“Gov. Sam Brownback’s sloppy — or calculated — misuse of various figures to illustrate his administration’s successes is taking a toll on his credibility…
“The job numbers are a case where the figures Brownback is citing may not be wrong but could be misleading to the public. The same is true for the administration’s repeated contentions about increases in K-12 school funding when a large portion of that ‘increase’ resulted from including the cost of payments to the teachers’ retirement fund in the funding total.
“It’s natural for any politician to try to pick the figures that make him or her look better. However, when the governor continues to tout self-serving ‘facts’ that don’t fully and accurately reflect various situations, it makes it look like he doesn’t want Kansans to know the truth, and that’s not good.”
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