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PRINT NAME & TITLE: Charles Galloway, Candidate for Mayor of Los Santos. SIGNATURE: SIGNING DATE: 2nd October 2020 COMMENT: Civili Liberties Pledge is something that the Democratic Party and myself wishes to sign. In our party manifesto we have a few paragraphs, pointing out how much the aforementioned civil liberties are important to us since the day the party was created. I am very happy to sign this additional pledge.

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Username: DEMSquad Comment: We are not throwing judgement or underestimating someone's capabilities. We're reporting real facts. We respect everyone's stance but you got to take your own responsibility. We have an organized party with a solid legal team formed by professionals and experienced people: every "legal" offer undergoes to this team and gets reviewed carefully. However, I appreciate Republicans' attempt to move attention away from their LGBT's statement.

Username: DEMSquad Comment: I do consider ridiculous the way Republicans try to hide their trash. Halford's sentence against LGBTQ+ has been transcripted word by word. At this point, just admit your fault, going any further is just digging your hole. How come your lawyer Saleh asked the Democratic Party for a 20.000$ "consultation fee" and once denied a cease&desist was forwarded? Republican party of Los Santos proves to be not ready for government, they don't even know what to do.

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OFFICIAL PARTY STATEMENT [LSDEM] Official response to DEM's campaign discredit The Democratic Party wishes to take this opportunity to respond to the Republic Party's press release entitled "LSGOP condemns slander campaign by LSDEMs." That press release contains the serious accusations which, given their gravity, warrant a response. The Democratic Party's campaign slogans are aligned with the truth; they are not assumptions, or misinformation. Chairman Oswald Halford, during their public meeting, and in response to a question specifically about marriage asking what the definition of marriage is, stated that "[t]hroughout the country you'll find chapters of the Republican Party, their opinions on the matter will vary." He then added that he personally "[saw] the traditional union of marriage as [between] man and woman." These words were spoken in public. They were not said in confidence, and so anyone was free to make references to that statement. The statement was also unambiguous. There's an implication that Mr. Halford would roll back the access to the institution of marriage and restrict it to the opposite-sex couples only in line with this belief. Read with due care, the comments in the advertisement and what they implied were fair. They were also constitutionally protected. First, while Mr. Halford did say he was speaking for himself, the question directed at him asked for the party's stance. Mr. Halford appeared to try to dodge the question by prefacing and personalizing his answer while knowing, perhaps uncomfortably, the Republican Party's terrible track record on the issue of LGBTQ inclusion, and not exclusive to LGBTQ, but also equal women's right, Planned Parenthood, Abortion Rights, and Pro Choice issues. While claiming to speak only for himself, Mr. Halford happened to reveal what that track record shows: that Republicans, by and large, believe in rollbacking the advances we made in the institution of marriage. What Mr. Halford did there was classic dog-whistle politics. Second, please note, our advertisement will show that it was speaking about the "Republican Party." Not a subset, or branch of it. Halford himself knows this. As Mr. Halford himself said, the Republican Party contains many chapters. For this reason, the cease-and-desist is baseless. Any proceedings based on it would not have withstood First-Amendment inspection in any event. The Democratic Party, and truly, any fair person, regardless of political color believes in a just political competition and campaigning. We remain devoted to holding ourselves to a high standard, but also remain vigilant against public statements that, in their attempt to pander to a demographic, attack another. And if the attack was against cis couples and families, our stance would be the same. The Democratic Party represents everyone, not just a few, or some. We are surprised and outraged to learn that the LSGOP would resort to threats, standing on what our Legal team finds it to be flimsy legal positions and careless reading; and not even taking account their own statements. Politics can be risky and every word should be weighted accordingly, which is something we must all recognize. We would like to add that we received an e-mail from Malikah Saleh, a lawyer for the Republican Party who also defended Alexander Orleans in his proceedings. Ms. Saleh tendered a $20 000 "consultation fee" to our executive team in exchange for information about the LSGOP's intentions prior the release of their official announcement against the advertisement in question. We obviously declined an offer of this kind as we suspected it would be against the very fairness of competition and campaigning that we have stated before. While the LSGOP had not yet retained Ms. Saleh when she submitted that memorandum, our legal team suspects that her act was underhanded. The Democratic Party wants no part in that. The Democratic Party is the first major party to embrace the much needed normalization for everyone's sexuality, identity. We thank you for that, for voicing this. Our diverse team is living proof to our commitment to the LGBTQ+ cause. We're striving to empower you and give you a voice in government. Our target is not putting our interests over yours. We appreciate all the love we received from our party supporter and future voters: you are the ones who makes us proud. Forward Together,

Supporting this suggestion. I would love to see enhanced ATC and aviation roleplay in the server. However, if someone is interested in this environment but doesn't have enough money to afford an aircraft (which is quite usual) it's pointless to get an actual ATC. Most of the controlled traffic would be BAT (LSPD, LSSD) and HEMS (LSFD) and some spare GAT here and there, so probably only a class G airspace assignment would fit the server, nothing more. If server's management accepts the idea of "lowering aircraft price" and people with an interest and a proper character development has the opportunity to buy an aircraft getting a slightly busy airspace then this suggestion is surely exciting. Whatever happens, keep up the great work @TheCHcuky !

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OFFICIAL PARTY STATEMENT [LSDEM] Regarding the recent allegations towards R. Orosco In view of recent events about our central district candidate Richard Orosco, the Democratic Party has decided to release an official statement. We were informed of this press release by LSNN a few days ago, showing our concerns to the protagonist of this story. Mister Orosco has been questioned from the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Executive DEM members about the whole situation. However, analyzing the case further and gathering corroborated evidence, the Democratic Party came to the conclusion that Richard Orosco will not be removed from his role. A board has been set up for this particular case and we had a few concerns about the victim Ms. Pierce. We shall say that we harshly condemn any felony committed by our members, especially about such serious matters like domestic violence. We empathise with Ms. Pierce, but feel this matter might have been brought forward at a strategic time to unhinge the process of the elections. The party vividly suggests Ms. Pierce to take this matter to a courtlaw instead of using the media to report a such alleged event. The article published by LSNN staff did not provide any name, corroborated evidence or substantial fact. Through the Democratic Party's board investigation, we found out that Ms. Pierce was a sworn deputy for the Los Santos Sheriff's Department and she had the possibility to address the issue to the Sheriff herself at that time. Furthermore, Ms. Pierce has been terminated from the LSSD due to being mentally unfit for duty. We do not think that Ms. Pierce's allegations are corroborated and there is no actual evidence of wrongdoing from our district representative candidate Richard Orosco. Richard Orosco has served the city of Los Santos for many years as a valuable deputy sheriff. He dedicated his career to the LSSD and risked his own life to protect the city and its citizen. Mister Richard Orosco released a personal statement as follows: Forward Together,

I am sorry to read this. My faction has many members and as you may understand many of us are interested in posting political advertisements. It's one of my duties to be sure that Rule 17 is enforced all the time, but I can only control over my faction obviously. As some users above said, election campaign is something GTAW players were looking for since long time, but I do understand that a minority may not appreciate that much. /cad is an open advertisement tool for everyone, from businesses to associations, from generic organizations to political parties. It's not just limited to "/cad let's go boys, we're opening a club" but it may contain further messages too. As for the solution to the problem offered by the author, I think this would only increase the spam and would not be a fair competition for the political factions to get their slice of the cake about advertisement visibility. Furthermore, if you see any advertisement from the Democratic Party breaking Rule 17 (especially about ads cool down period) don't refrain to contact me and I'll handle it myself, thank you!