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Still thinking about this. In 2017 I organized a small group of web professionals — most of whom were not activists — to work on the digital campaign of a local candidate For state office. newrepublic.com/article/2163...

I was doing so because I’d been contacted by the candidate, who knew of me because of my work with the local Democratic committee. But just as we were about to get started, his campaign manager announced that a Cali firm was going to do the strategic work instead. We’d just be doing implementation.

We were grass-roots, local, and free. We were also professionals who had worked on digital strategies with national visibility. But the Cali team had fund-raising connections the manager wanted to exploit. Friends, I am in Virginia. This was a Virginia house delegate candidate.