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Originally Posted by blueash
Out of curiosity I looked at the Sumter Co judge retention election wherein we decide to keep or remove sitting judges. There were six judges on the ballot in the Florida 5th district court of appeal. I never saw any organized opposition to any specific one of these six judges. All were appointed by Republican governors.
All six were retained. Five had almost identical retention votes at 75% to keep with a total of about 56K yes votes.
But one judge did far worse. He only received 67% and 50K votes. More voters voted in his retention than in any of the other five. In other words people who didn't care went out of their way to vote no on him.
No votes were: 18,446 18,108 19,275 18,476 18,244 and then 25,038
Other than his name being Cohen can anyone explain this outcome. Shame on Sumter county voters, my neighbors if you voted no because of his name. Of course you aren't anti-Semitic. Res ipsa loquitur. |
As others previously mentioned, if Crist appointed them I wanted them out, sorry but Crist is one of the most unstable flip flopping fools out there!! As for his last name, not even for one nano second did the thought "Cohen is Jewish" ever enter my thoughts, as was the same thoughts of many of my Republican friends, it was never mentioned. That being said, maybe there has been interactions that people are aware of over the years that added to their decisions, or just random people who didn't research before filling out ballot, but please this constant hot button of racism and anti semitism is getting worn out, I seriously doubt that had anything to do with people's voting decisions. Maybe I'm being naive, but I don't believe so.