Wetterling (not) on the issues

Posted at 7:58 PM on May 17, 2006 by Bob Collins (8 Comments)

The blog Bachmann vs. Wetterling made an interesting discovery today. Sixth District candidate Patty Wetterling has removed the "issues" page from her Web site, days after inviting people to go to her Web site to see where she stands on the issues.

I checked myself and they're right. The issues page is gone from the navigation structure. Now, I know the page was there because I've been building the 6th District Select A Candidate this week and I used the page to check where she stands on some issues (which weren't actually there, by the way, but the issues page was).

In our Select A Candidate program, I have a function that allows us to enter the URLs of pages where we "source" the candidates positions.

As luck would have it, I wrote down the URL for her position on Iraq. I had other sources for other issues so that's the only URL on her site I have.

As you can see the page is still there.

I didn't take a screenshot of her site, however, so I don't know if the page has been redesigned or not, but it looks like the nav structure changed. The "new" nav structure is also on the issues page that I recorded.

So the question is not only, why aren't the "issues" on the nav structure anymore, why is the new nav structure -- without the issues link -- on the issues page?

If I had to guess, I'd guess that the nav structure was changed to add an item and I think it's the "add an event" function because I don't recall seeing that before.

So I checked the "cached" version on Google and, yep, the "add an event function" has just been added. But on the cached version, neither is the "issues" nav. That was cached yesterday at noon, however, and I did the SAC hunt on Tuesday morning.

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Comments (8)

http://www.pattywetterling.com/issues/

Posted by Didi | May 18, 2006 9:05 AM

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Our website is currently being redone and will be completely functional very shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience.

All the best

Ben
ben@pattywetterling.com

Posted by Wetterling '06 | May 18, 2006 11:22 AM

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I had BvW up in 2 days, how long should we expect the redoing to take?

Posted by triple_a | May 18, 2006 11:24 AM

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One suggestion for candidate Web sites: could you please put up a daily or weekly schedule of the candidate's appearances, fundraisers, and events?

Posted by Bob Collins | May 18, 2006 11:42 AM

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Thank you so much for your comments and concerns Bob. I have brought them to the attention of our web designer, our events coordinator and our campaign manager.

triple_a-We do not have a definite time frame, we are working as quickly as we can right now. Thank you for your concerns.

Ben
ben@pattywetterling.com

Posted by Wetterling '06 | May 18, 2006 1:11 PM

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The "Issues" page is still there (as of this writing). Check .

Posted by DI | May 18, 2006 4:04 PM

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Hmmm...looks like text with angle brackets is automatically deleted so lets try without them http://www.pattywetterling.com/issues/.

Posted by DI | May 18, 2006 4:05 PM

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That's pretty much what I wrote in the original piece. It's just not in the nav structure.

Posted by Bob Collins | May 18, 2006 8:17 PM

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