Saturday, July 29th, 2006...2:55 pm
More Twists and Turns in the Political Crime of the Century!
I know that all of you are on pins and needles about what the national media will no doubt soon be calling “re-direct-gate.” Well, my vast network of operatives has found out some new information to blow the lid off of this burgeoning scandal, which will no doubt shake the foundations of Arizona politics as no event has since the Bascom Affair.
It turns out that the domain name goldwater4governor.com was not registered by any nefarious rogue hired by Janet Napolitano’s campaign, but instead someone registered it through a Scottsdale firm called Domains By Proxy, and this person was apparently “cybersquatting” and hoping to sell the domain name back to the Don Goldwater campaign. I guess that ruins the whole story for Nowicki, Patterson and crew.
But here is something they can follow up on: six domain names that are permutations of the words “Jim Pederson” have been registered to a firm calling itself Michael Enterprises, owned by a guy named Michael Davenport, a registered Republican in Scottsdale. For now, most of these addresses lead to a simple site just linking some articles about Pederson’s campaign. I expect Nowicki and Patterson to be checking on pedersonforsenate.org or jimpederson.net to see what gets done with those addresses, and will accuse Kyl’s campaign of Nixonian dirty tricks when something weird happens.
Also, by the way, some guy named George Bell in Apache Junction has registered the name janetnapolitano.com. That site, in fact, is an anti-Napolitano site run by the anti-immigrant group American Patrol. What, no outrage about the “fraud” on that one, guys?
2 Comments
July 31st, 2006 at 12:33 am
Obviously, this is a ‘cybersquatter’ who pays scant attention to the real news.
Remember that Don Goldwater is still desperately stumping for $5 bills so he can qualify for public financing, and a recent article had he, Gary Tupper and Mike Harris with $11,000 cash on hand combined.
The idea that the Don Goldwater campaign could actually pay this guy for a domain name is ridiculous. He’s obviously confusing the Goldwater campaign with a campaign that has some money.
July 31st, 2006 at 5:44 am
ouch Eli.
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