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A new iPhone app allows users to shake the bobbly-jeebus out of their Congressional representatives. “Bobble Rep” features full contact information, as well as caricatures of all 540 members of Congress; when you shake the phone, their heads bounce…not quite like a real bobblehead, but well, close enough.
Paul Schmelzer, at our sister site the Minnesota Independent, wrote about the app today.
The app was was initially rejected by Apple, which came as a shock to MAD Magazine artist Tom Richmond, who drew all 540 legislators (all 435 voting members of the House, 100 Senators as well as non-voting members from Puerto Rico, Guam and other such areas).
The rejection letter said:
“Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.”
Apple relented earlier this month and approved the app.
“Apple came to its senses yesterday and approved the app,” Richmond wrote on his blog. “You have to wonder how much of the decision was based on the press covered and image hit Apple had taken, and how much of it was simply that some overworked approval person rubber stamped it as a reject.”
In case you don’t have an iPhone, or don’t want to shell out the $0.99 for the app, you can see screenshots of New Mexico’s three U.S. Representatives and two U.S. Senators.
