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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Samantha Clark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/aam-aadmi-party-india-elections-silicon-valley-ex-pats/img_3500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135669\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/IMG_3500-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Parwaz Virk, left, and Dilawar Chahal volunteer for the Aam Aadmi Party, making phone calls to India to ask people for their votes from Chahal's office in Sunnyvale Friday, May 9. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parwaz Virk, left, and Dilawar Chahal volunteer for the Aam Aadmi Party, making phone calls to India to ask people for their votes from Chahal’s office in Sunnyvale Friday, May 9. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monday, India wrapped up six weeks of voting in its \u003ca href=\"http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/a-primer-on-indias-parliamentary-elections/\">parliamentary elections\u003c/a>. Some \u003ca href=\"http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Highest-ever-voter-turnout-recorded-in-2014-polls-govt-spending-doubled-since-2009/articleshow/35033135.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">551 million people — 66.4 percent of the more than 800 million eligible voters — went to the polls\u003c/a> to choose 543 members of India’s lower house of Parliament. It’s been described as the largest democratic election in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, a large number of Indian expatriates are avidly following the results, which are expected to be announced on or by Friday, May 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many are doing more than watching. Last Friday night, teams of Indian expats in San Francisco, Fremont and Sunnyvale worked all night calling voters halfway across the world to urge them to vote for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aamaadmiparty.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aam Aadmi Party\u003c/a> (AAP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Indians have poured a large amount of effort, money and technology into the AAP, even though \u003ca href=\"http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/arvindkejriwalacommonmaninpolitics/spl3-lid.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">party leader and candidate for prime minister, Arvind Kejriwal,\u003c/a> is a long shot to win. The campaign is worth it, the party’s supporters say, because they are investing in a long-term effort to eliminate the corruption that has long characterized India’s bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Friday night’s calling marathon, a team of about 15 volunteers, mostly tech workers, gathered in a four-room insurance office in Sunnyvale, ate samosas and helped one another connect to a weak Internet signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they began making phone calls to voters in \u003ca href=\"http://www.lonelyplanet.com/india/uttar-pradesh/varanasi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the city of Varanasi\u003c/a>, where Kejriwal is running against Narendra Modi, leader of the powerful \u003ca href=\"http://www.bjp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bharatiya Janata Party\u003c/a> that’s expected to win the national election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello. Namaste,” they each said into their iPhone headphone mics as they paced around the rooms, gesturing as if the people they were speaking to were right in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a script. It’s just us talking, not the party,” volunteer Parwaz Virk said. “When we tell them we’re calling from California, they listen because it’s surprising. What we have to say must be important if people from all the way over here are calling in the middle of the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-AAP teams throughout California made nearly 7,000 calls Friday night, almost a quarter of the party’s total of 28,000 campaign calls that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the volunteers in Sunnyvale said they’ve had little or no interest in politics before this because India’s established parties offered no progress and no platforms they could support. They called the AAP a cause and a movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The revolution has turned it into a political party,” Virk said. “It’s just based on issues people care about. It’s heartening to see India become more democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-Corruption Movement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kejriwal and the AAP (which translates as the Common Man’s Party) say they are committed to cleaning up a system polluted with graft, nepotism and other types of criminality. The AAP grew out of an anti-corruption movement that emerged inside India in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Indian expatriates have been leaving their jobs to volunteer for the party or even return to India to run on the AAP’s ticket. Others are using their technical skills to support the AAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Indians who’ve come to the West, they see how politics and bureaucracy work,” said Pran Kurup, CEO and founder of e-learning company \u003ca href=\"http://www.vitalect.com/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitalect\u003c/a> and a coordinator for the AAP Bay Area group.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Some Indian expatriates have been leaving their jobs to volunteer for the party or even return to India to run on the AAP’s ticket.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And then they go back to India where people don’t have basic necessities like water and electricity,” Kurup said. “The Aam Aadmi Party is doing things that haven’t been done before in Indian politics. After seeing what Obama said about hope, people here saw there were opportunities to do similar things in India. It’s a powerful message that has had a, what we call in Silicon Valley, viral effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135675\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/aam-aadmi-party-india-elections-silicon-valley-ex-pats/img_3506/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135675\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-135675 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/IMG_3506-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Abhishek Goswami, right, explains to fellow Aam Aadmi Party volunteer Dilawar Chahal how the phone calling works. