This is not how we come together to solve problems

Other than what I’ve read in the Camera, I know nothing about the case against former Rep. Tracey Bernett, which alleges that she falsified her residency to run in House District

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However, I must take issue with Theresa Watson’s guest opinion on the topic, which takes this legal case to the court of public opinion.

As her sole evidence against Bernett, Watson informs us that Bernett’s apartment has cobwebs. (Cobwebs!)

I assume that the DA and his team, and any eventual judge or jury, will dismiss as irrelevant the fact that Rep. Bernett didn’t meet Watson’s cleaning standards. Many of us would be deemed homeless if it was assumed that we couldn’t reside in our homes if cobwebs were present. I wonder if an unannounced inspection of Ms. Watson’s alleged home in Louisville (which I certainly do not advocate) would meet her own standard, or if she, like Bernett, would be deemed to have falsified her residency.

I presume there is other evidence in Bernett’s case. However, the fact that the only evidence Watson chose to present in her opinion piece was the presence of cobwebs makes Watson come across as a snob.

I don’t know Ms. Watson. I’m not saying she is a snob, only that her argument appears elitist.

This, for me, is another example of something I see in the Camera (and elsewhere) every single day: people making arguments that are not actually designed to convince anyone, but rather to annoy people who disagree with them while making the people who agree angrier.

This is not how our society comes together and solves real problems.

Let the DA do his job.

— Mike Ellis, Boulder