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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. Re:breaking news! by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Once again, /. is right there, breaking news, reprinting from Digg 3 weeks late.

    Seriously, this is a month old. I gave him $10 back in July.

    Anybody who comes to /. for the "scoop" is an idiot. What you come here for is the discussion with fellow geeks.

    You must be new h- *checks UID of parent* -you really ought to know better by now.

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  2. Re:Why? by ShadeOfBlue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I haven't donated, I say give the guy a chance. Has he thought everything through? Probably not, but our political system is filled with the merely ignorant to the truly cretinous caricatures or corruption. If he wins I'll be interested in following his story, see how an outsider does.

    Or to put it another way, do we have good reason to put much faith in this guy? No, but we have a whole lot of reasons to not put any faith in the other guys.

  3. Wait, you're telling me... by Legion_SB · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... someone running for a state representative spot isn't posturing as having the answer to every single problem?

    This is a problem with politics. What we need in government are people who know a lot about certain fields, who are willing to listen to others who know a lot about other fields.

    Instead, as the parent post so painfully illustrates, what we as voters do is vote for the people who claim to have ALL the answers. And guess what? The ones who claim to know the answers to everything are the ones who don't know crap about anything.

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