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Is the FlashReport or the Sacramento Bee accurate?

Posted by at 12:00 am on Jan 11, 2007

I just got the regular email update from the Sacramento Bee. The headline reads:

Senate GOP rejects governor’s education appointee

I open the article and find a description of the rejection of Joe Nunez. 

One paragraph caught my eye. You can see the whole article here.

"The Senate voted 25-11 on the confirmation of teachers’ union activist Joe Nunez, but with minority Republicans opposed, fell two votes short of the required two-thirds majority."

Now that is interesting because several hours earlier. Jon posted on FlashReport a description of the defeat and pointed out that "Republican" Senators Denham and Maldonado voted FOR Nunez. See Jon’s post here. 

The post explain that two Dems were absent for the vote.

So which is it? The Sacramento Bee makes GOP Senators out as partisan villains. And doesn’t mention the Democratic absenteeism played a role.

My sources in the Capitol say that FlashReport has it right. At some point, I hope the Bee enters the era of post-partisanship and changes the story.
 

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 11th, 2007 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.

One Response to “Is the FlashReport or the Sacramento Bee accurate?”

  1. douglas_johnson@alumni.mckenna.edu Says:
    January 12th, 2007 at 12:00 am

    Flash readers won’t be surprised to know that it’s now confirmed that Flash was right and the Bee was wrong. The Bee article text has been corrected, though the headline has not.

    Question: were Democratic Senators Vincent and Calderon voting on other issues today? If so, the Bee headline is deliberately misleading, as it was their abstentions that killed the nomination. Regardless, it’s an early GOP victory in a session where few to none were expected!