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Originally Posted by icurtis
So what changed Dean's mind? This makes his opinion on politicians (and we all know the official FIRST position on lawyers ) pretty clear. Why have we spent the past several seasons inviting our representation (Senators, Representatives, Governors, etc) to our events?
I'm well aware that FIRST does a fantastic job of recruiting corporations to our cause. I'm just interested as to why FIRST went after the government, especially given these sentiments.
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Dean didn't change his mind. There is a slight difference between his opinion of the universities going to the government and his homework regarding getting more politicians aware of FIRST (I'm assuming that's what you're talking about.)
My understanding is that Dean wanted us to show politicians what we're doing, and show them the importance of Science and Technology. This is a tad different from the idea of going to the government to "beg for financial table scraps".
So in other words the goals are different (one being finance oriented, the other social).
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Originally Posted by ebarker
But I digress - leadership ? Washington ? - I thought this was the daily funnies......
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Maybe we should try to get a FIRSTer as president
. But of course, that'd be lunacy (business as usual
)