Michigan Congressman Pete Hoekstra is a complete dolt! It appears that someone other than Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra appears to have purchased the URL petehoekstra.com
You remember Pete Hoekstra...he's the lawmaker who immediately and shamelessly began fundraising off the bungled airline bombing that took place on Christmas Day.
This is the very person that makes votes on internet and broadband bills!
The proud "owners" of petehoekstra.com remain anonymous, but here is their statement that has just been released to Huffington Post:
We are not affiliated with any specific organization or opponent, we are not party-line Democrats or Republicans, rather we're concerned Michigan residents who want best for our state. We can, and must, do better than Pete Hoesktra as our next Governor.
The domain PeteHoekstra.com has been available forever. Mind you, Hoekstra first won his seat in November '92 -- before Al Gore even invented the Internet! :) So he's had plenty of time to reserve this domain.We've been concerned about Hoekstra's representation of Michigan's 2nd district for quite some time -- note that he long ago broke his promise on staying a maximum of 6 terms -- and have witnessed an unfortunate increase in his partisan finger-pointing and polarizing tone over the past couple of terms, potentially due to frustration over the decline in Republican power in Washington.
From Huffington Post:
Hoekstra, who stakes a large chunk of his political reputation on a hawkish and elevated understanding of foreign policy and national security matters, is pilloried at the eponymous website over his handling of these very topics. In particular, the site's authors lash out at the lawmaker for fundraising off the bungled airline bombing that took place on Christmas Day. They also take glee in reminding Hoekstra that he failed to register the website they now run.
It must be awful to care so little about the actual security of the country that you'd be willing to exploit near-tragedy for money or exploit your position for a little publicity. KARMA for Pete Hoekstra is indeed....a bitch!
Anybody checked out dickcheney.com? LOL!