Lawyer demands retraction of GOP ads

SAVANNAH - A lawyer for Charles ``Champ&#39;&#39; Walker Junior is demanding that his Republican opponent retract campaign ads that highlight Walker&#39;s past arrests and accuse him of gouging the families of inmates. <br> <br> The attorney&#39;s letter to Republican candidate Max Burns hints that the battle for Georgia&#39;s 12th Congressional District may end up in the courtroom after the race is decided at the ballot box November 5. <br> <br> Attorney Bruce Brown wrote Wednesday, ``The commercials are false and misleading in material respects, and have caused and are causing injury to Mr. Walker Jr. and his family.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> The Burns campaign had no plans for a legal response, spokesman Chris Ingram said Thursday. <br> <br> Ingram says, ``We&#39;re running our campaign; Champ Walker and his law firms, they&#39;re running his. I guess they think we should be taking advice from his lawyers as well. We don&#39;t want to talk with lawyers.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Walker and Burns are in a tight race in the district that sprawls 200 miles from Savannah to Augusta to Athens. Burns, a college professor from Sylvania, wants to persuade voters that Walker&#39;s business and personal conduct make him unfit for Congress. <br> <br> Walker, an Augusta businessman, says Burns&#39; attacks are misleading at best, and in places false.