Comments on: Berry TV ad exaggerates length of Chavez’s time in office

By: ched_macquigg

ched_macquigg — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:02:34 +0000

“… 1993 mayoral portrait in which Chavez is already a grey-haired mayor.”
“Chavez’s official New Mexico Senate photo dating back to the late 1980s, …dark hair and a lot of it.”

Depending on what you take late 1980s to mean, it appears to be five or six years. I would suppose the most politicians use old pictures of themselves, why not Chavez?

By: nmindependent

nmindependent — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:17:48 +0000

Ched–

I think you're a little turned around here. Alire-Garcia posted a still from the ad, which shows a photo of Chavez with gray hair and a receeding hairline. That photo is recent; the photo of him next to “1993″ (with plenty of dark hair) was actually from the late 1980s. That's about a 20 year span there.

By: ched_macquigg

ched_macquigg — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:43:27 +0000

It occurs to me; you say the photo was used in the late 80s, but five years later, Marty Chavez is a gray haired old mayor.

Unless Chavez aged remarkably over that five years, or the photo of himself that he was using in his campaign, is of a younger than real time Chavez.

If true, that would mean the Chavez used a younger looking picture of Chavez to make Chavez appear younger than he really was-the charge you level against Berry.

By: ched_macquigg

ched_macquigg — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:18:05 +0000

Marty Chavez is using a photograph as part of his campaign which is clearly not a recent picture. This would seem to be equally dishonest, although all candidates seem to think it is ok to use their highschool graduation pictures on campaign literature.

Their seems to be a double standard here.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:17:30 +0000

If a candidate has to tell people that he is honest, then I immediately suspect that candidate is just the opposite….kind of like “Honest Jim's Car Sales.” The psychological reaction is to question the honesty of the person claiming to be honest.

By: ched_macquigg

ched_macquigg — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:02:34 +0000

“… 1993 mayoral portrait in which Chavez is already a grey-haired mayor.”
“Chavez’s official New Mexico Senate photo dating back to the late 1980s, …dark hair and a lot of it.”

Depending on what you take late 1980s to mean, it appears to be five or six years. I would suppose the most politicians use old pictures of themselves, why not Chavez?

By: nmindependent

nmindependent — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:17:48 +0000

Ched–

By: ched_macquigg

ched_macquigg — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:02:34 +0000

“… 1993 mayoral portrait in which Chavez is already a grey-haired mayor.”
“Chavez’s official New Mexico Senate photo dating back to the late 1980s, …dark hair and a lot of it.”

Depending on what you take late 1980s to mean, it appears to be five or six years. I would suppose the most politicians use old pictures of themselves, why not Chavez?

By: nmindependent

nmindependent — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:17:48 +0000

Ched–

By: ched_macquigg

ched_macquigg — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:02:34 +0000

“… 1993 mayoral portrait in which Chavez is already a grey-haired mayor.”
“Chavez’s official New Mexico Senate photo dating back to the late 1980s, …dark hair and a lot of it.”

Depending on what you take late 1980s to mean, it appears to be five or six years. I would suppose the most politicians use old pictures of themselves, why not Chavez?