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The Velveteen Ocelot

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13. More about this stupid ad, which MN Public Radio called "silly":
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 12:06 AM
Sep 2017
When Stras was last on the ballot — 2012 — he received 1,141,951 votes easily defeating Tim Tingelstad. It was the first and only election Stras has faced since he was appointed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2010.

In Franken’s last election — 2014 — he received 1,053,205 votes. But what the Judicial Crisis Network doesn’t say is that there were four people on the ballot.

It also doesn’t acknowledge a reality of judicial elections in Minnesota. Voters rarely know anything about the judicial candidate they’re voting for, partly because campaigns for judges have different rules. Candidates aren’t allowed to give opinions that might be perceived as not impartial on issues that might come before the court.

So, for the part, judges barely campaign, the media never cover the races on the rare occasion when a judge is actually opposed for re-election, and by Election Day voters are generally uninformed about their selection.


https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2017/09/franken-stras-face-off-leads-to-silly-ad-by-conservative-group/

The ad came from the Judicial Crisis Network, which has been around since the Bush Administration. Its purpose is to get conservative judges appointed. They worked to oppose the appointment of Merrick Garland and were behind advocacy ads for Gorsuch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Crisis_Network
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