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- Allegations of special treatment surface in race for Las Vegas Municipal Court. [Nevada Current]
2024 Judicial Election #3
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Very flattering photo of Wolfson’s kid.
Whenever I hear someone left a government job to “spend more time with family” it raises red flags.
It does raise flags. In fairness i will state i worked much more hours when in government. SO i think in the government lawyer realm it is slightly different,,, but government folks and football coaches that leave for this reason are suspect for sure.
It does not appear that Emerge Nevada has endorsed in this race to date. Anyone know who Emerge plans to endorse? That is the candidate who will win.
Emerge Nevada is supporting Rae Canady.
First election they are going to lose in a while haha
I am confused a bit – so this Canady lady was FIRED from Muni Court and is not licensed in NV at all, and wants to be a Judge??? And wants “transformative changes” to the process… I know its not a strict requirement, but come on, you have to be licensed in the State that you want to be a Judge in so you know the local laws. How can you transform what you don’t know, understand and is not licensed in?
I don’t know the other lady, but Wolfson is at least experienced, licensed and has a wealth of resources to draw on to understand the issues, policies and the law.
Yeah but you have to wonder if there is one set of rules for the connected and another for the peeons.
Half of the Judges are kids of other Judges and connected people. It doesn’t prevent them from being good Judges. All I care about is whether the Judge has a good temperament, is smart, understands the issues and rules fairly. I think she would fit all of those criteria. But I guess we will see.
Being someone’s kid isn’t in itself concerning to me.
But getting special privileges like a higher starting salary or not being required to drug test is very concerning to me.
How can she understand the rules fairly, when she won’t even acknowledge that they are unfairly applied to her!? She gets $18k+ more salary jump with no experience!! Over people with YEARS of experience!? HOW!? WHY!? She didn’t have to take the mandatory pre-employment drug test!!? And then when asked about it she is defensive? But yeah sure she will apply the rules fairly to everyone else.
I can accept that the Drug test was not required because someone dropped the ball.
But, in no world can I accept that the salary bump was anything other than a grotesque example of nepotism because her Daddy, who is the DA and used to be a City Councilman. Not saying he was involved. But, it happens because of her last name, zero question.
My thoughts exactly.
Canady is licensed in Nevada, according to the Bar website. Looks like her preferential conditional admission changed in October 2023 to non-conditional admittance. The larger point about how people who have not passed the Nevada should not be allowed to practice law in Nevada is a valid criticism. (I’m looking at you, LACSN.)
So licensed here, but no experience practicing here? Hard pass.
Very hard pass.
Wolfson is the new Joe Jr. Not nearly enough experience. But she will win. Period.
Shannon Nordstrom is solid. I see that she is working solo now. But her time in the DAs office (or PD’s Office I don’t actually recall) honestly gave her the chance to be present. She will get my vote.
Canady is a bureaucrat and has NO place on the bench, lacking actual court experience.
Any idea why Shannon Nordstrom left the traffic court job?
Canady had over 20 years courtroom experience! Where are you getting your information from?
This is so thoroughly debunked below that I had a smoke a cigarette after it.
You win the blog for today . . . .
And, in my admittedly, truly sexist form, I would have followed this up with “Sir”.
But in all truth, I truly hope that you are a woman
“a wealth of resources to draw on”. Ah yes the Sunday evening family calls: “This is a complicated issue. Mom and Dad, how should I handle this?” That is the kind of stuff upon which Vegas justice is built.
I wish I had an experienced Judge as my mom to ask her complicated legal issue questions. How is that a hindrance instead of a benefit?
Because it feeds every negative trope that there is that cases are decided by secretly conducted backroom discussions and deals.
She is licensed. I should have been more explicit. Thought it was a given.
You made it clear. Someone didn’t read the article closely and those of us that wondered just looked it up. . . . .
Nordstrom quit the traffic court gig to run for muni court? 8 months before the election? 🤔
That’s what she said.
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I record (with permission, of course). Here’s a transcript:
“A variety of reasons but you know, in part to have more time with my family before I was going to run a campaign and I didn’t feel like I would have enough time to run the campaign I wanted to run still at the court.”
Genuinely curious why there hasn’t been a story on all of the questions surrounding judicial candidate Ava Bravo aka Karen Lee Schatzle?
She moved to Vegas in 2021, completely changed her name, and appears to be running as a “Tough on Crime” candidate, repeatedly touting her long history as prosecutor despite currently being a public defender.
