Gustave, the largest mention in your speech I get is that " Peter and Young Writer deserved far better from me than to be ignored, and I'm embarrassed at how I treated them."
While I do appreciate the acknowledgement, you did far worse than ignore me. The round I went out I approached you in good faith, trying to search for a way that maybe we need not clash. I stayed up very late to talk to you and thought we had a good conversation, and then we started talking about potential other votes. And then you immediately leaked said conversations to try and kill me, but even worse, acting like I was the one who wanted Herman as opposed to that being your suggestion that I said would be a hard sell.
Then in the revote, rather than being honest with me, like Duke (who I'd say I ended up with a similar relationship to me as did you), you told multiple people that you were going to flip, and held that up. I personally think there's little reason for such duplicity in a revote (when you could just as easily say you are on the fence and not commit yourself to such an insane deception), so why did you do those things and why should I consider voting for you?