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September 12, 2005
Andrew Rasiej: More Than A Local Election
Posted by Stowe Boyd
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece (Thomas Freidman on The Power Of Networks And Blogging) digging into the issues surrounding the New York campaign of Andrew Rasiej, who is running for Public Advocate. This position is usually not front page news, but in the world of today, it certainly should be.
In that piece, I suggested that the move to public access wifi -- a key plank of Rasiej's platform -- represents the start of Politics 2.0:
The bottom-up, emergent model of social connectedness that we are making, here in the small, in the blogosphere, is like the genie getting out of the bottle. And once everyone is connected, then the blogosphere includes everyone; and then online social networks and realworld networks will increasingly be one and the same.
In the same way that pushing for free municipal wifi is an end run around entrenched interests -- the telcom and cable giants that want to charge us $60 per month for ever for so-so access to the Internet -- politicians like Rasiej see that creating a fully connected polity is an end run around the 20th Century political apparatus that now governs us. Rather than struggling to reform and revise the gridlocked system that we have -- lobbyists, political chicanery, ossified politicos, and a system more reminiscent of WWI trench warfare than a government responsive to the needs of the people -- let's hope that a batch of idealists seize the Internet as a way to leapfrog us into a new, and more connected form of political involvement.
It's not just a better form of communication -- fireside chats writ large -- but rather a step into emergent democracy, Politics 2.0, where the governance of our cities, states, and the country, will finally be directly in our hands, and not ceded to a caste of self-interested professionals to manage on our supposed behalf.
Rasiej is the start of something big. Micah Sifry pinged me, reminding me that the election is upon us; here's his recent email:
Dear friend:
Tomorrow, people around the country who care about bringing a more
net-centric, bottom-up and transparent politics to life are turning
their attention to the New York City Democratic Primary, where
technology entrepreneur and education activist Andrew Rasiej is
competing to become the city’s Public Advocate.
It’s not too late to add your voice to the conversation. Check out what
other bloggers are saying by going to http://www.technorati.com and
type “Rasiej” into the search box.
(If we all do this between the hour of 11am and noon, eastern, who
knows, maybe we’ll get Andrew into the Technorati “top ten”!)
And if you know three people who live in New York City who are
registered Democrats, give them a call and ask them to vote for Andrew.
Then ask them to each call three more people to do the same thing.
Rinse, and repeat. The turnout on Tuesday is, unfortunately, expected
to be so low that you really could sway the election.
And whatever happens, we know we’re making a difference by pushing new
ideas forward, and encouraging other candidates like Andrew to run in
the future.
All best,
Micah Sifry
eCampaign Director
Advocates for Rasiej
http://www.rasiej.com
So -- a call out to all of you in New York, or who, like me, think we need to step onto a new base of civic involvement, and that the blogosphere is perhaps the only shining example for the way it might be in the future, for all of us. Please pass this along, and let your New Yorker friends and family know what could be the outcome of this otherwise pedestrian election for Public Advocate.
[Update: Here's a post from Doc Searles onj Rasiej's call for the formation of a National Tech Corps; also, a great post at Escapable Logic on the importance of municipal wifi (Wifi, The Metaphor)]
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1. Jamie Farmer on September 12, 2005 11:49 AM writes...
You are so right that this is more than a local election. For one, it is New York, and what happens in NYC effects the rest of the country, even the world. One other candidate seems to get this, Brian Ellner. I love that he has the guts to say that this Primary is bigger than local politics - it is about sending a message that New York is going to lead the progressive agenda with creative ideas. I've lived here for 4 years and never voted in a primary, but Ellner and Rasiej will get me up early tomorrow. We need more than the same old, "I keep winning so everything is fine" Democrats in our city.
Jamie
Permalink to Comment2. John on September 13, 2005 12:10 AM writes...
Can’t you see the Technorati thing is a scam? How can Rasiej be above Skype and Katrina? The numbers don’t make sense. Yuck.
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