She also completely omitted her current employment as a public defender on her judicial questionnaire.
Also interesting, she claims to be 58 years old, but also said on her judicial questionnaire that she worked as a probation officer from 1976-1992. Which would have her as a probation officer at 10 years old.
Working on that race now. She also says she prevailed in her case against her boss in California. I’m no lawyer but it seems to me she lost. https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/cacdce/8:2017cv01593/688905/164
Jury found that she suffered an adverse employment action but that it wasn’t tied to her candidacy. She gonna have to take the L.
You don’t have to be an attorney (licensed in NV or otherwise) to be a justice of the peace in all except Clark and Washoe Counties, NRS 4.010, or in the municipal courts, NRS 5.020.
If i recall it was a population level correct? 10,000 and below. Some of these jurisdiction (eureka county) don’t even have a barred atty living full time there other than their DA
For counties of 100,000 or more the candidate must be licensed to practice in Nevada and has been licensed to practice any state for 5 years.
Statutorily required or not. No fkg way I am voting for a candidate who isn’t licensed here, in LVMC or Bum Fk Mineral County.
Attorney Canady is licensed in NV and she has over 20 years experience as a practicing attorney. If you did any type of basic research on candidates before voting you would also see that Attorney Canady has had and won multiple jury trials, she has practiced in criminal court and family court and she has court administration experience. However Attorney Wolfson has been licensed for 7 years, has only practiced law for 6, has never had a criminal jury trial, has not practiced any other type of law, has no management experience, no experience dealing with under privileged people. She can’t even be honest about her own privilege that comes with her last name.
Attorney Nordstrom was also fired from Municipal Court, she did not leave because she wanted to.
The difference between all these candidates is that Attorney Canady is honest and has the broader experience, which in real life gives her better tools, knowledge and resources to help Las Vegas.
Well I’m convinced. I’m voting for Comrade Canady. If only someone had spelled it out for me like this before.
Wolfson has been doing civil work for the City the past couple years.
Dear God I hate the frequent responses like this but if you are not her, then you are one of the four people that she has supporting her. So you invited me to do “any type of basic research on candidates before voting” so I did. I had to go beyond your website to come up with the information because your website has none of it.
Canady got her temporary “C” certification in May 2023. She got her full time admission in October 2023. You can tell me all about “20 years as a practicing attorney”; she has 6 months as a licensed lawyer in Nevada. She claims she moved here in 2014. That is 10 years of not practicing law as an attorney here because he was not licensed. The State Bar of Wisconsin states that she graduated from Marquette and was admitted under Wisconsin’s auto-admission in July 2004. Once again that would be under 20 years for you even if you practiced law from the day you were admitted.
Your assertion that you “won multiple jury trials, she has practiced in criminal court and family court and she has court administration experience” is nowhere to be found in any of the documentation or online records. So how would one find that? Apparently I would have to go to the bowels of Wisconsin which is a bridge too far for this voter.
So if she was (you were) only in Wisconsin from July 2004-2014 and was/were here after that (and certainly could not be a practicing attorney here until 2023) then your statement of “over 20 years experience as a practicing attorney” is false. I have nothing against you personally and am glad that you brought the Wolfson nepotism to Dana and then to light. But don’t be strutting into this Blog and overstating your credentials because Wizard when I look behind that curtain it is not impressive.
Ok…so Canady is currently practicing in family court here in Nevada so there’s that.
Also in the very article we are commenting on it states she was fired from Municipal Court, which is court administration so didn’t have to dig to deep into the bowels for that one and further, she was the director of the Family Mediation Center here in Clark County before going over to Municipal Court, so there is some more court administration and family court work. She has been licensed and practicing in Wisconsin since 2004. 2024-2004=20. Just because you live in one state does not mean you have to stop practicing and give up your law license in another.
Furthermore I am not Canady, I am however a resident of Clark County and a voter. I believe it is important to pay attention and research local candidates because I have family and children here. These local Judges and politicians affect my family and I want to know who they are, what they stand for and what they believe in because those beliefs will always come through in the agendas they try to push onto the community.
So far from what I have seen and researched, Wolfson does not have the experience or the backbone to stand up against anything or anyone. Her courtroom will just be overrun by whoever is currently in charge and I am honestly looking for a change in Vegas, I am tired of it being the way it is right now. Wolfson will continue to do her daddy’s agenda.
