Months ago, I pointed out that someone had secured the website john4pdx.com—which was strikingly similar to city council candidate John Branam’s website, john4pdx.org. Except the .com address went to an old Willamette Week item about a supposedly controversial book Branam gave to a few colleagues.

Shortly after I reported that, the .com website no longer redirected, and was just a boilerplate web host’s ad-filled page.

No longer… now the .com site redirects to my column last week, where I blasted the campaign for the ridiculous decision to blow $25,000 in public funds on campaign manager Phil Busse’s salary—and $15,000 of that in a lump sum pre-payment.

And what wonderful timing for the Branam campaign. A few weeks ago, they handed out campaign literature that accidentally listed the .com address instead of the correct .org address. (You’d think for $25K, a campaign manager who touts his copywriting and legal skills as reasons for the high pay would A) catch that sort of typo and B) secure the .com address for the campaign.) Busse said a second printing of the literature would be corrected.

(P.S. - hat tip to Just Out’s Stephen Marc Beaudoin.)