Many criminal defense lawyers believe that, if you have a good legal argument, you're best shot is with a Democratic judge. Of course, if you lose the motion, your client is toast. When you have nothing going for you at all, it's best to plead guilty in front of a Republican jurist. There are notable exceptions to this rule, but they tend to have more empathy for criminals. They tend to be fair-minded and level-headed. One of my favorites was Judge Emil Giordano. He could sentence someone to 1,000 years in the electric chair, and as deputies dragged the poor bastard away, he'd be thanking Giordano. Unfortunately, Judge Giordano left the bench to return to private practice. This is a great loss to Northampton County, especially to bottom-feeding bloggers like me. I'm running out of Republicans with whom I can seek sanctuary after pissing everyone off. But our loss is Lehigh County's gain. Today, at 8 am, Giordano will be acting as Solicitor to Lehigh County's Election Board when it hears state house candidate Enid Santiago's complaint concerning irregularities in her race against incumbent Peter Schweyer.
As I told you yesterday, she's upset that an election judge at Lehigh County Gov't Center was darkening ballots. She has claimed both fraud and voter suppression.
From what I've been able to gather, there was voter suppression. But it was coming from Enid Santiago. Inside the polling place, she was telling voters not to vote for Schweyer. She was making such a scene inside that Lehigh County deputies asked her twice to leave the precinct, and she refused twice.
She is going against a strong public interest in the finality of an election. A hearing on July 29 concerning an election on June 2 is ridiculous.
Updated 8:25 am: Santiago's hearing is being broadcast on her
Facebook page.
Amazingly, Santiago posted her antics on her Facebook page for all to see. I commend the campaign of her opponent and the staff of Lehigh County Voter registration for showing restraint and decorum in how they are dealing with her multitude of half baked accusations. Judge Giordano does not suffer fools or endure histrionics such as Enid Santiago employs. I believe she (and her minions) will be getting a stern lesson in how the law works in reality.
ReplyDeleteFrom bad to worse.
ReplyDeleteI anticipate that Judge Giordana will not allow this hearing to turn into a political rally
ReplyDeleteWas there a hang man's noise or a guillotine in the hearing room? This too be used on both sides that have tampered with a USA election.
ReplyDeletenot one ballot was altered,there was no white out, voters brought the pens in and she continues using peters kids in her arguments which is wrong .the machine would have rejected any ballot with a black mark and a white mark. she also bernie had a campaign staff sitting too close to the poll with a huge sign the foot of the stairs she openly wore her Santiago shirt into polls and helped them fill their ballots mmmm
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