Technologist David Feinstein Levitt challenges for U.S. Senate California
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Sebastopol, CA (PRWEB) 14 February 2012
Dr. David Levitt, a computer scientist and the media has announced his candidacy for the 2012 U.S. Senate seat currently held by said California Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat running in open primaries to 5 June will be held.
“With confidence in the Congress today at a record low of 5%, is generally understood that our political system is broken. Our biggest problems are not solved by the occupants of that culture. In contrast, the culture of Silicon Technology Valley and MIT, it is about understanding and fixing a broken system to enter it, and innovation. This is how our team is approaching the 2012 election race, “says Levitt.
Levitt has a Ph.D. in computer science at MIT, and was a researcher at the Media Lab at MIT before becoming a Silicon Valley scientist, engineer and entrepreneur. The award-winning Macintosh software, patents and acclaimed portable applications and iPad, Levitt has had a career in politics. They combine a national group of new candidates who are driven by the donations of citizens and not as a corporate or PAC money, so their platforms and priorities reflect the public interest.
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Levitt
campaign aims to use advanced broadband Internet, to offer including social networks like Facebook and free video-distribution platforms such as YouTube, voters an alternative to the known corrupt driven campaign today for the money. The campaign also Levitt 2012 uses the online campaign and nation-builder profit of his reign, the new information about candidates for Congress and his has 15 candidates in recent weeks.
In a survey conducted in 2010, when confidence in Congress was higher, 45% of respondents thought that we have better representatives, were randomly selected from the phone book, a further 19% were unsure. “The Americans wanted, I could replace these corrupt political class citizen legislator – that was the idea of the original American writers after all,” says Levitt. “That’s what we do.”
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2012 California U.S. Senate
California Senate 2012 offers particularly dismal broken system today. Companies such as Public Policy at the rate of Sen. Feinstein vote as a “safe” based on: It is the owner, the oldest of the fifth and the richest fifth of the Senate millionaires. Despite these advantages, which spent $ 8 million gain in 2006 race – 30-times the campaigns of all other candidates combined. Been this fall, the Los Angeles Times reported on campaign treasurer arrested child Durkee Feinstein on charges of embezzlement was, and asked Feinstein, who loaned his own campaign to recover $ 5,000,000. Feinstein has also raised hundreds of thousands of California utility companies and the media are actors in the legislative votes of Senator
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Meanwhile the main Republican rival, dentist Orly Taitz, who as “Queen of the women is known to stop,” because of his continued insistence that the President is not in the United States and its efforts to make it born out of the surveys in 2012.
said Dr. Levitt, “Feinstein vote, the apparent conflict to spend Finance, and the need, in a broader sense, to their opponents, and Taitz obsession with birth certificate of the President – are perfect examples of the weaknesses of the old system options has been offering the electorate. That’s not good enough to represent California today. “
manifesto Levitt welcomed
Are Levitt
campaign platform advocates an economic policy of public interest, investing in sustainable energy, infrastructure and job training, health care, single payer, end the war on drugs, and popular political power, war and finance that PAC use group leader don ‘t dare to support.
“When I test the waters around the state, the public was delighted and grateful I am to inspire the spectators in the Senate, Democrats took me aside to say:..” Do not say I support Dianne. I have to work with her. Over time, I was beginning to feel that I was drafted, “says Levitt.
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major changes to the Rules of Procedure of California
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again in 2012 primary races in California open the mandate of the last passage of the Proposition is 14 This year there will be separate primaries of the Democrats, Republicans, or elsewhere in California. Instead, in each race, the two will be on a larger number of combined primary votes in June to appear on the ballot November. This means that in November, California voters can choose between two Democrats in the Senate race. “This year, vote for the Democrats best shot at maintaining Orly Taitz, or any other Republican on the November elections in June Levitt,” says Sheila Harden, Levitt 2012 Campaign Manager.
California is the most populous state in the U.S., with over 36 million people, 1/8 of the people in the nation. It is also the state of broadband digital wired. Dr. Levitt campaign aims to appeal to Democrats, Independents and other non-voters – most of them refused to vote in 2006
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While Levitt
2012 Costs for personnel, travel and include hosting, expect his team to a small fraction of what usually happens Feinstein campaign need. Free Software for decades not to be sustainable. But entrepreneurs such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation founder John Gilmore has shown that a large service paid for free software can be a very profitable business model to be. Now technology has allowed campaigns. Gilmore was one of the first Levitt enthusiastic campaign of 2012.
Levitt says. “Democrats and the Republicans think it would cost millions for the campaign – and we want to believe all voters and potential opponents, which was in the 20th century were the case, as the television commercials to distribute only way to video messaging. But today it is only because politicians and feel television enterprise networks prefer a race for corporate money and paid ads. They deny that more and more voters skip commercials with the DVR, view and share videos online friends recommended instead.
“If these politicians campaigned on the way politics and lose their only hope is to ordinary people who can not convince without running into the same corrupt money system, but is actually better than never .. – there’s even video unlimited civil-financed candidates on the ballot to the curtain and show that the Great Oz is not omnipotent
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“fill in the past year a dozen or so and have the money obtained from political campaigns initiated. Professor Lawrence Lessig, Dylan Ratigan and MSNBC, another” we ask a new law, amendment or need the Convention? Do we have the decision of the Court Citizens United SuperPACS illegal or reverse? But all you really need to do is to seek and support candidates who refuse corporate money, and reject anyone who thinks they need to win by outspending their opponents. It starts now. “
Dr. Levitt BeYourGovernment
and over again to recruit new candidates for the Citizens for a career in 2012. “We have been a dozen House candidates Sean Closson 2012 as the New Mexico District 3, Norman Solomon, the District of California, 2 and Jeanne van der Hurk District of South Carolina 3 are connected. We need more candidates Senate who are not in possession of companies, for open seats and “safe” states like Utah, Texas and Arizona, there are literally hundreds of ways this can be a democratic revolution, 2012 – … a kind of non-violent American version of the Arab spring and should not in fact a good example the Americans? “
Levitt
application starts today
Dr. Levitt has been interviewed on television
is that now the Young Turks Engage Wall Street New York, as well as appearances on radio and podcast, the description of the California Senate race and the need for a new candidate.
In announcing his
to the Senate today, said Levitt, “We will not demonize or to distort our political opponents often unfairly, as they do, but we need to be honest about the records of our opponents
“Dianne Feinstein, by the unnecessary war in Iraq drove to win the fight against drugs and not modern, and even voted for the Prohibition Act of 1999, warned that his colleagues would lead to a major financial crisis a decade .. These errors cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives have regularly sponsors law to be unconstitutional, as soon as the Patriot Act and defunding ACORN, however, it is not so much as ‘offer go -. my bad’ their constituents, colleagues or victims. The fact that Dianne Feinstein, to continue in office after 20 years with as little accountability as an indicator of how broken our political system was strong. the fact that until now had no serious challengers Feinstein confirmed in 2012 the Senate that under the old system , only the age of money and the game that mattered. that’s changing. “
citizens from David Levitt in 2012 funding for the U.S. Senate campaign received donations online at Levitt2012.org/Donate.
Donations can also
by the Democratic ActBlue https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/levitt2012launch network are carried out.
the registered voters of California can collect signatures for the nomination Levitt, and help to give up the registration fees of the campaign by downloading nomination forms in the Levitt2012.org/ballot_volunteers and presentation of business by 23 voters February 2012.
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