Sabine Armitage

Sabine Deleaux Armitage
Sabine Armitage's Congressional Hall Portrait
Congresswoman, Northern Isle-8
Incumbent
Assumed office September 22nd, 2016
Personal details
Born	(1989-11-21) 21 November 1989 Providence, Northern Isle, Zamastan
Citizenship	Zamastanian
Nationality	Zamastanian
Political party	BCP
Height	5 ft 5 in (165 cm)

Sabine Deleaux Armitage ( (1989-11-21) 21 November 1989) is a Zamastanian politician serving as the junior congresswoman from Northern Isle Province's 8th district, a seat she was elected to in 2016. She is a member of the Blue Conservative Party, and was a mainline a candidate for President of Zamastan in the 2020 election, seeking to replace Foley Sakzi who was not seeking a second term reelection. She lost the race to former-Governor of Alutia Atticus Moreau, but announced she would seek the presidency a second time in the 2022 election cycle, beating out other conservative candidates like Jean Brunelle. Armitage is a neoconservative, known for her focus on national security, support for the military, a pro-business stance, hawkish foreign policy views, and fiscal and social conservatism. However, she holds relatively liberal stances on social issues, having signaled support for gun control legislation and decriminalization of illegal substances.

Armitage drew national recognition when she won the Blue Conservative Party's primary election for the Northern Isle's 7th congressional district on June 4th, 2016. She defeated BCP Caucus Chair Keenan Lawrence, a 7-term incumbent, in what was widely seen as the biggest upset victory in the 2016 election primaries. She went on to win the district's seat in the 2016 general election. Armitage majored in international relations and economics at the University of Tofino, graduating cum laude in 2010. She was previously an activist and worked part-time as a waitress, bartender, and fast-food employee before running for Congress in 2016. She is one of only 13 congresswomen among the 202 BCP lawmakers currently in the Congress and one of 54 women among 421 lawmakers in Congressional Hall as a whole.

Early life and education

Armitage was born into a Catholic family in Providence on November 11, 1989, the daughter of Bethany and Mell Armitage. She has a younger brother named Kiran. Her father was born in Tofino to a Janapan family and became an architect; her mother was born in Ossinia. Armitage lived with her family in an apartment in the Providence neighborhood of Arkchester until she was five, when the family moved to a house in suburban Chatt Heights. Armitage attended Chatt High School, graduating in 2007. In high school and college, Armitage went by the name of "Sandy Armitage". She came in first in the microbiology category of an International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007 with a research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the Institute of Kelowna Laboratory named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Armitage. In high school, she took part in the National Ossinians Institute (NOI) Youth Legislative Session. She later became the NOI Secretary of State while she attended the University of Tofino.

After graduating from high school, Armitage enrolled at the University of Tofino. Her father died of lung cancer in 2008 during her second year, and Armitage became involved in a lengthy probate battle to settle his estate. She has said that the experience helped her learn "first-hand how attorneys appointed by the court to administer an estate can enrich themselves at the expense of the families struggling to make sense of the bureaucracy". During college, Armitage served as an intern for BCP Senator Rene Salas in his section on foreign affairs and immigration issues. She recalled, "whenever a frantic call would come into the office because someone is looking for their husband because they have been snatched off the street by immigration services, I was the one that had to pick up that phone. I was the one that had to help that person navigate that system." Armitage graduated cum laude from the University of Tofino in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both international relations and economics.

Political career

Presidential runs

2022

On June 20th 2021 Armitage announced that she would be seeking the presidency for a second time. In her fiery speech, she rallied her crowd stating "it is time that we go back to the roots of our great nation, working to boost our economy, serve our people, protect our interests, and lead the world everywhere we go."

Political positions

Armitage is considered a moderate Blue Conservative. Since she was reelected in 2020, some have deemed her voting record "more moderate" than that of her previous years in the Congress. In 2021, the Tofino Times gave Armitage a composite score of 56% conservative and 45% liberal.

Armitage supports pulling back firearm restrictions, but has stated that she believes comprehensive background checks and longer waiting periods are required before someone is allowed to purchase a gun. She supported President Anya Bishop's ban on assault-weapons in 2019.

Armitage supports sweeping tax reform policy and has presented on several occassions a bill which would bring the federal tax rate down nearly 30%. She also supports capping a national minimum-wage at Z$12 an hour, which is higher than the current minimum wage of Z$10 but significantly lower than other proposals.

Armitage is against the legalization of recreational marijuana under federal legislation, but has stated that provinces can determine the legality and decriminalization for themselves.

Armitage supported the 2020 military intervention in Ossinia, and called on President Moreau to conduct airtrikes against Syraranto during the civil war (airstrikes were eventually undertaken for two weeks in March of 2022). Armitage also lobbied for airstrikes against Zalluabed after the accidental missile strike on the ZMS Monserrati during the Hisrea War, which left her largely isolated among Zamastanian politicians in a call for military action.

Armitage opposes the 2013 Zalluabed nuclear deal and has stated she will withdraw from the agreement if elected President. The deal was initially signed by Cassious Castovia but was later abandoned by Anya Bishop in 2019.