Could it be the Nanny to us all wasn’t watching what his own group was doing, or doesn’t Mayor Bloomberg care about the law?
Via Ace of Spades:
I really hate doing the question headline, but this definitely needs answering. I started poking around last night.
At first I pinged mayorsagainstillegalguns.org and found that it was resolving at a New York City government IP address.
Pinging NYC.gov returns the same information.
It turns out I didn’t even have to look that closely, because the mayorsagainstillegalguns.org domain is registered to the city of New York. As you can see there, the registrant name is “NYC DoITT”, which is the New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications.
After this began to hit Twitter tonight, Howard Wolfson, the Deputy Mayor of NYC, sought to justify the apparent conflict, and defend the Mayor.
It is absolutely both legal and appropriate to use a City server to host a website in support of the City's legislative agenda.
— howard wolfson (@howiewolf) June 22, 2013
Wolfson’s attempt to justify this actually raises more questions. Claiming this is the “City’s legislative agenda” and that that somehow justifies this, is slimy in the extreme and would open the door to all kinds of abuse. So anytime there is a confluence of private non-profit and city “agenda”, that private non-profit is entitled to make use of city servers?
And of course, this has been the same group that has just been “memorializing” terrorists like Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and murderers like Christopher Dorner.
Egads, Mr. Wolfson! Think before you speak!
Perhaps we should be checking to find out where else there might be this “confluence” of private and city “agenda”…