Grief over young White House staffer - Politico

The tech-savvy idealists who help President Barack Obama bypass the news media and make government work better have, in tragedy, rendered the obituary obsolete.

Remembrances of White House Senior Technology Adviser Jake Brewer spread across the loose-knit but virtually intimate world of civic coders, transparency activists and digital organizers within hours of his death in a charity bike race accident on Saturday. Anecdotes and outpourings flooded Facebook long before the press office emailed out Obama’s statement or U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith posted a blog memoriam on Sunday evening.

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