Trending Articles By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez on November 10, 2015 1:00 am Seems like Ron Conway is eating crow — apparently tech workers didn’t vote in large numbers this election, and maybe they never will. That’s a barometer not only on their political influence (as opposed to the influence of their CEO’s wallets) but also on their ties to the community. Last week on Election Day, Conway, the tech billionaire and Airbnb, Google and Twitter investor, sounded a triumphant note on turning out tech voters. I ran into him at the Election Day luncheon at John’s Grill, as Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Mayor Willie Brown, a gaggle (flock?) of supervisors and others wined and dined on delicious dishes spread out by the house. “Thousands have registered,” Conway told me. “We had a whole effort to get tech workers to vote, [to] register and then vote.” I told him I was surprised, since tech workers didn’t register last election at all. “Well they have now,” Conway barked. “You have to vote.
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