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Dan Maes college – final update

by | 8:24 am, July 22, 2010 | 3 Comments

I just spoke with the same man at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who yesterday found no record of Dan Maes in the school’s database.  Today he found the record.

He said to me “I checked this twice yesterday and found nothing.  Now today it’s there.  I put in the same name we did yesterday; we put it in twice.  One possibility is that there was some other field filled in on the screen that I didn’t notice.  But there have been some data integrity issues with the system since they did an upgrade, and this could easily have been one of those hiccups.  I have to apologize to you and Mr. Maes for our screw-up.”

I write this not to absolve myself of an error here. Clearly there was another step I could have taken, i.e. checking the online database.  However the man at UW did tell me today that the two databases, at least as far as the old records go, are identical.  That was why I assumed that searching the second place would have given me the same result as calling, much less two people calling.  In 99% of cases or more, it would have.

Whether it was bad luck of a technical glitch yesterday or “operator error” at UW, I was given wrong information.  Even though my reasoning for not checking in the other place was sound, in hindsight I still should have done so, especially for such an important story. It’s a lesson well-learned by me.

Again, I offer my sincere apologies to my readers and to Mr. Maes and his supporters and will end this rather embarrassing saga here and move on to other topics of discussion.

I do hope that Dan Maes will still meet with me next week for an in-depth interview to discuss matters of policy and politics.  If anything, I feel like I owe him particularly kind treatment…

Link to Original post at Rossputin.com.

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  1.   Michelle Miller
      July 22nd, 2010 @ 9:39 am

    Yes, yes you do!

  2.   Donald Johnson
      July 22nd, 2010 @ 10:09 am

    You don’t owe Maes anything. You were correct to be suspicious of his claims about his education. He’s misled voters about his business experiences, his fundraising and his support from the Tea Party. I don’t believe him any more.

  3.   Lynn
      July 22nd, 2010 @ 7:05 pm

    Yes, you do. Misinformation can hurt candidates.

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