IPac launches FireHatch.com
Today we kicked off an important campaign aimed at the 2006 elections. We thought long and hard about which candidate we should pick for the first of our targeted races, and we kept coming back to the Senate contest in Utah. We aren't picking this race only because Orrin Hatch is the Hollywood cartels' go-to guy for outrageous legislation, or because he wants to blow up computers used for file sharing. We picked this race because it is a clear example of good vs. evil. Running against Senator Hatch is Pete Ashdown. Pete understands the importance of balanced information policy, that's why he's signed IPac's Statement of Principles. Pete founded the oldest ISP in Utah and even has a wiki on his campaign website so every voter in Utah can contribute ideas to his campaign. Today we launched FireHatch.com so that geeks can contribute money to his campaign, too.
FireHatch.com is an important step for everyone concerned with the Hollywood cartels' control over our Government. Politicians like Hatch have gotten away with selling out their constituents because nobody has held them accountable. If we can force Senator Hatch to answer for his actions, we’ve made it that much harder to sponsor and vote for legislation that would impose an innovation tax on Americans.
6 Comments:
If I could vote legally, and if I lived in the proper state, I would vote for him. I still have a few more years to go.
I submitted this to digg for you, hopefully help recieve more attention.
Tom Vendetta
Actually, the ??AA have lapdogs like Berman and Coble who are much more responsive to them than Hatch (who, as a hobbyist musician, at least has a self-motivated reason to have a misguided outlook on copyright).
I'd also like to see IPac take a positive outlook on folks like Boucher, Sununu, and Lofgren, who have really stepped up to the plate in terms of fair use, public domain, and consumer rights. Praise can be hard to come by, and it would be good for IPac to offer such praise to the people who are doing a good job in addition to criticizing the ones who are failing us. You don't want to seem like typical bitter political extremists, after all, especially considering how mainstream and important this topic is.
Finally, if Pete Ashdown has a website and wiki, you might consider actually posting a link to it in your post here.
http://www.peteashdown.com/ is Pete's website.
http://vote.peteashdown.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page is his wiki.
I think this is a wrong move. Hatch is to big and to powerfull in a state that votes almost entirely republican. I would hope that efforts are put in to eliminating a smaller target and thus scaring other canidates into paying more attention to the issues.
I know he is one of the worst offenders and big on everybodies list.
After living in Utah for 8 years, however, I can safely say that he will be easily re-elected. This is just my opinion, and I am not a hatch supporter. I just would like to see the limited resources of this new pac. be used on easier targets.
Yes, Utah votes strong Republican, but has been known to have some close races for the right Democrat. We almost ended up with a Democratic governor.
Also, alot of Republicans are pissed off at Hatch, and more would be if they heard the truth.
-Bob
Actually, this move can make strategic sense even if the Hatch machine is too deeply entrenched to take down.
The Utah TV and radio market is relatively isolated, so traditional broadcast expenditures there won't have much effect elsewhere. But the net ignores geographic market boundaries, so net messages targetted against Hatch's favoritism towards monopolies will have spillover effects elsewhere.
Think of it as asymetric warfare: The operational concept is to force the adversary to dissipate incredible resources fighting in some isolated theatre.
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