Elected county officials testified that most Suffolk residents opposed Moses’s park

Evidence

But shouting could not drown out the facts. To refute Moses’ contention that only a “few rich golfers” opposed the park, more than a dozen elected officials testified that the majority of Suffolk’s 150,000 and Islip Township’s 21,000 residents opposed it. The chairman of Suffolk’s Board of Supervisors, the county’s governing body, testified: “We are opposed to the methods of the Long Island Commission…. We are afraid of persons who act as they have.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 832

Categorization

• QUESTION: Moses claimed only a few rich golfers opposed him, but a dozen elected officials with constituents contradicted him — worth noting the recurring gap between his narrative of public opinion and the electoral record.