Judicial Travesty
You know it's bad when even the LA Times is appalled that a Republican judge has been thrown out of office.
The story is a clarion call for two different things:
First, local parties should do a better job of identifying effective judges -- the one recently voted out was targeted because she was a Republican (and, not incidentally, was one of only two of the 28 in LA County to be rated "Exceptionally well qualified").
The victor is a Democrat who only reactivated her membership in the state bar last year, after 20 years in abeyance. In the interim, she has owned a bagel shop.
But she bought space on fliers that are designed to look as though they represent endorsements from the Republican Party. And so the second agenda item would be for the parties to do a better job of making sure their voters know that simply because a judicial candidate appears on a paid mailer that endorses Abel Maldonado for state controller, that doesn't mean that she's been endorsed by the party.
The story is a clarion call for two different things:
First, local parties should do a better job of identifying effective judges -- the one recently voted out was targeted because she was a Republican (and, not incidentally, was one of only two of the 28 in LA County to be rated "Exceptionally well qualified").
The victor is a Democrat who only reactivated her membership in the state bar last year, after 20 years in abeyance. In the interim, she has owned a bagel shop.
But she bought space on fliers that are designed to look as though they represent endorsements from the Republican Party. And so the second agenda item would be for the parties to do a better job of making sure their voters know that simply because a judicial candidate appears on a paid mailer that endorses Abel Maldonado for state controller, that doesn't mean that she's been endorsed by the party.
posted by LadybugUSA at 7:33 PM
6 Comments:
I agree, it's a horrible tragedy when someone gains office under false pretense...
I remember one election when a very small man campaigned as a "compassionate conservative" -- "a uniter, not a divider." He also famously said he didn't believe in nation-building by our military.
That was before the neocon pod people took over his body and he became the pandering puppet of bigots known as "the decider."
I misrepresent myself? And how would that compare to, say, impersonating a teacher?
And I find it equally odd that the only injustices you and Carol ever seem to notice are ones created by liberals. Carol is a flame-thrower and as such only understands the same. (When have carefully constructed, on-point arguments by anyone on the left ever been responded to by her?) She does not recognize nor "reward" polite discourse with polite discourse.
Instead, it's always just more of the same attacks on us terrorist-abetting liberals, "rooting for us to lose the war." Incendiary and specious claims only invite same.
And by the way, Amber, what did you do during the '90s to combat the "seething hatred" your party had for Bill Clinton? It permeated everything they did and said. Remember Ken Starr? Remember the glee of Republicans the day Clinton was subjected to the humiliation of being deposed about a blowjob?
Now, oddly enough, we have martial law under which any criticism of the President is seen as traitorous and results in death threats, which "just happen," right? At least that's how you reacted to the ones received by the Dixie Chicks.
More hypocrisy from the right.
And I like you even more because of all these things you have shared, Amber. They humanize you.
Such humanization of others is what is sorely lacking around here, however. The blogger only takes potshots at liberals, demonizing the whole lot of us with broad strokes. I started out here months ago making specific, precise arguments regarding the various issues presented by the blogger. They were disregarded. It is much easier -- or fun -- for the blogger to just portray the world in her black and white terms, making no acknowledgments of any gray areas, never indicating that she might be torn over a certain issue, ignoring any nuances that muddle the picture in any way. Indeed, she even ridicules as weak any leader who would acknowledge these same complexities and spend any time agonizing over them. (Would that we had someone running our country who actually knew what a pensive moment was.)
No, it's like she's programming a bunch of kindergartners with the liberal/feminist/unions are bad, Republicans good ethos. I am quite all over the place on a number of issues much like you. But such complexities are forbidden in Partisanville, which she eagerly serves. They are not conducive to preserving her wealth, her place in society, the status quo that she reaps so much from.
But I like you, Amber. Thanks for sharing your humanity.
Rovingwiretap wrote, "I thought duke-stir did well in pointing out the pink elephant in the room called hypocrisy."
But without hypocrisy there would be no CarolLiebau (the blog, not the woman). Oh the humanity.
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