Three Colorado judges drew do-not-retain recommendations this year. State evaluators break with local reviewers.
By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project
I’ll be dipped: the judicial retention system does sometimes NOT recommend retention.
The Colorado Politics article linked first below details a rarity in Colorado: three judges that the judicial evaluation committees (at least the local ones -- more later) recommend that voters do not retain.
I say rarity, because I can only recall one other case in my time writing when this happened.
I’ll leave it to you to read the article if you’d like. I went to get the information straight from the horse’s mouth and thus the three judges who didn’t get a retain recommendation are listed in links 2 - 4 below.
Roughly speaking, the three are from the NE Plains, Crowley County, and Pueblo County.
The one that...