Tennessee State Legislator Offers Resolution Honoring Himself and His PR Firm

Here's one way to get publicity for yourself and your public relations firm: Get elected to the state legislature, and then sponsor a state resolution honoring your own history of general awesomeness.
That's what Tennessee Rep. Jon Lundberg — owner of the Nashville PR firm The Corporate Image — has done with the state's House Joint Resolution 295. The super-self-congratulatory resolution, which according to the Nashville Scene, is now ready for the governor's signature, begins like this:
A RESOLUTION to honor and commend the owners and employees of The Corporate Image on the occasion of the company's 20th anniversary.
WHEREAS, it is fitting that the members of this General Assembly should salute those citizens who through their extraordinary efforts have distinguished themselves as business leaders of whom we can all be proud; and
WHEREAS, the owners and employees of The Corporate Image are many such noteworthy persons, who recently celebrated the company's 20th Anniversary; and WHEREAS, The Corporate Image, Inc., is the largest media/public relations firm in the Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia region; and
WHEREAS, current president, Jon C. Lundberg, founded The Corporate Image on March 2, 1993, in Virginia and relocated to Bristol, Tennessee, in 1995…
Via Nashville Scene and Radley Balko.
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These sorts of resolutions are a dime a dozen. You want one for your friend, just call up your state legislator and get one. Even Ron Paul voted for these things. Sheesh.
Can we get a eesolution on the awesomeness of anal?
Sorry, I missed where Epi already asked this velow.
It doesn't need a resolution.
So where's the resolution describing how great I am?!?
You don't get one since you don't look like Ed Begley Jr.
I'LL KILL YOU
Epi does look like Ned Beatty put on a few pounds though. You'd think that would get hims something.
Otis.
Excruciating.
We all have our little faults, Epi. Mine's in California.
Hugh, my mother lives in Hackensack.
Is that how a warped brain like yours gets its kicks, Epi? By planning the death of innocent people?
Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me, Hugh? It's your weight and my I.Q.
"Epiburg"
*taps watch, shakes head*
In hell where it belongs
I resolve that you are great.
Not!!!
stuck in committee. the question is what you're willing to do to get it out.
I think he should have to give away some of his self-esteem seeing how he has more than what is warranted.
Keep dreaming. I'm a self-esteem hoarder.
Do you think he looks in the mirror everymorning and says to himself: "Today you can be a bigger douchbag than you were yesterday. So get out there and do it!" in a Stuart Smalley voice?
I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too.....mmmmkay?*
(yes, yes, it's really Lumberg, but close enough)
If ego stroking was all we had to concern ourselves with, then we'd be in pretty good shape. Suder-man is just jealous here.
I am so great! I am so great!
Do they ever do resolution resolutions? Be it resolved, forthwith and furlong, that the official resolution of the great State of Tennessee is 1080 X 1920.
You do realize that you have that backwards, right? I sometimes wonder how many times your mother dropped you on your head, and I think the answer "hundreds of times" is probably spot on.
You do realize, dear anarchist, that screens can be tilted. Or are you a slave to the rules?
I guess I let my eagerness to insult ProL get ahead of me. This won't be the first time, or the last.
It's true, I will be your undoing. It is written. I mean, right here, I wrote it.
They do have treatment for that.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/heal.....-and-drugs
IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE.
Why would you give in instead of calling Pro L a retard for turning his screen what is obviously the wrong way? Do we need to start an anti-bullying campaign for you? Because you're kind of slipping.
It's Monday morning. I'm barely conscious.
He's unresolved.
I'm not talking about TV.
At least he isn't asking the people of Tennessee to surrender their arms and swear fealty go the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
What kind of PR man would he be if he didn't use all the resources he had for self-promotion?
All hail the narcissistic douchebaggery of the self aggrandizing political class, we should spontaneously erect a statue in your honor...after you pass legislation mandating it...
All the dopes who gnash and wail that we can't carry on without the wise hand of government are apparently not very familiar with the idiots IN government that they're pinning all these grand hopes on.
We need a blog juxtaposing the power-fellating statememts of prominent statist pundits with the venal and idiotic actions of the politicians they imply should be in chargr of everything. No commemtary, just simple juxtapositions.
... and gosh darn it, people really like me!
I am A SERIOUS MAN, King of Kings, look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!
Self-fellatio requires an uncommonly pliable backbone.
Every tax payer who has 'contributed' more than a half million dollars should get a commorative plaque and a silver plated pen from the IRS to honor his many years of service.
You do realize this would be paid with tax money?
is the largest media/public relations firm in the Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia region; and
So they're the prettiest girl in the room, the whole wide room, depending on the room.
They're not the prettiest. They just dress the slutiest so they get the most attention.