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Assemblyman Jim Cooper represents Elk Grove a city of ~160K just South of Sacramento. Apple is the second largest employer in Elk Grove [1] and currently expand
by Steko 11y ago
Assemblyman Jim Cooper represents Elk Grove a city of ~160K just South of Sacramento. Apple is the second largest employer in Elk Grove [1] and currently expanding their footprint there by several thousand jobs [2].
Hopefully there's a primary challenger or soon will be, I'll donate.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Grove,_California#Top_employers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Grove,_California#Top_empl...
[2] http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/12/07/something-huge-is-brewing-apples-elk-grove-campus.html http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/12/07/someth...
{note: [2] gives a significantly larger current headcount than [1]}
- dopamean 11y agoAm I crazy or is it kinda weird that someone like that is already in office in that area?
- Bud 11y agoNot weird at all. Sacramento overall is very conservative.
- diyorgasms 11y agoI don't really think this is a liberal/conservative issue. I'm what most Americans would call extremely liberal, and yet one of the very few legislators whose views consistently align with my own on matters of encryption and privacy is a tea-party libertarian Republican. I think the proper political theory axis on which to hang this debate is libertarian-authoritarian, both of which exist in liberal and conservative thought.
- mhkeller 11y agoIf you're interested more in these issues, I wrote an article last month about california politics and silicon valley looking in particular around privacy legislation http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/12/30/losing-fight-big-data.html http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/12/30/losing-figh...
- diyorgasms 11y agoI most certainly am interested. Thank you for the link. And for what it's worth, I hope the Al Jazeera America cutbacks don't affect the excellent written journalism you all do.
- mirkules 11y agoWow I really liked this article. It encapsulates my thoughts and validates some of my suspicions on private data trafficking quite well. Thinking of Silicon Valley as the both the bad guy and the good in the fight for privacy is quite interesting. On the one hand these big companies fight for anti-surveillance measures and they fight against laws for weakening encryption. On the other hand, they fight against laws designed to curb dissemination of private information and general consumer protection. This dichotomy is really striking to me.
- bizkeep2 11y agoSacramento is very liberal. Sacramento County has its conservative areas.
- Steko 11y agoAccording to ars technica he's a 30 year vet of the sheriff's department. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/yet-another-bill-seeks-to-weaken-encryption-by-default-on-smartphones/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/yet-another-bill-...