In this edition of the Women of Washington radio show, hosts Gigi Schumm and Aileen Black speak to Linda Moore, president and CEO of TechNet, and former strategist for the Clinton White House Office of Political Affairs.

Although Moore has worked on political campaigns since her time as a student at the University of Texas, she told Women of Washington that she has no plans to leave TechNet to work on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “I’m not going to run away and join the circus,” she joked.

Moore said she feels that Clinton and other female politicians deal with more intense scrutiny than their male counterparts when running for office.

“Hillary faced even more burdens and obstacles than most people did,” Moore said of Clinton’s run at the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. “Public perception of her had been hardened during the Clinton White House, she had been viewed as a person who was antagonistic of the press…Women just face an impossible gauntlet to run when they go through any sort of campaign.”

When asked how young people should get started in politics, Moore said, “If you’re young and eager and just want to learn as much as you possibly can, Capitol Hill and campaigns are definitely the way to go…If you’re just hungry and you get out there, and you work and you network and you volunteer, you do everything as well as you possibly can, then the doors will open for you.”

TechNet was founded in 1997 and Moore said was “meant to be a bipartisan network of CEOs and senior executives that would educate policy makers at both the federal and state levels on issues that the technology industry really cared about.”

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