(Letter to the Editor - Photo Illustration - MetroCreativeConnection)

I am writing an open letter to anyone who is running for a political office in 2024.

Remember, in reality you are being interviewed for a job. Your future employer, the people, have a right to know why you should be hired. Do not talk about why someone else should not be hired.

Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

So what is the truth/honesty?

The truth most basically means not lying. It means sticking to the facts without embellishing, exaggerating or saying anything you know to be false.

Lying is just as easily done by not revealing the whole story, or by telling the wrong story. Leaving out important parts of the truth is misleading, and even if what you do say is true, doesn’t mean you are being completely honest.

An honest person means what they say at all times, and does not bend the truth to flatter others or themselves.

Honesty means being forthright and not fooling people by misleading them. If you withhold information or allow people to assume things that aren’t true, even if you never utter one untrue word, you are still not being honest.

Ask yourself, “Am I attacking someone and/or lying about someone in order to be hired?”

Would you hire someone for a job who lies to you?

When a person looks at another and lies, the person being lied to has the right to take it as an insult and not hire you.

Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. Matthew 7:12a.

William (Bill) F. Hughes Jr.

Vienna