One's votes can be inconsistent with one's record

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Sep 20 17:50:48 UTC 2012


Not to mention how distracting that fly-in-the-face can be.

LH

On Sep 20, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> A headline, supplied no doubt by a Boston Globe editor, for a letter
> to the editor today:
>
> "Brown's votes fly in face of his record on women's issues"
>
> And I always thought a politician's votes *were* his record.
>
> Joel
>
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