Reader's View: Families should be off-limits for political ads

Reader's View: Families should be off-limits for political ads

Now that it's election time, special-interest groups are again running ads about candidates, usually negative ads. While I was down in Minneapolis, there was a negative ad not only about a candidate but also about the candidate’s family, including the children. To me, this is unacceptable. It's one thing to say nasty things about a candidate, but it's another to attack a candidate’s family. Those family members are not the ones running for offic…