By: LAUREN LANDIN
Staff Writer
Effective arguments all over the world use evidence to prove their innocence to support the argument. In this case, Jay Heinrichs uses evidence found in 1992 to expose Senator Bob Packwood. The senator was under threat of expulsion for allegations of abuse, sexual harassment, and assault which Heinrich states that “In 1992 word got out that he was chasing female staff around his desk; the civil rights hero turned out to be a total horn dog.” (54). What this evidence helped me gather was that Senator Bob Packwood learned that being a politician means that information about the past will come up. His decision after this piece of evidence got leaked was to resign. He decided not to argue with the evidence as a politician so in this case, he was persuaded; Persuasion in an argument happens more often than people may think.