“You never know when you’re going to have an influx of money to be honest. Sometimes it’s driven by a tweetstorm that some person I’ve never even met goes on.”https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17092684/great-slate-fundraising-congressional-campaign …
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I did reach out to ESR for comment. "Do I have any comment on the drive? Not really." (he then ranted about some other stuff to me but it was not pertinent)
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Candidates only had good things to say about
@Pinboard but when I told them that he had described himself as a "random computer guy from San Francisco" making a "shady" pitch and forcing them to learn to use YubiKeys, they basically all started laughinghttps://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17092684/great-slate-fundraising-congressional-campaign …Afficher cette discussion -
Something that struck me was that a campaign spokesperson told me that they could spend a whole day at a fundraiser and raise $1000. The median income of their district is 39,000. The other day they woke up and found $1000 in their ActBlue account, thanks to Twitter.
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Marginal amounts of money mean life or death for campaigns that are going door to door in the most disaffected parts of their districts, talking to potential voters about Medicare for all, alternative banking, the DREAM Act, and more.
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The *expanding brain* counter-take on this is that moneyed techies are influencing elections outside of their respective districts, my *galaxy brain* counter-counter-take is that this is a strong data point in favor of the Lessig proposal for campaign finance reform —
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Relatively small amounts of money can completely change the substantive political conversation around the midterms. Making an underdog campaign minimally viable will make it so that the things that could never be said are being said.
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Anyways! This was a fun and headspinning foray into a subject area that's not my beat, now back to our regularly scheduled tech nonsense
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I acknowledge this is a possibility! https://twitter.com/ridethecatbus/status/971831515322703874 …
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the brains keep expandinghttps://twitter.com/tqbf/status/971832834871758848 …
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dang this is really good (the thing they're doing and your story)
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Great piece! The last link is broken though.
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thanks for the heads up! fixing
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*excellent* piece; really enjoyed it. but when you say a district that has poor connectivity feels disconnected from silicon valley geeks; first time I came across
@Pinboard was through his rant about how websites should not be larger than major works of literature -
what I've always appreciated in his writing (apart from how much it makes me cry with laughter) is him pointing out that silicon valley doesn't understand how unevenly resources are distributed elsewhere. feels an utterly logical connection
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Thank you
@Pinboard for supporting progressive candidates. And thank you Sarah for shining a light on what he’s been doing.Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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Great article on great work to elect good people
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the link at the end of the piece seems broken? http://www.bradfordera.com/news/state/jess-king-gets-lancaster-democratic-endorsement-for-congress-after-christina/article_b3d5d75a-e16f-5c8d-8099-cb4e50d33514.html … this is what i'm seeing:pic.twitter.com/UIjpHRH1bJ
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I got a 404 on it as well. Seems to have been deleted?
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