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According to sources, city hall is placing the finishing touches on Danbury’s revamped website.
The new website is an improvement with an easier interface, and interactivity with social networks.
Danbury 2.0 is still in the beta stage and there is still room for improvement. Hopefully, the site will be tweaked out and officially go online soon.
You can get a sneak peak of what’s to come by clicking here.
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Mark Boughton in denial: Jan 22
Recently (Wednesday) I purchased the domain names “BoughtonforConnecticut” and “BoughtonforCT”- to ensure that if I chose to run for an office in the State of Connecticut I could use the names that I wanted.
If not, I can keep the url’s and set up another site or just keep them pointed to mayormark.com. I wanted these addresses, I did not want any other addresses, particularly one that specifies an office or a date so that it could be flexible (can’t use a 2010 date in 2011).
The cost was thirty five dollars on my credit card.
Not sure what all the hullabaloo is about, or the unnatural fixation by some, but there you have it.
As someone who’s knows a thing or two about the last honest man in Danbury, I laughed out loud when I read his post. No matter who the mayor is spinning to the media, Boughton bought the website “boughtonforct.com” for a simple reason…because he named his campaign “Boughton for Connecticut.”
Which brings me back to the web domain Boughton bought recently. Look what happens when you type “www.boughtonforct.com/home”
That’s strange, I think this looks like a website for someone who’s running for governor. And what’s that I see in the lower left hand corner of the page? “Boughton for Connecticut.”
Wait, wait, there’s more!
Hmm…that’s strange. Is it me or does this looks like a biography for a person who’s running for governor.
I think we can put whole matter over Boughton running for governor to rest now…although, I think this screen shot from Boughton’s News and Press section is kind of funny.
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Cross post from HatCityBLOG
After watching President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, Congressman Chris Murphy issued the following statement:
Cross post fromHatCityBLOG
A close source to Mayor Boughton confirms the obvious…
Former News-Times reporter Eugene Driscoll has the details (via the Valley Indi Sentinel):
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, a five-term Republican incumbent who made national headlines for his stance against illegal immigration, will announce he is running for governor Feb. 1, a source close to the mayor said this morning.
Invitations to the mayor’s announcement — 6 p.m. at the Stony Hill Inn in Bethel — are being mailed today (Wednesday, Jan. 27).
As I stated before, the whole speculation into whether or not Boughton would run for higher office made no sense in the first place seeing that he STATED ON JAN 4th that he already made a decision regarding campaigning 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.
The first question the media should ask Boughton on Feb 1st is what was the rationale behind the delay in his announcement. The whole thing makes no sense to me…but again, we’re talking about the last honest man in Danbury.
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In advance of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union message, Congressman Jim Himes issued the following video message for his constituents in the 4th congressional district.
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Yesterday, while at an event in Danbury last Friday, a had an opportunity to chat with Congressman Chris Murphy and get his take on the election results in Massachusetts as well as his thoughts on the impact the latest ruling from Supreme Court will have on future political campaigns.
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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.
As you can see, each of those sites are still up for sale.
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 and doubt that this purchase had something to do with him 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.
Cross post from HatCityBLOG
Well, this basically ends the so-called “speculation” regarding whether or not the last honest man in Danbury is entering the governor’s race.
Here’s a screenshot of Mark Boughton’s reserved gubernatorial website which was purchased on Wednesday.
In case you need more evidence, here’s the WHOIS info on the site.
Please note: the registrant of the domain name is specified
in the “registrant” field. In most cases, the Registrar
is not the registrant of domain names listed in this database.Registrant:
Re-Elect Mayor MarkP.O. Box 2202
Danbury, Connecticut 06813
United StatesRegistered through: tnickdomains.com
Domain Name: BOUGHTONFORCT.COM
Created on: 20-Jan-10
Expires on: 20-Jan-11
Last Updated on: 20-Jan-10Administrative Contact:
Boughton, Mark mayormark@XXX.net
Re-Elect Mayor Mark
P.O. Box 2202
Danbury, Connecticut 06813
United States
(203) XXX-XXXXTechnical Contact:
Boughton, Mark mayormark@XXX.net
Re-Elect Mayor Mark
P.O. Box 2202
Danbury, Connecticut 06813
United States
(203) XXX-XXXXDomain servers in listed order:
NS25.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS26.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
It’s amazing what you can find out when a person takes the cheap road and doesn’t pay the extra couple of bucks to keep their WHOIS info private…
Case closed.
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