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- The primary election results are now final and can be viewed here. A few candidates managed to get enough votes to avoid the general election in the fall. Congratulations to everyone on their successful campaigns. What are your thoughts on the outcomes?
- Is your firm doing anything for Juneteenth this year? Have they ever done anything before?
who do we expect to benefit the most from supporters of candidates that are no longer in the race? Sweetin to Armstrong jumps out at me the most.
I'm following your logic there, but the public is too difficult to predict. I thought Dena and Caesar would have done much better due to good exposure through signage, but apparently it wasn't enough. Scratching my head.
I am amused by all the white people on my social media feed, who, having learned about Juneteenth for the first time, are aggressively lecturing other white people about Juneteenth.
I, a white person, am as equally amused by my social media feed. I appreciate your comment. If we're being honest here, how many of us had ever heard of Juneteenth before the past week? I had not. I appreciate now knowing and I wonder why it is not yet a national holiday/day for observance, but I can't help but believe that much of the new interest is – sadly – political. But – awareness is awareness.
I first learned about Juneteenth while working for Wells Fargo 14 years ago. That was the first and only time I've seen it celebrated in Nevada in any workplace. It was not discussed in high school.
We didn't learn anything about Juneteenth in school. We didn't learn anything about the Tulsa riot in school, and I don't recall that we learned much about lynchings in school. Instead we learned things like "the Civil War was about many issues other than just slavery." This was in the 1970's.
Why would the Texas holiday of "Juneteenth" be celebrated anywhere other than Texas? Hey, 10:30, the national holiday you are looking for is April 16, the anniversary of Lincoln having signed the Emancipation Declaration. The fact that the news didn't reach Texas until two years later is not relevant to Emancipation Day (which some people now think was June 19). April 16 is the proper holiday.
BYW, I've known of "Juneteenth" for many years. I treat is as Kwanza, a made-up holiday of no significance (outside of Texas, anyway).
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Sorry you didn't learn more. The Civil War was about much more than slavery. An industrial north with much larger populations and therefore greater power in national elections and policy. Slavery was always an issue, but gained popular support, in the Lincoln election campaigns. The border wars, and Beecher-Stowe's book, also influenced Northern support for a war, which before was largely lacking.
The South lost 258,000 soldiers in the conflict. Most of whom did not own slaves.
12:28 – the benefit of Juneteenth over Emancipation Day is, for me at least, that it shows that practical change can take a lot longer than legal change. The Emancipation Proclamation, while an important document, did not have the practical effect of freeing any slaves (it applied only to unoccupied Confederate territory).
To my mind, what Juneteenth celebrates is actual freedom. Not hearing about an executive order being signed thousands of miles away, but instead being able to walk away a free man or woman. This particular event occurred in Texas, but it represents the thousands of times the same thing happened whenever a former slave escaped or the Union army liberated a plantation. In my opinion, that's worth celebrating even outside of Texas.
The Civil War was about slavery and about things that could be traced back to slavery. Saying otherwise boarders on denialism.
I just want to congratulate Craig Friedberg on his 8 percent turn out. Please run for a fifth time.
Is William "Model Prosecutor" Kephart in trouble? Or does he crush Eller? What say ye?
I don't want either one of these winners.
10:33. He's safe.
Even if Eller raises and spends a couple hundred thousand bucks to advertise the issues surrounding the incumbent(which appears highly unlikely), it may not do her much good. It gets her closer, but probably still not a victory.
After all, we as attorneys understand how serious issues concerning wrongful convictions can be,but when opponents attack a prosecutor or former prosecutor for that, it can be ineffective and even backfire.
The majority of voters(including even many democrats)are attracted to hard core law and order themes, and when a sitting judge, who is a former prosecutor, is accused of an instance of wrongful conviction, people will just view him as a former hard-charging take-no-prisoners prosecutor who was so zealous in protecting us that occasional mistakes were bound to be made.
And as to those so-called occasional mistakes,most voters think if this guy was wrongly convicted this time, there must be many other crimes he committed that he was not caught for.
That's how simplistic most voters are when it comes to these matters. They will not reflect on the intellectual nuance of how wrong and harmful it is to convict the wrong person on occasion.
And even if you find an occasional voter who does reflect on the dangers of wrongful convictions, they will conclude this matter could not be that serious as it is over two decades ago and it did not preclude or prevent him form becoming a judge, which he has served at for over a decade, I believe.
2:28–as to your point that many(and perhaps most) voters do not give a damn about an isolated instance of wrongful conviction(even one that results in over 20 years of incarceration), I am thinking of this flyer sent by Ozzie Fumo's campaign.
It barbecued Judge Herndon on this very issue. I received it at my house, but I am a registered democrat. I'd be interested to earn if it was sent to republican homes. I doubt it as that may well be ineffective.
In fact, I'm wondering if it was even that effective with democrats. My neighbor, who is a democrat and who I tend to chat with about politics from time-to-time, received it and believes it is a total non-issue being exploited and distorted only for political yardage.
