The 111th Congress convenes today. Out of curiosity, I checked out the web addresses for some of the new House members to see if there was anything up on their webpages yet. It looks like Congress has set up generic, but individualized, pages for them for now. Kind of interesting to look at, since they’ll soon be replaced by more personalized pages. Examples:
Jared Solis (first member of Congress to be openly gay when elected)
Adam Schock (youngest freshman in the current class, 27 years old)
Slightly different: here and here.
But, um, I don’t know what they’re going to do about Ahn Cao, newly elected from Louisiana, because this is what comes up for him. [Update 1/7/09: here’s his page.]
For new senators, webpages all redirect to the same page of the Senate website. [Update 1/7/09: OK, now the new senators’ webpages direct to their own generic but individualized pages.]
Adam Schock may be on the other side…in fact has Abe Lincoln’s seat…but he is real handsome. I mean REAL handsome.
I tried to find an online pic and came up empty, but he was on Hardball,and I was struck by his face.
Make it your mission to see this guy!
Here is a CBS video link with Aaron Schock.
And there is shot with him at the gym!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/06/earlyshow/main4701671.shtml
27 years old and he’s a frakking Congressman?
I know nothing about him except that I loathe him with every fiber of my being.
I just watched the video and I want to puke.
Yeah, he’s cute — but in that too-squeaky-clean Mormon-missionary Hitler Youth kind of way, the kind of cute that makes him anything but.
Plus, he finished high school early and finished college in two years. I despise him. He’s just the kind of energetic go-getting leader type that I loathed in school and still do.
What does it say about the people of Illinois that they’d vote for a snotty brat like him? That’s kind of sad.
I hope he fails. I hope he goes down in flames. I hope he packs his bags in two years and goes back to Illinois in shame, never to be heard from again.
And I’d feel the same way even if he weren’t a Republican.
It’s nice to be from Colorado sometimes…..Amendment Two in the early 90’s..not so much….the appeal and eventual ruling knocking down Amendment Two four years later, great. Focus on the Family, not so much, Tim Gill, great! Marilyn Musgrave, again not so much, Jared POLIS (not Solis) Great! So, we aren’t too bad as a flyover state that voted blue in 2008…