File this under lessons learned, if you do public relations for a governor: Always check the .com and .org sites before you start handing out an address. Last week the governor of Illinois announced a crusade against violent and sexually explicit video games. To help bolster his point of view the state s school officials pointed parents to a web site set up to promote the governor s new initiative. Problem is, they pointed to the wrong address. When parent s went to www.safegamesillinois.com they found a site attacking the governor s idea and links to pages on Amazon.com that let you buy the sorts of games the governor wants to put the kibosh on. The real site is www.safegamesillinois.org. Fortunately for the governor, the .com site is a mature attack on his position and not a bunch of pictures of him playing patty-cake with a Norwegian stripper dressed-up like a very naughty teacher.

Illinois governor s Web plan backfires [UPI]

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