“Ain’t that wacky” news of state legislators saying stupid things… we swerve over to actions taken by state legislatures themselves — Arizona passes gold and silver coinage because they’re Arizona and Mississippi passes Federal Gun Law Nullification…

… and then you jump to New Hampshire’s state legislators.  And it is worth doing a google news search on the phrase “New Hampshire leigslator” for this type of thing.  Because we’re going to find minor selebrity status from crazy comments.

Minor celebrity status earned by “New Hampshire legislator” for such things as… oh, Boston Marathon Trutherism.

Or… “Aren’t you worried about Armed Revolution” if Immigration Bills pass guy.  (I like the “Exclusive Follow-up Interview” line in this thinkprogress report… because this is such a huge “get”?)

We’re going back months now, but here’s a civil libertarian defense of … abusive relationships.

And… blah de blah on this.

Does any of this matter?  That a New Hamsphire legislator said stupid or crazy thing?  It is that thing that does follow out into the International Media — Iran’s Press TV — and the fact that they are elected officials gives it some “credence”.

The development comes as a US state lawmaker recently blamed the American government for the Boston Marathon bombings, describing it as a “Black Ops terrorist attack.”

(When the local alt weekly’s blog noted a college football player at the University of Oregon was posting “Sandy Hook Truther” videos on his twitter page, the first response was “A 19 Year old doing something stupid is not news worthy” — a matter that’s worth debating, I suppose — should we care or not?  Whatever the case, he’ll never be cited by Iran’s Press TV.)

The problem with New Hampshire, as opposed to the problem with [fill in the blank state full of cranks that we get these “State Legislator said stupid thing” story] — to wikipedia with the math:

The House of Representatives consists of 400 members coming from 204 legislative districts across the state, created from divisions of the state’scounties. On average, each legislator represents about 3,300 residents. If the same level of representation were present in the U.S. Congress, that body would have approximately 99,000 members, according to current population estimates.

Other factors are at work — the enclaves of “Free State” Libertarian utopias will surely create things — but mostly the matter comes down to … that’s a lot of elected officials to represent everyone and anyone.

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