California Judicial - looking for guidance on yes or no votes

[Piedras]

Last edited Sun Oct 26, 2014, 05:44 PM - Edit history (1)

Where can I/we find good guidance on Judicial offices to help us vote yes or no on each judge?

edited: votersedge.org will show you your ballot choices and has information on the qualifications of candidates.

ivp.nawj.org A project of The National Association of Women Judges also looks helpful.

[pinboy3niner]

1. What county are you in?

You can google the Democratic Party Committee for your county to find their endorsements, including the downballot contests.

[Nictuku]

2. Me Too!

Anyone have any good sources for a progressive voting in California?

[Nictuku]

3. I'm in Napa County

[Piedras]

4. I'm in SLO County

I'm in San Luis Obispo County. I want to vote for progressive judges. Not for teabaggers.

The San Luis Obispo County Democratic Party website has no judicial recommendations. http://www.slocodems.org/

Nor did I find judicial recommendations on the California (state) Democrat's website.

I found a Judge Voter Guide (no link here because I do not trust the website) that in part says:

Warning: Do NOT Vote for a Judicial Activist

It is the voters of California and the legislatures that are supposed to make laws. Not judges. In fact, these judges ignore the law in favor of their own liberal, left-wing, anti-family agendas.

Legislating from the bench, these judges destroy or weaken constitutional protection, votes by the people, family values, marriage, religious liberty and economic freedom.

Judicial activists have:

Overturned voter-passed initiatives and laws passed by the state legislature, simply because they personally have a different belief system. They twist the law to rationalize their decisions.
Imposed their own moral codes, political beliefs and secular values in an effort to reshape our society and promote social engineering.

I'm inclined to use this website to guide me to NOT vote for the recommendations they make.

However I need a better guide to help me vote yes for progressive judges and no for conservative/teabaggy judges.

[pkdu]

5. Maybe I'm missing something , but I don't see any judges on your list of candidates..

http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assets/CR/Elections/November+4+$!2c+2014+Consolidated+General+Election/CandidatesList.pdf

[Piedras]

7. There are 14 judicial offices on my SLO County ballot.

There are 14 judicial offices on my San Luis Obispo County ballot. Three for the CA Supreme Court. Eleven for the CA Court of Appeal. I want to make wise informed choices and need information on each one to know whether to vote yes or no.

[Politicalboi]

6. I googled the judges names

And found out if they were appointed by a Dem or Repuke. I'm in Central Ca.

[antiquie]

8. That was my approach plus

the search produced negative news stories. I'm in Orange County.

[mackerel]

9. Good suggestion and I did follow that idea. There were three that were really hard to

find but I eventually discovered they were appointed by Swartzenegger. The first one on my list was appointed by Pete Wilson and one was appointed by Deukemejian.

[antiquie]

10. Another link (from votersedge)

http://judgepedia.org/California_judicial_elections,_2014

[SalviaBlue]

11. I couldn't find recommendations from the Dems for judges in my area either.

However, I did find right wing recommendations, so I voted against those judges.