Another Question of Trust for Kennedy
My grandfather used to have a saying, the only thing he hated worse than a liar was a clumsy thief and a bad liar. I always considered those words to live by and Melina Kennedy’s campaign spokesman Jon Mills might want to do the same.
I say this because Mills is quoted in a Fox 59 story regarding polling in the Mayor’s race and the fact that there has been no independent polling so reporter Zach Myers solicited information from both campaigns. The Ballard camp said they polled last week and their results showed the incumbent with a 51-39 lead. The Kennedy camp obviously had conflicting data. They said they had just polled in the last couple of weeks and it showed the race virtually tied 40-38 and 21 percent undecided. Mills also said the margin of error was 2 percent, which is virtually impossible with a poll sample of 400 people.
Where does one begin? Obviously, you take everyone’s polls with a grain of salt. However, here is the problem with Mills’ statement, it either makes him a liar or an idiot. The numbers that Mills cites are the exact same numbers that Marion County Democratic Chairman Ed Treacy released on September 23. I’ve linked the release here and have a copy saved in case the link is “broken”.
So we have one of three scenarios here. A) Mills lied to Fox 59 by knowingly and intentionally giving the news organization false information. B) He was uniformed and misspoke. C) After five weeks of attacking Ballard, Kennedy’s polling numbers haven’t moved an inch and the race is exactly where it was in September so they have wasted a million dollars. Which one is it? Something like this is easy to verify so why lie about it unless you’re so damn arrogant that you think you can get away with it, which is not completely out of the question.
And if you will lie or mislead the media over something this simple and verifiable, what else will you or more importantly, have you, lied or mislead the public over?
