Thursday, December 17, 2009
John Georges on Mitchgate: "I had nothing to do with it"
Posted by Kevin Allman on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Calling it "cyber dirty tricks," mayoral candidate John Georges denied any knowledge of MitchTheMayor.com, the anti-Mitch Landrieu Web site that created a small local political firestorm this morning before vanishing from the Web within hours.
Georges, calling from his car, said the first he'd heard of MitchTheMayor was at The Times-Picayune Christmas party* today.
"I would never do something like that," Georges said, saying his campaign had had similar problems of its own, including a fake Facebook account called "Georges For Mayor" that purported to be real.
Informed that "MitchTheMayor.com" was registered to a company called ComputerCC, which -- according to the Louisiana Secretary of State's office -- is located at the same physical address as Georges' own Web consulting company, Iokon, Georges said, "All I can tell you is I can get on the phone and find out and we’ll call you back."
More as it develops.
* Gambit. Your local news source for holiday parties where we don't hobnob with political candidates. But our deviled eggs are divine.
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So if he gets back to Gambit and finds out that Iokon went rogue...will he fire them or will he just feign responsibility? I guess we'll find out what this guy is really made of.
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"* Gambit. Your best local news source for holiday parties where we don’t hobnob with the political candidates we cover. And our deviled eggs are DIVINE." and your snark is IMPERIAL!:) I love it! ha!
No need to guess if IOKON and George's work together: http://www.iokonmedia.com/clients/ http://twitter.com/IOKONmedia/statuses/4116085020 and http://vimeo.com/7960601
