Richard Jamonsin

Richard Jamonsin, a former Senator, Representative, Speaker of the House, and Governor was arrested on October 13, 2037 on having multiple accounts (Ashley Barclay).

He has since left the sim and was banned for life in a unanimous vote on the rehearing of The United States v. Jamonsin etc.

Beginnings (2020-2022)
Richard Jamonsin started out his career in Illinois as Governor after the current Governor, Keith Duncan, where he accomplished little of mention.

He first came to fame after an argument with the current Supreme Court over the banning of current Democratic Chair Hilary Boone (formally Nash Boone). His posted video starting out, "Hello, AGS Jamonsin here, and I'm in a boat," sparked much talk in the community who's use of video previously was very contained. Jamonsin used these videos the whole of his career to great effect.

2024 Election (2023-2024)
In 2024, after being encouraged by current President Goldberg, Jamonsin declared his candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President under the motto "Really, Really New Leadership." The primary lasted 2 weeks in which he dispatched the following opponents: Jamonsin entered the General Election with a lot of buzz behind him, and he selected the current President Goldberg to be his Vice Presidential running mate and a new motto, "Make AGS fun again." This choice sparked much controversy as the President both jumped parties and endorsements to join the Jamonsin Ticket and many considered AGS already fun.
 * 1) Alice Dupont (Exited the race after a debate)
 * 2) Cole Sparkman (Exited due to time commitments)
 * 3) Hilary Cooper (Exited after a scathing ad campaign)
 * 4) Hilary Boone (Exited after a deal with Jamonsin to become Chair)

The election came down to Democratic Candidate Richard Jamonsin, Reform Party Candidate Tim Watson, Libertarian Candidate Harvey Jones, and Republican Candidate Tyler Boyles. There was one debate which did not include Tyler Boyles between all the candidates that was dominated by Jamonsin. There was a supporter debate between now Creator Cherkas and then Senator Barclay (also Jamonsin) over Skype, Jamonsin is supposed to have used a voice modifier to seem more feminine. The origin of "Simply Put" came here, as Cherkas overused the phrase and it became a meme for AGS for a longtime. It is the only public appearance until 2033 of Barclay through any other method but the simple Instagram Post.

On election day both Watson and Jones dropped to endorse Jamonsin. This was still not enough to carry the 3-week old AGSer over the 5-month AGSer Republican Tyler Boyles as the race ended with a GOP Victory.

Controversy started the moment the race ended as Jamonsin disputed the race and believed it should go to the house as no one had reached the required 270 Electoral Votes. However, his account was deleted or reported and disappeared. He reappeared an hour after the original's destruction and quickly quelled any objection to the fact that Boyles had won the election fair and square.

Democratic Chairmanship (2024-2032)
After the 2024 Election Jamonsin became the Chair of the Democratic Party and increased its apparent size by large numbers. There were numerous attempts to split the party that were quelled and dispelled.

Jamonsin ran the 2028 Democratic Primaries which quickly became bloody, they ended with both Candidates dropping out due to unstainable numbers. Jamonsin is supposed to have had a role in their dropping out as he almost immediately endorsed Gavin Sky. During the primary election, he had repeatedly pitted members Harper and Callaghan against each other, splitting the Democratic Party on their support of a candidate. It wasn't until the Jamonsin Scandal that such actions made sense as Libertarian Candidate Gavin Sky had chosen Ashley Barclay as his running mate, having no Democratic Nominee would mean a vote that was unsplit. Being both Barclay and Jamonsin, Jamonsin knew it would be more beneficial to himself to have no Democratic Nominee.

Jamonsin would frequently clash with Democratic Rival Alex Ali and the two had a feud for some time. This was mostly expected to be a result of his games during the 2028 election which skewed the primary.

Upon the race's completion and Gavin Sky's defeat, Jamonsin assumed, without a vote, a second term as Democratic Chair which was largely uneventful.

Representative (2030-2037)
Jamonsin ran against popular GOP Governor Kaleb Kruger to become the Representative of California in 2032. After a scathing political campaign against Kruger which alienated much of AGS, Kruger dropped out of the race. Upon assuming office as Representative, Jamonsin authored many Sim related reforms including the definitions of voting, election systems, how the Supreme Court may oversee elections, a wall street tax, removed the ability of the Vice President to vote on bills unless there was a tie, a budget for every year he was a representative, and set up a system for emergency elections.

