The WoW-Playing Congressional Candidate - Interview

[Badlah]

You will have read about Jeanne Stevens in our previous news item, she's the Congressional candidate who said she plays WoW. Well the guys over at Wandering Goblin have managed to grab an interview with her, and asked her all kind of questions. She was a brilliant sport about it all, catch the full interview over at Wandering Goblin, but here's a sample of what you can expect:

15. Many players find organizing a 40 man raid (or even a 25er) to be a royal pain in the backside. Everyone's always late, and there's tons of whining and crying. Questions like “Can I join?”, “Why can't you guys just summon me?” and “What's my DKP?” blot out any intelligible conversation on Ventrilo/XFire. There's also a lot of angry outbursts, finger-pointing, and quitting mid-raid. That kind of experience has just got to be great training for running a political campaign, right?

I can’t speak to that as I have never been in such a large raiding party. Then again, organizing a 5-man instance run can be annoying enough and that’s why I do them with people I know. It’s the same way with running a campaign, especially at this level where you can still get out and meet so many constituents on a personal level. My camarilla is composed of people I know and whose input and ideas I respect and who, if they say they will be somewhere or do something, will, because they are responsible and take ownership. Is it obvious yet that I have a problem with people who “pass the buck” or whine “it’s not my fault”?


16. Blizzard's glacial development cycle has now resulted in WotLK being six months overdue, and they don't show any signs of picking up the pace. As a lawmaker, do you plan on using your governmental influence to pressure them to finish WotLK before the next geologic epoch begins?

By the next geologic epoch I’m guessing I’ll be an evil fossil fuel.


17. We hear that Jack Thompson's going to be looking for a job really, really soon. Any chance he can work in your administration once you're elected? After all, he is an experienced attorney.

He’s entitled to his opinions.


18. Contemporary politicians seem distinctly polarized on Second Life. Some waste time, effort, and funds establishing a boring-as-dirt “campaign presence” in Second Life (i.e., Hillary's location). Others do some seriously ill-informed, pompous grandstanding against Second Life (like this Mark Kirk news piece). As your political career progresses, to which of these astute political positions do you aspire?

I don’t follow any of this. My real life is interesting, exasperating, hilarious and expensive enough – however I do, on occasion, get to help my nieces decorate their Webkinz's homes.

[Husker90]

omg.... Kinda unbelivable really. I'm still trying to comprehend someone that age and running for office playing WoW.... Just kinda scary imo

[joho]

Thats just really cool.

[nemo652]

Jack Thompson, hahahah.