Indiana State Senator Beverly Gard has filed 2 bills in in the Indiana General Assembly targeting so-called "serial meetings" and penalties for knowingly breaking all open door law including the aforementioned. According to the belowmentioned this effort may appeal to Governor Mitch Daniels. For more details, visit http://www.greenfieldreporter.com .
In the research of the background for this article, the natural first step was to Google Beverly Gard. This I think most individuals on the Internet are very capable of, and I would surmise most anyone who votes these days most likely Googles their candidates at least once before voting.
It is in the best interest of politicians to have a site of their own, marketing their plans, goals, etcetera. This cheap and effective tool can help constituents learn more about the goals set and positive achievements of their representatives or prospective representatives. The alternative can be unintentional visits to sites like http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/527/beverly_gard_for_state_senate_committee.asp on their first click as we did when Googling "Beverly Gard IN senate." Albeit, the link is pretty much a dud, but there are much worse sites out there [like http://www.mugshots.com/US-Counties/ for instance...]. Further, the cost and ease of publishing an Internet site in the ripe year of 2005 is inconsequential when it will ultimately end up, with all probably, the only site out there having much if anything good to say about a specific candidate's 'positive' achievements.
Of importance, this advice is not targeted specifically at or to Beverly Gard but ALL politicians. Constituents and the public want to know more about their representatives. And, bucking the cynical trends of the day, they would rather have the good than bad that most represents the available information on the Internet.
It is up to politicians to market their own product - to tell the voters why they should vote for them. And this is especially true for good politicians because they are naturally tastier targets for all the hacks and wonks. I truly believe that good politicians, who really care about good governance, will naturally see the multi-fold benefits of the very minute investment a good Internet presence requires. Otherwise, good governance will be lost to the noise in the vast ocean of bad politicians.
Note: For the rational to the utility of, well-Google-ranked, 'personal' web sites for poloticos, click "read more..." Also, stay tuned for our follow-up, how-to article "Web sites for politicians"
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 08:49 PM
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