After joining the House, Jamonsin started undermining current Speaker Peregrino using tactics of political assassination and making any and all problems in the House public. He assembled the lawmakers of the House and got them to sign a letter that requested Speaker Peregrino step down from his position. This letter was signed by every member of the house, including former Jamonsin rival and president, Tyler Boyles.

Tyler Boyles then became speaker with Jamonsin assuming Deputy Speaker without quarrel. It should be noted that many people seemed to drop out, step away, quit the game, and avoid voting when Jamonsin was involved in a matter. His methods of quelling dissent alienated the Republicans in the House, forcing many to resign until the Democrats had control of the House and current speaker Tyler Boyles stepped down to allow Jamonsin to become Speaker. Jamonsin served as Speaker for two terms and oversaw a consistent improvement in both bill quality and activity.

Jamonsin used his success as a Representative and Chair of the Democratic Party to again run for President in 2032.

2032 Election (2029-2033)
Under the motto, "Bring Morning to AGS again" Jamonsin again declared his candidacy for President under the Democratic Party. He penned an 112 page, 20k+ word, platform, the largest ever seen by a mock government, and swept the primaries with ease. His victories were clouded by the controversies that seemed to crop up at his every turn. Jamonsin set about giving regular speeches, making ads, and spewing out election memes as fast as the rival campaign in the GOP Camp, former president Dylan Goldberg.

In an attempt to prevent Goldberg from reaching the General Election, Jamonsin used both Barclay in the Senate and himself in the House to fast track a piece of legislation to prevent third term presidents. It succeeded and Goldberg dropped from the race and AGS with a shattered spirit. Goldberg deleted his entire AGS legacy and moved on to TPON. His dropping caused a panic in the GOP as they attempted to find a successor which they did in AGS God Monce. However, after both a failed attempt to prove Jamonsin was Barclay and a robotic appearance in the Jamonsin v. Monce Debate, Monce dropped out of the race and left the sim, much in the manner so many had facing Jamonsin's manipulation and corruption.

The GOP continued to struggle to find a candidate until they weren't allowed to submit one thus giving Jamonsin an almost guaranteed victory. His only opponent now was Libertarian Senator James Gregory. Jamonsin appeared to have the election on lock-down.

USA v. Jamonsin etc.
That confidence quickly crumbled as his carefully built castle of corruption, manipulation, and destruction began to fall as a case was brought against him for having multiple accounts. Over a three day period, during which little sleep was had, a trial was conducted. After the first day, a ruling was made that found both Jamonsin and Barclay innocent of guilt. However, due to new evidence after Barclay was hacked, in which it appeared that she had accessed her Instagram via a Des Moines Laptop (Jamonsin's Location), the case was reopened and vigorously fought. After hearing much evidence and many witnesses, the Supreme Court found Jamonsin guilty. Few, outside the court, agreed however and the support for Jamonsin was immense and defiant. Shortly thereafter Barclay posted a video, seemingly confirming the belief that they were different people. There was an instant pardon handed down from President Donnelly and Jamonsin resumed campaigning. The pardon was followed by a live stream held by Jamonsin in which he debated the prosecutor and plaintiffs in the case, Grant and Kulinski. The live debate was followed by many SCOTUS Justices leaving the sim as they much a lot of criticism for their apparent mistake in charging Jamonsin. This was an apparent victory for Jamonsin.

2032 Election Night
Jamonsin made an inexplicable move and began arguing with himself through Barclay under one of his posts the night before the election. As a college student Jamonsin regularly drank and it is supposed that in his drunken stupper he lost himself the election. Barclay called the upset Jamonsin crazy for supposing that Gregory lacked the experience to become President. Jamonsin responded, "You're the one that dated the girl that killed herself. You're the crazy one." This statement was posted on almost every Instagram account involved in AGS and "#neverjamonsin" became trending in opposition to the apparent harshness of the insult. The remark lost him an entire campaign chat of over 15 people. He lost the election by 5.

