You’ve got to be kidding… We finally have a court that agrees that the way Judicial candidates were picked before is wrong and unconstitutional, now Spitzer wants to give the governor power to hand pick them….?

I don’t care if it’s a Republican or a Democrat that is governor, this is just plain wrong. It’s bad enough that Judicial candidates were being picked by parties picking their pockets and who ever had the mnost money would get on the ballot, do we really think this would stop this practice? No this would make it worse. This would give one man the power, what an assinine idea.

Faso is right, this proves to me that Spitzer is all about power, control and simply want to deny the voters the right to vote for our own candidates for Judges.

If people want to fix the judicial process then we have to allow open primaries away from Party politics.

Faso says Spitzer’s judicial proposal bad idea
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Democrat Eliot Spitzer’s plan to abolish judicial elections and give the governor power to appoint the state’s trial judges shows he is “power hungry” and wants to deny voters the chance to choose their own jurists, Republican gubernatorial candidate John Faso said Wednesday.

For years, state Supreme Court justices have been nominated at conventions controlled by party bosses. Last month, a federal appeals court upheld an earlier ruling that declared the method unconstitutional and that ordered the state to elect judges through more open primaries.

Spitzer, who is running for governor, on Wednesday told the New York Daily News that a better way to select state justices would be to have them appointed by the governor, sparing judges from having to campaign for office.

“Look, we all know this is the last vestige of real patronage in the political party structure,” he told the newspaper. “What I want is merit selection.”

He said if he’s elected, he’ll push for a constitutional amendment eliminating judicial elections.