Governor Blunt's Henchmen Go After Judge Brown
Submitted by Roy Temple on Sat, 11/04/2006 - 11:25am.
Sources tell Fired Up that the vicious assault being waged against Cole County Circuit Judge Tom Brown is being funded by national interests, but it being implemented by political operatives close to Governor Matt Blunt.
The direct mail assaulting Brown has a St. Joe bulk mailing permit. St. Joe is of home base of the Graves-Blunt dirty tricks operation. Sources tell Fired Up that GOP operative James Harris has some of the dirtiest hands in the matter.
Blunt clearly found deep pockets to help him fund an effort to try to intimidate the Cole County Circuit Court. Could it be that Blunt is afraid of the foundation formula case and is trying to send Judge Callahan a message?
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No Retention in Cole County
Correct - I misstated
The partisan campaigns are difficult, if not impossible, for candidates to mount a campaign and follow the Judicial Canon of Ethics. Yet another travesty foisted off on the judiciary by this administration.
What?????
Cole County has never had the non-partisan judicial plan and it wasn't changed by any administration much less Blunt.
The travesty known as the Missouri Plan is fortunately limited to the statewide judges, St Louis County, St Louis City and I believe Jackson County. Every other county/circuit judge in the state has to run just as T Brown is doing. Nothing new and nothing wrong with it.
Cole County Judges have always been political
The Matt, Amy, Andy & Roy show simply has no limits.
I've appeared before J. Brown a number of times and he has been judicially "complacent" in his review of Blunt's executive agency decisions. It isn't all that important a decision on the part of a Cole County Judge because their decisions are moot when a litigant takes the agency decision up to the Western District Court of Appeals.
The Cole County decision is not the decision reviewed on appeal, it's the underlying agency decision. J. Brown hasn't gone out of his way to "offend" the Blunt destruction / privatization of state agencies (albeit, as I mentioned the Cole County review is wholly moot on appeal) and there is no real reason to target the retention of J. Brown except for his party affiliation.
But, justice and politics have always been bedfellows in Jefferson City and ever it shall be.
There is no reason J. Brown should not be retained. Moreover, the majority of voters simply vote to retain judges - they don't know much and care less. Here, if J. Brown is not retained then Gov. Matt Blunt has the opportunity to replace J. Brown with a new jurist - one who will, no doubt, actively assist his/her political party from the bench.