FOES LAUNCH TAYLOR WEBSITES

If Lena Taylor decides to announce her candidacy for Milwaukee County Executive she might find that her opponents have already grabbed the most likely domain names for a Taylor campaign website.
Just yesterday, which was Sunday, September 30th, 2007, Tim Russell of The Regent Group registered the name www.taylorformilwaukee.com with GoDaddy. The Regent Group "provides consulting and ancillary services to select clients." These ancillary services apparently include political monkey business, like setting up websites in the names of opponents.
Tim Russell, you see, is the campaign manager for Scott Walker, and his domain registration is just a little political cybersquatting stunt. But wait, there's more!
As of this morning only Joe Klein has registered to run as County Executive, according to the Milwaukee County Election Commission. Klein registered the websites "lenataylor.org" and "lenataylor.com", on September 23rd, 2007 but says "she can have them if she asks politely, but she needs to come over and have dinner with my family."
You might want to chat up Taylor yourself. she'll be in Milwaukee Thursday, October 4th, 2007 along with fellow State Senators at a fundraiser at Carnevor, 724 N. Milwaukee Street from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Special guest: Governor Jim Doyle. Meanwhile, if you are free on November 1st, and have a loose $40 to spare, you are invited to Serb Hall to celebrate the 40th birthday of Walker.
--Michael Horne