Unfortunately, nothing is going to change. Our state has a long history of re-electing incumbent judges by wide margins. A few years ago, there was a state-wide conservative campaign to unseat Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Leander Shaw, a black liberal justice from Miami who was perceived as too supportive of abortion, and too weak on crime. There was one particular case that triggered the conservatives ire (although I don't remember what it was about). Anyway, there was an intense campaign to unseat him, but he won re-election with more than 60% of the vote. Generally, it's in the 90% range for these guys, so that was a weakening of support, but nowhere near what was needed to unseat him. It did have a positive impact in one sense, though. He began to moderate his positions somewhat.
Re: "Voters had a chance to vote this bum down but I believe he passed by a fairly large margin."
Did the voters have the following information when he ran for re-election?
"One of the lowest points in Greer's career as a judge came in 1998, when he denied an injunction for a wife seeking protection from her husband. He note d that the woman had not liste d any acts of violence by the man.
Days later, the husband stabbed her to death.
Greer said he followed the law, and the woman's co-workers protested outside the courthouse.
"As a judge, there's always the fear that you're going to miss something and somebody is going to get hurt," Greer said.
"It happens in all cases. When you make those kind of decisions, there's very little you can do to be 100 percent certain because you never have 100 percent of the facts."
That is his standard statement - "Greer said he followed the law..."
But then in Nazi Germany many said the same thing - they were just following the law!