Hey everyone, get out there and vote today. This is your chance to save the Nevada Judicial Disciplinary Committee the effort and simply vote the fattest, most embarrassing judge on the planet out of office. (Review-Journal)So, get out there and vote Halverson out of office!
Meanwhile, the country is waiting with baited breath for the Halverson hearings to resume after the Disciplinary Committee halted the proceedings because Halverson has a gylcemic episode [i.e. she's too fat to operate] (Review-Journal)
Save them the trouble. Go vote her out of office!
This quote from the linked RJ article says it all:
ReplyDelete“We've had lots of voters come to vote, get in the booth and be surprised president isn't on there," Lomax said. "We hope they'll come back in November."
Something I did not know, Judge Halverson simply needs to come in first OR second to stay in the game until the general election in November.
Given the fact that one of her opponents is a lightweight judge (Cal. Western SOL) formerly sued for legal malpractice and the other once lost $2M in a single sitting at a black jack table then filed bankruptcy, there may be hope for Elizabeth Halverson after all.
Referring to the above comment (Anon 9:06am) - this is exactly the problem with trying to vote out an incumbent. The general population does not know much about, nor seem to care much about, electing judges. If Judge A, currently sitting on the bench but was appointed 1 yr ago to replace a retired judge, is on the ballot along with a private attorney with zero judicial experience - the general public thought is "Well, that first judge already has the experience and I don't know anything about either, so I'll just vote for the more experienced judge."
ReplyDeleteHOPEFULLY, people will not have been in a vacuum for the past year and will have heard about Halverson and know not to vote for her.
Do we want a judge who is currently a presiding district court judge in family court but whose firm was sued for malpractice because her firm didn't file and/or record paperwork within 5 days from when the guy signed the documents until he died? Or do we want a judge who has been an attorney for 25 years and carries a lot of past baggage, including inability to manage his own finances?
It's not as bad as voting for the lesser of two evils that often occurs with the Presidential race...
In my opinion, BOTH are better than Halverson, with Judge Miley the frontrunner, even knowing what law school she went to. Saying that someone who went to Cal. Western SOL shouldn't be a judge is not much different than saying someone who went to UNLV/Boyd Law shouldn't be judge, and seeing as how I'm a Boyd alum, I'd like to believe that's not true!
Responding to my own post (Anon 9:47a), my 'exactly the problem' was referring to the content of the RJ article with people voting who didn't even know it was not the presidential vote - I wasn't referring to Anon's comments.
ReplyDeleteIt just shows the ignorance of the voting population sadly. I wasn't referring to Anon's comments.
ERIN NEFF of the RJ also had this to add on August 10, 2008:
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“[W]hen I talked to about 10 voters outside early voting locations in northwest Las Vegas last week…[o]ne woman voting at the Albertson's at Buffalo and Vegas drives wasn't shy about telling me she was clueless when it came to the race for the state's highest court.”
"I saw a commercial on TV and figured I'd vote for the woman," she said as she left the site last Thursday. "But the commercial I saw had a Kris and then there were other women on the ballot. I didn't know anything about them, so I skipped it."
Yikes!
And then there was this early voter:
“"There's not a whole lot of information in the paper and there's nothing on TV at all," [the voter] said. "I look at my mail and do my best to find out." [He] said he skipped "about 10" of the judicial races. There are 11 contested races for Las Vegas voters.”
I am not clear on how many registered voters there are in Clark County (Las Vegas), but of only 15% vote today (as expected), with many voters leaving the judicial posts section of the ballot blank, the first and second vote getters in the D-23 are likely to be determined by the slimmest of margins (maybe a thousand or fewer votes).
Granted, the ranks of the Halverson diehards are (one would think) dwindling, but they are fired up, and constitute the only voting block that I can see will turn out today in any significant numbers.
So Halverson’s fate today is anyone’s guess.
I for one am rooting for her, out of sheer entertainment value alone.
Only in Las Vegas?
Not quite:
http://wonkette.com/352943/texans-too-stupid-to-know-when-to-vote
It's 10:13pm in Vegas - Halverson so far has around 10% of the vote, sadly, but fortunately is not in the top two candidates...
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