Dirty tricks on the Web from the Schock campaign? Kinda doubt it ... (UPDATED 2x)

Does Colleen Callahan (Democratic congressional candidate the 18th District) have a campaign Website yet? Anyone who's looking for one might stumble across this one: CallahanforCongress.com.

Methinks it's NOT her site. Except for the disclaimer "Copyright. Callahanforcongress. All rights reserved" and a link to GoDaddy.com, the only content is a picture of a cute little girl (emma.jpg) wearing a shirt with a "Callahan for Congress" decal, complete with a red-white-and-blue Democratic donkey. With a red slash drawn through it. Like in "Democrats prohibited."

Like I said, PROBABLY not the site of someone who is running as a Democrat.

There's a debate going on in the comments section of this post. Someone accused the Aaron Schock (current 92nd district state rep, running for 18th District for the GOP) camp of creating the site. One of my readers posted the WHOIS information for callahanforcongress.com stating that the owner of the site is John Callahan of State College, PA.

I did a Google search. There is a John Callahan with that telephone number. But there's no news articles anywhere about a guy with that name from that city who's running or thinking of running for Congress.
The mayor of Bethlehem, PA, is also named John Callahan. He might conceivably be interested in running for Congress, but one would think he would have an address in Bethlehem. And as a Democrat, I doubt he'd post a pic of anyone wearing a slashed-out Democratic Party symbol.

The site was registered on Jan. 17. I and other media broke the story that she was running on Jan. 24, but it was common knowledge amongst the political illuminati for a some time before then. So it'c conceivable someone in the Schock campaign or someone who wanted to help decided to throw together a placeholder Web site in a dastardly plot to deny Colleen a simple and easy-to-remember domain name for her campaign. And with the fast financial resources at their disposal, they found some dude in State College to be their willing thrall.

Yeah. It's possible. Seems an awful lot of trouble to go through when colleenforcongress.com is still available. As is vote4callahan.com.

A quick phone call tomorrow will clear up the confusion. I hope. "Cause I don't want to spend the next eight months debating silly crap like this.

UPDATE: Left a voicemail message at 11 a.m.

UPDATE: Courtesy of Dave Dahl, I now have two links for Colleen Callahan campaign: Citizens for Callahan and Colleen Callahan for Congress. I'll look 'em over and pass judgment later today. It looks like the nefarious scheme to deprive her of a campaign website has failed.

Crossposted to PeoriaPundit