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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I wonder if "former video game developer" Curt Schilling is still planning to run against Warren. Would Schilling and Ayyadurai face each other in a primary race?</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 25, 2017 12:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrew Meade McGee<br>
<b>Cc:</b> members@sigcis.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Email "inventor" claimant to run for U.S. Senate -- alternative facts about technology and democracy collide<br>
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<div>- Carly Fiorina, folks. She just spoke at CPAC. </div>
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<div>- Meg Whitman, eBay. Lost CA gubernatorial election. </div>
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<div>Both Republicans. Both lost (obviously). </div>
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<div>Any chance we could discuss this <span style="">Ayyadurai matter at the meeting next month?</span></div>
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<div><span style="">Guy's playing the long game, obviously. </span></div>
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On Feb 25, 2017, at 9:18 AM, Andrew Meade McGee <<a href="mailto:amm5ae@virginia.edu" target="_blank">amm5ae@virginia.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for this suggestion, Debbie. I will look into this Massie fellow with great interest -- it would be fascinating to see how a technology background would shape an incredibly retail politics level of campaigning like for the House.
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<div>Depending on how liberal a definition of software industry one uses, another example is:</div>
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<div>Tom Massie, now a Representative from Kentucky, invented PHANTOM while at MIT (he won the Lemelson Student Prize for this) and founded SensAbleTechnologies. </div>
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<div><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/11/meet-representative-thomas-massie-constitutional-conservative-mit-pedigree" target="_blank">http://www.sciencemag.org/<wbr>news/2012/11/meet-<wbr>representative-thomas-massie-<wbr>constitutional-conservative-<wbr>mit-pedigree</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Continuing with the ongoing saga of V. A. Shiva and his claims regarding the invention of e-mail, that gentleman has just announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">As several SIGCIS contributors noted earlier this month, this nicely parallels the upcoming SHOT themes of technology and democracy. "Alternate facts" about the history of technology will play a major public element of this campaign
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