2004 Election

CIO, March, 2004 by Ben Worthen

When we visited with him last summer, Mike Emmons, a former programmer at Siemens ICN in Florida, was so angry to see his job filled by a nonimmigrant worker on an L-1 visa, that he talked of getting even by running for Congress this year. (See "The Radicalization of Mike Emmons" at www.cio.com/printlinks). Now he's collecting signatures to appear on the Democratic primary ballot.

Emmons concedes he's a long shot to win. But on the way to the ballot, Emmons made an interesting discovery: At least four others with IT backgrounds, from Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas, have declared their candidacies. Among their primary motivations: a desire to change the country's policies on IT outsourcing and immigration.

IT workers are the latest in a line that has included...

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