Do They Really Run?

By Kleinheider Posted on April 18, 2008 at 7:50 am

Governor Phil Bredesen responds to the assertion, made by Rep. Rob Briley and others, that meetings of Judicial Selection committee be open to the public:

“I know it might be uncomfortable for a judge from now and then to have some incident in their past talked over, but, ya know, gosh, that’s the way of things in public life,” Bredesen said earlier this month. “Anybody who runs for public office, anybody who’s in an election has that kind of scrutiny.”

Then again some folks say that the retention elections that judges go through don’t really amount to “running for office.”

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