On the principle that if a Congressional District that doesn’t exist can still generate 2,800 jobs (which also don’t exist) thanks to a ’stimulus’ (which really doesn’t exist), it can generate a Congressman:
See also here. Congressional hopeful Bosse has also called for a national Phantom Congress Movement. There’s already been several people joining up; somebody should start an official website. Or run for their state’s own phantom CDs.
Or, heck, run for real ones.
Moe Lane
PS: Feel free to provide links to you, or somebody else, jumping on this particular bandwagon. The more creative, the better.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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If I thought I had a snowball's chance,
Steph C Monday, November 23rd at 11:15AM EST (link)I’d run TN05. It looks like Cooper is going to slide through again because there is no serious contender, conservative or liberal. However, I’m no Palin, am dull as dishwater, and a bit on the shy side as well.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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states 51-57 need conservative candidates too
spim Monday, November 23rd at 12:24PM EST (link)I would be willing to move to … and run for Senate for the great 53rd state of our glorious union ….
… if I could just figure out where it was ….
I was just checking out osme of these grants
jackhammer Monday, November 23rd at 12:38PM EST (link)The high school in MA near a house I have got 1.8 million and didn’t create or save a single job….they really seem to just be handing out raises….
But then the Housing Authority of the town nextdoor got $94,853 and somehow managed ot create or save 22 jobs…..I always thought MA had a minimum wage, but apparently the housing authority is paying in the range of $4500 a year…who says we can’t compete with China….
This site is more fun than zillow…..
Some potential candidates?
ex_scientia_vires Monday, November 23rd at 1:40PM EST (link)The Phantom Congress election results might well resemble those reported some 4 decades ago by the chaps from Monty Python:
Election Night Special
Recovery.gov = Comedy Goldmine!
I may have to take another look at running for LA-45.
Third Street Tuesday, November 24th at 4:14AM EST (link)What the hell; after Rahm Emanuel finishes jimmying the census, election results from the phantom congressional districts ought to be just as reliable as those from the real ones.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”