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abhishek Goswami, right, explains to fellow Aam Aadmi Party volunteer Dilawar Chahal how the phone calling works. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are about 400 AAP volunteers in California and 2,000 nationwide. Kurup helped run the more than 200-strong volunteer base in Silicon Valley, which at the start of the elections became the party’s unofficial technology team, working closely with colleagues back in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech workers are very involved because there is a lot of scope for technology to be applied,” Kurup said. “A huge chunk of the underlying technology platforms were developed by tech workers out of India. We can’t all be involved in the ground operations, but involved in cyberspace. We can apply our skills to a cause that matters to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley team built back-end systems using open-source software. The resulting social networking site, \u003ca href=\"my.aamaadmiparty.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my.aamaadmiparty.org\u003c/a>, connects supporters by listing them in a database and allows them to share information, such as news articles and blog posts. They also coordinate Google Hangout sessions between the party’s candidates and voters, and they built the infrastructure for a phone-calling campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps their biggest contribution has been the building of a fundraising system that promotes financial transparency. The name of everyone who donates and the amount are listed. So is how the party spends the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every penny that the party gets is accounted for,” Kurup said. “This is unheard of in Indian politics. The purpose of the AAP is not to grab power but to change how politics function in India. The first step was to change how funding works, so we stepped up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likens the party’s emphasis on transparency to the open-source movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall, the open-source movement helps to move technology forward,” Kurup said. “So transparency is a huge part of what the party stands for. Linux was not to put Microsoft out of business. At some level, it was to keep Microsoft honest and to give people more options and move technology forward. That’s precisely what the AAP can accomplish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priya James used to make marketing videos for startups in Silicon Valley, but she decided to quit her job to volunteer for the AAP. From her home and from the community workspace Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, she creates and edits almost all of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/indiACor2010/videos\">AAP’s political videos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The AAP has peanuts compared to the other big parties,” James said. “I told myself I have to give at least one year of my time to the AAP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From Volunteer to Candidate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Vishwakarma also left her job as a UCSF cancer cell researcher, working on leukemia vaccines and bone-marrow gene therapy, to work as an organizer for the AAP, after she founded the Bay Area group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving San Francisco in January, she returned to her hometown of Hoshangabad, a town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to help the AAP find a local candidate for Parliament.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived five years in the U.S. When I go back to India, I do not see any change — that bothers me. They always ask for bribes,” Vishwakarma said. “The roads are still bad. No hospitals, no access to clean water, people are illiterate. If we can have it in the U.S., why not my country?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she had no luck finding someone to run on the party’s ticket, so her AAP colleagues suggested she should run herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Why not?’ If you are not part of the system, you can’t change anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vishwakarma then went door to door, asking people about their concerns and for their votes. She said this campaign strategy is unusual in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found a different India than what I see on the news,” she said. “For the first time, candidates are asking their problems. They were really glad. They feel like we don’t want their money. We just want to solve their problems. These kind of experiences, you get them not from reading a news story or watching TV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vishwakarma said if she doesn’t win, she’ll continue to work with the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area volunteers in Sunnyvale on Friday night said they know change will most likely come slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, if Kejriwal doesn’t win, it would be a failure,” Virk said. “But out of 543 seats, even if we won 20, it would be a big success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said securing just a few seats might win more supporters. Just a year after the AAP formed in 2012, the party surprised people by beating the ruling Congress Party in Delhi’s state elections. Then last December, Kejriwal was elected as chief minister of Delhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was when I decided I need to be part of it,” said Virk, who called himself a “fence-sitter.” “I am hoping if we have even a little bit of success, more people jump in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later this year, there will be more state elections in India. Virk said he’ll continue volunteering for the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This movement is going to continue in the same spirit because, for us, it is the revolution,” Virk said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Samantha Clark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/aam-aadmi-party-india-elections-silicon-valley-ex-pats/img_3500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135669\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/IMG_3500-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Parwaz Virk, left, and Dilawar Chahal volunteer for the Aam Aadmi Party, making phone calls to India to ask people for their votes from Chahal's office in Sunnyvale Friday, May 9. