Unnecessary Verbiage
Named: Ken Blackwell, as senior fellow for family empowerment at the Family Research Council. Blackwell is a former undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. He ran unsuccessfully for governor of Ohio in 2006.–Christianity Today.
Is it necessary to use the word “unsuccessfully” there? If it had said “He ran for governor of Ohio in 2006,” would people wonder, “Did he win?”
If he had, wouldn’t he be identified in the blurb as “Governor Ken Blackwell”?
Or–better yet–if he had, would he have time to be a senior fellow for family empowerment at the Family Reserach Council?