Fascinating little tidbit about Progressive Dane – apparently they are not responsible for the content posted on their website.  Recently I made some comments regarding “An Ambitious Plan” which was posted (the plan that is, not my comments) on the front page of the Progressive Dane website.  As a quick recap, this is a plan for the RTA in Dane County with a major emphasis on building a train.  While rational people can debate whether those points represent an ordered list (most important to least) or just a list of equally important points, the conversation took a turn for the weird when I was informed that the content on their site doesn’t truly represent PD’s views.

So I’m in a quandary.  Do I accept the information posted on the PD site as representative of their group?  After all it is quite clearly written as a statement of Progressive Dane’s beliefs.  Do I accept the folks that post here as representatives of PD?  They certainly sound like they were involved in the aforementioned piece.  What about the individual that claims he has the inside scope to the ‘real’ PD people?  What a dilemma.  And they say the Democrat Party is in disarray…

You can view the website in its original form here, which I’ve saved for the historical record, and make your own call.  This is not a Facebook-like site where just anyone can post to your wall or Madison.com where you can comment freely on articles but rather what appears to a rather locked down web site representing a political party here in the county (thier website claims they are a political party in Dane County anyway, I feel like I can't trust anything I read on the internet now).  Bummer if we can’t count on the information posted on their site as being an accurate representation of their beliefs.     

Time will tell if there are some updates to the PD site to suppress all this talk about the train.  Regardless of the outcome of that, I wish them luck in figuring out how to manage their web site.  Perhaps they could look to the Dane County Republicans (www.danegop.org), recently of Isthmus front page fame, for some website pointers.*

*Disclaimer: Until someone from the Dane County Republicans informs me otherwise, I will assume that the material and information posted on their website belongs to them.