Editor, Gazette-Journal:

In his letter to the Editor of the Gazette-Journal of Sept. 15, Jack White makes a number of unsubstantiated allegations describing the record of the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. I hold that office. Mr. White’s use of unsupported innuendo cannot go unanswered.

By implication, Mr. White asserts that I have failed to show leadership in the office to which the citizens of Mathews County have elected me five times, that I am without the energy to hold that office and that I have not, during my 20 years in the office, preserved "our Mathews way of life." The way of life which I have, in Mr. White’s view, failed to preserve, has been mine and my wife’s for 30 years. It is the way of life in which we chose to raise our three daughters.

Our office has successfully prosecuted hundreds of felonies and misdemeanors, has obtained hard-fought convictions in cases ranging from rape, robbery and murder to drug distribution,...