly rose through the ranks of her party, proposed new education legislation which resulted in one of the largest reforms in history being passed in Brazil, worked in the budget committee to help balance the budget while creating jobs, and focused on seeing her district as often as possible.

This incredibly focus and dedication of her's resulted in her serving for a very large amount of terms.

Committees

 * Budget Committee
 * Education Committee
 * Judicial Sub Committee

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies
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Vice President of Brazil
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Cantonia Negotiations
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President of Cantonia
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