I found this bit of information on another blog and borrowed it. It was an anonymous post but I found it was something I could share. In my years knowing Mr Rasiej I concur with the assessment of this individual. While I never worked directly for AndrewRasiej, preferring to keep my distance from disaster, this gentleman had. I knew many like him, students and others that also came to work for my company in the Internet Broadcast industry. I may be the only person Rasiej admitted to joining the elite secret society to advance himself a “secure seat on the train” as he put it. The election is over and he lost pathetically, but he will keep trying so here it is:
“NOT A MENSCH: I know Rasiej personally and I did quite a bit of serious work for MOUSE. I came into MOUSE very enthused about its mission and left it quite disappointed. I eventually began to see MOUSE as a profound ego-trip and little more than a set-up for Rasiej's future political career. I used to call Andrew, "Mayor." There is nothing all that wrong with being ambitious and setting up a political career. Almost anyone who runs for office is. But Andrew, the more I got to know him, didn't strike me as a good guy. The ambition wasn't in the right place. The organization wasn't anywhere nearly as useful as it should have been or could have been....
MOUSE HURT KIDS AND TEACHERS: MOUSE's aim was to wire up NYC public schools. As much as Andrew talked the visionary talk, MOUSE never delivered any real substance or content or educational applications beyond just doing wiring. We were glorified amateur plumbers doing sloppy wiring jobs in schools that needed a new gym or dance class or art class or smaller class sizes or good security a whole lot more than they needed cat. 5 cables dangling sloppily out of ceiling panels. Many teachers agreed but couldn't say so. The stuff we brought into the schools wasn't really helping forward kids education or teachers' jobs in any significant ways. It was like, OK, now we can check sports scores and download music during free period. In two years, I never saw the Internet-enabled computers used for anything more significant than just checking email. Fine. Great. These kids deserve and need to have email. But there was never any significant educational app. In fact, it felt like the entire project was geared towards building Rasiej's profile in then-hot "Silicon Alley." Not to get all Buddhist, but it was clear that there was something wrong with the "intention" behind MOUSE. And that really manifested itself in the schools.
ELITISM / TECHNO-UTOPIANISM: Andrews campaign is profoundly disconnected from the issues that the vast majority of New Yorkers need dealt with. Wi-fi is definitely an elite concern and I dont' think your argument convinces otherwise. Should NYC have free, citywide, wifi? Definitely! It would be a great thing. But is wiring the city going to amazingly solve a bunch of big, intractable, social problems? No. Simply wiring the schools didn't solve the big problems in the schools either. “
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