Let truth, not party, decide on Madigan

While it's true that an opinion section offers leeway to speak your mind, please bear with me as I ask the following: Do you believe that an innocent man should go free? Do you believe that a man proven innocent should lose his job? Shouldn't the truth determine the outcome?

The July 21 Daily Herald editorial, “Indicted or not,” plainly says that it doesn't matter whether a man is innocent or not; what matters, the only thing that matters, is that the Democratic Party stay in power. This is the first point your article makes.

If Madigan committed a crime, he deserves punishment and should be stopped from further hurting the people he's been entrusted to help. If Madigan is not guilty, why should he give up his job? Do you really believe, as your editorial states, that what's best is to manipulate voters, irrespective of justice?

Readers expect politicians to put partisanship above all, but they do not expect a newspaper to blatantly stand against justice in order to have their preferred party stay in power. Your opinions reveal that the public interest and justice are not your bottom line.

Sharon Rudorf

Sleepy Hollow