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parwaz Virk, left, and Dilawar Chahal volunteer for the Aam Aadmi Party, making phone calls to India to ask people for their votes from Chahal’s office in Sunnyvale Friday, May 9. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monday, India wrapped up six weeks of voting in its \u003ca href=\"http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/a-primer-on-indias-parliamentary-elections/\">parliamentary elections\u003c/a>. Some \u003ca href=\"http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Highest-ever-voter-turnout-recorded-in-2014-polls-govt-spending-doubled-since-2009/articleshow/35033135.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">551 million people — 66.4 percent of the more than 800 million eligible voters — went to the polls\u003c/a> to choose 543 members of India’s lower house of Parliament. It’s been described as the largest democratic election in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, a large number of Indian expatriates are avidly following the results, which are expected to be announced on or by Friday, May 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many are doing more than watching. Last Friday night, teams of Indian expats in San Francisco, Fremont and Sunnyvale worked all night calling voters halfway across the world to urge them to vote for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aamaadmiparty.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aam Aadmi Party\u003c/a> (AAP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Indians have poured a large amount of effort, money and technology into the AAP, even though \u003ca href=\"http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/arvindkejriwalacommonmaninpolitics/spl3-lid.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">party leader and candidate for prime minister, Arvind Kejriwal,\u003c/a> is a long shot to win. The campaign is worth it, the party’s supporters say, because they are investing in a long-term effort to eliminate the corruption that has long characterized India’s bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Friday night’s calling marathon, a team of about 15 volunteers, mostly tech workers, gathered in a four-room insurance office in Sunnyvale, ate samosas and helped one another connect to a weak Internet signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they began making phone calls to voters in \u003ca href=\"http://www.lonelyplanet.com/india/uttar-pradesh/varanasi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the city of Varanasi\u003c/a>, where Kejriwal is running against Narendra Modi, leader of the powerful \u003ca href=\"http://www.bjp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bharatiya Janata Party\u003c/a> that’s expected to win the national election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello. Namaste,” they each said into their iPhone headphone mics as they paced around the rooms, gesturing as if the people they were speaking to were right in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a script. It’s just us talking, not the party,” volunteer Parwaz Virk said. “When we tell them we’re calling from California, they listen because it’s surprising. What we have to say must be important if people from all the way over here are calling in the middle of the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-AAP teams throughout California made nearly 7,000 calls Friday night, almost a quarter of the party’s total of 28,000 campaign calls that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the volunteers in Sunnyvale said they’ve had little or no interest in politics before this because India’s established parties offered no progress and no platforms they could support. They called the AAP a cause and a movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The revolution has turned it into a political party,” Virk said. “It’s just based on issues people care about. It’s heartening to see India become more democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-Corruption Movement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kejriwal and the AAP (which translates as the Common Man’s Party) say they are committed to cleaning up a system polluted with graft, nepotism and other types of criminality. The AAP grew out of an anti-corruption movement that emerged inside India in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Indian expatriates have been leaving their jobs to volunteer for the party or even return to India to run on the AAP’s ticket. Others are using their technical skills to support the AAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Indians who’ve come to the West, they see how politics and bureaucracy work,” said Pran Kurup, CEO and founder of e-learning company \u003ca href=\"http://www.vitalect.com/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitalect\u003c/a> and a coordinator for the AAP Bay Area group.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Some Indian expatriates have been leaving their jobs to volunteer for the party or even return to India to run on the AAP’s ticket.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And then they go back to India where people don’t have basic necessities like water and electricity,” Kurup said. “The Aam Aadmi Party is doing things that haven’t been done before in Indian politics. After seeing what Obama said about hope, people here saw there were opportunities to do similar things in India. It’s a powerful message that has had a, what we call in Silicon Valley, viral effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135675\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/aam-aadmi-party-india-elections-silicon-valley-ex-pats/img_3506/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135675\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-135675 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/IMG_3506-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Abhishek Goswami, right, explains to fellow Aam Aadmi Party volunteer Dilawar Chahal how the phone calling works. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abhishek Goswami, right, explains to fellow Aam Aadmi Party volunteer Dilawar Chahal how the phone calling works. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are about 400 AAP volunteers in California and 2,000 nationwide. Kurup helped run the more than 200-strong volunteer base in Silicon Valley, which at the start of the elections became the party’s unofficial technology team, working closely with colleagues back in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech workers are very involved because there is a lot of scope for technology to be applied,” Kurup said. “A huge chunk of the underlying technology platforms were developed by tech workers out of India. We can’t all be involved in the ground operations, but involved in cyberspace. We can apply our skills to a cause that matters to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley team built back-end systems using open-source software. The resulting social networking site, \u003ca href=\"my.aamaadmiparty.