Two years have passed, but Jeanette Rishell’s fact-checking skills haven’t improved.
In 2007, when the Democratic candidate ran and lost against Republican Jackson Miller for the 50th District House of Delegates seat, she sent out mailers claiming that Jackson Miller voted a pay raise
for himself while serving as delegate.
The mailer was incorrect.
Now, Rishell has sent out a press release claiming that Miller refused an invitation for an NAACP debate against her.
Not quite.
Miller didn’t “refuse,” so much as he said he couldn’t make it.
If Rishell had talked with Ralph Smith, president of the NAACP’s Prince William branch, he would have told her that Miller’s response, “was more of a ‘could not’ rather than ‘would not.’”
Which follows Miller’s explanation that because of scheduling conflicts, he would not be able to attend the debate.
We would say that it's irresponsible for Rishell to make public allegations before verifying the facts carefully, but the truth is that doing so only hurts her campaign.
Miller can easily expose the falsity of poorly vetted allegations against him, so his reputation isn’t harmed; however, Rishell’s image is sullied each time.
In our article about this incident, Miller said that Rishell was trying to say that he was against the NAACP. In response, Rishell said, “Instead of making accusations about my character, Del. Miller needs
to get his facts straight.”
She should heed her own advice.
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