[Brilliant]

I don't believe the judge ruled the way he did because of these donations. He's simply another activist judge, that's all. Unfortunately, as this article points out, the judges in Florida are elected, not appointed. So it's kind of hard to keep a grip on them, unless the voters vote them out.

[Bernard]

Who cares? If the fact is that he accepted a donation from somebody he should not have, and there is a "controlling legal authority" that says he should be punished for it, then I'm all for enforcing the law against this judge.

One can only hope.

[rollo tomasi]

Exactly. Voters had a chance to vote this bum down but I believe he passed by a fairly large margin. Same with the kangaroos on the FLSC.

The voters tend to not be informed when it comes to continuing the Judgeship. I hope the next election will change and the electorate will seriously look at each Judge.

[ArmyBratproud]

I am not real into the poor girl's case. I feel bad for her and her family.

I am looking at this from the judicial problem stand point.

Down in South East Texas...near the coastal region......there was a judge that all the ambulance chaser knew to go to. And that judge got plenty of donations from them.

That area was one of the three listed areas as problems for judge shopping. It was mentioned when congress passed the recent legislation that Bush pushed.....to move big class action suits to the fed level.

MONEY TO JUDGES PRODUCES A CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

If you look at the chart in the first couple of replies.....you can see that Greer took plenty of it.

[Matchett-PI]

"I don't believe the judge ruled the way he did because of these donations."

You are one naive little puppy. In virtually every single jurisdiction in America DemocRATS have set up their bought and paid for corrupt judges - they're in their back pockets and rule the way they're expected to.

CORRUPT JUDGES are the life-blood of the Marxist-Left most of whom are in the DemocRAT Party.

[amihow]

judges in Florida are elected, not appointed. So it's kind of hard to keep a grip on them, unless the voters vote them



In Arizona judges used to be elected and it was a problem.

It is a bigger problem now that most of them are appointed and only have to face a vote to keep or oust once every few years.

I have been in the justice system for over thirty years both as a defendent in multiple suits brought by my ex-husband and as an attorney. The system is broken by ridiculous rules of evidence, laws that impose strict liability, mandatory sentencing and law schools that have propagandized the knowledge of the history of U.S. law and its reliance on the common law and the natural law out of future lawyers and judges sphere of thinking.

Take back America.

[longtermmemmory]

I do find it interesting he raised so much money.

There should be a comparison to other campaings and other years.

I have personally seen campaigns for judge with as litte as 15k. (and hotly contested ones with over 200k but that was personal money of the candidate.)