Kaufman: missing in action on the Web?
No, he is on the floor of the Senate, casting his first votes. But how does one contact his Senate office? Where is his Senate office? And where is his Senate website? Biden’s former site now redirects to the main Senate website, and if type in http://kaufman.senate.gov, it goes to his biography page on the main Senate page. It is there I finally find some contact info:
Senator Edward E. Kaufman
Democrat – Delaware
G11 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
DC Phone: 202-224-5042
I guess I should be fair, since none of the newly elected Senators have websites up yet. But I don’t understand either. President Obama had the newly improved Whitehouse.gov up and running the second he took office. All of these newly elected Senators have been in office for two weeks. How hard is it to put a website? If a raving liberal lunatic from Middletown who enjoys going shirtless outside the General Assembly can do it, surely a Senator can.
Eventually these new Senators do get their sites up and running, so I hope Senator Kaufman is not going skimp out on establishing a presence on the web simply because he is a placeholder.
Again, to be fair – Kaufman’s constituent probably has Kaufman’s cell phone programmed in his phone. So there is not much need for a web site, is there?
“But how does one contact his Senate office?”
Contact Biden (either one).
A few points. First, Barack Obama had a somewhat larger staff than Ted Kaufman, including some dedicated web professionals; he had the people to be ready for that one.
Second, the new whitehouse.gov site used a lot of material directly from barackobama.com, so much of the work was already done.
Finally, note that Senator Kaufman’s website is individual to him, where the whitehouse.gov site is not specific to the individual; there was more urgency to have whitehouse.gov ready for immediate change.