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my.aamaadmiparty.org\u003c/a>, connects supporters by listing them in a database and allows them to share information, such as news articles and blog posts. They also coordinate Google Hangout sessions between the party’s candidates and voters, and they built the infrastructure for a phone-calling campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps their biggest contribution has been the building of a fundraising system that promotes financial transparency. The name of everyone who donates and the amount are listed. So is how the party spends the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every penny that the party gets is accounted for,” Kurup said. “This is unheard of in Indian politics. The purpose of the AAP is not to grab power but to change how politics function in India. The first step was to change how funding works, so we stepped up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likens the party’s emphasis on transparency to the open-source movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall, the open-source movement helps to move technology forward,” Kurup said. “So transparency is a huge part of what the party stands for. Linux was not to put Microsoft out of business. At some level, it was to keep Microsoft honest and to give people more options and move technology forward. That’s precisely what the AAP can accomplish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priya James used to make marketing videos for startups in Silicon Valley, but she decided to quit her job to volunteer for the AAP. From her home and from the community workspace Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, she creates and edits almost all of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/indiACor2010/videos\">AAP’s political videos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The AAP has peanuts compared to the other big parties,” James said. “I told myself I have to give at least one year of my time to the AAP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From Volunteer to Candidate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Vishwakarma also left her job as a UCSF cancer cell researcher, working on leukemia vaccines and bone-marrow gene therapy, to work as an organizer for the AAP, after she founded the Bay Area group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving San Francisco in January, she returned to her hometown of Hoshangabad, a town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to help the AAP find a local candidate for Parliament.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived five years in the U.S. When I go back to India, I do not see any change — that bothers me. They always ask for bribes,” Vishwakarma said. “The roads are still bad. No hospitals, no access to clean water, people are illiterate. If we can have it in the U.S., why not my country?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she had no luck finding someone to run on the party’s ticket, so her AAP colleagues suggested she should run herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Why not?’ If you are not part of the system, you can’t change anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vishwakarma then went door to door, asking people about their concerns and for their votes. She said this campaign strategy is unusual in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found a different India than what I see on the news,” she said. “For the first time, candidates are asking their problems. They were really glad. They feel like we don’t want their money. We just want to solve their problems. These kind of experiences, you get them not from reading a news story or watching TV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vishwakarma said if she doesn’t win, she’ll continue to work with the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area volunteers in Sunnyvale on Friday night said they know change will most likely come slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, if Kejriwal doesn’t win, it would be a failure,” Virk said. “But out of 543 seats, even if we won 20, it would be a big success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said securing just a few seats might win more supporters. Just a year after the AAP formed in 2012, the party surprised people by beating the ruling Congress Party in Delhi’s state elections. 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(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roughly 300 people showed up at Fremont City Hall Saturday night to see Rep. \u003ca href=\"http://honda.house.gov/\">Mike Honda\u003c/a> face off with the candidates vying to unseat him. As they lined up to get inside, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rokhanna.com/\">Ro Khanna\u003c/a> supporters wearing orange and green face paint waved signs bearing his name, and yelled “We want Ro!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Forum features a surprise performance from a left-leaning Republican and glosses over a major issue in the race: the candidates’ ages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The event, put on by the League of Women Voters of San Jose/Santa Clara, was the first, and possibly only, opportunity to see Honda and Khanna in the same room. Khanna (and local papers) have called repeatedly for debates, but Honda’s campaign has refused, following a fairly traditional political strategy for long-term incumbents. Why take a chance on making a public gaffe or showing up poorly against a rival trailing in the polls?