Wu posted this today.
First off, Massachusetts has one of the fastest growing tech sectors. Tech jobs make up a larger proportion of the entire state's workforce than in any other state in the country. It's like at 20% right now which is absurdly high.
And the part about not enough jobs for graduates? Complete fabrication. It's actually the opposite.
The Boston Globe wrote this article that says the problem tech companies are having in Massachusetts is they can't find enough talent. This is a direct fucking quote from the article.
The biggest culprit is a dearth of talent, according to the report. There is only one qualified recent graduate for every 17 job openings requiring a bachelor’s degree at information technology and computer science companies.
So Brianna Wu's wants to grow the tech industry in her state and starts her political career off by showing she has no fucking clue what is happening in that tech industry in her own community. Maybe the community could hire a Christian Scientist to be Chief of Medicine at the local hospital too.
Yeah. This is again more proof that John doesn't live in the real world. As you said, Mass, specifically Boston, has been a tech hotbed for the software and technology industries since they have emerged as viable industries. It doesn't get as much media attention as SF since the focus is not on things like social media sites with no actual profits to speak of, and is usually on actual serious things like finance, robotics, business software, cryptography, R&D and that kind of thing. John's claims about the graduate to industry pipeline are paternally absurd, but since John has not a STEM degree, degree of any kind, or any actual experience with the tech industry, I can understand why he might be mistaken -- but in this case I think it's less a mistake and more of a deliberate fabrication to support his flimsy political assertion.
Additionally, as John forms his political exploratory committee, and begins to research which incumbent he is going to dethrone, he will quickly come to the realization that all 9 of the current house seats, and both US senators are actually democrats -- with many of the more notable ones being on the more progressive side. If John is willing to lower the bar a bit, and set his sights on state or local government, he will most likely find that the reps in the lilly-white, upper income district he lives in are democrats.
Furthermore, upon a deeper examination the Massachusetts political scene, John will probably note that most of the people involved in government have things like notable career achievements in law or business, real world connections, and do not look like misgendered scarecrows.
