GraniteGrok

Thanks to Recovery.GOV, we here in NH now have new Congressional Districts as Grant reported on a couple of days ago (emphasis mine):

According to the summary of stimulus jobs “created or saved” in New Hampshire, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created 3.2 jobs in the 6th District, zero jobs in the 4th District, and two jobs in the 27th District. New Hampshire, of course, only has two Congressional Districts.

The site also lists a whopping 2,873.9 jobs in the 00 Congressional District, which is presumably where former Celtic Hall of Famer Robert Parish lives.

Yup, instead of 1 and 2, we got bunches for this state of 1.3 million people.

Well, when opportunity knocks, the 'Grok knows he'll be right on top of it.

Today, Grant Bosse announced his candidacy for Congress in New Hampshire phantom 00 Congressional District.  Here are his remarks as prepared for delivery:

Earlier this week, we reported that Recovery.gov, the federal government’s $84 million website set up to monitor the $787 billion stimulus package, was so riddled with errors that it showed that New Hampshire had four new Congressional Districts.

One of the districts, the Double-Zero…The Fightin’ Double-Zero…actually had 2,800 jobs credited to it under the stimulus.

And despite this massive job creation in the Double-Zero, despite the tremendous amount of tax dollars going to this previously unknown district, the people of the Double-Zero are without a voice in Congress. Well, that’s unacceptable.

Today, I am announcing the start of my campaign for Congress in New Hampshire Double-Zero District!

The Double-Zero is a magical land. A mythical land. And place that only exists in the buggy databases of DC bureaucrats. In fact, just a few days after finding out that the Double-Zero had created all those stimulus jobs, the bureaucrats at Recovery.gov took them away.

Well, I’m outraged. If we can’t trust the job numbers from a website designed to make Congressional spending look good, what can we trust?...

...The good news is that we have a choice. Nationwide, Recovery.gov created 440 phantom Congressional Districts. That’s more than we actually have in Congress. If we fill those seats in every phantom district, we can take over Congress.

Hmm, some of the folks already inhabiting the real Congress could be considered zombies already, right?  So why NOT add phantoms to the mix!

The 'Grok KNEW he was the right guy for the job, and we endorsed him during his run for Congress in NH's CD-2 in the last cycle.  Sadly, even being a master of the issues, the New Media, brevity of word, and overall " Energizer Bunny of candidates", he didn't make it through the primary - money talks and he had none (for all practical purposes).

The 'Grok is happy to announce that it will support Grant in his effort to be the next Double Zero Congressman!

(after all, the two we got hardly are rising to the level of zero anyways).

BTW, NH Watchdog has new digs and a new design - nice!