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda did seem uncomfortable, sometimes fumbling over his phrasing and running up repeatedly against the time limits in the forum, tightly moderated by \u003cspan class=\"st\">\u003ca href=\"http://sjsc.ca.lwvnet.org/Message.html\">Gloria Chun Hoo\u003c/a>, president of the local LWV. But if audience members were unaware, walking in, of Honda’s 14-year tenure as a progressive liberal in Congress, they would have known a lot about Honda walking out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had results,” he said, “and the results I’ve brought to this valley, was for everybody and not for a few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocating for the “voiceless” was a theme Honda hit on throughout the evening. He has championed human rights and civil rights during his time in Washington, and he’s also been known as a reliable ally of the valley’s technology interests. But now that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/CA/17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17th District\u003c/a> has been redrawn to hug Silicon Valley more tightly, simply being pro-tech may not be enough for voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a series of easy re-elections since first winning the seat in 2000, Honda finds himself facing a tech-tastic challenger bankrolled by Silicon Valley titans, including Eric Schmidt of Google, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, to the tune of $3.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ro Khanna introduced himself thus: “My background as an economics teacher at Stanford, as someone who has written a book on manufacturing, as someone who’s worked at the Commerce Department on economic issues, makes me uniquely suited to address the challenges.” Later on, he noted he has developed a “detailed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rokhanna.com/jobsplan\">seven-point plan\u003c/a> on how to create jobs” in the 17th District and across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda countered that he brought the region $900 million to fund building a BART extension to San Jose. “That is what people want,” Honda said. “They want results, and that’s what I’ve done. It’s not theory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest surprise of the forum was Republican \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelvanlandingham\">Joel Vanlandingham\u003c/a>, a tech industry recruiter who has largely flown under the radar in this primary campaign. He’s urging supporters to donate to charity, rather than financially support his effort, and he slammed Honda and Khanna for raising millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want your money,” Vanlandingham told the audience. “I want you to sit down and evaluate your candidates and see who is going to represent you the best. Who can you put your faith in?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 44 percent to 19 percent in the 17th District, and all three men hewed to the left on a wide range of issues. They all oppose fracking and offshore oil drilling. They all support limits on campaign contributions, decreased spending on the military, universal background checks for gun purchasers, equal pay for women in the workforce, strengthening the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, taking immediate action to fight climate change, and a carbon tax on fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest difference between them was the one thing no candidate has directly addressed in this campaign: age. Honda is 72. Khanna is 37. But outside, after the forum, the issue was obvious in this comment from Khanna supporter Kathy Pike of Cupertino. “He’s young. He’s fresh.” Her husband Tom chimed in, saying that as the evening wore on, “He [Honda] couldn’t enunciate his positions as well. Whereas I thought Ro was really strong at the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the evening wore on, a group of pro-Honda chanters arrived to duel with the pro-Khanna crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got Obama,” they sang, referring not only to the president’s endorsement, but a \u003ca href=\"http://mikehonda.com/endorsements/\">long list\u003c/a> of top Democrats, including Sens. Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one no-show at the forum, Stanford doctor \u003ca href=\"http://www.vanilasingh.com/\">Vanila Singh\u003c/a>, has the backing of the GOP’s Silicon Valley chapter. Vanlandingham accused the group of failing to give him a fair chance to compete for its endorsement. 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(Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404020850/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the story on The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/directory?q=startup+event&loc=Washington%2C+DC\">delegation\u003c/a> of representatives from Silicon Valley start-ups is making the rounds in Washington, D.C., to press for patent reform legislation. Even in an election year, proponents are optimistic they can garner bipartisan support to tackle what many consider a cancer in high tech: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack\">patent lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Samuels is executive director of the group organizing this week’s lobbying trip: \u003ca href=\"http://engine.is/\">Engine\u003c/a>. “The House of Representatives last December passed a bill, and the White House has already said it would sign it. And it looks like the Senate is hopefully going to pass a similar bill that will make this better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engine goes to bat for small firms in tech — as opposed to, say, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/about_us\">Fwd.us\u003c/a> a lobbying organization that’s garnered national attention with big names like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Samuels says tech companies big and small share many of the same interests: patent reform, net neutrality, cybersecurity, copyrights, taxes and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list is growing, along with Silicon Valley’s clout in the nation’s capital. Sarah Bryner is research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/\">Center for Responsive Politics\u003c/a>, a campaign finance watchdog. She says that in 2013 Big Tech was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\">#4 Big Spende\u003c/a>r on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Industry\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Pharmaceuticals/Health Products\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$225,715,937\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Insurance\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$153,116,559\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oil & Gas\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$144,682,462\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Computers/Internet\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>$140,297,606\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Electric Utilities\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$129,618,239\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>TV/Movies/Music\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$117,972,447\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Business Associations\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$108,371,903\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 1998, which is the earliest year that I have data for, the industry has increased their lobbying by 258 percent, and that’s more than double the rate at which the lobbying industry as a whole has increased their activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., for a half-century now. \u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, one of the first major Valley firms\u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">,\u003c/a> was a military contractor. One of its co-founders, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard\">David Packard\u003c/a>, served in the Defense Department during the Nixon administration. Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. But now, you see not necessarily newer — but newer to the game — players like Yahoo, and Facebook is climbing, and Twitter just hired a lobbyist this last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Google was No.1 by a wide margin, having spent $14 million on lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Client/Parent\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Google Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$14,060,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Microsoft Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$10,490,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oracle Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$7,190,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hewlett-Packard\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,921,692\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Facebook Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,430,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>IBM Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,950,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Entertainment Software Assn\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,210,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Intel Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$4,393,750\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Amazon.com\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,456,831\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Apple Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,370,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google actually is one of the few companies that hired a former member of Congress on their own staff to do lobbying,” Bryner notes. “Most companies that hire [former] members of Congress do so using lobbying firms based in D.C., but Google \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/susan-molinari-adds-to-googles-political-firepower.html?pagewanted=all\">hired Susan Molinari\u003c/a> of New York from their own payroll. And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. 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(Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Julie Samuels, from Engine, moderated yet another panel discussion in San Francisco on the challenge of expanding the labor pool in tech. Right off the bat, she acknowledged the argument that companies should do more to find and cultivate homegrown talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to find good engineers, and there are two sides of this. It’s the businesses who can’t find people, but it’s also the people who want to be there and can’t get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was held at a start-up incubator called \u003ca href=\"http://www.parisoma.com/\">PariSoma\u003c/a>, and organized by Fwd.us. The crowd was young, hip and international. Mexican native Miguel Cervera is a software engineer at \u003ca href=\"@MiguelCervera\">Twitter\u003c/a>. Over sliders and beer, the 23-year-old expressed distress over the lack of movement on immigration reform.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see for the people to stop thinking that we are coming here to steal jobs,” Cervera said. “As an immigrant, that’s how I feel, that –- maybe not here in the city, the city is really open in that aspect — but in other places, I feel like if I am Mexican, and I am coming here, they think I am here to steal some other U.S. citizens’ jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even outside Silicon Valley, American opinion may be changing faster than Cervera realizes. A February bipartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/poll_support_immigration_reform\">poll\u003c/a> that Fwd.us likes to quote found a thousand likely general election voters nationwide overwhelmingly support immigration reform. Whatever happens in D.C. – or doesn’t – Silicon Valley money is working hard to keep immigration reform near the top of the legislative agenda. Patent reform, however, could graduate from the Senate Judiciary Committee as early as this month.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-131168\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS2361_108330194-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404020850/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the story on The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/directory?q=startup+event&loc=Washington%2C+DC\">delegation\u003c/a> of representatives from Silicon Valley start-ups is making the rounds in Washington, D.C., to press for patent reform legislation. Even in an election year, proponents are optimistic they can garner bipartisan support to tackle what many consider a cancer in high tech: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack\">patent lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Samuels is executive director of the group organizing this week’s lobbying trip: \u003ca href=\"http://engine.is/\">Engine\u003c/a>. “The House of Representatives last December passed a bill, and the White House has already said it would sign it. And it looks like the Senate is hopefully going to pass a similar bill that will make this better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engine goes to bat for small firms in tech — as opposed to, say, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/about_us\">Fwd.us\u003c/a> a lobbying organization that’s garnered national attention with big names like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Samuels says tech companies big and small share many of the same interests: patent reform, net neutrality, cybersecurity, copyrights, taxes and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list