Yma McRachubolk

Yma Jean McRachubolk is a Dogger politician who has served as the Mayor of Midtte, Medost since 2013. A member of the Labor Party of Medost and their national affiliate the Labor Worker's Party, she previously served on the Midtte City Council from 2006-2012.

Early life
Yma Jean McRachubolk was born on May 25, 1980 in Primrose, Medost. Her father is James John McRachubolk who is of Irish descent, and her mother is Carmella Rosalyn McRachubolk (née Soprano) who is of Italian descent. McRachubolk and her parents moved to Midtte in 1984 so that her father could open up a Fiskmann & Wheaton store. Yma said that cooking Italian dishes with her mother are some of the best memories she has from when she was a kid. She graduated from high school in 1998 and went to UF Tweldem for 5 years until graduating in 2003 with a degree in political science. She went back to Midtte to work at her fathers store. In 2005 she became a member of the Labor Party of Medost.

City council
In April of 2006 after about 3 years of working at her fathers store McRachubolk filed to run for Midtte City Council from Ward 5. She started out doing grassroots organizing and talking to the people in the community about their struggles and stuff that would help them out. In June McRachubolk joined and led a picket line at a union protest, and was briefly detained for it. The local news station interviewed her about the protest, which greatly increased her popularity in Midtte with blue collar workers. She also gave a speech in July about the importance of having affordable healthcare in the city, which greatly increased her popularity in Midtte with middle and lower class people. To win her party's primaries, McRachubolk would have to unseat an incumbent of 9 years, or 3 terms. She debated that incumbent at the local rec center on July 28. The Labor Party of Medost (the provincial affiliation of the Labor Worker's Party) had their Midtte City Council primaries on August 17. McRachubolk won her primaries with 45% of the vote, with the second place finisher and incumbent getting 43% and the third place finisher getting 12%. On September 3 the general election happened, and McRachubolk was competing against a Medost Civics (provincial affilliation of the Civic Union) candidate and an Independent Democrats of Medost (provincial affiliation of the IDP) candidate. McRachubolk won the general election with 39% of the vote, with the Medost Civics nominee falling second with 36% and the Independent Democrats of Medost nominee falling last with 25%.

McRachubolk was sworn in to the Midtte City Council on October 3, 2006. The first bill she introduced and passed was a bill that would make it illegal for police and other law enforcement to detain peaceful protesters who had not committed a crime. She stated that this bill was intended to help out those who were protesting for either worker's rights or social justice. McRachubolk also increased education funding so that every kid could get a good education. McRachubolk easily won re-election in 2009. In 2010 McRachubolk helped cut taxes for the lower and middle class people of Midtte and raised taxes on the corporations and upper class people of Midtte. In 2011 McRachubolk introduced a UBI system in Midtte and it passed the city council but it was vetoed by the mayor. She decided not to run for re-election

Mayor of Midtte
On August 3, 2012 Yma McRachubolk announced her candidacy to be the next Mayor of Midtte. The incumbent mayor, a member of the Medost Civics, was retiring because of term limits. In October McRachubolk won the Labor Party of Medost primaries in a landslide. She debated the incumbent Deputy Mayor of Midtte and Medosts Civic nominee on October 23rd. On November 6 McRachubolk won the mayoral election with 51% of the vote. She was sworn in on January 20, 2013.

Yma McRachubolk worked very closely with the Midtte City Council in a bipartisan manner to pass reasonable bills to better the lives of the people of Midtte. They helped slash drug and surgery prices, maintain a balanced budget and have great roads and sidewalks in their city. McRachubolk also helped set up a big apartment complex where homeless people could go live until they got back on their feet. She also expanded welfare for lower class citizens. At around the end of her first term McRachubolk had an approval rating of 57% and a disapproval rating of 38%.

McRachubolk won the Labor Party of Medost primaries unanimously and won re-election with 61% of the vote. In her second term she continued a good relationship with both the Midtte City Council and the citizens of Midtte. She started an employment program called "GET YO ASS TO WORK" that was meant to decrease unemployment in Midtte and subsequently decrease poverty. The name of the program drew sharp criticism, but the effects of the program were great. The unemployment rate in Midtte went from 2.3% to 0.9% in 2 years, and the poverty rate went from 7.5% to 2.8% in 2 years. She also passed an infrastructure plan that increased the quality of the city works department. McRachubolk was unable to run for a third term because of term limits, and decided to go back to work at her father's store. She finished her second term with a 78% approval rating and 15% disapproval rating, and finished her full 8 years with a 69% approval rating and a 23% disapproval rating. Unemployment in the city went from 4.3% in 2013 to 0.7% in 2021, and poverty in the city went from 9.8% in 2013 to 1.9% in 2021.