Here's more evidence that the Courier-Journal's editorial board keeps its distance from its reporters. Not that it's a story Arnold Garson will be using when he goes around town talking about the paper's journalistic integrity.
Today's editorial attacks Metro Council Republicans for pushing forward a proposal on Mayoral term limits. It cites some historical data about national Republicans pushing term limits, going back to the time when Republicans passed a two-term limit on Presidents in 1947.
But in going off on local Republicans, the board missed a key fact, one that would have been obvious had anyone on the crew read the paper's recent news story about the push for term limits.
The push, you see, is coming from Councilman Brent Ackerson from the 26th District. He is, apparently unknown to members of the editorial board, a DEMOCRAT. And it was his proposal to consider term limits.
I asked Ackerson, whose father, Jon, IS a Republican on the Council, if he was switching parties. "I'm happy and content right where I am," he said, adding that he was disappointed that the C-J was turning the push for term limits into a partisan issue.
That the editorial board could base an entire piece on an incorrect assumption is more than just an inconvenient little mistake. Let's see if anyone over there will own up to it, print some sort of correction, and maybe get to know Mr. Ackerson.
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Rick Redding