Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising 179
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."
Results of the election (Score:5, Funny)
"Strangely, he won the election with a +5, Insightful."
Black Hat Man for Office! (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Saw this last week... (Score:5, 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!
Re:Saw this last week... (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.
Re:Saw this last week... (Score:1, Funny)
I should donate money to Missouri so that when I drive over state line I don't fall into the giant pot hole that is the Missouri road system.
Re:Saw this last week... (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.
Re:Why? (Score:3, Funny)
And please stop political advertising on /., it really sucks, no matter who it is.
I couldn't agree more, I hate that shit.
Re:View Source (Score:2, Funny)
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Farticle.pl%3Fsid%3D08%2F08%2F16%2F1748246%26from%3Drss&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 [w3.org]
Re:Why? (Score:4, Funny)
Great, just what we need. OOP.
Objective-Oriented Politics.
$KansasSchools = new SchoolSystem( 'Kansas' );
$KansasSchools->setBest( true );
$KansasSchools->save();
Re:Results of the election (Score:3, Funny)
Note to voters: go to his ralleys with signs that say "+5, Insightful" and "+5, Informative"!
Re:How about some links? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why? (Score:1, Funny)
Is she hot?
Re:Results of the election (Score:1, Funny)
The word you were looking for is "rallys".
The word you fucked up is "rallies".