by Michael Strickland



Campaigning on a government website, Raul?

And here is elaboration from the Spokesman Review:

Daily Kos, a liberal political website, noted the link in an article Wednesday morning, suggesting the state was improperly using its website to drum up donations for Labrador. Less than an hour after Gov. Butch Otter’s office was alerted to the issue by a Spokesman-Review reporter, the link had been changed. According to the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine,” the mistaken link had been live for more than two years. “We made a mistake,” said Bill Farnsworth, manager of the Access Idaho contract for the state Department of Administration.”

An article on the website Daily Kos today charges that Idaho’s official state website is being improperly used to drum up donations to GOP Rep. Raul Labrador. The article notes that a list of links to news for various government officials, including Idaho’s congressional delegation, links to their official page of press releases – except for Labrador’s, which links to his campaign site. The page that pops up has a prominent red button saying, “DONATE TODAY.”

UPDATE Dec. 3, 10:37 a.m. MST:

Dan Popkey is on things. They just changed it. I saved two JPEGs of the original scourcecode. One appears below. And thank you Kevin Wilson for providing the archive.



The site was last archived by the Wayback Machine on June 25, 2014. At that time (and in previous archives) the link pointed to labrador4idaho.com. Here's a link to the archived copy of the page: https://web.archive.org/...

Idaho statutes prohibit use of government facilities, websites, etc. for campaign purposes.

But if you go to the official site for the state of Idaho, and click on the link for press releases, a surprise ensues.

Here is the link: http://www.idaho.gov/... and it shows: