Danny’s gone from Steve Kent’s website.
In fact, the website that hadn’t been updated since 2007 is gone entirely, replaced with a new one.
So hasty was the old one hauled down – after it featured prominently here – that there’s even a note apologising for any technical glitches.
Conspicuously absent from it is any reference to the Old Man’s replacement, Kathy Dunderdale.
The old one proudly proclaimed Steve to be a Dapper Dan man, right there in the upper left hand corner where eyes always go on an English language website.
First thing you see on the Old Site?
The Old Man!
First thing you see now?
Not Kathy.
Where once you had Steve Kent, proud, strong and determined member of Danny Williams’ team. now you’ve just got this bland, generic website for the member of the House of Assembly for Mount Pearl North.
Same URL.
Different content.
Now when asked Steve might say the site is paid for by the taxpayers out of public funds so it can’t bear a partisan label. The advertising policy, dontchya know, old chap.
Watch out for the early onset pinocchiosis there if he tries that excuse.
Of course, if that old site was paid for by you and me, then it was clearly violating the policy. Something would have to be done to make sure Steve wasn’t breaking the rules.
If it’s out of Steve’s own pocket, then this would be even weirder than it already is, but that’s another issue.
Anyway…
On the old version of the site, all Steve would have to do in order to stay within the guidelines is take off the party logo and delete any references to it in the text.
On the new version of the site - stevekent.ca - you could have the same sort of thing. But there isn’t anything like it.
Nothing about Steve’s boss in his capacity as parliamentary secretary.
That’s a government job, not a House one or a party one.
And his boss is the Premier. Steve could mention her – just like he mentioned Premier Dan – and he’d still fit the policy barring partisan advertising.
So why doesn’t Steve-o have his boss’ picture and tons of information about the government on his website?
Really good question.
Aside from one side-on shot at some event or other, Kathy Dunderdale is a big black hole on Steve Kent’s website.
Talk about negative space. Kathy’s absence just screams at you.
Steve could even have links to government news releases and a reference to the department he works for.
But there’s nada.
Stay tuned, gang.
Kent’s website could duck into a phone booth and change again into Super-Tory any second now.
Stranger things have happened.
- srbp -