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Re:This Open Source Coder Wants to be a Congressman by itsdrewmiller on Friday March 14, 2014 @02:16PM (#7400742)
Geez hacker news, talk about a can't win! The top comment is complaining that he needs to have a broad appeal instead of focus on tech issues and the second highest is complaining he sounds too generic and should talk more about niche online issues.

I know Dave personally and will say that if the healthcare.gov debacle bothered you, there is probably not another person in the world with as clear a view into that dysfunction and with the passion to end it.

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Re:This Open Source Coder Wants to be a Congressman by spikels on Friday March 14, 2014 @03:15PM (#7401105)
Sorry but he is clearly playing down his involvement with tech in the article - oddly to Wired - for exactly the top comment's reasons. I hope it is not a barrier to being a politician. His website is upfront about being an "engineer" and even "entrepreneur" but still mostly generic.

I would love to hear about his experience with the healthcare.gov mess and his thoughts on how to avoid these problems in the future. There are dozens of similar extremely important federal governmant IT project experiencing similar problems.

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