Misguided attacks on HD 4 candidate

While it is always fun watching Republicans trash one of their own, Doug Adam’s attacks on Tim Baldwin attacks all attorneys.

Following Doug’s flawed reasoning, every attorney who represents a rapist must be a rapist themselves; every attorney who represents a murderer must harbor malice in their own heart; every attorney who takes on an unpopular cause must believe in such a cause

Sorry Doug, that is not how our Constitution works. We are a nation of laws and a great deal of our greatness has been attorneys throughout our history who were willing to fulfill their obligations to their honorable calling.

John Adams successfully represented British soldiers accused of murder during the early rumblings of our desire to break from Britain; Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party took on the evils of slavery, and the 1960s civil rights movement was driven in part by attorneys, one of whom subsequently was the first black person to serve on the Supreme Court — Thurgood Marshall.

As an aside, as a nation, state and community, we suffer considerably more deaths, broken homes, murders and trashing of our community by those who drink rather than those who smoke a little weed. It sure would be refreshing if Doug Adams would get off the marijuana kick and become involved in MADD.

— Tom Muri