Sunday, August 15, 2010

Our View: Keep pension spin out of election

How things are worded does matter. 

The ability to spin facts and figures long has been part of the campaign process, and that’s not likely to change any time soon. But while it’s one thing to use spin to try and influence an election, it’s quite another to use an election to plant, grow and harvest spin.
That is what’s being done in DeKalb, where a referendum question is being placed on the ballot for the sole purpose of creating bullet points for a lobbyist group’s literature.

Click on following for more of the  Daily Chronicle’s opinion of the advisory referendum:  Our View: Keep pension spin out of election | Daily Chronicle

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