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THE DBR AND THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE WEIGH IN

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DAILY BUSINESS REVIEWCommentary by Eddie Dominguez: Crawling over each other doesn?t help diversify"Ian Richards is no crusader for change at the Broward County Courthouse. His victory over County Court Judge Catalina Avalos might anger a lot of powerful lawyers ? the New Times and the bloggers behind the Broward courthouse blog seem to relish that. But framing his win over Avalos as anything more than a sad comment on the state of judicial elections in Broward County is grossly inaccurate...Challenging incumbents is a good thing. It?s healthy for democracy. And the bottom line is in Florida, trial judges are elected. But when good Hispanic judges are picked off while entrenched, insensitive and otherwise unfit jurists go unchallenged, the democratic process is perverted...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on September 22, 2008 (boomark / email).