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Roger Crew
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| Short Biography: Born in Connecticut in 1961, I'm a few months older than Barack Obama. My dad was a chemist and my mom was a schoolteacher. I’ve lived in east King County since 1992, and been married 10 years; 2 boys, currently aged 1 and 7. I've always been something of a process geek. I did math as an undergraduate, a Ph.D. in computer science, and then spent 8 years at Microsoft. I’ve been on the Internet since it was a goat track and have done rather a lot with on-line communities. I like to think I have some clue about the (rather huge) differences between debugging computer code and debugging organizations where real live people are involved. But we're all sort of playing this by ear anyway. Politically, I spent many long years as an "independent" with a strong disdain for political parties. And yet somehow I cast lots of straight-D ballots. When one is pro-choice, anti-theocracy, pro-civil-liberties, pro-sane-foreign-policy, anti-fear, pro-actual-healthcare, pro-social-safety-net, pro-actual-free-market, anti-corporate-oligarchy—a whole litany of propositions that are so basic they shouldn't even be on the table—it’s really hard to do anything else. Probably the issue that has most affected me personally came up when my oldest son was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. I got to find out firsthand about the rather thin threads that support our whole public-education infrastructure and thus what "no child left behind" really means. | |
WHY I'M A DELEGATE FOR OBAMA:
| All of the years of Democrats being afraid to be Democrats, of constant triangulation, propagating right-wing talking points, throwing the scapegoat-du-jour (gays, welfare moms, trial lawyers, you name it) under the bus at the first sign of trouble, of running timid election campaigns that only care about swing states, of not standing up for our core principles, of caving in to fear-mongering... this can't end soon enough. I figure if the party isn't doing quite what you'd like, you get involved and change the party; this was Howard Dean's message back in 2004 and I have been a full-time Democrat ever since. I'm currently Treasurer of our LD organization, secretary of the (recently-formed) 8th CD organization + various other hats. Mainly I deal with tech issues, but the idea is to help out wherever I can. And four years later, there is yet more damage to clean up. Clinton represents the failed strategies of the past. Obama is a paradigm shift. It's that simple. |
ABOUT ELECTING A NATIONAL DELEGATE:
| This is not a junket. This is not an award for past service to the party or to the Obama campaign. This is not about who is the most deserving. This is a job. We are electing representatives. Never forget who is supposed to be in the driver's seat here, i.e., you. You want to elect a team of delegates that will be most effective at advancing the interests of the Obama supporters of the 8th Congressional District. There are many different talents that will be needed; no one person will fit the bill. I do believe you want to send along at least one person deeply familiar with party rules and good at Process sorts of things. Whether that's me or somebody else is up to you. I'll note that I personally led the drive to get rid of the precinct caucus 15% rule, and managed to do it without having a vote of my own on the state committee. I am constantly on the lookout for opportunities to open up the party, to make it better represent us and to give progressive voices a larger seat at the table. |
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