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I'm lazy and arrogant,and earn very little at my practice. So, I just applied for a judicial appointment. Once the panel sees my bad attitude, lack of wok effort and lack of any meaningful accomplishments, I recognize I have no chance.
So, I will then run for office. I have a good, easy to pronounce last name, and I am willing to spend for signs which will feature an air-brushed twenty-year-old photograph of me. People are amazed at the photo. as it actually makes me look handsome.
I have a friend whose career is almost as undistinguished as mine–but she is female, blond, and very attractive. She also intends to run and is confident her gender, and her glowing photos. on campaign signs, will be enough to push her over the finish line.
Now if one or both of us win, will there finally be a real meaningful movement to a pure judicial appointment process, and an abolishment of political elections?
The answer, of course, is a resounding "No."
And this applies to someone who is running for a county, non attorney position.
Judicial appointments are also quite political, but a somewhat different political dynamic than judicial elections. So, converting to a pure appointment process does not remove politics from the process.
Although it is presumed that 11:51 is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, legitimate issues are raised by the blogger. Candidates such as the blogger's supposed female colleague, are in fact often elected and aided largely by their gender and appearance.
But that's true of many political races–not just judicial.
Although presumably
To: 12:13-"Although presumably…" What's the rest of the thought? It's presumed that 11:51 is correct but we can't or should not do anything because this is the way it always is?
Although it does happen in non-judicial races, legislator's tenures are very fleeting and often they are out of office after a term or two when the electorate favors the opposing political party. And they are very visible, so if it becomes clear they are attractive, but otherwise lack legislative ability, it becomes readily apparent.
But judges can be on the bench for decades adjudicating very critical matters on a consistent basis, yet the public usually knows very little about them.
So, I think it is incredibly damaging if someone is elected who is incapable, but simply looks good or something equally irrelevant.
I like the backwards bus campaign add with Laxalt. Would be appropriate for some of the judicial candidates running this year.
? mean you do What
I have seen it. It is funny. Watch it, and you will understand.
That backwards bus ad had been running for a few days, and I had heard it and not watched it. I thought they were singing "Bad Boys Bus" instead Of "Backwards Bus". I kinda wanted to get on the bad boys bus, and was disappointed when I finally watch the ad this weekend.
Maybe more qualified people would be willing to put themselves out there and run if you all weren't so brutal in your criticisms. You insult and pick at these public figures as if they were not real people. They may be public figures but that should not give you carte blanche freedom to be nasty. Try being humane. Why would any qualified attorney want to put themselves or their families through that?
Final thought:
Why don't you quit your complaining about the quality of our judges and run?
Sure. Put some humans on the bench.
I would run. I might run. But, I could notvwork with some of the sleeze who are judges. I have standards.
Excuse my typo.
There was nothing brutal posted here. I would run, but I will not be corrupted as a Dave Thomas client.
If 11:51 is really that lazy and also happens to be largely immoral, he could apply for Bar counsel
Must be lazy corrupt and immoral to fill Stan's stinky shoes.
4:59 – is it just Dave Thomas that is crooked or Letizia too? Does a candidates retention of Thomas to run their campaign really taint your opinion of the candidate? There are really only 2 choices in town for campaign managers – thomas and Letizia. With the amount of money they need to raise they can’t really go it alone
There are other campaign managers. I am not a fan of the two you mentioned, but I would take Letizia over Thomas any day of the week.
Although some campaign managers may have more critics than others, all of the successful ones generate a lot of opinions from many people along the lines of "I will not vote for any candidate who is represented by X"
So, although 6:14 is correct that there are other campaign managers than the two mentioned, 5:52 is correct that we go too far if we constantly refuse to consider candidates represented by these two managers. They are,currently speaking, by far the most successful and experienced and getting judicial candidates elected, and seem to have all the important connections, and usually get all the major endorsements for their candidates. They truly specialize in judicial races.
Other campaign managers who are excellent include Billy V, Dan Hart, Sig Rogich and others–but I believe those ones those tend to emphasize non-judicial political races.
So, often the choice is to either not be elected, or choose a manager that a lot of people may not like.
Also, some of these managers who have been vilified often don't seem as bad as people think they are. Often a news columnist will target a campaign manager and although sometimes the attack is on something legitimate, at other times it is about something that is hardly outrageous. So, I for one, don't decide to hate or condemn a campaign manager because some news columnist has a grudge against them and/or needs to fill their column with something interesting.