Almost immediately Matt over at Naug Blog jumped at the chance to rip on Mike Coleman and Columbus’s Democrats for helping bring the airline to town.

We shouldn’t mourn for the loss of a crappy airline service that had sloppy business model. But we should pity those abused taxpayers who will continue to be forced to hand over money to politically-connected private businesses.

The problem with his argument, and that of the Buckeye Institute as well, is that little if any tax money went to SkyBus directly. [...]]]> http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/05/skybus-failure-does-not-hurt-taxpayers/feed/ 4 http://www.plunderbund.com/2007/10/14/honesty-in-campaign-ads/ http://www.plunderbund.com/2007/10/14/honesty-in-campaign-ads/#disqus_thread Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:39:24 +0000 Joseph http://www.plunderbund.com/2007/10/14/honesty-in-campaign-ads/ The Dispatch has a good piece today that picks apart the crime figures used in the campaign ads of the Columbus Mayoral candidates.

And, of course, Bill Todd’s ad takes the stats out of context:

Todd’s most recent radio ad cites a 2006 murder rate in Columbus that was higher than those in New York and Los Angeles. What he doesn’t mention: The September FBI report he uses shows Columbus’ rate was lower than Cincinnati’s, Cleveland’s and 23 other cities’ with populations of more than 250,000.

And so, I am reminded, of one of the most honest campaign ads [...]]]> http://www.plunderbund.com/2007/10/14/honesty-in-campaign-ads/feed/ 1