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May 5,
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TECHIES UNMASK
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Virginia Tech’s Executive
MBA Program is holding an info session tomorrow
night — May 6th — from 6-8pm.
Aspiring MBAs should not miss it! More
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Usually on Cinco de Mayo
we’re debating the pros and cons of putting a
lime in our Corona, but the
ongoing Democratic presidential
nomination contest has us pondering
weightier matters. Like: How will those
mysterious superdelegates
affect the race come convention time? Thankfully
Shukoor Ahmed, CEO of
V-Empower, a Bowie web
development company (named one of the nations’s
500 fastest-growing private companies by
Inc. magazine in ‘07),
and Ken Laureys
launched http://www.lobbydelegates.com/
on April 3 to provide not only answers, but the
chance for voters to influence the
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Shukoor and Ken, a lobbyist, bonded over
their similar ideas about local government while
campaigning for Bill Bradley in
2000. Shukoor had already started http://www.statedemocracy.org/
after many voters told him they didn’t know much
about their state reps during his 1998 run for
the Maryland House of
Delegates. His current project spun off
from that basic idea. “I kept hearing the term
superdelegates and wondered who
these people were,” Shukoor tells us. “I wanted
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Shukoor and Ken started http://www.lobbydelegates.com/
to allow people to easily lobby the
superdelegates in their state. The site provides
superdelegates’ names, contact info, and which
candidate they support (if they’ve said), along
with a downloadable letter to be printed and
mailed, emailed or faxed ($5 fee required for
faxing). And while the two are registered
Democrats, they aren’t choosing between
Hillary and
Obama—at least not openly. “I
wanted Bill Richardson,”
Shukoor says. Ken has picked a candidate, but is
keeping that a secret. |
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When Shukoor needs a break from work he heads
to his backyard for some cricket. He played for
his university back home in
India where he was a
first batsman, essentially his team’s
leadoff hitter, and almost always faced the
opponent’s best pitcher.
Laureys, seen here pitching, co-founded the
Riverdale Boys and Girls Club
and follows his son’s band “The Great
Escape.” And we thought creating websites
was his great escape. |
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David Stegon is Bisnow's
tech guru. He loves to hear compliments,
complaints (not really), and story ideas, so
call him with any of the above at 703-674-7718
or shoot an email to David@Bisnow.com |
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