Last week, during Candidates’ Night, I said something that was both inaccurate and misleading.

Click HERE and watch for 12 seconds (until I say, “Thank you.”)

It’s in my opening statement:

I can’t beg anyone: hey, please let’s care about people in Bangladesh or poor people in the South.

If anyone’s going to care, it’s gonna’ be the people in this room for the people who are our neighbors.

First off, I want to make clear that I do not believe that the ONLY people who care about Littletonians living in poverty were people who were in Room 103 at 8:00 PM last Wednesday.

It was inaccurate for me to assert that the interest in and/or the responsibility for ending local poverty was contained to/limited by the people who came to Candidates’ Night.

Second, when I asserted that “the people in this room”—i.e., Room 103 last Wednesday—are the ones who are “going to care” about the “people who are our neighbors” I did so by making a false equivocation.

Caring about local politics (enough to show up, in person, for Candidates’ Night) does not equate to caring about 100% of the body politic—6.3% of whom are impoverished.

False equivalents are misleading. I don’t want anyone to feel misled.

In that spirit, I remain your single-issue candidate who seeks your support to END LOCAL POVERTY.

Jenna