For the soon to be EX-Justice's comments, go here: (Registration required)
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/13130452.htm
some highlights:
"It doesn't make any difference whether you're good, bad or indifferent - you're gone," said Nigro in summing up the unprecedented action by voters. "What they did was an irrational thing. They sent a misguided missile."
"Nigro's defeat stunned the legal community in Philadelphia and surrounding counties. Judges seeking retention traditionally are reelected by wide margins."
""It was never about my record," he said. "Nobody was talking about my record. I believe the public was so angry with the legislature they became blinded. They said: 'We don't care. Get rid of him.'"
ME: What about your record of $400 dinners and $80 bottles of wine that you charged to the taxpayer?
"Nigro enlisted several former bar chancellors to raise a $1 million war chest."
ME: Yeah - a laywer would have to be pretty dumb to NOT give big $$$ to the campaign of a State Supreme Court Justice!!!!!
""I'm not angry," he added. "I'm deeply disappointed. I feel I put all these years in and didn't get any credit for it.""
ME: No, you were compensated for all your years in - and well fed, and got to drive around in vehicles paid for with taxpayer $$$.
"He will be out of a job in January. He said he did not yet have any plans for the future."
ME: This is the same guy that said he gave up a VERY lucrative law practice for public service.
"Nigro noted that all the state's lawmakers, who recently moved toward rescinding their controversial pay raise, will still have their jobs.
"What did they really accomplish?" Nigro asked, speaking again of the voters. "I don't know what they thought they accomplished by knocking me out of the box."""
ME: Let's just hope those legislators feel the same way he does a year from now.......