GOP judge/"demonstrator" faces sanctions (Florida 2000)

[Paschall]

Looks like a nominee for Top 10 Conservative Idiots

Political Activity May Mean Sanctions

Thomas J. Spargo is a New York State Supreme Court justice in Albany who in 2000 was a town judge in upstate Berne. For many years before that, he was known as a leading election lawyer in the state and a highly spirited Republican partisan.

In November 2000, he was among G.O.P. loyalists from across the country who went to Florida to monitor the recount in the Bush-Gore race. Among other things, he took part in a raucous demonstration outside the Miami-Dade elections board.

In 2002, the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, citing his Florida venture and unrelated actions in New York, charged him with having violated New York rules barring judges from political activity except in their own election campaigns.

Justice Spargo went to federal court, arguing that the state rules violate his free speech and association rights. A lower court ruled in his favor, but an appeals court overturned that ruling. ...

And now there is another charge. Justice Spargo disclosed in January that the commission had added the accusation that he had solicited money from lawyers with cases before him to help pay his legal costs in his battle against the commission.

LINK (scroll down): http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/nyregion/15folo.html

[Paschall]

1. More on Spargo

Letterman and Leno would love this. A guy who buys donuts, gasoline, and pizza for potential voters during his campaign for town judge. Sheesh!

http://redressinc.org/JudgeSpargo.html

[Senior citizen]

2. They should all go to jail

All the Republican "aides" who demonstrated to stop the recount belong in jail, along with their employers. How dare elected officials or their paid employees interfere with the election process. They don't deserve to live in this country.

[Guaranteed]

4. Did you see the last part?

Taking money from lawyers with CASES BEFORE HIM? Can you GET much more corrupt than that?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

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