Charlie Williams

**Charlie Williams** (born November 25th, 1990) is an American politician who served as the 8th vice president of the United States.

A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the Senator of Cambridge and congressman. He was elected Vice President during the Season 5 Presidential Election where he ran as Harry Bennett's running mate.

The Bennett-Williams ticket won in the second biggest landslide in DES History and the biggest landslide by an opposed candidate, winning 412 electoral votes to Jeanne Shabeen's 126. The ticket was also the first unity ticket to win an election and the second to run overall, the first being the Harper-Allen ticket which unsuccessfully ran in the Season 4 Presidential Election, and the youngest ever elected. Bennett also became the first Independent candidate to win a presidential election and the youngest President . Williams became the first elected Hispanic vice president and as of now, the youngest vice president in DES History.

He later joined the administrative team and oversaw the controversial Season 6 Presidential Election.

## Early Life

Charlie Williams was born on November 25th, 1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Adam Williams and Mary Clark. He was raised in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Harvard Law School. He lived in Cambridge for a majority of his adult life.

## U.S House of Representatives

Williams ran for U.S House in during the November election winning with 75% of the vote with 25% of it going to write-ins. He voted in a moderately conservative way. He ran for re-election in December and January winning with 83.3% unopposed in December and defeating Democrat Maxine Waters with 67% to her 33% in January. In February, he proposed the Banning Conversion Therapy Act which would officially ban Conversion Therapy and it was officially signed by President Benjamin Bryant on February 3rd, 2021. He proposed a bill that would have abolished the use of conversion therapy nationwide. It wasn't proposed in the Senate until after he left office.

He left the Republican Party on February 1st, 2021 after the Republican opposition to the Democracy Act written by Sen. Kenneth Allen which was the biggest anti-corruption. He later joined the Reform Party and served under it giving the party the majority in the House. He later rejoined the Republican Party after a rebrand in leadership..

## U.S. Senate

He entered office on February 22, 2021, being sworn in by Vice President Trey Cranfield. He proposed the Capitol Punishment Abolition Act twice one time failing in session and the second time failing in committee. He also proposed the 31st Amendment to the Constitution and it failed 1-2 in committee. On March 7th, 2021, He proposed the Capital Punishment Abolition Act which would abolish the Death penalty. After a long debate with Sen. Richards who was attempting to take the bill to the Supreme Court, the bill passed with 6 ayes, 2 nays. On March 13th, 2020, Williams announced he was leaving the Republican Party and joining the Democratic Party. On March 10, 2021 during the State of the Union, President Benjamin Bryant awarded Sen. Charlie Williams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

He was elected Majority Leader on March 31, 2021 and was ultimately elected as President Pro Tempore on April 6, 2021.

### Floyd-Taylor Act

Sen. Williams worked with Sen. Kenneth Allen (D-MI) during his lunch on the Floyd-Taylor Act which would reform the criminal justice system. The bill was later proposed in the Judiciary committee and passed 2-0. A session was called by President Pro Tempore, Harry Bennett followed by a confirmation hearing for Jeanne Shabeen to be Secretary of State.

The session began with Sen. Allen giving a speech in favor of it invoking the names of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor who the bill's title is named after. Williams then gave a speech including the names of previous victims of police brutality such as Floyd, Taylor, Tamir Rice, and Eric Gardner then followed by a speech by Sen. Bennett in favor of the bill. Sens. John Richards and Edwin House took to the floor to oppose the legislation on the basis that it legalizes marijuana. Williams and Allen took to the floor to response and then Richards and House responding. It went on for a while until Sen. House began to speak. He went on to hold the floor for 30 minutes and repeated his statements to stay on topic claiming he isn't filibustering but speaking from the heart. It is, to date, the longest filibuster given on the Senate floor.

Harry Bennett took to the floor afterwards to call out his colleges for attempting to filibuster this bill, saying "I am ashamed to be a Republican."

