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This seems overly paranoid to me - wouldn't we want people with experience in the civics tech space to be leaders at a company working in the civics tech space? Besides, wouldn't most of the good Bernie tech people... go back to work for Bernie? There's a reason why the Hillary people need new jobs.

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> This seems overly paranoid to me

This is not even close to paranoid. Conflicts of interest are an important issue for nonprofits because it can cause them to lose tax exempt status, and the IRS makes a whole todo about it, and therefore so do competent boards. Trying to brush this under the rug because of politics is disgusting and would not be tolerated at ethical and competent organizations.

There is a very small pool of engineers who work full-time in politics because it is a small and highly cyclical industry with extraordinarily small margins. I have personally worked with many competing campaigns and nearly all vendors in the space do. Many organizations grapple with these conflicts of interest in and outside of politics, and do so successfully. From my perspective, it is quite paranoid.

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