Pizza Math

I've said it several times, Donald Trump has forever changed politics. There was a time in this country that if you said something that wasn't true, your career would be over.

Because the truth used to matter to people.

Those days are over, so this likely won't go anywhere but I still feel the need to call out what looks like a deceptive ad.

Alyssa Perez, who at least for the time being has been removed from the bench as a part-time fill-in magistrate pending an opinion from the County Attorney's Office on a possible conflict of interest but still uses the word "Judge" on her campaign material, has something else interesting on her campaign material.

I was mailed something from her campaign and as you can see, she has an awkwardly phrased statement about having 15 years of experience on all sides of justice. I chuckled over it because I thought it made it sound like she found herself on the other side of the justice system.

But it got me curious because it was so awkward. Lo and behold, I found something interesting.

According to the Texas Bar, she just completed 10 years of experience. Unless I'm reading this wrong:

So according to the State of Texas, she has 10 years of experience as a lawyer. I struggled to figure out how she came to 15 when she only has 10. Honestly, I can't figure it out.

But she may have used a complicated formula to get to the number 15. So lets start with the fact that she has 10 years of experience and is saying she has 15. So she has 5 years working as CLEAT's lawyer. She has 5 years working as a prosecutor.

5+5 = 10

Everyone follow so far?

Well what I THINK she's doing is saying she has 5 years as a prosecutor, 5 yeas as CLEAT, and since she was taking criminal cases for the last 5 years, while working for CLEAT, she's adding ANOTHER 5 years.

The fact that she represents law enforcement and defendants at the same time is the whole reason she's embroiled in a courthouse controversy to begin with! You know, because it was happening at the SAME TIME.

So its not 15 years of experience. Its 10 years of experience. Now she's either purposely trying to make people think she has more experience than she actually has - which is bad - or she doesn't understand that she doesn't actually have 15 years of experience - which is worse.

I'm a helpful kinda guy, so let me break it down in a more easily understood way. Lets say that all 10 years of her experience is represented by a large pizza...no matter how many slices you cut it down to, its never more experience (pizza) than what you started with.

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