Gretchen LeWolf

Gretchen Erica LeWolf(September 11, 1961) is a Jesstopian Politician who has serves as the 32nd Speaker of the House Of The People since 2022. She succeeded Braden Harris, when she was sworn in on November 10, 2022. She served as the 28th Deputy Speaker from November 10, 2019 until November 10, 2022. Her role as Speaker Of The House Of The People, and quick election to the office has skyrocketed her popularity among voters, who say, the would support her Presidency. She has publicly declined to run in the 2028 Presidential Elections.

## Elections

### Next Election

September 5, 2025

Gretchen LeWolf was born in Little Rock, New Shire on September 11, 1961. She has two brothers, she grew up with two 6'11" football playing brothers. She was also the daughter of two high level Government Officials. Her father served as the State Of New Shire's Representative For Its 44th District. Her mother served as a representative for New Shire's 10th District.

## Senate(2000-2015)

LeWolf served as a State Senator from November 10, 2000 - November 10, 2005. In that role she served her entire term on the Senate's majority party. She then served a second term from November 10, 2010 - November 10, 2015. During her term she was able to implement many policies improving housing developments for mass homelessness, and helped Jesstopia get out of several economically harmful deals, that would have raised taxes, and skyrocketed oil prices to J 8.59.

## House Of The People(2015-Present)

LeWolf served as a State Representative from November 10, 2015 - November 10, 2019, before being appointed the House's Deputy Speaker, by Speaker Braden Harris. As a Representative for New Shire's 85th Congressional District, she worked on several bills that would help establish the Presidency, which was signed by Jessy The Great III, which became active after his death.

## Deputy Speaker

### Deputy Speaker(2019-2022)

On November 10, 2019, newly sworn House Speaker Braden Harris, selected LeWolf to serve alongside him as Deputy Speaker. Speaker Harris also designated her the chairwomen of the House School Safety Committee. She has served as Deputy Speaker since November 10, 2019. She has expressed interest in running for Speaker in September, but says she still needs to decide on whether she is willing to go all in. She has worked alongside Speaker Braden Harris.

### House Speaker(2022-Present)

LeWolf was sworn in as the 32nd Speaker of the House on November 10, 2022, at 10:00 AM. She will serve until 2025. During her time as Speaker, she has seen several major events unfold under her speakership. Firstly, the death of Vice President Sam Simon. Secondly, the ongoing conflict between the United States Of Jesstopia and the Kingdom Of Polton, related to a land ownership dispute. She is continuing to address the ongoing conflict in daily meetings of the Congress.

#### John McCallum Sex Scandal

LeWolf has remained, since the beginning of the accusations, supportive of President McCallum and has even come to his defense multiple times. She said that she isn't likely to follow through with voting for impeachment, as required by the Duty To Act clause of the Jesstopian Constitution. She has remained a strong enemy of Sam Simon since November 25, 2022.

#### Proposals

* On November 11, 2022, LeWolf proposed limiting terms on the Speaker and Deputy Speaker. She is also considering proposing term limits on representative seats.
* On November 15, 2022, LeWolf introduced a plan to require members of the House Of The People to screen for any infectious diseases to preserve the health and safety of senior members of the House. The House will vote on the proposal on June 15, 2023.
* On January 15, 2023, LeWolf proposed changing the name of Nationalist Street to Sam Simon Memorial Way in honor of Jesstopia's 3rd Vice President, who died on January 13, 2023 from complications of cancer.
* March 12, 2023, LeWolf introduced legislation that would force members of Congress to take annual and semi-annual drug tests to ensure they continue to be fit to serve in office.
* May 22, 2023, LeWolf proposed removing life time protections for the Vice President Of The United States Of Jesstopia, as she says that the "Vice President, isn't a direct target in assassination plots and historically have been left alone after leaving office in other countries."
* On December 2, 2023, LeWolf introduced legislation that would make the mandatory prison sentence for shooting up a school or causing great bodily injury or death to students, staff or employees, an immediate sentence, to mediate recent fatal school shootings.

#### Jesstopian-Polton Land Dispute

On September 14, 2022, The Jesstopian Department Of Interior announced that the United States Of Jesstopia owned land South of North Lorray which remains land of Jesstopia. While on the other hand, King Marcus II of Polton believes it to be land owned by his Kingdom. Tensions since then have raised concerns that a potential war could be declared by President John McCallum, which would be devastating to both countries. LeWolf has expressed support for the war to reclaim land granted by the Kingdom to the young Jesstopian nation in 1823. Congress has been silent related to the chance of a war being declared.

#### Attack On Dyrk By Palestine

On January 4, 2024, Jesstopian Territory Dyrk, was attacked. Territorial Governor Brenden Ark reported that 1,500 servicemen and women were killed when a Palestinian airstrike was conducted. The attack was in response to the Jesstopian Military's attack on a compound that killed 190 Gazan kids on October 29, 2023.

## Speaker Elections

### Nomination

LeWolf, sought nomination as the Nationalist Party candidate for House Speaker. On July 17, 2022, Gretchen LeWolf was nominated as the Nationalist Candidate by the Nationalist Party.

### 2022 Speaker Election

On September 24, 2022, LeWolf was certified as the winner of the 2022 Speaker Elections. She won both the Majority vote from both houses of Congress and won 75% of the votes required. She was sworn in as the 32nd House Speaker, on November 10, 2022.

### 2025 Speaker Elections

On February 6, 2023, LeWolf announced that she was seeking a second term in office. During a press conference on February 8, she says that she is working to reform the Speakership, by working to grant the position more powers. She said that if she is successful in 2025, she'd likely seek the office in 2028.

## References

1. ↑ *Gretchen LeWolf Sworn In As The 32nd House Speaker - Retrieved November 11, 2022*
2. ↑ *House Speaker Gretchen LeWolf Proposes Term Limits, Seeks To Limit All Legislative Terms*
*- Retrieved November 11, 2022*
3. ↑ *Gretchen LeWolf Named Nationalist Nominee For Speaker - Retrieved July 18, 2022*
4. ↑ *Gretchen LeWolf Elected Next House Speaker - Retrieved September 24, 2022*