Is Richard Berry impeccably honest?

Richard Berry avers that he is regarded as impeccably honest.

"faultless; flawless; irreproachable, unassailable, unexceptionable"

I have in my hand a campaign mailer. In it, it is represented that Marty Chavez supports a $300M "trolley". Never mind that Chavez is not "currently" endorsing the trolley, let's look at the math.


Berry says that the "trolley" estimated to cost $300M will actually cost three times that amount.

The repeated message through out the flier is that Marty Chavez wants to spend a billion dollars on a "trolley". Three times 300M is not 1B. If the initial number, 300M, cannot be fudged up to $333.33333333 1/3M, then the product of multiplying by 3, cannot be fudged up to $1B, simply because $1B has a more pejorative ring to it. Not, and at the same time, claiming to be impeccably honest.

Does this put him in the same class as Marty Chavez? Technically it does, they both, are on the same side of the line between honesty and dishonesty.

But, in this election, as in every election before, we are left with choosing the lesser, or in this case, the least of the evils.

And, imho, Richard Berry is far, far less dishonest than Marty Chavez.

Further, I would argue, we don't need "vision", promises or plans, nearly as much as we need honest.




photos Mark Bralley