Bradley in DC
07-22-2007, 05:28 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR2007072101196.html?referrer=email
A Campaign Stop With a Hip, Innovative Air
Candidates Flock To an Increasingly Political Google
By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 22, 2007; Page A05
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- In a visit earlier this year to the Googleplex, the WiFi-connected, eco-friendly headquarters of Google, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) called the company "the best place to work in America."
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who stopped by in May, said that Googlers, as Google's more than 12,000 employees are known, are "the future of this nation."
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a possible independent candidate for president, spoke to workers at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters in June. (By Paul Sakuma -- Associated Press)
The Google Primary
For candidates, a Google stop is part of the obligatory Silicon Valley tour. But even in the Valley, birthplace of many prominent high-tech companies and home to an affluent voting bloc, the company holds a special symbolism.
The Googlers, for their part, are used to the attention from presidential candidates eager to add a hip, online-savvy, we-get-it aspect to their résumés, as well as to wrap themselves in the aura of one of the nation's great business success stories.
To be sure, tension is inescapable, as are follow-up questions.
Paul has a small but intense following, particularly among young Googlers, but he drew dead silence by remarking, "I tend to think it's overblown, global warming."
A Campaign Stop With a Hip, Innovative Air
Candidates Flock To an Increasingly Political Google
By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 22, 2007; Page A05
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- In a visit earlier this year to the Googleplex, the WiFi-connected, eco-friendly headquarters of Google, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) called the company "the best place to work in America."
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who stopped by in May, said that Googlers, as Google's more than 12,000 employees are known, are "the future of this nation."
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a possible independent candidate for president, spoke to workers at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters in June. (By Paul Sakuma -- Associated Press)
The Google Primary
For candidates, a Google stop is part of the obligatory Silicon Valley tour. But even in the Valley, birthplace of many prominent high-tech companies and home to an affluent voting bloc, the company holds a special symbolism.
The Googlers, for their part, are used to the attention from presidential candidates eager to add a hip, online-savvy, we-get-it aspect to their résumés, as well as to wrap themselves in the aura of one of the nation's great business success stories.
To be sure, tension is inescapable, as are follow-up questions.
Paul has a small but intense following, particularly among young Googlers, but he drew dead silence by remarking, "I tend to think it's overblown, global warming."