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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."

  2. 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!

  3. 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
  4. 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.