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Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising

Posted by kdawson on from the will-it-still-work-once-everybody-is-doing-it dept.

ghostlibrary sends a note about Sean Tevis, an information architect in Kansas, who is running for state representative with the help of an xkcd lookalike cartoon and grassroots Net-based fundraising. Tevis had garnered more than 6,000 contributions, most of them small, from around the country, far out-fundraising his opponent. Major news outlets have picked up the story as a harbinger of 21st-century Net-based political campaigning. Reader ghostlibrary adds, "As a bonus, Tevis cites xkcd intentionally (rather than just ripping it off without crediting it) and, well, it's actually funny."

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  1. Results of the election by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Strangely, he won the election with a +5, Insightful."

    1. Re:Results of the election by Tolkien · · Score: 3, Funny

      Note to voters: go to his ralleys with signs that say "+5, Insightful" and "+5, Informative"!

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      how is babby formed?
    2. Re:Results of the election by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The word you were looking for is "rallys".

      The word you fucked up is "rallies".

  2. Black Hat Man for Office! by Xenographic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dammit. And here I was hoping we could elect BHM...

    Although, I guess BHO is only one letter off. Or two, depending on your metric.

  3. Re:Saw this last week... by dattaway · · Score: 4, Funny

    I live next to State Line Road on the Missouri side. Kansas needs all the help they can get! I donated to keep the grass greener over there!

  4. Re:Saw this last week... by mhall119 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need new blood in political office... people who are a little more 'in' with technology, etc.

    Great, then we'll just have them wasting time filibustering measure to declare Vi better than Emacs, or KDE better than Gnome.

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    http://www.mhall119.com
  5. Re:Saw this last week... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I should donate money to Missouri so that when I drive over state line I don't fall into the giant pot hole that is the Missouri road system.

  6. Re:Saw this last week... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh get real. What kind of an idiot would put someone in office who uses Vi or KDE? I mean give me a break.

  7. Re:Why? by corbettw · · Score: 2, Funny

    And please stop political advertising on /., it really sucks, no matter who it is.

    I couldn't agree more, I hate that shit.

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    God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
  8. Re:View Source by Thaddeaus · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should probably stop reading /. in that case

    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Farticle.pl%3Fsid%3D08%2F08%2F16%2F1748246%26from%3Drss&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

  9. Re:Why? by B3ryllium · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, just what we need. OOP.

    Objective-Oriented Politics.

    $KansasSchools = new SchoolSystem( 'Kansas' );
    $KansasSchools->setBest( true );
    $KansasSchools->save();

  10. Re:How about some links? by smartdreamer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here are the cartoon's link and the guy's home page.

  11. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    DVD video from Sean Tevis' mom

    Is she hot?