Curtain Drops on OnTrack Website,
Kirkland Chamber of Commerce Revealed
Someone has some explaining to do.
For a while today the website for OnTrack, a so-called monorail “watchdog group”, showed a copy of content from the Kirland Chamber of Commerce website. It’s nice to see the curtain drop on these guys, if only for a second. Take a look.
This raises a lot of questions. Why is the OnTrack site showing content from the Kirland chamber of commerce? What is Kirkland’s relationship to OnTrack? What in the world is going on here? Perhaps those in Kirkland should worry about Kirkland and let us in Seattle find our own solutions.
I gave OnTrack a call on their listed phone number and left a polite message asking what happened. I suggest you do the same.
OnTrack
Phone: (206) 441-5202
E-mail: info@monorailontrack.org
August 5th, 2005 at 6:54 pm
Holy Eastside conspiracy theory! This is wacky. If there is some kind of relationship, fine. It’s a free country. But better be transparent about it or you’re working for evil, not good. Whassup, ontrackers?
August 8th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
Much as I’d like to reveal a conspiracy, couldn’t it simply be a DNS glitch of some sort? It appears that both domains use the same servers…
August 8th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
Definitely not a DNS glitch. As far as I can tell the HTML file for the homepage for the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce was accidently copied over the OnTrack home page. As a result, the OnTrack site was showing the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce page minus the images. If it was a DNS glitch, you would have gotten the images as well.
August 10th, 2005 at 9:45 pm
Both sites are probably managed by the same PR firm. Only so many hacks and flacks to go around, you know.
August 11th, 2005 at 12:39 pm
I just asked the same question of their receptionist. she sounded pissed!! Nice work on this guys. keep it up.
Also, check out http://www.betterdonkey.org where you are a topic of conversation.
September 19th, 2005 at 12:06 am
[...] We questioned OnTrack, also known as The Kirkland Chamber of Commerce. Who are they working for because they are not working for the people. Who pays their bills? Who do they truly represent? [...]
September 19th, 2005 at 2:28 pm
[...] It’s fair to say that the majority of those who called in were pretty angry at the mayor. Our part of the program starts at 44:18, right after The Kirkland Chamber of OnTrack. [...]
September 19th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
someone in kirkland has it in for the monorail….wonder if that has to do maybe with getting more buses on the road?
November 14th, 2005 at 1:17 am
[...] We sent letters to our representatives. We called the Kirkland Chamber of OnTrack the mock organization they were on KUOW. We got news stories on Q13 Fox and Komo 4 News. We managed to get quotes and comments and letters in the Seattle Times and Seattle P-I. The Stranger called us idealists. [...]