August 09, 2008 02:17 AM UTC

"Website Changes Candidate Bio to Match Message"

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• by: Western Way

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

John Ingold Reports (8/07/2008) on the Denver Posts Politics West:

On the campaign trail for the Republican nomination in the 6th Congressional District, Wil Armstrong often talks up his business experience.

He brands himself as the “career businessman” in the race and talks about founding software company Blueberry Systems, based in Greenwood Village.

But, up until the past month, Blueberry Systems’ website didn’t mention Armstrong as a founder.

Instead, a page of executive biographies The Denver Post printed out on July 14 listed Bill Armstrong, Wil’s father and a former U.S. senator from Colorado, as founder. Wil was described as the company’s chief executive officer.

Later that month, Wil Armstrong told The Post that he and his dad were co-founders of the company, along with a man named Lloyd Booth, who is also listed as a company executive on the website.

The website now reflects that position, having been changed to describe Wil as “a founder and Chief Executive Officer.”

The rest of Wil Armstrong’s bio on the page has remained consistent, noting his role as a vice chairman of Cherry Creek Mortgage Company, a firm his dad is chairman of. Wil Armstrong also served on the board of directors for Colorado Community Bank and was previously a director of Heritage Bank. He served for several years as a director for the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association, including one year as its chairman.

So his business bonafides are intact. Why the mid-campaign online bio change?

“He says it’s likely that Lloyd just updated/corrected the site,” Armstrong’s campaign manager, Jack Stansbery, wrote in an e-mail. “The three of them founded the company.”

A quick search of Secretary of State records provides no help. Blueberry Systems’ founder on the company’s articles of organization is listed as William Armstrong, a name that both Wil and his father officially share.

Wil Armstrong has been running his campaign on “changing the way Washington Works,” but to bluntly ask the question, “Isn’t this what we have come to expect of Washington Politicians?”