Shiva Ayyadurai, 53, an Indian American entrepreneur, who has invented e-mail, will be running for the US Senate, from Massachusetts, in 2018. He will challenge the liberal icon and Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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Ayyadurai, a self-proclaimed Republican, had stated that, “I’ll always be grateful for the opportunities I’ve found here (America). Now I’m committed to preserving, protecting and expanding those opportunities for the citizens of Massachusetts and for all Americans. That’s the new American Revolution, and I hope you’ll join me in this fight.”
Ayyadurai, is the only declared Republican candidate and has been targeting Warren through social media, hashtagging her on Twitter as “#Fakefighter” and “#FakeIndian”, a reference to her disputed claims of Native American heritage.
In a recent tweet, he lambasted Warren for her call to increase federal investment in medical research. “Warren doesn’t really understand Medicine or Innovation. Her mumbo jumbo is just about throwing $$’s. Dumb!” he tweeted.
Ayyadurai, a MIT alumini has also tweeted a picture of his new campaign offices on Concord Avenue in Cambridge.
Ayyadurai is best known for claiming to have invented email at an age of 14 while working as a research fellow at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He does hold the copyright to a computer program called “EMAIL,” but the historians generally credit the late Ray Tomlinson, who died of a heart attack last March, for inventing email while working at Cambridge’s Bolt, Beranek, and Newman in 1971.
Ayyadurai has sought legal action against news outlets that cast doubt on his claim. He was represented by the Hollywood lawyer Charles Harder, who has also represented Hulk Hogan in the sex-tape lawsuit that ultimately killed Gawker Media. Ayyadurai has received a $750,000 settlement in November over “false and highly defamatory articles” on Gizmodo calling him a “fraud,” “renowned liar” and a “big fake.”
Ayyadurai filed a $15 million libel suit in Boston against the tech website Techdirt over the several articles disputing his claim and accused founder Mike Masnick for “publishing fake news and 14 defamatory articles.”
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Curt Schilling’s interest in a 2018 run for Senate appears to be waning, after the former Red Sox pitcher threw his weight behind Ayyadurai’s Senate bid. Schilling, a three-time World Series champion said that he was “getting more serious” about challenging the Cambridge Democrat, and would not rule out an eventual run at the White House.
By Premji
