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It’s Scandal meets Seinfeld. Political comedy set in Washington, D.C.
Employment agnostic Elliot Vance supposedly handles Wyoming in the Executive Branch’s new Fifty States Program. A sitcom novel for the select few desperate to learn if he will ever visit the state.
The time is 2016 before the election, and the Administration reacts to an embarrassment--highlighting Wyoming on a presidential tour map when the stop was in Denver. Voilà! heights never scaled previously in the annals of bureaucracy. One new federal job for each state, all housed in cubicles at the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, where the millennials in these patronage plums call each other by the name of their states. There’s not a one you’d trust to organize your sock drawer.
Wyoming (that’s Elliot) may be kind and loyal and a former Secretary of State’s grand-nephew, but he could qualify for the slacker Olympics. Before the States job he got kicked out of an English lit Ph.D. program for doing his dissertation on 1950s pulp author F. Bob Goddard.
Elliot’s friends Nebraska and Delaware are no better, nor is his pampered girlfriend Regina Wilshire. And don’t let’s forget his slinky adversary, Republican congressional aide Tara Travis. Watch them over thirteen episodes in Season One.
Employment agnostic Elliot Vance supposedly handles Wyoming in the Executive Branch’s new Fifty States Program. A sitcom novel for the select few desperate to learn if he will ever visit the state.
The time is 2016 before the election, and the Administration reacts to an embarrassment--highlighting Wyoming on a presidential tour map when the stop was in Denver. Voilà! heights never scaled previously in the annals of bureaucracy. One new federal job for each state, all housed in cubicles at the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, where the millennials in these patronage plums call each other by the name of their states. There’s not a one you’d trust to organize your sock drawer.
Wyoming (that’s Elliot) may be kind and loyal and a former Secretary of State’s grand-nephew, but he could qualify for the slacker Olympics. Before the States job he got kicked out of an English lit Ph.D. program for doing his dissertation on 1950s pulp author F. Bob Goddard.
Elliot’s friends Nebraska and Delaware are no better, nor is his pampered girlfriend Regina Wilshire. And don’t let’s forget his slinky adversary, Republican congressional aide Tara Travis. Watch them over thirteen episodes in Season One.
298 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 15, 2022
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October 25, 2023
Excellent political satire that made me laugh and reflect on the past and back to future. The looming WWIII and election next year necessitate a sequel. The comeback of Drumpf for world peace!
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