Six Big Issues

Why do all Rep. Tim Walz’s anti-Brian Davis ads insist on inserting “doctor” before his name? He doesn’t do so in his material.

Davis posses the degree of Doctor of Medicine, to be sure. He is also a graduate engineer. Both experiences add to his ability to serve in the Congress, and they should be considered. But Walz seems to hope we will dismiss Davis just because he is a physician.

Walz seems to want us to take Davis having an M.D. to be suspicious. He doesn’t come right out and say so or, more important, say why. I can’t think of his coming up with anything valid, but it would be at least honest. It would put the issue, if it were an issue, out there where we could examine it and talk about it.

If Tim Walz has something to say about Brian Davis, let him say it. This is what we have been expecting him to do in Congress, and now I wonder what else is meant by his silence while he was pretending to represent us.