is growing, along with Silicon Valley’s clout in the nation’s capital. Sarah Bryner is research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/\">Center for Responsive Politics\u003c/a>, a campaign finance watchdog. She says that in 2013 Big Tech was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\">#4 Big Spende\u003c/a>r on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Industry\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Pharmaceuticals/Health Products\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$225,715,937\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Insurance\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$153,116,559\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oil & Gas\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$144,682,462\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Computers/Internet\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>$140,297,606\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Electric Utilities\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$129,618,239\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>TV/Movies/Music\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$117,972,447\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Business Associations\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$108,371,903\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. But now, you see not necessarily newer — but newer to the game — players like Yahoo, and Facebook is climbing, and Twitter just hired a lobbyist this last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Google was No.1 by a wide margin, having spent $14 million on lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Client/Parent\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Google Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$14,060,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Microsoft Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$10,490,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oracle Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$7,190,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hewlett-Packard\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,921,692\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Facebook Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,430,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>IBM Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,950,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Entertainment Software Assn\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,210,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Intel Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$4,393,750\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Amazon.com\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,456,831\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Apple Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,370,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google actually is one of the few companies that hired a former member of Congress on their own staff to do lobbying,” Bryner notes. “Most companies that hire [former] members of Congress do so using lobbying firms based in D.C., but Google \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/susan-molinari-adds-to-googles-political-firepower.html?pagewanted=all\">hired Susan Molinari\u003c/a> of New York from their own payroll. And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. 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Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124836\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/158209376.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-124836\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/158209376-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Henry Waxman, a Los Angeles Democrat, announced he's retiring after 20 terms in Congress. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Henry Waxman, a Los Angeles Democrat, announced he’s retiring after 20 terms in Congress. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shake-up in California’s congressional delegation continues. This morning, Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, 74, of Los Angeles, announced that he won’t seek re-election this fall after 20 terms in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Waxman’s announcement, four of the state’s 53 House members have announced they’re retiring after the current session of Congress. Rep. George Miller, like Waxman an influential liberal Democrat, announced earlier this month that he won’t seek re-election. Miller and Waxman were both first elected to Congress in 1974.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Southern California Republicans, Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon of Santa Clarita, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. John Campbell of Irvine have also announced they’ll give up their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://waxman.house.gov/press-release/rep-henry-waxman-announces-plans-retire-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a statement\u003c/a>, Waxman said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I first ran for office because I believe government can be a force for good in people’s lives. I have held this view throughout my career in Congress. And I will leave the House of Representatives with my conviction intact. I have learned that progress is not always easy. It can take years of dedication and struggle. But it’s worth fighting for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents were scarred by the Great Depression and as a result they were ardent Democrats. They believed in the ideals of this wonderful country and made sure that I had the opportunity to be the first in the family to get a college education. They taught me that the special interests have plenty of advocates; It’s the poor, the sick, and the powerless who need a champion in Congress. And that’s what I’ve strived to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take pride in my legislative accomplishments.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-henry-waxman-retire-congress-20140130,0,7708869.story#axzz2rtyvSQWG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Los Angeles Times recounts this morning\u003c/a>, laws that Waxman wrote have had a wide impact in American life:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a 2008 speech, Rep. Jan Schakowsky. D-Ill., delivered a speech illustrating the breadth of Waxman’s legislative achievements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding up a bag of potato chips, Schakowsky said, “There is a nutrition label on the bag that we all know and take for granted. Henry Waxman wrote the law that puts these labels on the bag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lifting a bottle of pills, she said, “Henry Waxman wrote the law that created the generic drug industry.” Then displaying an apple, she said, “Henry Waxman wrote the law that removed dangerous pesticide from apples and other foods.