2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRNC selects Facebook engineer as chief technology officer
"The Republican National Committee tapped a 32-year-old engineer with experience at Facebook and Google as its chief technology officer, a key hire in the partys efforts to catch up technologically with the Democrats after being embarrassed in the 2012 election cycle."
"Barketts résumé, according to the RNC, includes overseeing dozens of engineers on six production teams at Facebook and having responsibility over thousands of servers and scaling systems in mobile infrastructure, messaging, advertisements, newsfeeds, platforms and payments. Before that, he was senior director at Livescribe and a technical program manager for Google.
Its essential that the Republican Party has the resources to drive voter turnout as we look toward the elections of 2014, 2016 and beyond, Barkett said in the RNCs statement. Silicon Valley welcomes the partys efforts to be more creative and innovative, and I look forward to helping the party accomplish these goals.
A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment."
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/rnc-facebook-chief-technology-officer-andy-barkett-92253.html
LiberalFighter
(51,020 posts)I don't think the companies in Silicon Valley consider Barkett to be their spokesperson.
tanyev
(42,594 posts)to the technologically savvy.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)with the young people.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)are sadly misinformed. They are a party without people, esp. when the teabaggers get all steamed and don't vote.