my claim to fame today! I won a contest! Politico Influence, by Dave Levinthal and others - one of the politico franchise of publications (this one an email newsletter about lobbying activity, and you bet the Super Committee is bringing them all out). Anyhow he posted a contest to give your best lobbying pitch for a state, so here is the rap about my winning entry. So excited!
And yesterday, a number of you responded with fantastic answers to our latest PI contest (details here: http://politi.co/ndwFTq), which asked you to make your best lobbying pitch for any U.S. state or territory that might not be feeling much political love these days thanks to Iowa, where just about every presidential candidate from Barack Obama to Michele Bachmann to the ghost of William Henry Harrison made an appearance in the past week.
The bad news: Not a single person lobbied on behalf of several minor jurisdictions, such as the Northern Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll and California. But we received four pitches for the great Garden State - yep, New Jersey - with the most impassioned entry coming from Courtney Brooks, a Jersey expat now residing in Hillsboro, Ore.:
"A state many are from. Everyone proud, in some fashion, to call themselves *from* New Jersey," Brooks wrote PI. "What is it about that state? A multicultural place where there are zillions of factions, before multicultural factions were cool. A place where you learned to survive dense crowds, body to body, like going to home room in high school, with 2500 fellow students in the hallway. The way of the future. The way the planet is going. ... And in the next global warming meltdown, or global ice age (take your pick), we are the ones who will survive."
For this winning entry, Brooks earns a wooden puzzle of the United States of America (http://bit.ly/oREx0F), in which New Jersey may, per the winner's discretion, be hand-painted gold. Congratulations!
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