There were two votes on the bill and both failed due to not reaching the 5 vote threshold despite having more aye votes. Sens. Williams and Allen were determined to pass the bill before ending the session, objecting and seconding each other's objections on motions to adjourn by Sen. Richards. They attempted to use the nuclear option to pass the bill but the Vice President broke Senate procedures and didn't hear the point of order. Shortly after 11, more than 2 hours after debate began, Sens. Harper and Underwood arrived at the Senate chamber and the Senate took a vote, with Sens. Allen, Bennett, Harper, Underwood, and Williams voting for it and Sens. Richards and House voting against it. Upon finally passing the bill, Sen. Williams took the floor to thank the senators who voted for the bill but also call out those who took the bill into the night saying "..the fact that it took this long is shameful." In total there were around 2 hours and 15 minutes becoming the most debated bill on the Senate floor to date.

### The Equal Rights for the Unborn Act

After the Floyd-Taylor Act passed the Senate, the chamber voted on the Equal Rights for the Unborn Act. Williams voted in favor of it after agreeing to a compromise with President Bryant that he will sign the Floyd-Taylor Act if Congress passes the ERUA. In the end, Congress passed the ERUA and Bryant signed the Floyd-Taylor Act as a result.

### Majority Leader of the U.S Senate

After the resignation of Sen. Kenneth Allen, Williams assumed the role of Senate Majority Leader and during his tenure the Senate had 4 sessions in one week and had very high activity. After the nomination of Harry Bennett to Vice President, Williams presided over the hearing and his confirmation vote which eventually passed.

### President Pro Tempore of the U.S Senate

Williams was nominated by Sen. Sethyy Bro to be President Pro Tempore after the resignation of Harry Bennett to become Vice President. The vote passed with 5 ayes, 1 nay, and 2 senators not voting.

## Season 5 Presidential Election

Williams was a potential candidate for President in Season 5 and on March 24, he began visiting early primary states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. On April 4, Williams announced the formation of an exploratory committee for President saying, "I have been encouraged by many people to run for President..." On April 8, he announced that he would not be a candidate for President in S5. Sen. Harry Bennett announced his candidacy for President and Williams subsequently endorsed him.

On April 11, 2021, Sen. Harry Bennett announced that he would choose Williams to be his running mate to contest the Season 5 Presidential Election. In his speech following the announcement he said, "The obligation of the Vice Presidency is an obligation I am ready to fulfil." The pick came as a shock to some but some expected it when he became the first elected official to endorse his campaign. His pick was an attempt to gain more liberal and Democratic voters yet polling appeared to show that he didn't have as much affect as anticipated. After the Jones-Fitzpatrick Scandal, Democrats who lost trust in Jamaal Jones began expressing support for Sen. Bennett. Some people endorsed the ticket but only mentioned Williams in their endorsement.

Williams rallied under his liberal policies but explains that common sense reform is needed and that "a Bennett administration would work with whoever cares about advancing the nation forward."

The Bennett-Williams ticket won in the second biggest landslide since Season 1. Vice President Bennett won 412 electoral votes and Republican Jeanne Shabeen won 126 electoral votes. They won 3 out of 4 provinces and won 8 out of 11 House Districts, only losing Districts 6,7 and tied in District 5. They won with 70% of the popular vote and were the first unity ticket elected to the White House. Bennett became the first Independent and youngest president elected in U.S History. Williams became the youngest vice president and the first elected Hispanic vice president and second overall, behind Kenneth Allen who was nominated for Vice President by then President Hillary Cunningham.

## Vice Presidency

Following the election of Harry Bennett as U.S President, Charlie Williams became vice president of the United States on April 30, 2021. The administration's main priority was the RVS-21 pandemic and creating a budget. Williams' main priorities were criminal justice reform and immigration reform.

