As if he weren't part of the problem to begin with, News & Record editorial editor Allen Johnson is wagging a finger at performing arts center boosters for not being honest about the amount of private donations they have raised.
He writes:
"And when the commitments of private donors are officially announced (and they need to be, sooner rather than later), the community ought to be able to take those assurances to the bank. This effort must be trusted and credible to succeed."
Okee dokie. Just one problem, for all his sincere concern about honesty and credibility, Johnson fails to acknowledge his contribution to the deceit. A N&R editorial from January did not equivocate:
"They have private pledges totaling $20 million."
This is what the N&R editorial told us. They didn't say maybe or might, they asserted that as clearly as anybody can assert a fact. It wasn't attributed to others, the N&R owned it; put their stamp of approval on it as a cold hard fact — and now Johnson is blaming others for the misrepresentation without one word about the N&R's own complicity and guilibility in the misinformation campaign.
Trusted and credible to succeed, indeed.
I will never allow the citizens to forget that Johnson was complicit in failing to alert us that city council was preparing to use limited obligation bonds to fund GPAC.
ReplyDeleteYes, there's that. He's not an honest broker of the facts.
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