Monday, 10 November 2008
Biggest Disappointment From Last Tuesday
With all of the excitement generated from last week's federal elections, a great tragedy was overlooked in the Louisville judicial races. I am talking about the fact that 29 year old Katie King was elected as a Jefferson District Court judge. She has been practicing law for all of three years and will now sit as a judge. It is ludicrous that a person with so little life experience not to mention legal experience will be a district judge. Like Obama, I can't help but to think both of them are headed for disastrous terms. The experience gap will painfully be on display in the coming years. I feel sorry for any poor person who is brought before her court. I feel sorry for the lawyers who will have to practice in her court. The only good thing I can say is that there will be an appeals court to overturn any aggregious ruling she will make.
I learned three things from her election
I learned three things from her election
- She spent over $210,000 to get elected judge. I bet that is more money than she has earned total throughout her life. She spent twice as much as any other judicial candidate this year. That is a ludicrous amount of money to win a judicial race. I guess that is one way to get a pay raise.
- There is no end to Jim King's ego. I can think of no other reason he would raised that much money and spent that much effort to get his daughter elected to a judgeship.
- Down ballot races are all about name recognition and have very little to do with comptence or policy. The bottom line is the candidate with the greater name ID will always win. The fact of the matter is she had the money necessary to generate the name ID she needed to win. Regardless of how perverted that sounds, that is the way that elections work and why the general public shouldn't be voting on judicial races.
Posted by at 9:56 PM in Louisville Politics
