Richard Mack, the Republican challenger to SOPA's author

Richard Mack, the Republican challenger to SOPA's author(news.cnet.com)

16 points by meenriquez 14 years ago | 3 comments

meow 14 years ago |

I think this is as good opportunity as taking on GoDaddy. It's not every year you get an opportunity to pull down people in power who work against those they were elected to serve. If Lamar Smith goes down, I bet proponents of future bills will be a tiny bit more careful about introducing one sided legislation like SOPA. Right now, there is not political penalty for those who does stuff like this.

jinushaun 14 years ago |

Promising interview, but then he quickly devolves into the typical soundbites and catchphrases popular in politics (e.g., tax, borrow and spend, borrow from china, big government, big brother, moderate Republican) and doesn't really say much as a result.

muraiki 14 years ago | |

Yeah, that's the feeling that I got also. Although given the financial backing of his opposition, perhaps he feels that he needs to assault Lamar Smith on any occasion that he can.

Also, it seems like his main audience is other Republicans, who will understand and be concerned about what he means by those criticisms. To a Republican the interview is informative, but to non-Republicans it's probably off-putting.