It’s interesting how the Governor tends to make a bunch of his appointments at ‘closing time’ on Fridays. Why is that?
Well, yesterday was no exception. At the end of the day, Arnold announced the appointment of 26 new Superior Court Judges…
So as an excercize in editing, here is a brief summary of them, broken down by county and political party of the appointee.
Before I go on, let me drop the good news and the bad news on you. Nearly 2/3 of the new judges are Republicans, which is a significantly higher GOP percentage for the Governor than we have (unfortunately) gotten used to. But, many of these appointments are to smaller (and definately more Republican) Counties.
We’ll keep an eye out on how his appointments in the big counties look in the near future…
The bad news? Well, if you are from San Joaquin County, both of the new judges are from the party of Hillary Clinton. And if you are from the Republican County of San Bernardino… Somehow with six new judges appointed there, only two of them are Republicans…
TOTAL APPOINTED: 26
17 REPUBLICAN
8 DEMOCRAT
1 DTS
FRESNO COUNTY
Brian M. Arax (R)
Alvin M. Harrell (R)
Kristi Culver Kapetan (D)
KERN COUNTY
John R. Brownlee (R)
David R. Lampe (R)
MERCED COUNTY
Carol Ash (R)
PLACER COUNTY
Mark Curry (R)
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
Mac R. Fisher (R)
Timothy F. Freer (R)
Charles J. Koosed (D)
SACRAMENTO COUNTY
Stacy Boulware Eurie (D)
Matthew J. Gary (R)
Kevin J. McCormick (R)
Delbert W. Oros (R)
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Colin J. Bilash (D)
Cara D. Hutson (D)
Robert J. Lemkau (R)
Steven A. Mapes (DS)
Michael A. Sachs (D)
Wilfred J. Schneider, Jr (R)
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
Roger Ross (D)
Xapuri Villapudua (D)
SOLANO COUNTY
Donna L. Stashyn (R)
SONOMA COUNTY
Gary A. Medvigy (R)
Dana B. Simonds (R)
TULARE COUNTY
Kathryn T. Montejano (R)
If you are from a county not represented here, time to start lobbying hard for conservative judges — appointments in your neck of the woods may be coming next!
I will close this post by reminding FR readers that someone’s voluntary party registration is a great indicator, generally, of their view towards the proper role for government…
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