Salvete Quirites!

Wearing my white toga candida, I stand before you today, and ask that
you elect me Curule Aedile of Nova Roma for the coming year, 2756
a.u.c.

If elected, I will continue the high standard of Curule Aediliship 
established by my predecessor, Caeso Fabius Quintilianus. I will
bring you Ludi to delight, amaze, and amuse you. I will work closely
in concert with my co-candidate, Franciscus Apulus Caesar to raise
even higher the expectations Nova Romans have of their games and
religious festivals. 

Our three point plan for this upcoming year: 

1. Further growth of Nova Roma through face to face meetings,
including reenactment events and archeological projects. 

2. Ludi more entertaining than even those we've seen this year! 

3. Expansion of the jurisdictional and commercial administration
functions which are properly part of the Curule Aedile's duties
according to the practices of antiquity. 

I give you my solemn word that I will serve the full term of my
office, barring death or disaster. I will not, of my own free will,
resign my office until the end of the year when it is time for 
me to account for my full year's service before the Senate and 
the People of Nova Roma.  Additionally, I give you my word that 
if elected to the Curule Aediliship in 2756 I will not run for 
any magistracy for 2757, following the example of our forebearers 
from Roma Antiqua. 

I've been a citizen of Nova Roma since June of 2754. From the very
beginning I've been active in the Sodalitas Militarium, working
closely with the Praefectus of the Militarium, Senator Marcus 
Minucius Audens.  I've also been a participating member of the 
Sodalitas Musarum, and a quiet observer in a number of other 
sodalites. I'm active in NovaRomaLaws, where I'm currently 
involved with the effort to revise the unfortunately ambiguous 
blasphemy clause in our constitution. 

For the past year I've been an active member of the Cohors Aedilis of
Senior Curule Aedile Caeso Fabius Quintilianus. I am the Scriba
Aedilis Iuridicalis Primus to our current Senior Curule Aedile,
responsible for advising him on matters of law. I was closely involved
in the drafting of Quintilianus' legal edicta covering Investigation of
Charges & Complaints, Law Enforcement and Prosecution, and Fair
Business Practices. If elected, I will continue to exercise these
edicta, and keep the Curule Aedile's office a proactive magistracy
dedicated to the protection of the peace in the open forums and 
marketplaces of our republic. 

I am the quiet side of the Caesar/Marinus team. Together with the rest
of the wonderful Cohors Aedilis, Franciscus Apulus Caesar and I are
justifiably proud of this year's accomplishments under the leadership
of Caeso Fabius Quintilianus. Caesar is the flamboyant one, and I
endorse him heartily. We will give you bread and circuses, but we will
also give you firm and certain leadership, good laws, and good
governance.

A 'vir militaris', I retired from the US Marine Corps in 1995 after 22
years service. I currently work in space based astronomy in Baltimore
Maryland USA, where I am the senior mission planner for a flight
operations team and an adjunct professor of physics and astronomy. 

On November 21st of this year, I'll celebrate my 30th anniversary of
marriage. In those 30 years my wife Paula and I have raised two
daughters, and we have recently become grandparents. 

Each of you can only vote for one of us. Caesar will have strong
support among his European friends and associates. I would ask my
American friends and associates especially to vote for me. 

You may read about me, and my plans for the upcoming year, at my
campaign website: http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~gawne/marinus.html

Bene Valete in pace deorum, 

Gnaeus Equitius Marinus

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