Chris Clark, 25, is running for a seat on Mountain View's city council. Clark works as a senior operations managers at Loopt, a wireless social-networking startup notable for its large number of gay employees — Clark included. Local techies are pushing to get him elected. We give him good odds, because he'll bring three underrepresented communities to the council — the youngs, the gays, and the nerds.

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