On the night of the seventh of October, the Dallas Morning News published an editorial about the election for the 162nd civil district judge. The two candidates featured in this article are Mike Lee (R) and Phyllis Brown (D). I'm not going to give the columnists and reporters of the Dallas Morning News any bad credit, but I will say that this editorial could've been executed better. By that I mean that the author could've made this editorial more "in depth" and not just point out that one court judge has more field experience than the other. I'm not even going to pay too much attention to the obvious bias towards the Republican judge (verbatim from the fist sentance of the second paragraph: "This newspaper prefers Republican Mike Lee...to Democrat Phyllis Lister Brown").
It wasn't that the article was too short, for me it was that the article was too dry and didn't have any thickness to it. I'm sure both these judges have a repertoire of cases in their careers, giving the author an opportunity to give a more entailed editorial. However, I'll put my money on the idea that the Dallas Morning News doesn't really put as much value of on experience as they claim. I'll believe that they used that as a cover and a pretty weak attempt to hide their bias.
But, based on what is on the article, I will agree that a more experienced judge is better than one that is not so experienced. However, that is all I can really say is what I "learned" from this article.
