Don’t forget to vote.
If you’re here in Chicago and need info on voting for judges, check out the Chicago Council of Lawyers evaluation ratings. Also, an announcement over the Human Rights listhost here at the UofC suggested that there are several sitting judges who should not be retained because of their involvement in prosecution of individuals tortured by the Chicago police, despite knowledge of that torture. These are:
Garritt E. Howard – Punch 139
Colleen McSweeney Moore – Punch 143
Stuart E. Palmer – Punch 127
Ralph Reyna – Punch 145
Lon William Shultz – Punch 189
Henry Richard Simmons, Jr. – Punch 123
Lawrence “Larry” Terrell – Punch 195
Joseph J. Urso – Punch 147
(The announcement was sent out by Black People Against Police Torture, who suggested visiting the People’s Law Office for more info.)
I got into a slight disagreement (luckily abbreviated) with someone last night once again over the idea of voting for whom I consider to be the best candidate versus voting for the Democrat just so the Republican candidate won’t end up in office. I find the latter suggestion increasingly ridiculous – how are we ever going to get out of this two-party stalemate if we don’t start supporting candidates we think are actually the best for the job? What if we could have honest-to-goodness three-way (or more?) elections in which there seemed to be a real difference between candidates? (I won’t repeat myself here – I wrote on this earlier in the second half of this post.)
But whether or not you agree, happy voting today!
