Rachael MacLeod: "Why do you want to be Governor?"
Race: "Why do I want to be Governor" Very simply. I would use the position to further many practices I host now, in a grander magnitude. I want to reinvest the money I make from my recycling plant and use it for city beautification and improved roads. I love brick roads and cobble, but there are several streets that have progressed from having potholes to outright craters. I merely want to use my wealth, and the position to give back more than I can at present."
Rachael MacLeod: "Where do you stand on the city helping her citizens by supporting services such as the Watch, fire brigades, medical care, and basic education?"
Race: "I'll answer in order to the points addressed, Ms MacLeod." Very calmly, Race sets down his cards. "I support the city providing all of those services. It doesn't matter if Rhydin is run by an Oligarchy, a President, a Council, or just a Governor. Every citizen in this city has the right to feel protected. If a family's only source of income is a Noodle shop, and a fire breaks out...then they deserve to have their shop fire responded to in the same expediency as a Baronial Manor, or my office,or the Chamber of Commerce. That shop deserves to have Watch officers on the scene making sure no one is hurt and to support the fire brigade by offering crowd control and investigate the incident fully. The sick and maligned deserve access to propper care and treatment, even if they can't afford it. And Education' Education is not expendable, when the populace is uneducated...that's when leadership is the most dangerous. An educated citizenry keeps it's leadership in check."
Renna: "I have not been in this realm long on some accounts but I have been absorbed in the history of the recent years - information permitting of course. But I have noticed one particular ignorance of previous figureheads of this chaotic forum of creatures, and that is the inefficiency to effectively respond to disasters that could had been predicted, terrorist acts and to properly deal with known criminals that are free to roam the streets and create problems for the city. How do you seek to solve this problem and if, there is a trial and punishment system to be implemented, how will you will deal with these threats to city-life." She beamed at Race.
Racel: "The difficulty in responding to disasters both natural and man-made comes with the infrastructure of Rhydin itself. Each district, Dragonsgate, Seaside, New Haven, Old Temple, has it's own Watch, Fire Brigade, and other services. I am not fully versed on how well inter-connected the districts communication networks are. But that is something I have been wanting to look into. The more information that can be shared among Watch Stations and Captains, the more efficiently they are able to respond to such events. As to predicting those events, and criminal investigation and punishment. That's harder to pindown unfortunately, and sadly. For many the phrase is innocent until proven guilty, as it should be. For me, just myself, if you commit a crime, and there is no doubt you are guilty of it, you're in forefeit of many of the rights that protect citizens. If an individual chooses to foresake the laws and mores of a land, they do not deserve to be protected by them any longer." Perhaps his most powerful stance.
Renna leant forward. "What happens to them?"
Race: "It would depend on the crime, and what comes of the following investigation. I can't fault a man who stole food to feed his family, however..he still stole. There should be a punishment for going to that far of an extreme when there are other services available to grant them asstance with food."
Renna nods, then smiles. "Understandable."
Rachael MacLeod: She scribbled a note to look into food pantries in each district.
Ebon Ilnaren: "Perhaps such a man might be given community service, assisting in the running of shelters and kitchens working to feed those who need it' In such a way he could redeem himself, and also grow familiar with those services should the need come again."
Race: "When any person is treated as being above punishment for breaking the law, might as well no longer have laws at all. As I said earlier, every citizen deserves to be protected and the laws we do have are to serve that end. Make those citizens who either cannot protect themselves or are not some incredibly powerful being, a measure of security."
Rachael MacLeod: "Relative newcomers are often unaware that certain services and information are available at the city's Welcome Center. What would you do to encourage more people to make use of that facility?"
Race: "Making those facilities more known ultimately comes with making sure they have an appropriate budget for advertisement. Maintain flyers at the Red Dragon Inn, Tease'n Tomes, the Marketplace, each entrance to the city, Andu's rail service, and so on. Awareness comes with constant advertising."
Race: "Why do I want to be Governor" Very simply. I would use the position to further many practices I host now, in a grander magnitude. I want to reinvest the money I make from my recycling plant and use it for city beautification and improved roads. I love brick roads and cobble, but there are several streets that have progressed from having potholes to outright craters. I merely want to use my wealth, and the position to give back more than I can at present."
Rachael MacLeod: "Where do you stand on the city helping her citizens by supporting services such as the Watch, fire brigades, medical care, and basic education?"
Race: "I'll answer in order to the points addressed, Ms MacLeod." Very calmly, Race sets down his cards. "I support the city providing all of those services. It doesn't matter if Rhydin is run by an Oligarchy, a President, a Council, or just a Governor. Every citizen in this city has the right to feel protected. If a family's only source of income is a Noodle shop, and a fire breaks out...then they deserve to have their shop fire responded to in the same expediency as a Baronial Manor, or my office,or the Chamber of Commerce. That shop deserves to have Watch officers on the scene making sure no one is hurt and to support the fire brigade by offering crowd control and investigate the incident fully. The sick and maligned deserve access to propper care and treatment, even if they can't afford it. And Education' Education is not expendable, when the populace is uneducated...that's when leadership is the most dangerous. An educated citizenry keeps it's leadership in check."
Renna: "I have not been in this realm long on some accounts but I have been absorbed in the history of the recent years - information permitting of course. But I have noticed one particular ignorance of previous figureheads of this chaotic forum of creatures, and that is the inefficiency to effectively respond to disasters that could had been predicted, terrorist acts and to properly deal with known criminals that are free to roam the streets and create problems for the city. How do you seek to solve this problem and if, there is a trial and punishment system to be implemented, how will you will deal with these threats to city-life." She beamed at Race.
Racel: "The difficulty in responding to disasters both natural and man-made comes with the infrastructure of Rhydin itself. Each district, Dragonsgate, Seaside, New Haven, Old Temple, has it's own Watch, Fire Brigade, and other services. I am not fully versed on how well inter-connected the districts communication networks are. But that is something I have been wanting to look into. The more information that can be shared among Watch Stations and Captains, the more efficiently they are able to respond to such events. As to predicting those events, and criminal investigation and punishment. That's harder to pindown unfortunately, and sadly. For many the phrase is innocent until proven guilty, as it should be. For me, just myself, if you commit a crime, and there is no doubt you are guilty of it, you're in forefeit of many of the rights that protect citizens. If an individual chooses to foresake the laws and mores of a land, they do not deserve to be protected by them any longer." Perhaps his most powerful stance.
Renna leant forward. "What happens to them?"
Race: "It would depend on the crime, and what comes of the following investigation. I can't fault a man who stole food to feed his family, however..he still stole. There should be a punishment for going to that far of an extreme when there are other services available to grant them asstance with food."
Renna nods, then smiles. "Understandable."
Rachael MacLeod: She scribbled a note to look into food pantries in each district.
Ebon Ilnaren: "Perhaps such a man might be given community service, assisting in the running of shelters and kitchens working to feed those who need it' In such a way he could redeem himself, and also grow familiar with those services should the need come again."
Race: "When any person is treated as being above punishment for breaking the law, might as well no longer have laws at all. As I said earlier, every citizen deserves to be protected and the laws we do have are to serve that end. Make those citizens who either cannot protect themselves or are not some incredibly powerful being, a measure of security."
Rachael MacLeod: "Relative newcomers are often unaware that certain services and information are available at the city's Welcome Center. What would you do to encourage more people to make use of that facility?"
Race: "Making those facilities more known ultimately comes with making sure they have an appropriate budget for advertisement. Maintain flyers at the Red Dragon Inn, Tease'n Tomes, the Marketplace, each entrance to the city, Andu's rail service, and so on. Awareness comes with constant advertising."