Morales' exaggerations shot down by Chron reporter (updated)
In one of his last stories for the Chronicle, Alan Bernstein reports that mayoral candidate Roy Morales seems to have problems describing his experience accurately:
Houston mayoral candidate Roy Morales told a group of voters in March, “I manage the Head Start program.”
The claim by the retired Air Force lieutenant colonel was untrue, which Morales acknowledged to the Chronicle last week.
[snip]
Since February, Morales has made several campaign assertions about his work experience that appear to inflate his record.
Politicians fib all the time, of course, but generally it is a matter of telling voters what they want to hear on certain issues, as opposed to lying about facts that can easily be checked. If he were a serious candidate, we'd expect the other candidates to give Morales some grief. But he's not, so this episode will probably be more of a comedic matter than an ongoing campaign issue.
UPDATE: Candidate Morales emails the following:
Dear Kevin,
We have talked in the past. The information in the Chronicle was misinformation and incomplete information. We have submitted a response to that inflammatory article. There was no exaggeration on my experience. In fact, I have always down played my credentials. Your blog and others should wait until all of the information is on the table because all you are doing is propagating the defamation of character. I would be willing to talk to you directly and provide you all of the documentation to back up my career. I have posted a document on my Facebook to clearly show my sterling career. As far as Head Start, just go to Harris County Department of Education web site to see that I am the Chairman of that committee.
Roy Morales
If Morales indeed did not acknowledge the alleged untruth (from the Chron's reporting, now bolded in the post), then we would fully expect the area's newspaper of record to run a correction to that effect, and we will be happy to note that correction as well.
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Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/17/09 03:16 PM | Print | Comments (3)
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