Wednesday, August 28, 2002

GI Janet with the Kung Fu Grip
Moderate humor from the Tampa Tribune in Reno Protest Masked As Official Web Site:
It has her picture. It even has her own words, taken from transcripts of congressional testimony probing her handling of the deadly 1993 standoff with Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.

And until early July, the now less-than-flattering Web site - www.renoforgovernor.com - was one that redirected Internet users automatically to Reno's official campaign site, www.renoforflorida.com. But not anymore.

Ken Adler, a California mortgage banker with a deep self- described dislike of the former U.S. attorney general's politics, noticed a few months ago the domain name was set to expire and waited for his chance to snatch it up. He got his chance in early July, paid $15 for the Internet address and posted the protest page, then waited for the Reno campaign to call with its checkbook ready.

That phone call never came, so the Web page stands.
Clinton's cabinet always seemed to resemble the tavern scene from Star Wars, but even in that zoo, Reno stands out.