Beltway Snark

Like with an eye patch and a peg leg. But no, it turns out Tony Krvaric is a pirate of the software-hacking variety.

Any job applicant knows that background checks are routine – especially for jobs involving authority or oversight of money. So why didn’t the San Diego Republican Party do a simple Google search before naming Tony Krvaric as its chairman?

Online research reveals that Krvaric is the co-founder of Fairlight, a band of software crackers which later evolved into an international video and software piracy group that law enforcement authorities say is among the world’s largest such crime rings. After co-founding Fairlight in Sweden, Krvaric established U.S. operations for the organization, including an arm headquartered in Southern California—a major center for the computer and video game industry.

Way to go dumbasses. Although I think if political jobs required background checks there would be quite a few politicians who didn’t make the cut.