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/132280830&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waxman also led a high-profile campaign to expose tobacco industry marketing practices; has long fought for expanding public health coverage and was a major supporter of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act; was an author of the federal Clean Air Act and a leading voice for the government to take action on climate change; and even led hearings into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statement indicated he’s not pleased with the ideological polarization in the House today — a state of affairs perhaps best illustrated by House Republicans’ attempt to curb the new health care law last fall, a moved that led to a 16-day shutdown of the federal government. But Waxman said that’s not why he’s leaving Congress:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“There are elements of Congress today that I do not like. I abhor the extremism of the Tea Party Republicans. I am embarrassed that the greatest legislative body in the world too often operates in a partisan intellectual vacuum, denying science, refusing to listen to experts, and ignoring facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I am not leaving out of frustration with Congress. Even in today’s environment, there are opportunities to make real progress. Last Congress, I worked with Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate to pass legislation that will ease the nation’s growing spectrum shortage, spur innovation in new ‘Super WiFi’ technologies, and create a national broadband network for first responders. 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(Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Gabriel Bouys/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been called a lobbying group, a political action committee and a super PAC. But it is not really any of those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s organized under \u003ca href=\"http://source2012.tumblr.com/post/25957855597/cts-explains-nonprofit-groups-a-k-a-501-c-4-s\">Section 501(c)(4)\u003c/a> of the federal tax code, which covers “social welfare” groups. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopici03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the IRS notes\u003c/a>, the law defines these groups very broadly: “An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting in some way the common good and general welfare of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 501(c)(4)s enjoy charity status, but unlike the more familiar 501(c)(3)s, they can get involved in politics as long as they don’t campaign for or against a specific candidate. And unlike PACs and super PACs, they don’t file campaign disclosure reports with the Federal Election Commission. They can take donations of any amount and spend as much as they want, and they’re not required to say where their money comes from.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what sorts of things can organizations like Fwd.us spend their money on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can lobby members of Congress. They can produce ads and buy air time. They can hold rallies and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what \u003cem>will\u003c/em> Fwd.us spend its money on? That’s not clear yet. We haven’t gotten hold of the group yet, but \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/fwd-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch quotes\u003c/a> Fwd.us campaign manager Rob Jesmer as saying “the group’s activities will include engaging the tech community in online advocacy, policy and fundraising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tech industry already has a litany of high-powered lobbying groups, so analysts are predicting it will take a different approach. On its staff are people who specialize in digital and grassroots campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us has not been clear about how it will spend its money, but Zuckerberg’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants-are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html\">op-ed piece\u003c/a> in the Washington Post earlier this week explains why he and other Silicon Valley leaders launched the group. Fwd.us will advocate for \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/immigration_reform\">comprehensive immigration reform\u003c/a> to attract more innovative people. 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The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/washington_dc\">Washington team\u003c/a> is focused on advocacy and research, according to the website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s president, Joe Green, was Zuckerberg’s roommate at Harvard, and the pair created Face Mash (the predecessor of Facebook) together, Business Insider \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/joe-green-missed-facebook-opportunity-2012-5\">reported\u003c/a> last year. But, on the advice of his father, Green declined Zuckerberg’s offer to run the business end of Facebook. He went on to found Nationbuilder, a software platform that helps community groups or leaders organize online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/washington_dc\">D.C. office staff\u003c/a> is led by Jesmer, a prominent Republican strategist and former director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He and research director Scott Sloofman, the former deputy director of the Republican National Committee War Room, are counterbalanced by Alinda Garcia, who helped lead the Latino campaign for Obama 2012, and Kate Hansen, formerly of the Democratic Governors Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/our_supporters\">people behind the group\u003c/a> are almost all high-profile Silicon Valley leaders. They include Drew Houston, the founder and CEO of Drop Box, Reid Hoffman, the founder and CEO of LinkedIn and Ron Conway, a prominent technology venture capitalist, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us takes a step towards transparency by listing some of its top donors, though not how much each gave. 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