Goldie's blog

Judge Linda Stephens, Court of Appeals. Big state. Down ballot race.
So, we have sent out PJ, a virtual canvasser, to knock on doors around the Internet.

 
 
I have been woefully negligent in failing to introduce Judge Kristin Ruth here, notwithstanding that I have been working on her campaign for over a year. Jerimee’s post about the down-ballot races finally shamed me into getting it together. Judge Ruth will be on the ballot statewide on May 6 (with a four-way, non-partisan primary). I did post about this race earlier, but I wanted to put out something about Judge Ruth herself.

I spent Friday morning down at the State Board of Elections - the last few hours of the filing period. Until about 10:30, there wasn't much going on except idle chit chat with the very gracious Board of Elections workers. After that, in pretty rapid succession, there were a number of surprises during the morning – Wayne filing/Jim Long not filing, Richard Morgan filing for Superintendent of Public Instruction, etc. I was there because I am working with some judges and I wanted to see what was happening in those races. It didn't make the papers, but there was some pretty wild stuff that went on in the appeals court races late in the morning.