RNC selects Facebook engineer as chief technology officer

[brooklynite]

Politico

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 party’s efforts to catch up technologically with the Democrats after being embarrassed in the 2012 election cycle.

In selecting Andy Barkett, the GOP fulfilled its promise to reach beyond the Beltway for someone whose primary focus will be improving the party’s ability to collect and analyze voter data as well as build apps and software useful for candidates and campaigns.

“I am confident that with Andy’s experience and our continued efforts to build meaningful relationships with experts in Silicon Valley, we’ll see the changes to this part of our operation that we all agree are both important and necessary to winning elections in the future,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement.

Don't be fooled, Reince. All the cool kids are over at MYSPACE.....

[Arugula Latte]

1. Yeah, that was the problem, GOP. You didn't have enough techies around.

Fix that and you're golden!

[JaneyVee]

2. Well that should gain them maybe 3 more voters.