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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

After criticism from Occupy Dallas, Atkins' website comes down

If you try to visit Council Member Tennell Atkins' website this morning, you'll get the following message:
"This Website has been shut down by developer. For information call 713-995-0907 or 713-249-3735."
Not terribly interesting except for this. Atkins has been critical of Occupy Dallas, saying the protest movement is straining police resources.
That prompted the movement to do a little research on the councilman and send him a letter criticizing his website. The key quote is buried in the full letter, which is on the jump.
But the gist is they think Atkins is in the corporate camp.
"We are here to protest multinational corporations that are buying out our politicians in order to subvert the democracy for their own personal gain....Why does the banner at the top of your page show photos of corporations instead of the people who voted for you?"
Not long after the letter went out, the website came down.
Who took it down and why, we don't know.

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