He can't be serious?

Come on now...does he think anyone in the state is buying this line?

He [Boughton] added that the Web site, pages of which were removed Friday morning shortly after they were discovered by the media, were "simply drafts that are part of the exploring process you do to see what a site would look like."

He added that the pages weren't intended to be made public and that "someone spent a lot of time and energy trying to find the right URL, but it's simply some draft pages."

While I appreciate the mayor's acknowledgment of my efforts to debunk his nonsense regarding whether or not he's running for governor, this latest denial is simply laughable.

Lets recap:

1. On January 4th, the mayor is quoted in the media stating that he's ALREADY MADE UP HIS MIND regarding whether or not he's running for governor.

Mayor Mark Boughton said Monday he's made his decision about running for governor, but he won't announce his intentions until February.

"A decision has been made, and you will be hearing about it shortly, one way or the other," he said.

2. Back on January 20th, the mayor purchased the website domain "boughtonforct.com" and the site pointed to nothing.



3. After reporting on his purchase, the mayor re-directs the domain to his mayoral website.

4. This week, the domain was re-directed from the mayor's campaign page, to a blank page and a fully developed gubernatorial campaign files were placed in a folder on the server for testing purposes (which is quite common when it comes to testing a site on different platforms).



5. The creation of this site (which is complete with a fully functional online donation page), appeared to be about 95 percent complete and, as a fellow web designer, probably cost Boughton quite a bit of money.

6. Also on the website is a News Section that includes the mayor's biography.



7. ...and I'm not even going to comment on why the mayor's chief of staff is the contact person on his gubernatorial announcement release (thanks a lot Dirk for outing that tidbit of controversy).

YET, the mayor's continues to deny the obvious and claim that the site (and all it's contents) is just a "draft" and doesn't mean anything.

If anyone wonders why I call Boughton the last honest man in Danbury, his laughable denials should give you a clue.