User:LizArchive/Chamel Collins

Chamel Collins is an American politician who is currently serving as class I Senator from the State of Savannah, Senate Majority Leader, Savannah Lieutenant Governor, and was the 1992 and 1996 Farmer Labor Candidate, Chamel is the first muslim to serve in the United States Senate.

Personal and Political Life
Chamel Collins who was born on April 15, 1952, was born into a middle class Muslim-American family, when Chamel went to school, Chamel got interested into politics after the 1968 election, in his earlier years, he was a strong supporter of the civil rights movement and at age 14, attended a rally where he got severe injures, but he recovered where after that he went to the university of Georgia where he studied political science, and after that he worked as an Aid to state representatives, then in 1987, he got appointed to the senate to fill Freya Oliver vacancy, he won re-election in 1990 running unopposed.

Political Positions
Chamel Collins identifies him self as a "Left-wing Nationalist" and a "Low-Middle class Populist" advocating for Center-left Social and economic policies, usually sympathizing with the lower and middle class workers, and a member of the American Leftists caucus of the Farmer Labor Party.

Career in the Senate
When Chamel got into the senate he started working on a farm bill and helped co-write a healthcare bill which established a public option and guaranteed Americans healthcare, and also Co-wrote a bill that repeal taft hartley.

1992 Presidential Campaign
Chamel Collins ran for the Farmer Labor nomination in 1992 and won the primaries in where he went to the General election, where he ran an anti-administration campaign, many people claim that was the reason he lost in a landslide to incumbent President Hubert Humphrey.

1996 Presidential Campaign
Chamel Collins always hinted at a second presidential run 4 years after his first attempt made him lose in a landslide, so when he announced his, he got more momentum than he thought he would get, but had to beat primary challenger, David Golden, which he did easily getting 80% of the vote, then during the general election, was neck and neck with the progressive nominee, Clinton, usually being neck and neck in the polls, losing and winning swing states, until the general election, where Collins won the popular vote and a plurality in the electoral college, but not a majority, landing the election in the house of representatives.