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Sheriff Mack was "the Internet's" candidate of choice to run against Smith. Unfortunately he lost the primary, with Smith winning nearly 80% of the vote. It re
by kbd 14y ago
Sheriff Mack was "the Internet's" candidate of choice to run against Smith. Unfortunately he lost the primary, with Smith winning nearly 80% of the vote.
It really bothered me to the primary results so skewed in Smith's favor. Most of the people who pulled the trigger for him probably either never heard of SOPA, or if they had, didn't know he was the bill's sponsor. (Not that his malfeasance is limited to SOPA, of course.)
- jewbacca 14y agoI saw this in a discussion yesterday: his district is heavily gerrymandered http://lamarsmith.house.gov/District/InteractiveMap.htm http://lamarsmith.house.gov/District/InteractiveMap.htm and he's been in office for 25 years, winning by a large margin every time. I'm not sure what even a fully-engaged angry internet mob could do about that.
- zecho 14y agoForm a crowdfunded corporation and direct mail every household in his district to annoyance until his district removes him.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoHmm. A daily direct-mail, direct-phone, etc campaign that appears to come from him (paid for by The Committee to Teach about Lamar Smith), until people can't stand the thought of his name anymore. It doesn't have to be a hate-campaign. Make it reasonable, just non-stop. I wonder if that could work or if it would backfire.
- saraid216 14y agoTo me, this means that "the Internet" has no idea who the voters who voted for Smith are, and why my idea was specifically focused on finding out.