Posted on 01/11/2015 5:54:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The California technology industry has a rare opportunity: An open U.S. Senate seat from the Golden State.
Could Silicon Valley put up one of its own?
It's a potentially powerful idea. A tech-savvy leader replacing Sen. Barbara Boxer, who announced this week she would not seek re-election in 2016, could use the Senate as a bully pulpit to promote how Silicon Valley innovation can improve people's lives.
And with a "Tech Senator," Silicon Valley, which has struggled to gain a footing in national politics, could finally achieve the influence it sees itself deserving.
The Senate seat "presents an opportunity to the tech industry in their own backyard," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, an online publication from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics that analyzes American politics.
The Senate's current stars are those who use their elected positions as a platform for a broader national discussion. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., zeros in on income inequality. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is an immigration advocate and a critic of President Barack Obama's Cuba policies. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, attacks health care reform and goads the Republican party to remember the little guy. And remember, all three of them are in their first terms but have used their membership in what's often billed as the "world's most exclusive club" to raise their national profile....
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Repeal the 17th amendment and it might actually matter. Otherwise it’s a waste of time.
Obola’s unaccompanied children aren’t going to vote for somebody just because they are a techie. They want somebody who is going to give them more free stuff!
Bingo!
Yeah, T.J. Rodgers....ha!
We all know who Silicon Valley supports so I wouldn’t hold out hope here for a sea change in California politics.
Silicon Valley is loaded with liberals so it won’t be much of a change if a techie replaces Boxer.
And the GOP establishment will surely go once again with Neel Kashkari, the Hindu, gay-marriage endorsing, abortion supporting, fan of amnesty for illegal aliens, who admitted voting for Obama. He was their nominee for Governor and I’m betting he will be their choice for US Senate.
The rest of the USA ought to do itself a favor and kick us out of the union.
In Michigan we’ve got a techie governor and a couple of techie billionaires who are raiding the tech sector with a fair amount of success.
Google just bought a skyscraper in downtown Detroit and plans to bring in a thousand or so people to fill it.
I can’t believe how terrible the California Republican Party must truly be to nominate a clown like Kashkari for governor. In a little more than a generation California has gone from a slightly conservative to moderate state to one controlled by the loons on the left.
Bingo!
Demographics is destiny. Whites in California are too liberal and the mass immigration of Hispanics and Asians is creating a populace ever more friendly to the leftist loons.
“I can’t believe how terrible the California Republican Party must truly be to nominate a clown like Kashkari for governor. “
Oh, it wasn’t just the California Republican establishment involved in this. To set the stage we had a Tea Party candidate running in the primary with a lot of success. Tim Donnelly.
Donnelly was doing well until he was attacked by an entire herd of RINOs- Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt on the radio, along with Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Karl Rove, Darrel Issa, Pete Wilson, and Condoleeza Rice.
Their claim was that a Donnelly nomination in California would lead to a national defeat for the GOP in the general election. Keep that in mind next time you see any of these weasels being promoted as a “conservative leader”.
They shouldn’t have too much trouble finding a far left democommie in the Silicon Valley. But it will have to be one willing to reside in the District of Corruption area away from their home mansion and vineyard.
I’ve heard Hewitt on local radio. I also pegged him as an establishment butt-sucker.
No one in their right mind would vote for a techie for anything.
They have no useful life experience; they’d be just another Obama from a different strain.
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It was the RINO front that put Kashkari in.
The Bush family and a cross section of GOPe types sent out a smear mailer about Tim Donnelly - recycling crap about him getting busted at the airport with his CCW in his briefcase. He has to carry that because the Mexican terrorists who abound in this state threatened his life. He was a State Assemblyman at the time, on his way to Sacramento.
But no smear is too small for the useless Mexophilic Bushes. Especially when it comes to a fellow Republican. Lord knows they’d never do that to a Democrat.
So yes, look forward to the Bhagwan Shree Kashkari trying to hypnotize us with his Swami look. See! Proof that Republicans arent all evil racist white pistol carriers hunting poor Mexican drug smugglers just trying to make a living. Vota por Neel! Vota often!
Ed Zschau.
Remember him?
Sssshhheeeeeaaaoooowwwwwwww.
I’m sure a “Tech Senator” would still be a liberal, but it would be an improvement.
Well poor Detroit can certainly use the financial help. Other than that you may end up cursing them.
Few Americans today would believe that when the ‘Boomers were little kids Detroit had the highest standard of living in the USA. And was its fourth largest city. But after a race riot or two, Nader and the environmental movement targeting the auto industry, Japan employing a ‘visible hand’ mercantile strategy, and unions unwilling to face what was coming, we got to see Detroit become a ruin. Only in America.
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