[SIGCIS-Members] Email "inventor" claimant to run for U.S. Senate -- alternative facts about technology and democracy collide

[Ian S. King]

Someone a few emails back mentioned Suzan DelBene here in Washington
State.  There are and have been quite a few ex-Microsoft folks who've run
for office at various levels, including city councils and the state
legislature.  One of our US Senators, Maria Cantwell, was with RealNetworks
for some time - although as VP of Marketing, not an engineering role.
Darcy Burner, another former Microsoft marketing person, unsuccessfully ran
twice against Dave Reichert for his seat in the US Congress, lost to
DelBene for the newly formed First Congressional District and lost a bid to
represent the Fifth Legislative District in the Washington State House.
Tina Podlodowski, ex-Microsoft, is now the chair of the Washington State
Democratic Party, and served on the Seattle City Council for a single
term.  Eric Oemig, again ex-Microsoft in a 'performance manager' role,
served in the Washington State Senate for a single term.  Toby Nixon served
in the Washington State House and is now a City Councilman for the City of
Kirkland.  Laura Ruderman, an administrative assistant from Microsoft (in
my product group), served a single term in the House, as well.  (Ruderman
billed herself as a 'former Microsoft manager' when in fact she briefly
held the title of Program Manager, had no engineering responsibilities and
had only two direct reports, both of them temporary employees.)

I suspect that one reason we have a significant number of ex-Microsoft
types here is that they have the money - the majority of the ex-Microsoft
crowd partially or completely funded their own campaigns.  But the majority
of them worked in non-technical roles.  -- Ian

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Julie Cohn <cohnconnor at comcast.net> wrote:

> Tangentially related to this discussion, some of you may already be
> familiar with a new PAC called 314 Action - focused on promoting fact-based
> policies and the candidacies of individuals coming out of the STEM
> professions:
>
> http://www.314action.org/home
>
> -Julie
>
> *****************************
> Julie Cohn, Ph.D.
> Research Historian
> Center for Public History
> University of Houston
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> Houston, TX 77204-3007
> cohnconnor at comcast.net
>
> On Feb 25, 2017, at 4:34 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan at vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> >> a name that also pops up in connection with Ayyadurai's announcement is
> Jeff Giesea, a venture capitalist and "executive coach"
>
> Whoa. I used to work for Jeff. He founded a (real) tech news site called
> Fierce Markets in 2001. Hired me in 2004; I stayed until 2006. He sold it
> in 2009. We never talked politics though.
> -------------------------
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-- 
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens

Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>

University of Washington

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