<div dir="ltr">His (vanity) Senate campaign was an attempt at a Trump-style populist campaign, which primarily consisted of name calling at Elizabeth Warren's expense, and included such activities as defacing US postal service mailboxes with his bumper stickers, which I've NEVER seen any candidate do before, at least here in Andover.<div><br></div><div>He self-funded his campaign to the tune of 4.8M. He collected about $200K in other contributions. See <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00638148/?cycle=2018">https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00638148/?cycle=2018</a> for the details.<br><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:17 PM John Levine <<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com">johnl@iecc.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In article <<a href="mailto:20190521150017.B255C18C0A3@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank">20190521150017.B255C18C0A3@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>> you write:<br>
>I wonder to what degree Ayyadurai's campaign to get credit was just part of<br>
>the runup to his Senate campaign? If so, his defeat there is true karma.<br>
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He started claiming he invented email around 2012 and the senate campaign was<br>
in 2017-2018, so I doubt that was the motivation.<br>
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Here is a well researched and quite long piece on the whole sorry<br>
story, published on the ACM SIGCIS web site by Thomas Haigh, an actual<br>
historian:<br>
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<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai</a><br>
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