Patricia Anderson

Patricia Anderson is a character in *Morning Show*, a segment of *It's All Been Done Radio Hour*. Her detractors call her President Patty.

**First mention:** #1.05 "Fallout"

**First appearance:** none yet

## **Story**

Patricia Anderson was the Speaker of the House at the time of the zombie outbreak. While few facts are known about her tenure in this position, Shelly Meyers called her a tough and great Speaker.

After President Trump had a mental breakdown and fled the country, and Pence was impeached for asserting the virus could be prayed away, Anderson took the Oval Office less than a month after the outbreak, becoming the first female president.

President Anderson was seemingly successful in stopping the spread of the disease after the dropped nuclear weapons on Southern California, killing more than 25 million Americans. She also assigned teams of military and scientists to manage the crisis, something her predecessors had not done ("Fallout").

To combat the changes the nation had undergone, Anderson made several radical changes, and after the virus was found to have spread to the south, advocated building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Some people pushed back on such big moves from someone not elected at the federal level, while others defended her vehemently. The partisanship intensified as it looked like Anderson would cancel the 2020 election ("We the People").

By the end of 2019, construction on the wall had begun, and Anderson developed a plan to help the Mexican refugees who were affected by the zombie virus. However, it seemed unlikely that Congress would pass such a plan. Anderson also was considering moving the nation's capital out of D.C. after it had been largely destroyed, but again, Congress tried to block such efforts ("Evaluation").

In early 2020, President Anderson moved the nation's capital out of the much-destroyed D.C. to Columbus, Ohio. Her administration took over the Ohio state house and all other state government buildings in the city, as well as the sizeable former headquarters of Coast-to-Coast Insurance, just down the street from the state house. She did so without making much attempt to speak to the people of Columbus, angering some locals ("Conflict of Interest Part 1"). The chaos and protests did not follow the administration to Columbus in any sizable way.

During this period, President Anderson negotiated with Europe to purchase safe vaccines for the Orange virus (when they were available) and began testing the Chinese version. She directed funding to the U.S. vaccine effort, but it lagged behind other efforts. Her office pushed a plan to let everyone opt-in to Medicare, no matter their age, and 90% of healthcare providers said they would accept it. She was criticized as calling for a government takeover of healthcare, but her policy allowed private insurance to continue operating if they wanted to and could get enough customers to do so.

She also pressured Congress to move to the Convention Center Columbus and do their jobs. She refused to campaign for the presidential election, rescheduled to January 2021, letting her work speak for itself. But several Republican senators actively ran against her ("Conflict of Interest Part 2"). She ordered the badly damaged U.S. Capital torn down and not rebuilt to help push Congress to move ("Tear Down").