Haven – Outspoken Government critic, political commentator, and billionaire businesseswoman June Warren has announced her intention to run for one of Haven’s Senate seats – once an election for the Senate has been called. Warren, who is famous across all of Sanctaria for her annual Food Drive for the Needy operation which sends much needed food to children in poorer nations, has previously criticised the SCP-ran Government for their reluctance to tax those who could afford it, instead going after the much less well-off working and middle classes.
Speaking in Haven today, Warren said that the new Senate was “promising” and would “possess a great deal of power vis a vis government oversight”. Warren’s comments come on the heel of comments from Minister for Political Reform Joyce Robinson who said that the new Senate will be granted more, non-constitutional powers of oversight on the Government of the day, including summoning Ministers to question them. Warren, who has an estimated personal fortune of over S£1.5billion, said that she has “talked the talk often enough” and will now “walk the walk in holding politicians to account”. She has also confirmed that, if elected, she will donate her entire salary to a charity, though not one of her own. She quipped that she “hardly needed it” and it would “go to those that do”.
Warren is the first person nation-wide to declare their candidature for the new Senate which will see each Borough, and City-Borough, return two Senators each for a term of office of seven years. She has confirmed that she will be running as an Independent and, when asked, denied that this would impact greatly on her influence in the Senate saying “I have a big mouth and whatever committee I’m on, I’ll make sure to open it. I’ll be on the floor too, every day, raising important matters. I’m not one to be ignored lightly, I never have been”.
The Haven Sentinel, which hosts a weekly column written by Warren, has already endorsed its flagship columnist and the city’s Chamber of Commerce has issued a statement saying that “Voting for Warren would mean voting for a continuation of good enterprise and business in Haven”.
JOEY SESSIONS, Political Correspondent
