Conservative sandbaggers 0-2 on Appeals level too
By emmettoconnell
Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 05:55:08 AM PST
Section: Diary
Topic: Election news/info
In addition to practically
crapping out on the Supreme Court (with one throw left), the conservative effort to buy two Appeals Court seats also failed last night with
Joel Penoyar and
Mary Becker winning their races.
Penoyar had a particullary strange opponent, the sitting city attorney for Vancouver, Bret Boger. He had also been the chair of the Clark County Republicans and head of the conservative law firm Pacific Legal Foundation's northwest office.
My lesson from all of this, if conservatives are going to dump millions into judgeship races, we need public financing for these races. Like, now.