Are you a Republican?
IPac is a bipartisan organization, and some of our founding members vote for Republicans more than for Democrats. On the other hand, within the geek community, there are often two parties: liberals and libertarians.
If you're a libertarian, please voice your thoughts in the comments (such as on the Cato on Wu piece) - IPac is dedicated to pushing for issues where there is common ground between the liberals and libertarians, not just where one group or the other feels strongly.
If you are registered as a Republican, or think you are likely to vote for a Republican in the Presidential election, I'm particularly interested in hearing from you. Which Republican candidates are you most excited about? Right now we know little about their positions concerning information policy, but I'm interested in hearing about where our community is on the candidates in general so far. Speak up in the comments about which Republican contenders excite you the most. We will be reaching out to the Republican campaigns as well as the Democratic ones to identify how they feel about information policy issues.
5 Comments:
I'm not terribly loyal to either party, but I tend to fall on the more liberal side of the fence. That said, if Ron Paul gets the Republican nomination and anybody but Kucinich gets the Democrat slot, I will totally vote Republican. I fired an e-mail to Paul's campaign a while back asking what his stance was on various intellectual property issues and still haven't heard back. If you guys could find out where he's at on IP, it'd be great. In a similar vein, several of the current hopefuls were in the 105th Congress, which passed the DMCA and the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act. Would be nice to hear who was in favor of and against those pieces of legislation, especially since they were passed by voice vote, leaving no record (at least that I can find) of who voted for or against it.
I *used* to consider myself a Republican. A libertarian-leaning one, but still. Bush has kind of ruined that for me. Of course I like Ron Paul but let's not kid ourselves.
McCain is awful. He is the Republican version of Hillary-- he'll say anything to get elected, and those things that he most believes in are either unimportant or wrong. Romney has so far appeared to me to be a lightweight. I am personally fond of Giuliani, thought I acknowledge that he is kind of a lunatic. Don't know much about Thompson yet.
I would vote for Obama over nearly any Republican-- except maybe Guiliani. I would vote for nearly any Republican over Hillary. I might vote for Gore.
Not to be intolerant, but I have little interest in belonging to a PAC that would potentially support a Republican candidate. The GOP platform directly contradicts the stated goals of IPac.
My purpose in giving to this PAC is to reward those Democrats who understand the need for people-first technology over those who are either uninformed of the issues or actively work to benefit corporate interests.
First I think the question is more than a bit insulting. This PAC is about Electronic and Intellectual rights not party lines. To ask Seems to state that anybody who is registered with a R is unable to understand this set of issues.
Second I believe that the core values of the Republican party should be perfectly in line with this PAC. Unfortunately it is not. Nor might I add Is the Democratic Party.
Last I am a Registered Republican , be caws i believe in limited government and individual citizens rights. Dose my party disappoint me, yes but no more so so than any other.
Jerimee there are many Democrats who are far worse on IPac issues than most of the Republicans, both parties have good and bad candidates. Ultimately it will be candidates, not party platforms, that support will be given. I could easily give names of bad and good people on both parties but to ignore candidates because you don't like some DC party platform would in fact qualify as "intolerant".
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