JSOnline’s DayWatch reports that the Wisconsin Campaign Finance Information System website, run by the Government “Accountability” Board, features Minneapolis’ skyline. Of note are some of the reactions:
- Tommy Winkler, an ethics specialist for the board, claims that the Connecticut-based designer was using Minneapolis’ skyline as a “placeholder” while it tries to find a copyright-free image of Madison’s skyline. What; the state doesn’t have any images of Madison or Milwaukee (or Eau Claire, or Green Bay, or Superior, or Wausau, or…you get the picture) available?
- Jonathan Becker, director of the board’s Ethics Division, wishes that was Madison’s skyline. Somehow I doubt the folks on the local Politburo of the People’s Republic of Madistan would allow a private building to rival the state Capitol in height.
While the Journal Sentinel chose to just grab the header image, I decided that the full-page screen cap is more appropriate (click for the full-size pic):
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It’s so hard to tell one Communist capital from another!
They spent $1 million (way too much), used an out of state contractor (nobody in Wisconsin could handle it?), and used the Minneapolis skyline instead of Madison/Milwaukee/Green Bay/Any other city in the state (the state doesn’t have any pictures of these cities that would have worked, and couldn’t send somebody out with a digital camera?). Add all that up, and to me, it’s an EPIC FAIL! Actually, if there was something above an EPIC FAIL, I’d label it as that.