Friday, April 20, 2007

Senator June N. Gibbs - Oops!




Dear June,

I thought that I might be helpful in drawing your attention to some errors on your State paid for & sponsored website. Not so long ago I actually used to get paid for this kind of info.

Check the "Photos" link. There are only 5 sentences on the entire page. "Committee" is misspelled. Prithee, thou also mayest want to reconsider the use of "amongst."

The link for "FAQ" also contains some errors. "Question 3) Where can I locate information about public laws in Rhode Island?"

The answer is a sentence fragment: " You can find information regarding the Rhode Island Public Laws, Rhode Island General Laws and any other legislative"


Another problem is "4) Where can I learn how a bill becomes a law?"

The answer is this link: http://www.elections.state.ri.us/registration/intro.htm.

Surprise, surprise, this is a link on voter registration, not the bill-to-law process. (Note for the future, the link address often contains relevant info)

Oh, your address. Middletown's zip code changed, uh, like 10 years ago. It's now 02842.

And one of your pages contains this link: http://www.info.state.ri.us/azlist.htm

This link says that it's been changed. You may want to update it.

Your "Links" also state that Little Compton has no website. I'm sure that they will be surprised to learn that. Heck they even have running water now!

http://www.little-compton.com/

This is Tiverton's website. Your link leads nowhere.

http://www.tiverton.ri.gov/

You know, you may also want to include a link for Middletown. Remember, where you live?

http://www.middletownri.com/

Your homepage states that you are happy to assist & meet many Aquidneck Islanders. I guess the same does not hold true for residents of Tiverton, Adamsville, & Little Compton (the maps that I've seen do not place them on Aquidneck Island)? They've been part of your district for, like, SEVEN years now?

I could go on with specifics, but hey, the buck doesn't stop with me. Nor with the assistants who did the work. You may want to, um...what are those words; oh, proofread and edit, say - every TWO years at a minimum? Yeah, like right BEFORE an election. Hey, maybe even AFTER.

You're welcome. But we can't keep on meeting like this.

Sincerely,
Eileen

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought the Tiverton Website leads you down the rabit hole?

Anonymous said...

Yeah, right into the state of altered reality.

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