Decipher this

By: Jennifer Foster | Opelika Auburn News
Published: March 03, 2010

I find typos in nearly every press release I receive.

I get a lot of press releases, so I see a lot of typos.

But some stand out.

For example, consider this piece I received today from the Roy Moore campaign:

Judge Roy Moore; Former Chief Justice of Alabama qualified with the Alabama Republican Party today at high noon at the RSA Plaza for the top Job of Alabama.

Judge Moore stated “I am looking forward to leading the State of Alabama into a new decadeOf Growth and Property”.

The major polls show Judge Moore more has a strong lead over the other Republican candidates.

Let's play a game. Count the typos you see in this release. Post your guess as a comment to this article, e-mail it to me (jefoster1 AT bellsouth DOT net) or tweet it to me (@jefoster) by 9 a.m. Friday.

If you win, I'll publicly extol your grammatical virtues in this space and maybe come up with some other kind of goofy prize.

The point of this is not just to have a bit of fun at Judge Moore's expense (though, OK, maybe that's part of it).

Folks, we're talking about someone who wants to be the governor of this state. He wants to take on Alabama's problems, big and small. He's asking us to have confidence that he is competent to advance creative solutions to those problems.

In my humble opinion, having someone putting out coherent statements on his behalf is the least he can do.