Why can’t the New York Times get simple facts right? In an article on the California Senate race, the last two paragraphs discuss briefly the candidacy of Republican Ron Unz and manages to get his most important contribution to public policy wrong. To wit: “Mr. Unz rose to prominence here more than a decade ago when he backed a ballot initiative opposing bilingual education.”

What’s wrong with this sentence? Start with the fact that Unz “rose to prominence” most visibly when he ran in the Republican primary for governor of California and won 34 percent of the vote against incumbent Gov. Pete Wilson, who got 61 percent. That’s a pretty impressive score against an incumbent who won re-election the next fall.

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