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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (20094)	1/8/2003 12:17:34 AM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 57110

JT is way too plain spoken to make it as a politician...but he's the type of person i would love to see running the state of CA. JT for Joint ? running CA -lol it seems appropriate... -gggg However, TJ, would never make it as a politician, nor he would ever think of running for office.... Here is his response to a similar idea -roflol- TAE: Do you aspire to hold political office? RODGERS: Two y ears ago, Tom Campbell, current Silicon Valley congressman, called me and asked if I would consider running for Congress against Norm Mineta, pork-barrel Democrat par excellence. I called Tom back and said, “We have a mid-sized Silicon Valley company. We’re worth $1.2 billion. We’ve created a few dozen millionaires. We create astounding technology. We make chips with over 10 million transistors on them today. And we pay $100 million a year to our people, which supports a whole lot of families, houses, cars, college educations, what-have-you. That is more good than any congressman does, ever.” So for me to go from wealth-creator to wealth-redistributor: I would become de-pressed, probably suicidal. americanenterprise.org (page 22)