Slashdot Mirror
Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising
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."
"Strangely, he won the election with a +5, Insightful."
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.
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!
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.
http://www.mhall119.com
Oh get real. What kind of an idiot would put someone in office who uses Vi or KDE? I mean give me a break.
Great, just what we need. OOP.
Objective-Oriented Politics.
$KansasSchools = new SchoolSystem( 'Kansas' );
$KansasSchools->setBest( true );
$KansasSchools->save();
Here are the cartoon's link and the guy's home page.