By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado
I urge people to vote against retaining judges in Colorado. Yes, all of them.
We do not directly elect judges as other states do, where Republican and Democrat candidates face off. Instead, the governor appoints the state’s judges after a nominating committee brings him two or three to choose from. The only check and balance we meaningless citizens have is to vote thumbs up or down on their retention every so often. Every so often can be as long as a decade.
The problem is seemingly 99.9% of the time the judges are all retained, usually with around a two-third vote in favor. It’s a rubber stamp, not accountability.
I vote no on all judges in the hopes at some point these retention elections might become competitive, and judges must defend their rulings to we simpletons, the voting public.
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