As one who has been covering Danbury politics for years, I knew this comment was coming...Mayor Mark Boughton denied reports Friday that a Web site he registered this week is confirmation of a run for the governor's office.
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Boughton said he registered the name because of "cyber squatters" who purchase domain names and try to sell them back to candidates at exorbitant rates should they decide to run for office.
Okay, let me debunk this latest denial from the mayor in a way that's easy to digest.
- There are several websites that Boughton could use for his gubernatorial campaign. Here's a small list of more logical names that cyber squatters would purchase.
www.boughtonforgov.com
www.markboughtonforgov.com
www.markbougton2010.com
www.markboughtonforct.com
As you can see, each of those sites are still up for sale. - Back in December, the mayor has expressed an interest in running for governor...DECEMBER.
If one takes the mayor at his word and he simply purchased the site in part because of cyber squatters why pick an obscure website such as www.boughtonforct.com as opposed to www.boughtonforgov.com? Not to get too geeky but a cyber squatter would had gobbled up every URL I listed above weeks ago as well as possible URLs for just about every other single candidate currently in the race (i.e., Dan Malloy, Ned Lamont, Rudy Marconi, Susan Bysiewicz, etc). To this date, there hasn't been a report of any other candidate having trouble purchasing a web domain.
Better yet, why didn't the mayor simply purchase all the names I listed in item one AND/OR why did he wait till Wednesday to purchase a website when he indicated his interest in the race back in December?
Then there's the whole thing of Bougthon traveling across the state meeting with various Republican Town Committees and taking part in a gubernatorial forum as recently as Wednesday.
Finally, there's this comment.
"Should I not run (for governor), the Web site can point to mayormark forever," he added.
So if YOU SHOULD decide to run for governor, the site YOU PURCHASED ON WEDNESDAY (just days before your planned announcement) will point to your gubernatorial campaign website? And that wasn't the game plan in the first place?
Lets recap:
1. Although the mayor expressed interest in running for governor back in DECEMBER, he waited until this past Wednesday to purchase www.boughtonforct.com.
2. The mayor didn't purchase a more logical gubernatorial website URL that cyber squatters would purchase such as markboughtonforgov.com, markboughtonforct.com, or boughtonforgov.com.
3. The mayor stated weeks ago that he would make a decision on whether or not he's running for governor at the end of the month.
4. The mayor has traveled met with a number of Republican Town Committees in the past month (a requirement in terms of grabbing delegates for the GOP state convention).
Okay, okay silly me, who am I not to take the mayor at his word and think that this purchase had something to do with Boughton running for governor.
How dare I not take Boughton at his word that he bought this site because of cyber squatters...I mean was completely out of line not to take him at his word that he knew nothing about those bundled campaign contributions from James Galante...and his description of the 2006 World Cup celebrations as a non-spontaneous form of free speech was dead on...and he definitely had the authority of take out five 500,000 bonds in one fiscal year (silly for me to listen to Gene), his BRT seven year multi-million dollar tax break did wonders for the downtown area, and of course he was absolutely right when he repeated for months to the media that the police force was in NO WAY involved in the Danbury 11 case.
Dealing with denials like this is from the mayor reminds me of what Bill Murray had to deal with in the movie Groundhog Day.
Sorry folks, I'm not buying it...see ya on Feb 1st.
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