tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post2723143314920573791..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1226606552713605842016-03-12T15:16:41.556-05:002016-03-12T15:16:41.556-05:00Marion County GOP and Democrat leadership will want a bill that has county chairmen controlling the process - which then allows party bosses to extract tens of thousands of dollars from the judge candidates.Paul K. Ogdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137003328850866711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-66181945640163940522016-03-12T00:10:01.922-05:002016-03-12T00:10:01.922-05:00A government you can't vote for isn't your government, and you aren't bound to respect it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-51500947329027052192016-03-11T15:46:34.060-05:002016-03-11T15:46:34.060-05:00Presumably, the legislature will pass something in 2017 ahead of the next election where judges are scheduled to be elected. Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-70550076329929885982016-03-11T15:16:38.465-05:002016-03-11T15:16:38.465-05:00So the public remains stuck with judges paying bribes to get slated and would be judges having to prostitute their integrity in order to obtain "advancement" in their profession. If the judge system is corrupt (and most folks can see that it is) then don't we allow other corruption to proceed unharmed by, say, prosecutors? A lot depends on the independence of judges in our system of jurisprudence.....any sort of corruption tends to spread....as most folks in Marion County can see. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1920921569280880632016-03-11T13:39:14.788-05:002016-03-11T13:39:14.788-05:00Rumor has it that Jennifer Ping and Tom John were lobbying at the last-minute to get the bill killed. Must not have been written to the liking of Ice Miller and Bose McKinney since their opinions matter more than the public's opinion. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58299695818893228792016-03-11T12:38:32.756-05:002016-03-11T12:38:32.756-05:00everybody is glad it died but that being said, having 14 people select judges would be about a dozen more than selected judges under the old system. just sayin Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com