Coffman still Stumbling at the Starting Gate?

Back in early September, I did a post about Amy Coffman's candidacy for the 44th district, and mentioned that she, a political new-comer to town, had stumbled at the starting gate by not having a website to let us know where she stands before she sent out invitations to her campaign kick-off.

My wise and gentle observations touched off a bit of a firestorm of comments, spilling into a second post. In the second round of comments, her treasurer visited and commented -

Amy will have a website at www.amycoffman.com that will provide a great deal of information about her, and that will hopefully be of use to people who want to know more about her and what she will bring to the job. I expect that website will be up either contemporaneously with her kick-off event, or shortly thereafter.

As of this morning, though, we're still stuck with a "coming soon" notice, pushing an event that happened two weeks ago. The expectation of an informative website contemporaneous or shortly after the kick-off event has not been met. It seems like a fairly reasonable expectation, and one that could and should have been met.

Now, really, it's just a website for an election that won't happen for over a year. I don't mean to make a huge deal out of the website itself. When it is finally posted, I'm sure that it will have nice pictures and maybe even a few word-smithed position statements designed to avoid offending anyone. I'm sure that, in plenty of time for the election, we will get a perfectly adequate website from Amy Coffman.

Here's why I even mention it, though - the 44th District is a strongly democratic district, and we ought to be sending a genuine leader down to Jefferson City with a can-do attitude who demonstrates competence and energy. A campaign presents an opportunity to show who you are and how you'll operate in office, and one campaign is stuck on "coming soon" and not meeting expectations, while the other one includes a job evaluation by the U.S. Director of Intelligence in Afghanistan - "Second Lieutenant (2LT) Kander is an outstanding leader and a superb intelligence officer … his hard work directly resulted in arresting enemies and saving lives … leading by example". Sounds like he exceeds expectations.