Cesare Garisipi

President Garisipi

**Early Life**

Born in New York City in 1932 his parents were Italian American very wealthy real estate owners he grew up in the New York elite going to a rich private school, and then going to Princeton University for a business degree, he would purchase his own real estate with his dads help and eventually inherit his dads real estate empire, over the years he'd expand his wealth and purchase several casinos throughout the country and real estate as well as other investments

He married his first wife in 1955 and their marriage lasted into 1960 and he had 1 son and 1 daughter but his wife caught him sleeping with a model so she divorced him, he got remarried to a different model in 1970 and had 1 son from that marriage, Cesare is a proud Catholic

**Safe Streets, Less Taxes**

In 1977, Garisipi annouced his canidacy for the mayor of New York, using his substantial connections in the New York Elite, he'd dominate the fundraising game and he'd win the support of the famous New Yorker, Dan Lavern millions would be raised for his campaign, and he'd run a moderate, law and order focused campaign, and he'd defeat his opponent by 14,000 votes, and his first actions would be to negotiate a bail out of New York City, and increase funding for the NYPD

In 1981 he ran for a second term, however he would be narrowly defeated by Ed Koch

**Hope**

In 1982 after his defeat, Garisipi would be devastated and consider retiring from politics all together, thinking his political career was over and he would return to his business life away from the public eye, however in 1985 his close friend and personal secretary would convince him to return to politics and run for Mayor of New York City as a Democrat, many Democratic partisans questioned his change however Garisipi held a speech announcing why he changed and saying that he was a proud Garrisonite, and this put concerns over his loyalty to his new party to rest for the time being, and he narrowly won the DNC primaries, and went on to win in the general by a landslide

**Yes We Can**

During the later half of the Thompson Presidency, labor unrest would grip the midwest including New York, and after riots, strkes, and negotaitoons Thompson gave into the labor unions enraging the avid Neo-Liberal Garisipi and fellow Garrisonites, and the field was full of liberal and moderate canidates, and lacking a voice for the Garrisonites, however Garisipi would hold off on an offical annoucement until Lavern decided, however after Lavern kept flip flopping on whether or not he would run, Garisipi went ahead and annouced his bid for president

"I am running for president as a Garrisonite Democrat because I believe in the power of pragmatic, common-sense solutions that can unite our country and move us forward. We don't have time for partisan games or ideological purity - it's time to get to work and deliver real results for the American people."

**The Old Man and the Italian**

Garisipi entered the primaries and most political pundits and pollsters considered him dead on arrival, as he was not too long ago a Republican and was a controversial figure in the Democratic Party, however in Iowa he would deliver one of the biggest upsets in recent political history and win, defying all the odds, in the debates Garisipi set himself apart from the other canidates by going on the attack and defying political convention and attacking the incumbent Democratic president and attacking the radical socialist Fae Fortaxe. As the primaries went on Garisipi would win a few more states however after disappointing totals from the south and loosing the Garrisonite heartland of Texas Garisipi would drop out and endorse John Ross, a seasoned Pennsylvania Senator, with Garisipis help Ross would win New York, setting him over the edge in the primaries and enabling him to win, with this Garisipi was made his running mate, and the team would be known as the "Old Man and the Italian"

Early polls showed an easy GOP victory as Ross was easily tied to the unpopular incumbent Thompson administration which had caused a economic recession 2 years before the election causing a red wave in the midterms, however Garisipi campaigned heavily for Ross and hammering the GOP challenger, John Kasiach of Michigan as weak on crime, and their polls began improving until the 1st Presidential Debates, where Ross would hold his own against Kasiach and go on the attack easily destroying him, and causing many Republicans too see Kasiach as a RINO, and independents seeing him as incompetent, causing them to throw their lot in with the safe experienced, and seasoned establishment pick of Ross

**The Vice Presidency and an unexpected Rise**

As Ross's administration took power, a variety of major issues plagued it, from the start the GOP controlling congress demanded the administration lower the minimum wage to pass their agenda, and with the advice of Garisipi, Ross gave in causing 3 year long strikes which quickly devolved into Riots, Garisipi early on advocated for a national gaurd response, however Ross refused to and instead negotiated allowing them to go on, in 1990 with the riots and economic downturn sweeping the nation a red wave overwhelmed the democrats and they won in margins unseen for decades, and in 1991 Ross was formally impeached on trumped up charges, causing Garisipi to become president his first order was for national guard to violently crack down on the protests and gave them extralegal powers to quash the unrest, causing many abuses of power and abuse of force by poliec and national guard, but Garisipi did what needed to be done, in the 1992 Democratic Primaries Garisipi faced the far left challenger, Fae Fortaxe of Georgia, Garisipi narrowly defeated him in the primaries but he ran 3rd party and this enabled a huge GOP victory in the general

**Post Presidency**

Garisipi would finally retire from politics and head back to New York, early on he'd tease to the media about returning to politics potentially as a senator but due to the stress of the presidency, Garisipi would begin to develop medical issues, and he would announce that he was formally retiring from politics forever, he would remain as an influential Garrisonite for the rest of his life, speaking on behalf of fellow Garrisonites and talking to the press from time to time and he published the book simply called "The Italian" in 1996 he would develop brain cancer and in 1998 after battling cancer for 2 long years Garisipi would pass away at the age of 66