The mayor was not telling the truth when he said that the bridge renovation did not waste taxpayers' money. The very commission he set up to look into government waste reported that the Southern Tier Project, of which the bridge renovation was a part, was egregiously wasteful. The reasoning in the argument is flawed in that the argument ['infers that a part has a certain quality merely on the grounds that the whole to which it belongs has that quality', 'draws a general conclusion about government waste on the basis of a single instance of such waste', "attacks the mayor's character rather than assessing the strength of the evidence supporting the mayor's claim", 'rejects a position on the grounds that the motives of the person who has advanced the position were not disinterested']