Malcolm Douglas

NS Nation Name: Dentali

Character Name: Malcolm Douglas

Character Gender: M

Character Age: 65 Born 1954

Character Height: 5’8”

Character Weight: 180lbs

Character Position/Role/Job: Speaker of the House, Representative of New Jersey’s 9th District

Appearance: Brian Cox

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Character State of Origin: New Jersey

Character State of Residence: New Jersey

Character Party Affiliation: D

Main Strengths: Fantastic reputation for following the party line, Consensus builder, hasn’t pissed many people off in his party, knows where the bodies are buried, good connections with unions

Main Weaknesses: Paralyzed from the waist down, partisan hack, not a good orator  or debator, greedy, manipulative twat,

Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs)

Malcom Douglas was born in 1954 in Paterson New Jersey to a well off banking family.  After graduating high school in 1972 he spent 2 years as a missionary in Africa, doing aid work and ministering to the population.

Returning home he decided to follow family tradition and enlist in the army in ‘74, it was largely uneventful but he was deployed to Grenada during the military operation there.  Eventually he was honorably discharged in ‘85 with a few mild decorations but nothing of note.  With a military scholarship in hand he enrolled at Rutgers Business School in ‘86 studying Banking with the intention of joining the family business.

One night while driving a large tree fell on his car, the freak accident resulted in his paralysis below the waist.  He sued the tree service company responsible for the tree and was awarded significant damages amounting to $10,000 a month adjusted for inflation until 2022.  During rehab he continued his studies, graduating early in ‘89

While in college he developed a love for politics, gaining a minor in Political Science before returning home to work for his family bank in 1990.  He continued his work for the family bank for 3 years before being elected as his County’s Democratic Party Chair.  Ambition getting the better of him, he ran for Senate in ‘94 but came in 4th in the Democratic primary.  Humbled he moved to the background of the party for a few years, helping develop and foster the Democratic Party in the state.

Much better established and prepared Douglas ran for mayor of Paterson in 1996 winning as a strong liberal (100% Pro Choice and 100% Anti Gun) with a few moderate tendencies and strong Union ties and urban renewal programs.   After 1 term as mayor, he ran for New Jersey’s 9th district in 2000.

His Senate tenure was spent solidifying his reputation as a ‘good soldier’ and ‘Democrat First’ type warrior, ferociously defending whatever the party line was at the time.  He made good connections with as many House and Senate Democrats as possible, going to bat for them many times.  He was also frequently a talking head on the news to present the Democratic message to the general public.

After re-election in 2010, he became the deputy house whip for the party, during which time he developed a reputation for greed and ruthlessness as well as having dirt on many members of the party.  Helping get them in line after the 2010 losses.  In 2014 he became the minority whip following the retirement of the previous holder.  Douglas continued to be loyal to the minority leader until 2016 when Wolf was elected.  In 2016 given the discontent in the current House Leader to win the house, Douglas launched a coup, stabbed his boss in the back ousting them and forced them to retire at which time Douglas was named leader of the party in the House of Representatives.  After tireless campaigning and fundraising for the party, and aided by the growing blowback against Wolf, the house was taken back in 2016

Douglas has spent Wolf’s tenure in a non-stop war, frustrating, delaying and pestering the President as much as possible.  Using every trick in the book in order to frustrate the agenda of Wolf, investigate his administration and in general make him look bad.  At the same time Douglas has been trying hard to reign in the more progressive members of the party to keep them from steering the party too far left.

Fun Fact: Member of the Scottish family of the “Black Douglas”

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