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*Updated: Mr. Guillot AKA yankprintster (4225) responded and is interested in answering some questions. Ask him your questions below in the comments*
B.J. Guillot is one of three candidates currently seeking to represent Washington's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Guillot is also a reader of SoylentNews. In a recent interview with CoinTelegraph about his enthusiastic support of cryptocurrency, Mr. Guillot was asked "When did you first hear about Bitcoin, and when did you get into it?" He explains that he got turned on to Bitcoin while reading a certain news for nerds site, and then mentions:
Since I have the floor, let me just state for the record, the new Slashdot web design and user experience is really poor. I've since moved on to SoylentNews.org for my daily science and tech news.
Perhaps Mr. Guillot would be kind enough to answer a few questions about his positions on topics of particular concern to the SN community. I invite him to answer directly in the comments below, or if he would prefer, I will collect and forward the highest-modded comments to Mr. Guillot, and then submit a new story with his responses.
According to his campaign website, Mr. Guillot holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, and has software development experience.
The Crypto Crimson reports that while many politicians are "quick to jump on the bitcoin bandwagon" following the U.S. Federal Election Commission's recent opinon declaring that political committes may accept contributions in the form of Bitcoin, unlike these other politicians, Mr. Guillot is an active miner who "currently achiev[es] a hashrate of five Terahash per Second - certainly the fastest bitcoin mining politician".
The top item to appear in the "Issues" section of Mr. Guillot's campaign website is "NSA Spying". Mr. Guillot's stated positon on this issue is: "The Federal Government needs to immediately stop its spying and metadata collection of its citizen's phone calls and emails. It's also time to discontinue the Patriot Act. No more extensions!".
On his campaign website, Mr. Guillot also states his positions on: "Internet Freedom", "Patent Reform", "Bitcoin", "National Debt", "FairTax", "Military", "Second Amendment", "Energy", and "Education".
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday July 07 2014, @08:01PM
His chances are slim on any issue, because Seattle (and suburbs) are hopelessly democratic.
http://ballotpedia.org/Washington's_2nd_Congressional_District_elections,_2014 [ballotpedia.org]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 07 2014, @09:57PM
The Seattle suburbs stop around Everett, and things get generally prettier as you go north (less sprawl more farms and forests). It also happens to get odder -- I live in Whatcom County which since the late 60s / early 70s has been one of those places with large populations of tree huggers and tree rapers. Really ... lots of hippy types, lots of logger types, and they don't always mix well, though there were activist commie loggers in the 1900-30s -- they were different than the woolly headed hippy types though -- unionists. The northern part of the county is different still -- centered around Lynden and the Dutch farmers who took it over, it is like a mini bible belt that always votes for industry, jesus, no zoning, and more slaughter houses. Then there is Bellingham with plenty of the aforementioned woolly headed hippies, even the longest running peace protest in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingham,_Washington#Activism [wikipedia.org] (48 years running).
http://www.vote4bj.com/districtmap.html [vote4bj.com] (1)
Lynden is outside his district though, which is good. Those evangelicals are nuts. Of course, there are a lot of old hippies who still think of the DNC as "their" party somehow failing to notice that its been like Nixon on steroids these last 8 years (expanding afghanistan, Libya without even lip service to the War Powers Act, the NSA, Nixon's health care plan, codling banksters, etc. etc.). So yeah, he probably won't see much support from (Belling)Hamsters either. Which is sad. I'm attracted to candidates who are social liberals and fiscal conservatives. But of course, I'm about 5 miles outside his district.
(1) Vote for BJs. heh..... heh......... heheh. heh.
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My questions, not that it matters (I'm outside the voting district and the state house won't be considering this stuff, at least not directly):
What type of foreign policy do you support?
Would you support removing Federal Military bases from WA state?
If you were President, what would you do about the USSR and Ukraine?
What kind of relationship should we have with Cuba?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @04:13AM
Office: Seattle city council member
Candidate: Kshama Sawant, professor of Economics
Party: Socialist Alternative
Platform issue: $15/hr minimum wage
Results of November 2014 election: She won (beating the incumbent Democrat)
Changes since then: Minimum wage in Seattle has been raised to $15/hr, effective January 1, 2017 ($11 on April 1, 2015; $13 on January 1, 2016).
-- gewg_
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by frojack on Tuesday July 08 2014, @04:51AM
Oh, great, out of the democratic frying pan into the full-fledged communist fire.
(You say socialist, I say communist: Her first demand was to seize Boeing plants and force them to make mass-transit vehicles.
If that's your idea of constructive change we are in deep shit. Rents are already rising in Seattle in response to 15 dollars an hour for burger flippers.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @06:17AM
Rents are already rising in Seattle in response to 15 dollars an hour for burger flippers
Sounds like "the market" at work.
...but I'm not buying the Neofeudal bullshit about exploding prices as a result of paying people a fair wage.
A $10.10 minimum wage would add 1c to a $16 item [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [thinkprogress.org]
The last items on that page mention companies that ALREADY pay better wages and are doing great.
It also sounds like you think that more money in the hands of working people is a bad idea.
I'm betting that you have to work for a living, yet it appears you think that 1 Percenters should be allowed to continue to abuse|cheat the working class.
I, OTOH, think that there is honor in ALL labor and that EVERY worker should be paid a living wage.
Professor Sawant thinks so too.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @08:25AM
"A $10.10 minimum wage would add 1c to a $16 item"
yeah, maybe if everything else stayed the same. the problem is prices adjust everywhere, which adds a compounding effect. same as when money loses value (not that democrats would know anything about that either).
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday July 08 2014, @02:48PM
No chance that's going to get repealed in the next 2.5 years.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"