CT-Sen: Tech vendors turn down Lieberman

Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday August 23, 2006 · 9:13 AM PDT

2006/08/23 · 09:13

Joe2006.com is still pretty much down, what with the withering hacker attacks that weren't, and the FBI investigation that would smite said hackers that has sort of fizzled out and gone away.

In reality, Lieberman's site went down on Election Day because they had incompetents running it, hosting it on a shared machine with over 70 other sites, unable to deal with the crush of election-day traffic. They played the crash for political effect, but really, it was all just run-of-the-mill incompetence of the kind that marred his entire primary campaign.

Realizing this, Lieberman's campaign is looking for someone to build them a new site. But the search is going poorly.

It seems major Democratic technology groups are turning down Senator Liberman's (Lieberman-CT) offers to provide technology support in his go-it-alone re-election campaign.
First was Blue State Digital. When approached by the Lieberman campaign, their response was "Thank you for your inquiry about Blue State Digital's technology services. Unfortunately, we cannot be of service to the Lieberman campaign. We work exclusively with Democratic candidates."
Many ironies here, folks. First, Blue State Digital does our technical work, and provides our tools for meaningful online participation. That Senator Lieberman's staff didn't know that is another sign of their web-incompetence. Second, it's the Blue State tech team we offered to send them on election day as they cried foul over their website "hack" to anyone with a camera, microphone, or steno notepad.
And after Blue State Digital, Plus Three closed the door as well. In a similar fashion, the company told Senator Lieberman to find another vendor, they too will not work with the Connecticut for Lieberman Party.

I have a source outside of Plus Three that says they were offered $300K to build Lieberman's website. Not chump change, yet Lieberman was still rejected.

I'd be happy to continue to give public kudos to any Democratic firms who reject Lieberman's advances. Just drop me a line.

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