10/23/07 Op-ed Notes

By Curmudgeon

Noted Naysayer Jim Hutchins has a good op ed piece up in the Std-Ex this morning.

The piece is headlined "Godfrey Not Truthful About Crime Statistics." It documents the Mayor's fiddling with Ogden crime statistics to try to convince people he's presided over a significant drop in crime in the city. Hutchins plays dirty by actually going to the sources, like FBI crime statistic and those compiled by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification, to see how the Mayor's numbers stack up against the numbers reported by people not desperately running for a third term following a primary in which 60% of the voters said to that third term "No!" Lo and behold, the Mayor's numbers don't hold up and appear in some cases to have been invented out of whole cloth to make Hizzonah appear as Crimefighter Man [imagine Matt Godfrey as a caped action figure. CAUTION: Do not attempt to imagine that with mouth full of cereal or coffee.]

Checking sources, looking for facts, comparing the Mayor's statements to reality. My god, will these Naysaying Van Hooser supporters stop at nothing in this campaign?