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Kennedy First on Hill With Own Site

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 26, 2009 10:00 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Amid the praise for the late Ted Kennedy, one blogger reminds that the Massachusetts senator was the first member of Congress with his own website. “Back in 1993, this was no small feat,” writes Paul Blumenthal for the Sunlight Foundation. “At the time there were no congressional offices connected to the Internet.”

“If you can find a way for me to reach constituents using computer networks, do it,” Kennedy told then-systems administrator Chris Casey, who’d found a growing cache of online threads about various political issues. “Casey cautiously entered the fray to give information on bills the senator sponsored or votes the senator took,” Blumenthal notes. “A year later … Kennedy launched the first official website for a Senate office.”

Kennedy's first go at a website.
Kennedy's first go at a website.   (Flickr)
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NxBigmouthery
Aug 27, 2009 10:05 AM CDT
Yeah, he needed millions to do that. And all the other members of congress were barely feeding their families. You do come up with the most ill-conceived and poorly executed twaddle.
JonmarkP
Aug 27, 2009 7:34 AM CDT
"Daddy, tell me again how the Bush family became billionaires through hard work and thrifty living, working their little plots of land, sewing feed sacks for the kids to wear to school. Oh, and lending money to the Nazis and looting the Mom & Pop Savings and Loans and running Medicare scams in Florida. I just love those inspiring Patriot stories."
hamsammichs
Aug 27, 2009 3:59 AM CDT
Wait, is there information on this site of how he killed a woman in 1969 and then walked away from the crime?

 
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