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Robert Puphal: Before criticizing candidates, consider their success

Why must we, as a voting public, hold any aspirant to public office to such a high level of scrutiny? Any successful person, man or woman, has likely arrived at that level of success by learning from their own mistakes. We each should pause a moment before we “cast the first stone.”

Robert Puphal, Atwater

This story was originally published November 16, 2015 at 1:02 PM with the headline "Robert Puphal: Before criticizing candidates, consider their success."

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