Miami Herald: Intenet mystery solved: Lt. gov. did it

[seafan]

A little problem with our Republican Lieutenant Governor..... wonder if Governor Crist will address this?


Intenet mystery solved: Lt. gov. did it

BY GARY FINEOUT
June 13, 2007

For weeks, bloggers and others who contribute to the Florida Progessive Coalition website wanted to know who ''vandalized'' a entry about Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp and removed information about the age-discrimination lawsuit filed against him.

The culprit in the Internet whodunit emerged this week: It was the lieutenant governor himself.

Kottkamp insists he wasn't trying to do anything ''sinister'' but just update the biographical information.
''To be honest, I've never done editing like that before,'' Kottkamp said Wednesday. ``I clearly don't know what I'm doing.''

That answer is ''ridiculous,'' said Dave Harper, the manager of the website who lives in Orange County.
He believes the editing job was an attempt to censor information that made Kottkamp look bad.

Harper said that back in early May, someone went onto the group's website and edited a ''wiki'' entry on Kottkamp. Removed was text and links to negative stories about the former legislator, including one from The Miami Herald that reported the state had paid $50,000 in 2004 to settle an age-discrimination lawsuit filed against Kottkamp by his former aide.

Harper traced it back to a state computer. He called and wrote state officials and said he got nowhere until he threatened to report the incident to other officials.

In June, he got a short letter from state officials acknowledging the computer used was registered to Larry Ringers, the chief of staff for Kottkamp. Harper posted all this information on the group's website.

When asked about the incident this week, Kottkamp acknowledged that he used his state-owned computer to look at the site, which he learned about through a Google search.

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Oh, for the day when we flush all of these liars and criminals out of office...

[movonne]

1. I think there is a few dems that should be flushed too...and one

independent

[tbyg52]

2. Oh, yeah, he just "accidentally" deleted the lawsuit

because he "didn't know" what he was doing.

All us klutzes should be so lucky....!