Mayoral Site Check - Episode 3 - Villaraigosa.com - TAKEN
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After a three-week period that saw the launch of Bob Hertzberg's multimedia extravaganza and Bernard Parks' blink-tagged train wreck, none of the mayoral candidates has done much of anything in the way of building a presence for voters who get their election info from the Web.
Here's the weekly (though I'm questioning the wisdom of this timing and may retreat to bi-weekly) rundown of the web-savvy, the quick and the (so-far) dead:
Richard Alarcon - no campaign site.
Mayor James K. Hahn - His 3-year-old leftovers still pop up first in Google, ahead, even of his City Hall home page. Eight months out might be a bit early to build a brand-new site, but certainly not to eliminate or at least edit a legacy site that makes it look as though the incumbent's proud only of things he did three years ago.
f one of the points of the dialogue was to discuss whether police reform was working, then why weren’t more people in the Valley being asked for their opinion?
What do you think? No matter where in Los Angeles you live, if a forum was held closer to your house, would you have attended?
he asks. No answers yet in the comments field of the item, which is dated July 10.
Bernard Parks: Plenty of static content, empty links, "under construction" labels and unfulfilled promises plus a "Newletter" (I love that word) containing an empty link to Park's putative LAX plan and an empty list of endorsements. The BLINK tag, however, seems to have been eliminated from a few key pages, so the staff list is now legible.
Antonio Villaraigosa: Still unannounced, still vulnerable to identity theft. These domains - and untold political mischief - can be had for a song:
Note: Villaraigosa.com is now recorded as taken, by one Ulisses Sanchez, of New Jersey Street, Los Angeles. Oddly, the two-year-old registration record, due to expire 11/04, did not show up in NetSol upon previous searches.
