Inconsistent logic

I’m having some trouble understanding this editorial in The Star-Ledger. If I’m reading this correctly, the clean-elections program wasn’t much of a success — so let’s try it statewide. There seems to be a logical error here.

I think the ultimate point — that it needs to be tried statewide — is a good one. But the way the paper gets there might cause readers to assume the program should be scrapped. That would be an unfortunate and foolish outcome.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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