Fall 2010 - Northern Virginia Technology Council
Fall 2010 - Northern Virginia Technology Council
Fall 2010 - Northern Virginia Technology Council
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A M E S S A G E F R O M B O B B I E<br />
In an Off-Year Election, Your Voice Still Counts<br />
By Bobbie Kilberg<br />
<strong>Virginia</strong> policymakers make hundreds<br />
of decisions each year that<br />
can seriously impact our businesses,<br />
our employees and our<br />
community at large. Decisions related<br />
to public investments and services, taxation<br />
and regulation directly or indirectly<br />
impact our competitiveness and our bottom<br />
lines. For this reason, ten years ago<br />
we launched NVTC TechPAC to empower<br />
<strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Virginia</strong> technology businesses<br />
to speak as a community in collectively<br />
supporting strong pro-technology, probusiness<br />
candidates for office.<br />
Each election year, the TechPAC Board<br />
of Trustees, a volunteer group of technology<br />
executives, spends a tremendous<br />
amount of time and effort evaluating candidates<br />
based on their positions on issues<br />
that impact technology businesses. The<br />
TechPAC Board looks at voting records<br />
and personally meets with and interviews<br />
candidates with the intention of supporting<br />
those who champion issues of importance<br />
to our technology business community.<br />
Financial contributions to TechPAC<br />
from technology companies and executives<br />
have enabled our community to<br />
have a stronger voice and bigger impact,<br />
and to better protect and enhance the<br />
professional interests of <strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Virginia</strong><br />
technology businesses.<br />
But financial support of pro-technology<br />
candidates is not the only way we can<br />
make a difference this election year. We<br />
also need to vote!<br />
<strong>Virginia</strong> is one of only four states with<br />
state legislative elections this November.<br />
Unfortunately, in off-year elections, voter<br />
turnout tends to be low. Not voting is an<br />
abdication of our rights and responsibilities<br />
as citizens. Though the 2012 national<br />
election is already dominating the media,<br />
<strong>Virginia</strong>’s 2011 election is vitally important<br />
to the Commonwealth.<br />
Democracy is only as good as the participation<br />
of its citizens and our government<br />
is only as good as you make it. And,<br />
in these uncertain economic times, it is<br />
crucial that your voice be heard.<br />
Whomever you vote for, I will hope to<br />
see you at the polls on November 8 because<br />
this small investment of your time<br />
can make an enormous difference. nvtc<br />
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To find your polling place, visit:<br />
https://www.voterinfo.sbe.<br />
virginia.gov/PublicSite/<br />
PublicMain.aspx.<br />
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<strong>Fall</strong> 2011 www.nvtc.org THE VOICE OF TECHNOLOGY 3
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