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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. giant pink elephant in the room by graveyhead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow how *interesting* and *original*.

    Or not. Where do you guys think Barack Obama's money is coming from? People like me, who are donating tiny amounts.

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  2. Re:Saw this last week... by rootooftheworld · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    To SanityInAnarchy: I fully support a filibuster to kill Emacs and Vi and GNOME and KDE. Nano and Fluxbox rulz!

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