Dear Pennsylvania GOP
One thing about moving here: I’ll never bitch about the Indiana state party again. I’ve vented a few times about the state party here, but now, they’re trying to tell me which judges to retain.
Let’s take this from the top. I have a few incontrovertible principles when I vote. One is that I never vote for a liberal running for any spot in the criminal justice system. Never. And note that I said “liberal,” not “Democrat.”
Here’s another one: I always vote NO! when asked if any judge should be retained. Always, and always have, and always will. I don’t give a frak what party the incumbent judge is, or what his record is. So. PaGOP, that means that no, I will not vote to retain any judge. Period. Stop spamming me about it.
I will reluctantly vote for an incumbent judge if the challenging candidate is some hand-wringing liberal, but only very reluctantly. And since most of the judges on the ballot are local (there are way too many courts and judges in this state), and since none of the local judicial candidates I like are incumbents, I’ll vote for them with a clean conscience.
Now, PaGOP, go away and leave me alone.
Darren:
Come try the GOP here in the Golden State. Talk about dysfunctional.
November 4, 2007, 12:40 amJoubert Conlon:
You can vote NO? Lucky you. Here we can can only vote FOR or not vote at all on judges (and more most local officials) because most of the incumbents run unopposed and, even if they do have an opponent, local elections are supposedly “non-partisan” which ticks me off because I don’t know these people well enough. It would help to know what party they belong to.
November 4, 2007, 11:05 amMitch H.:
What I can’t understand is why the parties started campaigning intensively for the court slots this year as if the state courts were some sort of ersatz distributed legislature, and partisan balance on the Superior Court was somehow relevant to anything in particular.
I don’t know, I’ve never noticed them doing this before; I was born in the commonwealth.
November 6, 2007, 9:00 am