A correction on the Theresa Greenfield/Senate Leadership Fund post

I make it a point to promptly post retractions and corrections when I find that I have made a mistake. It's the only honest thing to do

I made a mistake in my post on the Iowa Senate race and the questionable attack ads being broadcast by the conservative Senate Leadership Fund criticizing the business record of Democratic candidate Theresa Greenfield. That post has now been corrected.

Greenfield was President of Colby Financial Interests, a family-owned local business, and not regional director of Rottlund Homes when she made the decision to terminate the leases of a number of small businesses in order to facilitate the building of a large chain store. Her responsibility for that decision should be conceded. A question remains, however, as to whether a business decision based on financial considerations was unethical because Greenfield had the obligation to put the interests of those small businesses ahead of profit and, arguably, the development of the community.

I remain skeptical that the Senate Leadership Fund would have thought so if the decision had been made by a Republican unless it has been converted to Bernie Sanders ' point of view and thinks that businesses exist not to make a profit, but to do good. That is, of course, a possibility, but not a position ordinarily associated with conservative Republicans.

One senses some possible hypocrisy here. Just sayin'.