Letter: County attorneys support Clark

To the Editor:

I support Larry Clark in his effort to be elected as a judge in the First Judicial District. Clark has been endorsed by five county attorneys in this district because he is clearly the most qualified candidate for this position.

Clark has been an outstanding trial attorney in the Dakota County Attorney’s Office since 1989. He has been the lead attorney in many difficult prosecutions our office has handled, including cases of child sexual abuse and murder. His personnel file is filled with thank-you notes from crime victims and plaudits from many others for his hard work and dedication.

Clark has a keen sense of justice and a compassion for the human spirit. He has the ability to make difficult decisions with fairness and integrity and will do so as a district judge. He has long been active in the community in which he lives and throughout the state in many ways, including serving as League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions president.

Clark is exactly the type of hard-working, ethical and experienced individual we need in this elective office. I urge you to join me and my colleagues in Carver, Goodhue, McLeod and Sibley counties in electing Clark as a judge in the First Judicial District.

James C. Backstrom

Dakota County

Joined by the following county attorneys:

James W. Keeler Jr.

Carver County

Michael Junge

McLeod County

Stephen N. Betcher

Goodhue County

David E. Schauer

Sibley County

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