Expose The Hypocrisy

March 26, 2007
If Liberals Think The Patriot Act Is Bad...

...Then what must they be thinking about Deval Patrick right now?

Gov. Deval Patrick launched a new page on his political Web site this weekend to organize supporters behind his issues, but Secretary of State William Galvin Monday asked the governor to take it down, fearing the identity of voters may be compromised.

Team 5 Investigates Janet Wu discovered that when people register to participate, it discloses their home address as listed in the Massachusetts voter database. Wu found that anyone could enter a name and a town and find the street address for any registered voter. For some searches, unpublished phone numbers were revealed.

Team 5 Investigates entered the name of a woman with a restraining order against a stalker. Her full address popped up on the Patrick campaign Web site.

Amazing isn't it? Deval Patrick's new site, intended to bring back the good old days of the campaign season. actually became his latest blunder.

Posted by Matt Margolis at 10:49 PM | Comments (2)  | Track



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I'm not 100% sure of where this site is supposed to go or what its intent is to accomplish. In looking at the site, it seems to accomplish 2 purposes. To restate the fluff that got Deval elected ( his biography section and position pages are comical) and a message board.

I guess my questionis, will anyone really do anything with all of this? I don't see anything here thats not already a known hot button with people, and if he's not familiar with them, then he's dumber than I think ( and thats pretty dumb).

On the marketing side- genius - He gets to let people blow off steam online and can 'reconnect' with the voters who he conned and alienated in his first few months.

Just another affirmation that he's a great con man but a crappy Governor.

Posted by: Big Bish at March 27, 2007 09:53 AM


John Reinstein, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said he does not understand why users are required to register. "I'm puzzled by the whole thing," he said. "Registering doesn't seem to deal with the issue of people posting anonymously, because anyone can presumably get an e-mail account and use that to post under someone else's name."


When the ACLU starts questioning the privacy issue, then you know you've got trouble.

Posted by: Big Bish at March 27, 2007 10:05 AM