Richard Yetter Needs Anger Management, Not a Judgeship

Richard "King of Law" Yetter likes to tell everyone he's the only attorney among three candidates for District Judge in Wilson Borough, West Easton and a tiny sliver of Easton. And it's true, he's got Rhonda Elias and Shana Restucci beat on that one. But in every other way, Yetter has gone out of his way to demonstrate that he's nutz. Instead of being elected to a judgeship, he should be sent to the nearest state hospital for evaluation. His campaign has been ugly from beginning to end, demonstrating he completely lacks the judicial temperament needed in that sensitive position. Shana and Rhonda, two class acts, are a far better choice.

It started in January, before Restucci ever announced her candidacy. Yetter fired off a "lawyer letter" accusing her of defaming him. The funny thing about that is that, aside from him, nobody could seem to remember anyone saying anything negative about him.

Later that month, Yetter sent out a campaign solicitation to "Esteemed Members of the Bar," idiotically telling them, "Your donation is tax deductible and the committee will mail out receipts for your tax records." Gee, that sure sounds like the kind of mistake a nonlawyer would make.

Then, in a post announcing Rhonda Elias' candidacy, she was attacked because she owns no real estate. Yetter's wife, Donna, slammed both of his opponents because they have no law degree. When her comment went into a spam folder through some dictate of the Blogging Gods, I found myself attacked anonymously for deleting a comment that was actually hung up in cyber space.

Next thing I know, Restucci is attacked again, this time because her brother planted one of her campaign signs at her father's grave site as a tribute. She certainly wasn't going to get any votes doing that, but the Yetter camp tried to use it as a political tool.

But it does not stop there. Yetter actually staged a video in which a campaign worker supposedly calls him in the middle of an interview to complain about sign theft.

He should lose the race just for lousy acting.

Now, on Election Eve, he's finally gone over the edge. His takes a Shana Restucci campaign video and loads it up with all kinds of insinuations about her life as a cheerleading coach at Wilson High School. He then slams Stan Margle, her campaign manager. Stan was nice enough to donate $500 to Yetter, giving to the opposition. This is something classy lawyers do in judicial races.

Stan's check, along with his account number and signature, was posted on Youtube for the entire world to see in close-up mode.

Can you say identity theft? This is a future District Judge? It's totally irresponsible.

You can go to the best law school in the world, but that means nothing if you have no common sense. Posting all this personal information about one of his own contributors reveals that Yetter has none.

Oh yeah, Stan is also called one of Yetter's "biggest campaign doners[sic]." All that education must have really paid off.

In the course of writing this post, Yetter campaign staffer Michael Laws sent me an email about how fair he's been. I let him know, in no uncertain terms, what I thought of that last campaign video, which was accompanied by the defrocked monk music of Orff's Carmina Burana. That disgusting video was finally deleted, but only after I complained.

Both Restucci and Elias are wonderful candidates who have had the misfortune of enduring an irresponsible bully in the form of Richard Yetter. Hopefully, voters will send him back to his home in Hanover Township.