 Tom Menino said it was a good way to obtain a local aid package for the city (referring to the $1 million in "good faith money for homeland security" that Cartoon Network paid the city of Boston to avoid a lawsuit).Congressman Stephen Lynch joked that the Mooninites were part of a sleeper cell that also included SpongeBob SquarePants and Scrappy-Doo.State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill held up a picture of a Mooninite with Mitt Romney's face on it, saying "We had to blur out his real feelings about Massachusetts."