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posted by azrael on Tuesday July 08 2014, @02:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the doesn't-constitute-an-endorsement dept.

*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".

 
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  • (Score: 3) by jasassin on Tuesday July 08 2014, @05:25AM

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Tuesday July 08 2014, @05:25AM (#65720) Homepage Journal

    I'm not sure if you really are a plotician. You answered all the questions asked, and intelligently nonetheless. I liked every answer. If I lived in your jurisdiction you'd have my vote. I'm sad to say you might be overqualified.

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  • (Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Tuesday July 08 2014, @10:25AM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Tuesday July 08 2014, @10:25AM (#65823) Homepage Journal

    I agree - I live in the UK and I'd vote for you if I could, mainly because you were asked a direct question and gave a direct answer, and that just never happens! A truly blog-worthy incident if I ever saw one!

    • (Score: 2) by No.Limit on Tuesday July 08 2014, @12:19PM

      by No.Limit (1965) on Tuesday July 08 2014, @12:19PM (#65867)

      Yea, if you're ever going to run for election in Switzerland, you got my vote!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @04:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @04:32PM (#66027)

    Really? Most of it was alright, be he opened up with

    Q: redneckmother (3597) - I am curious about his stance on campaign finance reform.
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    A: In General, I think the system in place now is OK with one exception: SuperPAC's should be required to release donation records within days of receipt, rather than keeping them anonymous for long periods of time.

    If this is the only problem he sees, we have issues. I see the system as it stands as inherently corrupt, and I couldn't vote for any politician who is "OK" with it.

    http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/take-the-money-and-run-for-office [thisamericanlife.org]