Oh, Youngkin def wants to be the next Trump. Thing is, I don’t think any of them can catch up to MoRon in sheer assheadedness, and that is the deciding factor for most of the GQP voters nowadays.
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Did not take meds or see a doctor for 5 years. Did not disclose to voters.
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Have we considered getting Oprah Winfrey to run against him, since apparently the primary goal in politics is now to make things as incredible as possible to any potential historians in the future?
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Does she have relatives here she can rent a room from?
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Oh, I’m sure we could prove we’re fifth or sixth cousins, somehow. 
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I’m filling out my California vote-by-mail ballot and trying to be a responsible voter by doing at least a little research into the candidates for every office, but what the heck do nine different people even want to be insurance commissioner for in the first place??
And don’t get me started on all these judicial elections. Picking qualified judges shouldn’t even be my job.
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I would say that this is another example of a Trump-endorsed bigot saying the quiet part out loud except that there hasn’t been a quiet part for quite some time now.
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As I mentioned upthread, if we left it to the county bar association they would appoint all prosecutors to the bench.
They seem to give current judges extremely well-qualified ratings and prosecutors well-qualified.* They did have a couple non-qualified, but only one of these candidates had a serious ethics issue when he was a previously elected official.
*This tells me that the Los Angeles County Bar Association is looking for people who will apply the maximum in judicial sentencing.
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I don’t think the bar association should pick them either. They should be appointed and confirmed by elected government representatives, similar to how Federal judges get their jobs. Direct democracy has its merits but it’s not appropriate for everything. It’s simply unrealistic for voters to have the resources to properly evaluate the qualifications of candidates for so many non-partisan judicial positions. Los Angeles County (where I am) has over 400 Superior Court judges. The only reason that we don’t have to vote for every one of them is that most are incumbents who run unopposed, and most join the court through gubernatorial appointment and aren’t challenged in the following election.
On my ballot I had to evaluate the qualifications of 31 different nonpartisan candidates running for eight different open judicial seats. I did at least a little bit of research on all of them, but I’d bet good money that the vast majority of people don’t. And who could blame them?
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In my county in Indiana, the judges have to indicate their political party, and only the exact same number of Democratic and Republican judges can be elected. It surprised me at first, but the more I think about it, the more reasonable and commonsensical it is.
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I agree (don’t even get me started about our fricking state propositions), but I also don’t like county judicial appointments unless the appointments are subjected to a term limit. My guess is that elected officials will simply farm out vetting to the bar associations, which brings us back to LA County’s problem of favoring prosecutors.
I think I like @anon67050589’s IN solution!
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So what happens if someone declared for the green party? Or the communist party for that matter? This seems like an institutionalisation of the two party system
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Oh, you noticed that, did you?
I did mention this was Indiana, right?
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Yeah, i wouldn’t trust as far as i could trebuchet him. But could i anyway?
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