(Washington) State PAC to push for right-wing judges

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Note that the notorious Building Industry Association of Washington is behind this. They're the group that largely bankrolled Dino "Loserman" Rossi's failed bid for governor last year, as well as his attempt to re-do the election afterward when the vote rigging in Snohomish County and elsewhere didn't turn out as well as the republicans hoped. The list of people involved in this is a who's who of local republican sleazeballs, including "Slippery" Slade Gorton who was on the 9/11 whitewash commission.


State PAC to push for right-wing judges
Move leads to concerns for independence of judiciary

By NEIL MODIE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

The partisan, ideological wars over President Bush's nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court might have an echo here next year in elections for Washington state's highest courts.

For the first time in this state, a political action committee has been formed to help elect candidates to the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. The Constitutional Law PAC has a right-of-center orientation.

The development alarms some court observers, who say an agenda-driven PAC for judicial elections could threaten the independence and impartiality of the state's judiciary, and that the emergence of one will lead to other, countervailing PACs.

Alex Hays, executive director of the new committee, said it is centrist. But its board is heavily sprinkled with well-known Republicans and ties to the state's politically aggressive home builders' lobby and other conservative organizations. It is promoting two potential, solidly conservative candidates for the Supreme Court in 2006.

More at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/249723_judges25.html

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1. You should cross post in the Washington forum :) nt