His motivations are unknown. Whatever the motivation, Jamonsin destroyed his chances of winning the Presidency and lost to James Gregory in the 2032 Election 29-24. A voter turnout that was both historically low and shockingly impressive for Gregory who started out the race at 3% in the polls.
 * 1) At one hand many people rallied around Barclay and expressed support for her as her personal life was decimated under a microscope. It appeared that there could be no way that Jamonsin was Barclay at this point.
 * 2) At the other Jamonsin's activity had faltered and after the Supreme Court Case his activity had completely fallen off. Barclay on the other hand was rising in popularity and would become SOE shortly thereafter, supported by the same people who believed her to be Jamonsin weeks prior which could not have happened if they didn't feel sorry for Barclay.
 * 3) He may have been trying to shift popularity from Jamonsin to Barclay to set up a Presidential run for her. It is also likely that it became taxing to run two accounts at such high levels of activity with each account posting as much as 4-7 times a day which was much more than the average member. Remembering the number of positions that Jamonsin held at the time as both SOE, Senator, Governor, Adviser to the President, and ECON mod it is entirely possible Jamonsin was simply burned out.

After the election Jamonsin cordially conceded to Gregory and went briefly into retirement, citing the fact that he was burned out.

Senator (2035-2037)
Jamonsin did come back though and ran against respected AGSer Clarke for D5 Senate. He beat Clarke 33-26. Upon assumption of office Jamonsin battled for Judicial Reform. He presented a thorough piece of legislation to fix what he saw a broken system, but which we now see, wasn't broken. The legislation passed the Senate Unanimously but failed in the House due to new House procedures put in place by Speaker Rockefeller. Jamonsin was frustrated with the procedure and his activity on AGS stopped almost completely.

Final Straw.
Senator Banks, pursing justice on Jamonsin who had eviscerated him in the 2032 Democratic Primaries for plagiarism, contacted the real Ashley Barclay who explained that the AGS Barclay was not here. Solidifying once and for all that Jamonsin was Barclay. In a questioning by the Director Heward of the AGS FBI he explained some of his motivations and reasoning, the meat of which was a desire to be successful and make AGS better. He was unanimously banned from the sim the next day. He then proceeded to delete both of his AGS accounts.

Personality
Jamonsin was know throughout AGS as someone to not trust. He could be friendly to those he needed to get something done and would often abuse their trust in him to gain some political gain. He used his alternate accounts to gain inside information and secret data on enemy camps. He then used this information to blackmail and abuse other account holders. He did whatever he believed would benefit him without caring for how it effected others. One moment he might be helping you, the next stabbing you in the back. The examples of this are too numerous to list but some alleged examples are as follows: Some have supposed that Jamonsin suffers from a mental disability but this is unlikely.
 * Forcing Cole Sparkman to drop out of the 2024 primaries with the promise of being his VP only to give the position to Goldberg.
 * Forcing Hilary Cooper to drop out of the 2024 primaries with political decimation in which he used ads to present her as a hypocrite after promising to run a clean campaign.
 * Running for Democratic chair after promising Mrs. Boone he would not.
 * Destroying the chances of both Democratic Presidential Candidates Ali and Stein during the 2028 Election while being the Chair of the Democratic Party.
 * Pretending to help Speaker Peregrino while secretly undermining his position and power.
 * Befriending Gavin Sky and John Bernard only to stab them in the back whenever it appeared okay, often getting both their hopes up of being VP in both presidential races only to pick someone else.
 * Championing Anti-Corrupt Candidates, while being corrupt.
 * Romancing many AGS members while campaigning against them, to get them to drop out.

Legacy
Jamonsin is likely to be easily forgotten as a failed, corrupt, politician. Someone who manipulated, destroyed, and trashed the sim he pretended to love. He betrayed the trust that was had in him from the beginning. He made a lot of people leave, a lot of people lose interest, and a lot of people lose elections and power in AGS to suite his own political needs. It is quite likely that he did more harm than good while involved in the sim. His legacy as Barclay is truthfully more well respected and is more cheerful, her contributions are likely more beneficial to the sim.