Why Would a School Board Candidate Try to Fake Voters Out?
Ask Michael Christophersen, School Board candidate, District 1.
Mr. Christophersen - either to be annoying and/or to try to glom onto my popular blog's name and look - redid his own Special Education blog with the exact same background, the same SPS log of senior management (complete with my errors) AND put "A" in front of my "Seattle Schools Community Forum" title.
I didn't know this happened until some people saw it and wrote to me, confused about why he was writing for my blog. He is not.
I am writing this because I wrote to him and asked him to cease and desist. He changed only the background. Had he done as I asked, I would not be writing this thread.
I find this a pathetic move and it speaks of someone who will do anything to try to get elected. (If he's doing it just to annoy me, that's even more pathetic.)
I hope readers take note for future voting decisions.
Mr. Christophersen - either to be annoying and/or to try to glom onto my popular blog's name and look - redid his own Special Education blog with the exact same background, the same SPS log of senior management (complete with my errors) AND put "A" in front of my "Seattle Schools Community Forum" title.
I didn't know this happened until some people saw it and wrote to me, confused about why he was writing for my blog. He is not.
I am writing this because I wrote to him and asked him to cease and desist. He changed only the background. Had he done as I asked, I would not be writing this thread.
I find this a pathetic move and it speaks of someone who will do anything to try to get elected. (If he's doing it just to annoy me, that's even more pathetic.)
I hope readers take note for future voting decisions.
Comments
NW Voter
--GL
- seafarer
Cameron
Cameron
Mary K.
Not Okay
Of course he was trying to fake things. His blog
--looked exactly the same,
--used the same template,
--used the same title,
--used the same background,
--used the same url minus an s,
--and listed the same SPS contact info, copied exactly from this website.
Those kind of coincidences aren't random; they're intentional.
So why would Mr. Christophersen copy every identifiable feature of this blog and use virtually the same url, unless he was trying to deceive people or at the very least profit from the popularity of Melissa's blog?
--GL
Mary K.
Phony
I am a public figure and this blog took years to build up. So it's wrong and disrespectful to try to drive readership to his blog based on my blog's name, look and URL.
If your objective is to drive traffic to his site then you are succeeding. Take a look and you will see the his blog was started in July 2014 and has a large amount of content. Why is this now a issue with you? It seems you have a political motivation behind your actions. I'm suspicious the two of you are working together to drive traffic to your respective blogs. What a great news story, is that what you are trying to spark, a news story? What's really going on here?
Mary K.
Your statements on journalism / blogging seem to be missing the point. MW is rightly outraged about a person trying to deceive people into thinking that he was active on her blog. NOT that she was being criticized. And if you are basing your statements on Mary's statements that her post was wrongly deleted I am going with MW on this one.
IMHO all the post above with typos trying explain that MC isn't the troll that he really is, are MC. Again just my opinion, but I believe he has shut down more than one thread with his trollish blathering. I assume the same will happen on this one. More than once he has decried that he was never going to return to this blog only to be back trolling in multiple female names on the same thread. Which really sucks because meaningful discorse was halted.
And if that wasn't Nick that is trying to get elected to the school board someone should let him know that his name is being used to support some poor logic.
-trolls yuck
But, in the end, I think letting people know about this tactic on the part of a Board candidate (especially reporters and those who put on candidate forums) will allow voters to make their own judgment on this issue.
While I appreciate your blog and the information you provide, I can't support your tactics.
SM
Phony
Here are some alternative titles that he might have chosen, that would have made his blog clearly distinct:
Seattle Schools Blog
Special Education in Seattle Schools
Issues in Seattle Public Schools
Let's Fix Seattle Public Schools
Discussing Seattle Public Schools
Blog Reader
long time reader
Phony
sped dad
The PTSA has a new website at www.seattlespecialeducationptsa.org. Please add a shortcut to your favorites, tell your friends and like our Facebook page at Seattle Special Education PTSA.
It's time to get an injunction against Morley.
Sped Mom
@mirmac1, I think we are tired of your vial threats against the school district and others who don't share your point of view. Who are you suing first the district or parents?
Parent
Sam Morley refused to turn over the official Seattle Special Education PTSA website. Ownership of the website was through the Seattle Special PTSA. He has now set it up so that it redirects to another site, not the official PTSA website that mirmac1 had to set up on her own. He is not an officer of Seattle Special Education PTSA.
As the past president of the SpEd PTSA, I gave him the website password and login. He has been asked to turn over the website information, but he has refused. He has no legal basis for his actions. He has stolen it.
I find his actions in regard to the SpEd PTSA website deplorable.
Mary Griffin
Thanks for spell checking MC but you should have said vile not vial.
As I have called you out on a previous thread only to have MW say not to. Your claims are not grounded and you need to chill the heck out. Your dubious tactics are hurting, not helping, the sped community and this blog. I wonder how extremely twisted you must be to continue on... eww
Sped dad
Please show me where I ever even commented on MC's blog. Not me.
But we're done here.