jrb

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:12:39 -0800

Miss Havisham, getting information on judges can be a challenge. I usually look at the Judicial Evaluations put out by L.A. County Bar Assoc. Even this information is rather lacking for me since judicial seats are non-partisan, and I favor putting liberal judges on the bench. I would conjecture that the LACBA, being a lawyers guild, is not likely to recommend a harsh judge. Cut and paste this webpage, hope it helps... http://lacba.org/judicialevaluations

jrb

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:13:29 -0800

I got an cautioning e-mail about one Bill Johnson who is running for Superior Court Office No. 125. The L.A. County Bar Assoc list him as "Not Qualified", but even more disturbing is what I read on this blog... http://joankelly6000.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/white-supremacist-running-for-superior-court-judge-in-los-angeles/ White Supremacist running for Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles As everybody I know of has a bigger readership than I do - including people who don’t even have blogs! - I am respectfully requesting in a panicked way that this get reposted and reported everywhere possible, even by bloggers who are not local to L.A., since probably some of your readers are. I heard about this last night on Beneath the Surface on KPFK. William D. Johnson, calling himself the more familiar-sounding “Bill Johnson” on banners plastered around Los Angeles, is running for a Superior Court Judge seat in Los Angeles, and has only one opponent, James Bianco. Bianco, an L.A. Superioir Court Commissioner, is reported to be widely disliked in courtrooms where he’s already presided. Johnson, however, has been a white supremacist activist around the country for a couple of decades. Judicial races are often overlooked and ignored at election time, but this one is critical. And it is hard for me to believe that everybody in L.A. already knows about this, because it’s the first I’ve heard of it. I’m not exactly a shut-in. I don’t think it’s being widely reported outside of smaller/alternative media sources like KPFK, and a small Los Angeles newspaper called the Metropolitan News-Enterprise. As reporter Roger Grace noted last night when being interviewed on Beneath the Surface for this story, Johnson is doing his best to prevent any press about him at all, relying on his white-guy-next-door “electable” (Grace’s term) name and banners with simple “Bill Johnson for Judge” wording to make his impression. Please spread the word, and/or comfort me with the news that everybody actually does already know about it, and I am a self-important jerk for presuming to be an alarm-ringer. I would love that. > This person is also attempting to ride the coat tails of Ron Paul who has gained a lot of support from conservatives because of his anti-war stance. Just to BTW to any Ron Paul supporters. Ron Paul also has a history of racisim having once had written in his newsletter about the 1992 L.A. Riots, (I'm paraphrasing here), that the reason the blacks in L.A. stopped rioting was because it was time go collect their wefare checks. I lived here in 1992 and I remember a lot more that just African Americans looting and rioting.

Miss Havisham

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:06:39 -0800

When I received election materials in the mail the list of judges to vote for was a bit staggering. There are quite a few and I know nothing about any of them.

LAist: Why Do We Vote for Judges?

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