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GOP E-Campaign Guru Makes Exit

March 5, 2009 | 4:32 PM

The former director of the e-campaign division of the Republican National Committee is resigning but not without getting in his two cents worth. Cyrus Krohn wrote Thursday that the Republicans must attract more computer programmers to build platforms and applications in order to gain political power once again.

"Maybe we should start providing computer science scholarships in exchange for a commitment to serve our party," asked Krohn. "Yes, we have generational and geographical hurdles stunting our digital spurt. The former will be solved actuarially and the latter the Democrats will solve for us by upgrading the grid," he wrote.

Krohn said that he is relocating to Seattle with his family and plans to work on building new online applications for the best presidential candidate to use in 2012. Prior to joining the RNC, he was director of content production for Yahoo and served as publisher of Slate.com. -- Winter Casey

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