So are you say Canady was practicing law in Wisconsin while working in the Family Mediation Center here and working in Muni Court administration? Well that’s problematic. You said “more than 20 years as a practicing attorney” even though she is not been licensed anywhere for more than 19 years 8 months and admits 10 of those years were spent in a state in which she was not licensed to and could not be practicing law. So which is it? Was she practicing law for more than 6 months since 2014 or wasn’t she?
FMC was a Trainwreck during her time there. So administrative experience is only relevant if something was a success under her watch.
M’kay…so it is becoming clear you don’t know what it means to be licensed and practicing. And also for a point of clarification, while you are in law school, you can be specially admitted to practice as well, that time counts.
But just to give you an example, I have lived in NV 10 years, I am a licensed attorney in AZ as well. I work a full time job here in NV. My sister gets a traffic ticket in AZ. I handle the traffic ticket in one court hearing and it’s done. I don’t have to appear in AZ court ever again and would still be considered a licensed and practicing attorney in AZ. I could review an AZ contract virtually and use 1 hour of my time and be considered a licensed and practicing attorney in AZ, as long as my CLE credits and dues are up to date. I hope that clears up your confusion.
So you were aware that she was over FMC and therefore had court adminstration experience. Now it is becoming clear that you are purposely being deceitful and trying to find negative things to say about Canady. Are you or were you an FMC employee? Either way the numbers from FMC under her do not show trainwreck. Again, as someone who likes to be an informed voter, I started my due diligence on the candidates back in January when they filed their intent to run. The number of mediations successfully closed at FMC and agreements reached is public record, you can find those and see the rate is much higher during the years Canady was there than previously and since she has been gone.
Outside of that I also disagree that experience should only be counted if it was successful. Experience and knowledge is gained from utter failure and (using your words) train wrecks too. If not why do we teach our children that they can learn from their mistakes?
If you have to split the hair that finely to define (your) legal experience as time in “practice” and time “licensed” then you do not have enough of either.
This cannot be a serious response. I will bite on your hypothetical: “have lived in NV 10 years, I am a licensed attorney in AZ as well. I work a full time job here in NV. My sister gets a traffic ticket in AZ. I handle the traffic ticket in one court hearing and it’s done.” So you handle one hearing for a traffic ticket in Arizona in 10 years and then put on your resume that you were practicing law in Arizona for 10 years? I think everyone who reads this blog will know who is being deceitful Ms. Canady.
We know. We see right through that BS. This race is effectively between Wolfson and Nordstrom and everyone knows that.
Thanks Rae. We are not voting for you. Period.
Holding a license does not equal having been a practicing attorney. You have never even taken a FKG bar exam until last year.
You are a fired government bureaucrat (since 2014) and have no place wearing the robe, even in Muni Court.
For the record, Canady was not my source on the Wolfson issues. I just asked her and Nordstrom for comment. Nordstrom did not respond.
Your source’s initials are MD.
Nope.
Don’t know who MD is. Not one of my sources.
The bowels of Wisconsin case searches turn out to be a very simple state-wide system for all courts. https://www.wicourts.gov/casesearch.htm
From there you can enter Rae Canaday’s name and find out all sorts of interesting things, like how often Dept. of Revenue appears as plaintiff, or how often “Satisf of judg due to bankrupt” appears on the dockets.
Very simple as a party search; not informative as to any cases in which Canady was a counsel. She got sued often.
And . . . apparently evicted and sued a family member (same last name) in 2017.
WTF!?!?!
Are you saying Rebecca Wolfson is the only candidate who HASN’T been fired from Muni Court?
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Honest question:
What is the source for the proposition that Nordstrom was fired from LVMC?
It’s known in some circles at the City.
Of course she hasnt!! Her daddy won’t let her get fired from anywhere!
Source for this statement?
This reads like a CnP from her campaign website and I care too little to look it up. Never voting for this carpet bagger.
However, I would easily support Wolfson over her, should Nordstrom (who I watched practice in J.Ct for years) not survive the primary.
That’s fine, just vote for the person whose daddy tells her what to say and do and can’t make any decisions on her own. See how that works out for the city.
Nah cast your vote for the lady who hasn’t practiced law in 10 years of living in Nevada and only got licensed in Nevada 6 months ago (I presume to run for Judge). See how that works out for the city.