More on Phil’s Blog
Tennessee’s other blogging politico, Stacey Campfield, on Governor Bredesen’s blog:
I held out hope for a comment section though-and remained optimistic. Unfortunately, I have now discovered that the Governor’s blog/web designer sent out a mass email to all the pro pre-K people indicating that a blog had been set up for the Governor with a pre-K poll on it. The email encouraged them to go online and vote in favor of Pre-K.
Come on Governor! This is a terrible way to start your blog. Perhaps there wouldn’t have been a computer trail of emails if he would have “fixed” the poll by configuring the program to automatically register two “yes” votes for every one “no.” Is there really a difference between a mass email and fixing the numbers? And wouldn’t that be more in keeping with the efficiency he’s always talking about?
I was genuinely excited that the Governor had started a blog. I think communicating with Tennesseans is good for government, good for the people, and great for accountability. But sadly, it just looks like Phil Blog is going to be a political tool with an unfortunate, shady start.
Ouch.