I then asked him if he does not think it s serious that someone lost 20 years of their liberty based on this. He indicated, again, that the situation must be grossly distorted, including Herndon's role in it, or Herndon would never have been appointed as a judge 15 years ago, where he continues to serve with distinction and high ratings(this "with distinction and high ratings" part indicates he may have also received some Herndon campaign material).
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Crazy. The unconscionability of what they did is so extreme that it isn't credible or believable, so Kephart and Herndon get to use it as a shield. "Would someone as distinguished as a sitting judge like myself really do something like *that*?" Up is down, black is white, etc.
Here is the crazy part for me. Scotti threw a pocket Constitution and did not draw the highest votes in his primary. Kephart fraudulently and unrepentantly sent a man to prison for 20 years and cakewalks through his election. The power of law enforcement is staggering.
Scotti and Kephart both need to be voted out.
We deserved better candidates in that department. I don't have anything good to say about either of them; so I won't say anything.
Cabo wabo, Bonnie Bulla needs a taco, then she goes bye bye too.
5:21 — Whaaaaaat??
I will revolt if McCarran 8s named after land crook, Harry Reid.
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It will be called Pinky's Airport.
No, they should name it out after Debra March for endorsing every other candidate for judge and for not wearing a face mask.
Crystal Eller is smart so I will be voting for her. If you think in this political climate that people will be looking the other way at a wrongful conviction than you are either painfully out of touch or you don't have the balls to vote this guy out so you convinced yourself he was just doing his job. Plus Kephart was recently in the LV Journal for lengthening a guys sentence because he was pissed off. This isn't an isolated incident. Kephart does not have the temperament to be a judge.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/nevada-supreme-court-says-judge-retaliated-at-sentencing-2037091/
Judge Dawson grants habeas relief to Jessica Williams.
I'm more amused by the Voy/Wingate outcome. Gayle Nathan got .39% more than Wingate so Judge Voy has an actual opponent. Pickard to me was the big surprise especially after the existence of multiple lawsuits came out and a few articles came out about what her and her husband were accused of doing. However, I expect the public didn't follow or care and voted for her because she was already a starter judge.
Except that Voy doesn't have an opponent anymore. He wins outright with more than 50% of the vote.
@12:10p here – Well damnit, I missed that! Then I guess his and his sister-in-law Wingate's ploy accomplished his goal.
The ones who won outright were Judges Hardy and Israel in RJC, and Judges Voy and Ochoa in Family. Also, in Family, Hearing Master Margaret Pickard wins outright, as does attorney Stephanie Charter.
Are you guys pleased that these beaming wizards of jurisprudence, whose brilliance is exceeded only by their incredible work ethic, will handle your cases for at least the next six years?
I am thrilled, not. Vote the other incumbents out.
I've thought for a while that we should change the election laws so that no one ever wins an office in a primary election.
Primary turn out is often very low, people aren't paying attention, so hardliners / fringe groups have outsized influence. Let's have a general election where voters are paying attention and all the skeletons can get pulled out of the closets.
On the other hand, that would probably make judicial races longer, more expensive, and more ugly. I generally think electing judges is a terrible idea anyway, so perhaps always having a general would actually make it worse.
It just recently changed so that they do win in the primary. In 2014 a candidate receiving more than 50% in the primary still had to go to the general.
I am brown and generally well versed with the news, etc.; however, this is the first time ever I have heard about Juneteenth.
I was born and raised in Dallas, TX. June 19th was Emancipation Day in Texas ever since I can remember (I'm white.) It clearly is a Texas thing. I never really thought about it not being a national thing because, again, it was an event that happened in Texas and was a Texas state holiday.
Kinda spooky how Juneteenth just popped up on my google calendar in bold green, when it didnt exist three weeks ago. .
Just like how the MN rioters were allowed to burn down the evidence room in the police station that was investigating El Rodeo, the strip joint where St. Floyd and Derek Chauvin worked as bouncers. The PD had been investigating human trafficking and counterfeiting. The Elites love their little children.
Israel won with 50.88%, feels like that should still go to the general election IMO.
Tick Segerblom called me evil. That pothead should get his head out of Harry's posterior.
I believe that this nation is the last hope of Western civilization and if this oasis of the world shall be overrun, perverted, contaminated or destroyed, then the last flickering light of humanity will be extinguished. I take no issue with those who would praise the contributions which have been made to our society by people of many races, of varied creeds and colors. America is indeed a joining together of many streams which go to form a mighty river which we call the American way. However, we have in the United States today hard-core, indigestible blocs which have not become integrated into the American way of life, but which, on the contrary are its deadly enemies. Today, as never before, untold millions are storming our gates for admission and those gates are cracking under the strain. The solution of the problems of Europe and Asia will not come through a transplanting of those problems en masse to the United States…. I do not intend to become prophetic, but if the enemies of this legislation succeed in riddling it to pieces, or in amending it beyond recognition, they will have contributed more to promote this nation's downfall than any other group since we achieved our independence as a nation
What legislation?