Concord blogger seeks bailout

Halfway To Concord Contra Costa County’s most widely read independent blog, applied for a Congressional bailout this week. After witnessing Congress drop trillions of dollars down the bottomless tin cans of the U.S. Auto industry, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, and numerous other financial institutions, not to mention Tesla and rumors of bailouts for corporate and state pensions, it seemed like a no-brainer to many financial industry observers.

Editor and Publisher Bill Gram-Reefer says he will ask his representative, George Miller, to walk his request through initial hearings so it can be placed at the top of the docket for the new Congressional session that begins in January. “if push comes to shove, we’ll earmark it,” said sources in Miller’s office familiar with the request. “George Miller’s office has a long history of getting his constituents entitlements whether they deserve them or not,” said the source. “The Congressman isn’t going to stop now.”

“I should get the red carpet treatment from Congress and my representative just as much as any other industry in the U.S.,” said Gram-Reefer.

Gram-Reefer dismissed charges from reporters that his online publication was, unlike the newspaper industry, neither in debt, failing, or a matter of national security. “That’s just sour grapes from the newspaper lobby,” he countered. “If there is any industry that does not deserve a bailout it’s the newspaper business, but they insist on queering the deal for everyone else just to be spoil sports.”