### Investigation into Justice Benjamin Bryant

On May 1st, 2021, Justice Benjamin Bryant was contacted by Attorney General Kenneth Allen in which he informed him that his Republican party affiliation was a violation of the Democracy Act which was a bill signed by Bryant when he served as President. He choose not to cooperate and attempted to challenge the legislation as unconstitutional for violation of the First Amendment. Three days later, Sen. Lucas Underwood, who was appointed to Williams' old seat, opened a Senate investigation as Senate Judiciary Chair and invited Allen to testify in front of the committee. Late that day, Justice Bryant testified in front of the committee.

Williams released a statement where he called Bryant's actions "corruption and abuse of power and said the process will play out and corruption will be exposed." His statement was released before the Senate investigation concluded which laid more cases against Bryant.

It was later revealed in a report released by Sen. Underwood that Bryant had attempted to blackmail undisclosed members of DES and that he lied about recusing himself from cases brought directly from the Republican side to boost their conservative values with petitions from Tom Bush regarding Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges and that he contacted Republican members to submit the petitions to fit the satisfaction of the party.

The investigation included the following which are charges the committee believes Bryant committed

A*buse of Power - 18 U.S Code § 873 (Blackmail)*

*Judicial Misconduct - 28 U.S Code § 351 | CANON 3 of the Code of Conduct of Federal Judges*

*Perjury - 18 U.S Code § 1621*

*Obstruction of Justice - 18 U.S Code § 1510*

### RVS-21 Response

Upon news first breaking about the spread of an infectious disease spreading across Central America, President Bennett and Vice President Williams both made statements encouraging people to practice social distance and to wear a mask. Later that day, Bennett enacted a mask mandate which resulted in multiple riots by far right groups calling the order a "massive government overreach." In response, Williams released a statement calling mask wearing "One of the most patriotic things you can do to lower the spread of the virus." He was later chosen by Bennett to be a part of a Retrovirus task force. The administration later released that they have developed a vaccine by Merck & Co. for all individuals above the age of 16.

### Budget

He was chosen along with Sens. Henderson, Cooley, and Sturgis to be a part of budget negotiations. After days of getting negotiations started, Bennett rolled out the first budget in U.S History since Benjamin Bryant. After it was released, Williams began actively suspending rules in the Senate and getting bipartisan support on the budget, getting a Democratic Senate sponsor and a Republican House sponsor to fast track the bill in both chambers. On June 2nd, 2021, Bennett signed the Bennett-Williams-Henderson-Cooley Budget of 2021.

## Administrator

Williams served as an administrator since shortly after Season 6. The first major action taken was the banning of Lucas Underwood after a threatening message was sent to another member. This was later overturned after evidence proving issues on both sides were brought to light and resulted in the unbanning of Lucas Underwood.

### Season 7 Presidential Election

On August 1, 2021 Everett Terry announced his candidacy for President as an independent. Due to his position as Owner of Discord Election Simulator, there were concerns brought up especially by people about him overseeing the ballot. This left the electoral responsibilities normally held by Terry had to fall to the administrators. Terry released a statement with how the roles on the administrative team would be divided up between all 4 admins, Williams, Harry Bennett, Ben Bryant, and Joey King. In the statement, it said "Harry Bennett will run the ballot...he will be over release of the result". This statement resulted in suspicious being leaked that the Sanders campaign was accusing Everett Terry of purposely placing Harry Bennett (who was his brother) in charge of the election he was running in. Due to this, Everett removed

## Personal Life

Charlie Williams married Abigail Walker on January 20th, 2012. On February 18, 2016, they had their first child named Adam after Williams' father

## Electoral History

House District Eleven General Election, November 2020
 **Total Votes** | 20

House District Eleven General Election, December 2020
 **Total Votes** | 36

House District Eleven General Election, January 1st, 2021
 **Total Votes** | 33

House District Eleven General Election, January 22nd, 2021
 **Total Votes** | 28

Senate District Four General Election, February 2021
 **Total Votes** | 33