Morning. In today’s opinions newsletter : The integrity quotient, plus bad news for Kari Lake.
It might seem that integrity doesn’t matter these days.
But columnist Greg Moore argues that it very much does. He writes about Gregg Ostro, a Phoenix businessman who is urging other area leaders to do the right thing, even if it comes at the expense of profit.
A New York Times/Siena College poll also suggests that it matters in politics , particularly among the 1 in 5 voters who either haven’t decided or could be persuaded to vote differently in the presidential race.
Basically, the people who will decide that election.
These undecided voters in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina were asked, open-ended, to name their biggest concern about each candidate.
And interestingly, many were quick to name aspects of integrity — or, more accurately, the aspects at its antithesis, including (and these are actual words that voters used) being arrogant, disrespectful and rude.
The results give weight to a quote from Ostro in Moore’s piece: