Supporting Cast
Revision as of 02:59, 19 July 2005 by 24.16.223.21 (talk)
- Senator Lincoln Davenport Chafee Brain Jaffe's, boss… elected to a six-year term in the United States Senate. He is a member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works and serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Fish, Wildlife, and Water. He is also a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations and serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. In addition, he is a member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. - Senator Lincoln Chafee Suplimental (Brian Jaffe 3x3 Friend)
- Matthieu Chalfant, Brian's law school friend and current technologies lobbyist. In law school, Brian and Matthieu kept each other sane and kept each other studying. They really pulled each other through the program at Harvard. They both went into politics, but in different directions. Matt's a bio-technologies lobbyist, campaigning with Congress for more funding for genetic research. His friendship with Brian is strong, but was occasionally strained due to the stresses of their non-complimentary professional lives; they'd found themselves unable to do favors for each other far too often and that created a lot of guilt. Still, they did what they could. (Brian Jaffe 3x3 Contact)
- Anderson Cooper, CNN correspondent. Friendly but totally professional relationship; as a very moderate Republican who wasn't in an elected office but was still very much on the inside (given Chafee's Committee seats), Brian was pretty much an ideal guest to speak on any topic in American politics - he could be sure to know what he was talking about and not have the stupid, pointless rancor against one side or the other that so many other guys did. (Brian Jaffe, 3x3 Contact)
- David Jaffe, Brian's Father. A senior partner at Meyers, Jafee and Strick, attorneys at law. Lives in Hartford, Connecticut and specializes in corporate, contract (i.e. non-trial) law. He's reserved and dignified, but warm. Good with individuals and people he knows, but flustered in front of groups and strangers. Tall but thin, a little wrinkled and clean-shaven. He and Brian have always gotten on very well, mostly due to a shared idealism and interests; David would've gone into politics himself, but he never really had the public presence for it. David's the sort of father who would've pushed Brian hard, but Brian really never had to be pushed, so that made things easy. These days, their relationship has been far more relaxed and friendly than paternal - Brian's not really a son, but a very welcome guest in the house. (Brian Jaffe 3x3 Friend)
- Joelle Millard, Brian's most recent ex and policy think-tank manager. Brian and Joelle had broken up three months before 9/11 but had stayed in touch - they had really liked each other, but were each just too married to their jobs to work at the relationship. Joelle is a domestic politics manager for the Brookings Institution (an education, policy and social sciences think-tank) and had repeatedly tried to get Brian to leave his job with Chafee and come work for them. In part she disagreed with Republican politics and wanted Brian out of it, in part she thought that them being closer during the work day might help their relationship. (Brian Jaffe 3x3 Friend)
- Randel "Van" Styles, Georgetown College Graduate and former roomate of Jack Bennett. Currently employed at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Law Firm in Washington DC. (Jack Bennett 3x3 Friend)
- Marcy Styles, Randel's wife and Editor with In Touch Magazine. Published weekly, In Touch is packed with the latest celebrity gossip, stunning photos, fashion, news, plus articles that touch the heart. It's the perfect magazine for the on-the-go reader! (published by Bauer Publishing USA)
- Daniel Turner, Brian's former Co-worker. Daniel was Senator Chafee's Communications Director when Brian worked for Senator Chafee. The two men were decent friends, looking out for each other and bonding against the idiocy of the others they had to work with. They were both a little too idealistic for their own good. (Brian Jaffe 3x3 Contact)
- Harold James Redford, Arthur's Father. Harold was a career Colonel in the Army until he took the option for early retirement to be with his son after his wife died. He used his savings and retirement package to purchase a decent apartment complex in the NW Washington D.C. His wife died when Arthur was 12 and both of them were hit hard by the sudden loss. He was since, been Arthur's best friend and Father. This relationship was slightly strained when he remarried five years later. He resides with his wife on the top floor of their apartment building in a penthouse made from three apartments converted into one residence.
- Gloriana Hanes Redford, Arthur's Stepmother. Glory married Harold almost 17 years ago, just before Arthur went into the Service. They didn't get along then and the relationship has only gotten more strained. She loves Harold but resents the fact that Arthur refuses to accept her as his Mother, and therefore see her as an athority figure in his life. That is the real friction in their lives. She wants control over Arthur, and believes she has the right to direct him. Arthur sees her as an interloper, and only ever refers to her as "My Father's wife". She is a somewhat shallow petty control freak who sees Arthur as a threat to her marrige to Harold, and truely resents that at his death, while all of his money and possessions go to her, Arthur gets the Apartment complex.
