Quinton Kaminski

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**Quinton Ivan Kaminski** (January 6, 2058 - October 25, 2133) was an American politician, statesman and author who served as the 71st President of the United States from 2093 to 2097. A member of the Globalist Party he was the first and only President to serve from the party. He previously served as a woodworker and briefly as the Mayor of Senagrad, Crimea.

His Administration oversaw the biggest collapse of the American economy in history preceding from doomsday. The economic policies of the Kaminski Administration destroyed the economy as a result of inflation, constant printing of money and shipping jobs. Kaminski favored a global approach to governance that critics often said sidelined American citizens. His legacy is often overshadowed by the policies committed by the succeeding Rowell Administration.

Kaminski would write several books after leaving office including "How did we get here?" "American Carnage" and "71, and his story". Historians rank Kaminski as one of the worst Presidents in American history. He is remembered as a man of honest integrity and good intentions who was desperately out of his depth and thoroughly unready to handle the complex issues of the Presidency.

Kaminski would barely survive Doomsday and would go into hiding until 2112. By 2114 he'd make his way back to Washington D.C.. There he acted as an advisor for three weeks for President Benjamin Atwood until being fired following disagreements about Reconquista policy. Following this, Kaminski would retire from public life and would die in 2133.

## Early Life

Kaminski was born in the United States Protectorate of Ukraine in the Crimea Exclusion Zone in 2058 to a relatively impoverished family. Although Kaminski did not have much growing up, he learned a lot about the history of the region and came to the conclusion, over the course of his youth, that he would be worse off if the United States did not aid the region. Because of this, Kaminski respected the United States greatly and went to American University for college.

Following his college graduation in 2080, Kaminski would become a writer and write books and persuasive essays on the United States importance across the globe, and would declare his candidacy for Washington DC's seat in the House of Representatives in 2084. Due the fact that he could not affiliate with either major party (The Democrats or Republicans), however, he would lose to the highly popular Democratic incumbent, Julia Gress, and would only receive 2% of the vote. He would attempt a second run in 2086, yet would see similar results to that of his first, only obtaining 3% of the vote. Following this loss, Kaminski would see that running for office was not worth the cost, and instead founded an interest group dedicated to keeping the United States active on the world stage. This interest group would garner much success, which would leave Kaminski content in managing it over the course of the next four years. In 2090, however, Kaminski would see an opportunity to successfully re-enter US politics.

## Entry into Politics

The rise of the Nationalist Party led those who were not isolationist to be pushed out of power due to the split votes of the Democratic and Republican Parties, neither of which wanted the US to withdraw from global affairs. Because of this, Kaminski successfully garnered support for a new big-tent party whose goal would be to keep the US involved in global affairs. By 2091, Kaminski's movement would surge in popularity due to the large number of Americans who opposed isolationism; because of this, the first Globalist National Convention, in which the Globalist Party would officially create a party platform and commence political operations, would be held in this same year, and Kaminski, as one of the main leaders in the party's founding, would become its nominee for President. At this Convention, Kaminski would announce his beliefs that while the United States was one of the greatest countries on Earth, its political culture was flawed (As no one who wasn't apart of the two largest parties could succeed), and that this could be solved by unifying more of the world; in short, Kaminski and the Globalist Party put forth the extreme policy of unifying the world under one government.

Despite the fact that those who agreed with Kaminski in his overarching goal would be few, the Americans who supported isolationism would ultimately be a minority, causing those who opposed isolationism to rally behind the Globalist Party in opposition to the Nationalists (Not wanting more split votes). Because of this, Globalists won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives in the 2092 General Election, put a large dent in the Nationalists' Senate majority, and successfully unseated Nationalist Raymundo Cardona for the Presidency.

## Presidency (2093-2097)

Kaminski was inaugurated as the 71st president of the United States on January 20, 2093.

### Domestic Policy

Kaminski's policies would wreak economic havoc on the nation. The average income for workers of all types decreased drastically, and unemployment in addition to the wealth gap increased; furthermore, conditions for those who were impoverished were greatly worsened, as Kaminski was spending hardly anything on domestic programs. This crisis would galvanize the American people against the Globalist movement, and in the Presidential Election of 2096, Kaminski lost by a landslide to Nationalist nominee William Rowell, who referred to Kaminski as a "disgrace to America"; in addition to the Presidency, Globalists would lose their majority in the House of Representatives and would see the Nationalists regain a sizable majority (After losing the majority by a few seats in the 2094 Midterm Election) in the Senate.

#### Borders

President Kaminski would dissolve border agencies like I.C.E. and Border and Customs Enforcement. This action infuriated many of the Governors of border States who were hit hard by the now rapid immigration coming from Mexico and Columbia into Texas, Yucatan and Venezuela.

#### Inflation

In December 2093, the Kaminski Administration authorized the Federal Reserve to print an extra 5,000,000 to use as foreign aid. This received widespread backlash as it coincided with a rise of inflation at the time. Kaminski ignored the rising inflation however believing that the implementation of the North American Union planned would make good cheaper and bring costs down thus lowering inflation. However he continued to issue "money grants" to print new money to pay for national projects the Administration wanted to work on without hiking taxes.

### Foreign Policy

Once President, Kaminski would begin implementing his agenda of undoing the work of the Cardona Administration. Kaminski successfully repealed Cardona's domestic plan and would shift funding from the programs that were maintained by President Cardona back to international organizations such as NATO, SATO, and the UN. The funding to these organizations, however, would be too little for Kaminski, who would therefore increase national spending specifically for international programs; due to this increased spending, both taxation and national debt would increase.

#### North American Union

The American Union was created as a direct challenge to the European Union, an organization Kaminski fear was going down the road of authoritarianism. The American Union stood on the principles of Free Trade, Free Movement and a single currency, the Amero.

In January 2094, Congress approved the United State's joining the American Union as a founding member. The other founding members include the United States, Mexico, Central American Republic, Haiti, Columbia, Guyana, Suriname and France (By virtue of French Guyana).

## Campaign for a second term

Kaminski would attempt a run at a second term but would be challenged by Nationalist candidate William Rowell. Kaminski would point out the black void of information surrounding Rowell's past and his failure to protect American interests around the globe. Rowell would point out how in just 4 years of the Kaminski Administration the United States was on the brink of total economic collapse.

The weeks leading to the election had shown Kaminski and Rowell neck and neck with Kaminski the favorite to win.

Come election day, President Kaminski would see the biggest loss of any candidate in Presidential history losing all 110 States and only winning the District of Columbia or "New Columbia" witch had never voted anything other than Democrat and Globalist.

Following his loss in the Presidential Election, Kaminski would return to managing his interest group for the next four years before declaring his intentions to run for President in 2100. Despite Kaminski's previous influence in the party, however, the failures of his administration would be used against him, which would cause him to lose to the more moderate candidate, Charles Roltech, in the primaries. Following this loss, Kaminski would make no future runs for any political office.

Following the Globalist Party's collapse in 2103, Kaminski's interest group would become more and more difficult to maintain; by 2106, Kaminski would cease operations for it and would return to being a writer following its collapse. In 2118, at age 60, Kaminski would officially retire.